COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS RUSTAVI, USSR

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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PREFACE
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This photo analysis of the commercial and residential areas of
Rustavi is based on small forms
in the summer and fall of 1957
:t photography
and has been prepared by the Photo Intelligence Divipion of ORR. A
dated Z October
1957, also describes this city. However, additional photo coverage has ,
made possible this more detailed analysis.
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COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS
RUSTAVI, USSR
Rustavi is an industrial city located 18 miles southeast of Tbilisi
(Tiflis) in the Georgian SSR (see orientation map). Built especially to
accommodate industrial workers, technical personnel, and their families,
it has modern housing, cultural and social centers, parks, clubs, museums,
and hospitals. The city lies on both banks of the Kura River at an elevat-
ion of 1, 000 to 1, 100 feet above sea level. The valley is bordered by foot-
hills of the main Caucasus ranges to the northeast and the Armenian
Plateau to the southwest. Mountains with elevations above 6, 000 feet lie
within Z5 miles of the city. Construction- of the city began near the end
of World War II and the present population is reported to be approximately
seventy thousand.
Rustavi has two industries of national significance, the metallurgical
works and the nitrogen products plant. There is also a. thermal power plant,
a cement plant, a sawmill, a concrete mixing plant, and other industries,
The city is served by the main rail line between Batumi and Baku. This
double-track electrified railroad passes along the north side of the city.
Just south of the railroad there are several walled areas which contain.
construction material in open storage (see items 8 on. city plan). One iia-
cludes a possible concrete-miing tower (see item 9 on city plan) . The
sand and gravel pit just north of the railroad probably provides material
for the concrete works and for the construction of buildings within the
residential and commercial areas.
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The total area of Rustavi is approximately three and seven-tenths
square miles. Thirty-eight percent of this area is residential with a
building density of ten percent. Most of the buildings within the city
proper are three-story, wall-bearing masonry structures with gable tile
roofs. Buildings, in the northwest and southeast sections, of the city are
chiefly one and two-story structures. In the extreme southeast section.,
along the Mariinskiy Canal (see item 15 on city plan] there are numerous
very small hut-like dwellings (as indicated on city plan),. each with its
small plot of land for subsistence crops. At the eastern end of town
there is a group of multistory buildings (see item 13 on, city plan), which
houses administration facilities for the metallurgical works. Expansion
of the residential part of the city is limited by the Kura River on the west
and south, and by the industrial complex on the east. Continued resident-
ial expansion is taking place on the west side of the river.
The city streets are surfaced with bituminous paving, but toward
the outskirts only a few main routes have been improved. The main.
street, Tsentralnyy prospekt (see item 31 on city plan), is a tree-lined
avenue 65 feet wide that extends through the center of the city. After
crossing the Kura River on a three-span concrete deck-type bridge,
Tsentralnyy prospekt joins the main-highway between Tbilisi and Kazakh
at a point one and one-half miles southwest of the city. The main. road
from Rustavi to Tbilisi is a hard-surface all weather road which leaves
Rustavi in a northwest direction and follows the railroad. Transportation
is provided by the railroad and a bus line which originates in Tbilisi.
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The Kura River flows south-southeast. past the city in a complex
series of interconnected channels, the main one averaging about 350 feet
in width. The land along the east bank of the river has been. flooded in the
past, but construction of walls and a control dam has virtually ended pos-
sibility of flooding in this area. The dam (see item 2 on. city plan), which
measures approximately 360 feet along the crest and has five control gates,
is used to regulate the river flow, to divert water into the Mariinskiy
Canal, and to supply water to the newly constructed reservoir (see item
3 on city plan). This reservoir, which is used for water storage during
the seasonal dry spells, is bordered on the north by a park which indicates
that it is also used for recreational purposes. There is no transformer
yard visible at the dam which reportedly has been built to produce hydro-
electric power for the city.
A diversion. wall (see item 28 on city plan) directs the stream flow
toward a pump house which feeds the main water works (see item 4 on
city plan). This wall is possibly a portion of a dam reported to have
been built soon after World War II and later partially destroyed by flood
waters. The water works, which supplies water for the industrial area
only, includes three sedimentation tanks and a fourth under construction.
Water flows to the industrial area by an underground canal (see item 16
on city plan) lwhich passes under the north section of the city. Water which
has been used within the industrial area is returned by another underground
canal to a sedimentation pond along the Kura River, southeast of the city.
The domestic water supply is reported to be piped in from north of Tbilisi .
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The Mariinskiy Canal, which forms the southern boundary of the
city, flows southeast into Lake Dzhandar-gel. The canal is reportedly
used to irrigate collective farms to the southeast and dispose of city
.sewage. A newly constructed possible sewage treatment plant (see
item 14 on city plan) just south of the city consists of eight small tanks
and a filtration unit. Effluent is probably discharged into the Mariinskiy
Canal.
Utilities within the Rustavi area are generally adequate for the
industries and civilian populace. Electrical power is supplied by a
thermal power plant within the metallurgical works and by a power line
which may originate at the hydroelectric power plant at Zemo Avchala,
approximately four miles northwest of Tbilisi. This power line enters
the Rustavi area from the west at the new housing area, crosses the river
at the control dam, and follows the southeast border of the, city along the
canal. Two connecting lines enter the industrial area directly south of
the thermal power plant. The line continues east from this point to the
railroad where it makes a turn directly north and crosses the industrial
area to the substation (see item 19 on city plan). From the substation,
power lines lead out to the northwest and northeast.
A reported military installation is located just north of town (see
item 23 on city plan). This installation consists of numerous barracks-
type buildings and a walled area in which six long flat-roofed buildings
are grouped among others in a layoutsuggesting a tank repair depot or
part of an armored unit. The small airfield which was reported to be
in Rustavi has probably been abandoned due to the expansion of industry.
Possible forced labor camps or penal camps occupy two secured areas
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between the industrial plants and the-lAariinskiy Canal (see items 27 on
city plan). Each of these areas is surrounded by a wall along which there
are numerous unevenly-spaced guard towers. Within. these areas walls
divide the compounds 'into sections.
characteristics except that the larger secured area has a greater number
Both areas have the same general
of dividing walls and guard towers.
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RUSTAVI, USSR
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 I NEW HOUSING AREA
2 CONTROL DAM .
3 RESERVOIR
4 WATER WORKS
5. PROBABLE SCHOOL
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7 EXCAVATION
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9 POSSIBLE M1XING TOWER
IO PROBABLE FIRE HOUSE
II PROBABLE LOOKOUT TOWER
12 RAILROAD YARD, SIX TRACKS
13 ADMINISTRATION AREA
14.PROBABLE SEWAGE DISPOSAL UNIT
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17 RAILROAD YARD, SEVEN TRACKS
18 RAILROAD YARD, FIVE TRACKS
19 SUBSTATION
2ORAILROAD STATION
21 RAILROAD YARD, THIRTEEN TRACKS
22PROBABLE POL STORAGE
23 PROBABLE MILITARY AREA
.24PROBABLE HOSPITAL
25 DISMANTLED SECTION OF RAILROAD
2G RAILROAD YARD FIVE TRACKS
27 POSSIBLE FORCED LABOR CAMP
28DIVERSON WALL
29OVERHEAD CRANEWAY UNDER CONST.
30 THEATER
31? TSENTRALNYY PROSPEKT
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