It was built in the Deep Space Communication Center area 85th Radiotechnical Center of Distance Communications with Space Objects (Ukrainian: 85 радіотехнічний центр телекомунікації з космічними об'єктами; Russian: 85 радиотехнический центр дальней связи с космическими объектами) in the then Yevpatoria Raion in 1960.

The ADU-1000 antennas were mounted onto steerable frames constructed from battleship gun turrets and railway bridge trusses.

[2] The Pluton complex was the world's highest capacity deep space communication system prior to Goldstone in 1966.

[6] The first Westerner to visit the site was British radio astronomer Bernard Lovell, the Director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

[7] In 2009, Lovell told The Daily Telegraph that he had developed radiation sickness after the 1963 visit, which he believed was a deliberate attempt by the Soviet authorities, who knew Jodrell Bank was part of the British early-warning system, to assassinate him.