TOWN PLAN MAP OF BURGAS/HIGHWAYS/RAILROADS.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050230-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 230
• Publication Date: March 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
iNii?iiRMAiivi'i REPORT
Town Plan Map of Burgas/Highways/Railroads.
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DATE DISTR. 9 M 1954
NO. OF ENCL~
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT
REPORT NO.
My acquaintance with Burgas, Bulgaria, dates back to 1932, when I took six
months' military training at the Military Barracks (and on agversl ;.
occasions I made business trips after that,date. The last time I visited Burgas
was in December 1944 for the purpose of locating industries to help in the pro-
gram of manufacturing tractor parts. I found no industries in Burgas which could
help in this program.
2 had at. excritant seaport, with modern storage and shipping facilities.
Approximately 50% of all of Bulgaria's Black Sea exporting and importing was
handled through this port, which had the only Bulgarian facilities for the hand-
ling of large ocean-going ships.
3. The only industries in Burgas a2 any importance were flour mills, a sugar beet
factory, factories for canning fish, and a soap factory. All of these indus-
-tries were located along the bay's "industrial quarters" .
4. The only military establishments in Burgas were the "Infantry Barracks", which were
used for area training purposes, and shore batteries ovsirlookjng the
Black Sea.
5? The Post Office, which included the Telephone and Telegra h offices
was located on Rue Alexandrouska, south of the Town Hall
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- e coast-
line most of the way. This highway, the travelled pari:'of which Was about 20 to 22 feet
wide
shi7a with River shoulders over a and steel ditches, bridge, was cowhichriftdd ryed gravel. It the
T , estroye would necessitate the
use of the old route, which ran from Burgas to Aytos (Aitos), then north
to Velikovo, Prosadiya and Vetrino, and then east to Varna. At Velikovo, this
old highway crossed the Xamshiya River. The bridge here was about two-hundred
feet high, was made of rock, and was narrow. South of the bridge, the highway
entered two tunnels, about 12-hundred to 15-hundred feet in length. This high-
way was made of gravel, narrow, possibly from 14 to 16 feet wide, and had been
kept in very poor, repair since the construction of the new Burgas to Varna high-
way. The highway as it went over the Balkan Llountains was winding and it was
very difficult for heavy motor vehicles to use.
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an a west. Today s principal highway between Varna and
Burgas, which was built during World War II by the Germans" follow
th
b. Rue Alexandrouska, was Burgas' main street. Rue Odrln extended was the main high-
wav to A
t0,3 (Ai+o) d th 1
7. Prior to 1938, railroad traffic from Burgas to Varna was routed from Burgas, to 25X1
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'ftos (4.itos), to Karnobat , to Stara Zagora, thence north toGorna Oryakhovitsa,
and thence east to Varna. To shorten this route, a railroad was built by the
?overnment and completed in 1938 which ran from Varna southwest to Sindel and
connected up with the old railroad line at Karnobat. The building of this rail-
way, in addition to shortening the route between Varna and Burgas, eliminated
considerable traffic congestion at Gorna Oryakhovitsa, for it was here that the
main line from Ruse south to Stara Zagora crossed with the main line from Sofia
to Varna. All railroad traffic between Sofia and Varna is now routed over the
new cut-off.
Because of the strategic importance of the railroad junction at Gorna
cnt-of_f Oraapoiointtsa,
the German carly_r di iru, World War TI built r
stating from a point
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