Shipka is a small military base near the city of
Mukachevo
Mukachevo ( uk, Мукачево, ; hu, Munkács; see name section) is a city in the valley of the Latorica river in Zakarpattia Oblast (province), in Western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Mukachevo Raion (district), the city ...
(just outside a small village of
Shenborn) in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. In the past it was a Soviet base that served the Soviet-installed
Dnepr radar Dnepr may refer to:
*Dnieper, a river flowing through Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea
* Dnepr (motorcycle), a Ukraininan motocycle brand
*Dnepr (rocket)
The Dnepr rocket (russian: Днепр, translit=Dnepr; uk, Дніпро, trans ...
. In 1992 it was rented to Russia for 15 years. In 2009 the base stopped transferring data to Russia because the Russian authorities refused to continue paying for land lease which was increased in 2006. Formally, in 2008 Russia denounced the Russia-Ukraine agreement about rocket warning systems.
Currently it is a base of the
State Space Agency of Ukraine
The State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU; uk, Державне космічне агентство України, ''Derzhavne kosmichne ahentstvo Ukrayiny'', ДКАУ, ''DKAU'') is the Ukrainian government agency responsible for space policy an ...
, "Національне космічне агентство України. Західний центр радіотехнічного спостереження", formally part of Mukachevo.
"Закарпатське Мукачево: На вістрі “холодної війни”, або Таємниці "Шипки""
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References
External links
Ukraine will be blind
Ekonomichna Pravda (Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukrai ...
). June 3, 2013
Ukraine plans to install radars of new generation before 2017 - NKAU chairman
Interfax Ukraine
The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company publishes in ...
. June 5, 2013
Expedition to the secret Dnepr radar
Hi-way. March 2, 2007
Zakarpattia: Dnepr radar to this day works for Russia
Zakarpattia Portal. November 6, 2008
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Zakarpattia Oblast
Russian and Soviet military radars
Military installations of Ukraine
Military installations of the Soviet Union
State Space Agency of Ukraine
Ukrainian airbases