SOVIET MILITARY MAPS OF CENTRAL ASIA/NKVD CENSORSHIP OF CIVLIAN MAPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050208-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 208
• Publication Date: February 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION COHFIDMIpy
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY ijBSR
SUBJECT Soviet Military Maps of Central Asia/Wm
Censorship of Civilian Maps
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRE
DATIs OF ..I
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anrr~s
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+eYCV,Ln~V. rmly
hadv,ee, .L,Jne? s i . . a , area tr mentally .surveyed. The emphasis
the r.ri:.. i.~~4.'aC c Jr ~,an ..eas near railroads and rivers. During
93 Central Asia was napped by instru ental
sure;., ui t the hi ii, of the c1d maps, sc as to provide up to date
ui.li`.n:.v r. g-.u::,?c., s,-,me very difficult mountain re .ivus
Pun- n a.ve:> +'_ nJt instrumentally ma ed. e
DATE DISTR. 1,C4,6 1951,
NO. OF PAGES 3
NO. OF ENCLS.
LISTED Mow
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
T'' < '~:?~ i ct L.r ie _t !svered all Ce.- t s1 ncia ie the territory under
t L-- :riec:pct:?^r :?f the Central Asiatic Military District (Sredni
Asiatsl_' V:>erni vit.h headquarters in Tashkent. This area at
s.l,et. rime i,;4-d the five Soviet Republics of Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen,
Tadzhik, ar..d Kirgiz. Rovever, in 1946, the name of the district was
changed to the Turkestan Military District (Turkestans':i Voeani 0krug).
The headquarters remained in Tashkent. The now dlstri:t, included the
fcur Soviet Republics of Uzbek, Turkmen., Tadzhik and Kirgiz and four or
five southern "oblasti' of the Kazakh SSR. The four or five northern
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eoblasti? of the Kazakh sate were 4~__~___
r
h
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s
~ rucnnl uxrug), headquartered in,
Novosibirsk. The two no_
T ^t_weaterLobl`sti" of the Kazakh ~Vero d
to the Southern Lral Military District Mict yuzhno UYalekl Voenni a), Wlth
headquarters in Chkalov.This was a more
tory,particularl a practical distribution of tatti?
quarts . y in regard to transportation and?aceesaib
4 ,ZsThis new distribution of territ
ory is is effect at the press
time L195]," Judging by the Soviet press.
3. The first new, mmilitary maps made of Central Asia were tactical, with a
scale of 1:100,000 (1 on .'1 km). Certain areas, whe
could be e:cpected re major engageNnts
, were covered by 1:50,,000 maps. "Tactical m
1:200,000 were made for a illaa pe or
dese
t
r
areas, where there was little
geograyri ~: i~ r a Thy
Asia had s ui_. military maps of Central
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. !'ps of areas
covered wt re re Leci +rs previously
whether a lake ' s Thexa'are, the revisions indicated
localities, extensi: %;; ..li":cc had appeared and showed new
Prey...:' y unmapp and internal boundary changes.
among other thi: F Krueger grid system, which,
(koordij stns e a ,i:: declination.' As a grid system
y.- se -i t?Yh?'elly to facilitate accurate artillery
fire, this system was c
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