TOWN PLAN MAP OF BURGAS/HIGHWAYS/RAILROADS.

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050230-1
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
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December 22, 2016
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July 25, 2011
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230
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Publication Date: 
March 9, 1954
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/27: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050230-1 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY iNii?iiRMAiivi'i REPORT Town Plan Map of Burgas/Highways/Railroads. 25X1 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 CLASSIFICATION Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/27: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050230-1 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/27: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050230-1 25X1 s - 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. y 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 ~s~ '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 . . Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/27: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050230-1