TOWN F YOEHKAR - OLA: COMMUNICATIONS / NEW BUILDINGS / LOCAL INDUSTRY.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500160041-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: September 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USER
SUBJECT Town of Yoshkar-Ola: Communications/New Buildings/Local
Industry.
SUPP. TO
REPORT NO.
1. "Yoshkar-Ula is the capital of the Mari ASSR. The following information dates approx-
imately to x;52.
Terrain
2. "The town stands on a rise in an area of swampy, marshly woodlands.
Communications
3. "A one-geugt. Lip] railway leads to Yoshk.'r-Ola from the town of Zelenodlsk thus linking it
to the Moscow-Kazan railway line.
k. "The Malaya Kokshaga River, whicL flows past Yo-hkar-0la, is not navigable. The town
has no port and no shipping connection with the Volga.
5, "Yoshkar-Ola has a small airfield which belongs to the Grazhdanski Vozdushny Flot (GVF--
Civilian Aviation Administration). There are no other airfields it the vicinity; the
terrain is unsuitable.
Town
6. "The town of Yoshkar-Ola is really a large village. Most of the houses are built of
eets are unpaved.
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wood and are one-story only. The s
"About 20 atone buildings were built in thecenter ofte town local 52. None
are of military character or for military purposes. They yaincnudlau e: the the aHousN
Soviets, the town library, a town hospital.
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