THE CENTRAL ASIAN MILITARY DISTRICT: ITS MILITARY PLANS, UNITS, ROADS AND RAILROADS, MANEUVERS, AND AIRFIELDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 292
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTI'X.'
DATE DISTR.a. Feb 1954
The Central Avian MilitaryDistrlott NO. OF PAGES 2
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is SlitaryPlans, Units, Roads and
Railroads,, Maneuvers, and Airfields
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Until 1929, Soviet military planning in Central Asia was defensive. The
main direction of a possible oouater-offonsive was fIaaerkaad?Termea-IIabul.
After that date, military planning wag reoriented to the offensive. The
in southward Soviet direction of operations was to be Datu?Tehren.4boden.
The main direction for a supporting otfsaeive by the Central Asian military
district (okrag) was to be Asbtllabad.Ysskod-Ladsrar.Xsro.s j, A secondary
offensive route frog Central Asia was to be 3sr*3kskha4ss'at4isadahardaraehl.
This route bad Bess meet vet :;-`...:::s iii is event of operations against
western India by Cseriat military planners. It had better transportation
faouities. Now.wer, it was considered seesadary by Us soviets because
of its distaass tram the Caspian and Us .antral planned lime of attask from
Baku. The Soviet authorities, therefore, atte+t.d to build up a bass or
operations ("plats d 1 ais.s") in soathcsstam Chiral Asia, as the look of tits was tbs
main disadvantage of the plumed rent. of operations from Aokhkabad. Soy
psrtiealarly attsWted to orasto sods a base alma the left flank (leekimg
southward), i e in the 1Mavlrudta4Lg 1k ibad vriamgi.. Daring the pti rind
1630.4940 a mater road was built by sanitary tore.., trim *a railmed
statlea at Tedsksa southeast to $senW, them slug the order to f>1ildabltsr,
where the frombiew of Zraa, Afgboaietaa, sad the VM Naw.alge. S. mad
had a width of seven caster., was a two q, all weather mats sod was
sarfas.I with graw.l. It W boss plaan .d $0 euastsust a raiia.ad step tM
motor mad at a later date. Ater foiliker westwas vas shod, hanger, whoa
hostilities with CernaV bosses !a^iacmlt. Ammlher mat was built,
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two wa all weather route. barely ~ oe was of & I in the aouataias it had
j strbarely two surface. The sur s iaIt or was vv, iet.;-e wide, which i?
were made to Increase the population by
improving irrigation facilities. The Tashkepristrsi irrigation dam, at the
confluence of the kurgab and Iushka rivers, was ?reoted.,
2. Until late 1989, the Central Asian military district - which then izoluded
the five Soviet Republics of Lsakh, Uzbek, Turhasn,Tadzhik ,and lirgis -
divisions stationed within its boundaries. .,,
had six They wort
(a) The let Turkestan Divisiwoe Originally an infantry division of three
reiaeate it was reorganized in 1930 and rodeaipsted as the IEt
utai, lufantr~' Division., Its
a - : , a re auise;tioa provided f
small regiaentsof five companies each (than war* no battalions).
Bash regiment had four infantry companies and one machine gun'oompaq.
The division had only a peak trim. Its headquarters was, at Ashkhabad.
(b) The 3rd Turkestan Division(Iatsntry) in 1950 became the 3rd mountain
Infantry Division. Termez was its headquarters.
(a) There were also four mountain cavalry divisions,
1 The
Tut enak y-a Division in Mon.
2 The Tadshiks a Division in Staliaabad.
3j The Usbeksk ys Division in Samarkand.
4 A numbered division (I cannot mall the number) in Fergana,
which is also in Usbekistam.
Beginning in September or Oeteber 1939, three additional mountain infantry
divisions and six infantry divisions were ferwod. Thq were seat to the
western front in 1941. irasuvere were held in Central Asia. These were not
held in the tarskua desert. The troops aaneuverd along the above mentioned
a.iaes of planned operations and along the border roads.
3. T
he arid regions between Tashkent and the Caspian sea be used for airborne
ahestioal
and ore attaok
S south ofe Tashhkeat.s Thdue *a" e usual aarreaa dfor aairrbbo of AsWabad
attack
training was near the railroad station of IUkat in Turkest
4. In regard to aq pleas for future aiitiaid development is Cabral Asia, in
the late 1930, there was talk about am airficids and leading strips. Survey
parties eoeaeieaally were active in this eeaneetioa. T,swever, nothing was
dome through 1941. aphasia ea Central Aaiaa.ailttary develesaaat -0 e.....,,-.
nktn it b.eae clear is the tearer or lN0 fast EMIF would -bbe tM --- - - am b
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emeq. There were uadergrerad tanks for aviation mean ne a of the
railroad stations on the Osatral Asian bilraad, hich ran between trasaevedsk
mad Tashkent. These storage tanks esae order railroad authority, bet there
was a military repressmtatiwc with seek railroad division.
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