[2][3] Its summit is bare of vegetation with an uneven rocky surface and small lakes fed by melting snow.

[3] The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes Kosvinsky Rock as "mountain massif" of height 1,519 m.[4] Its constitution is pyroxenites and dunites of lower and middle Paleozoic era.

[5] According to Jane's Defence Weekly, a command post bunker was built near the mountain as of 1994.

[6] It was designed to resist US earth penetrating weapons and serves a similar role as the American Cheyenne Mountain Complex.

US analysts believe that the command post of the Perimeter system is in the bunker under Kosvinsky Kamen mountain.