Location: Pavlohrad, Ukraine

Activities: Pavlohrad Mechanical Plant was the sole RS-22 [NATO designation SS-24 'Scalpel'] assembly plant in the former Soviet Union. According to the START I Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), as of December 1994 one SS-25, five SS-24 (silo-based), and eight SS-24 (rail-based) non-deployed missiles were located at this facility.[1]  As of 1 July 1998, the MoU only listed one non-deployed SS-24 (rail-based) at the facility.[2]
Sources:
[1] Richard Kaufman, John Hardt, eds., The Former Soviet Union In Transition, (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993).
[2] START Treaty Memorandum of Understanding Data for Ukraine, US Department of State web site, http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/starthtm/mou/ukmoutoc.html.

	Updated April 2004