INFORMATION ON CITIES OF THE TURKMEN SSR

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• Publication Date: December 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
' CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD N0.
COUNTRY USSR _ Turkmen SSR
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic; oeographic -Cities INFORMATION 1953
Sovet Turl~enistany
DATE DIST. a,~ Dec 1953
N0, OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
INFORMATION ON CITIES OF THE TURKMEN SSR
KRASNOVODSK -- Ashkhabad, Sovet Turkmenistany, 20 May 53
Krasnovodsk, which during the Tsarist regime had a population of about
2,OOg has grown under the Soviet administration to such a degree that it is
now called the gate to Central Asia.
Tens of boats arrive daily from Astrakhan, Makhachkala, and Baku with con-
struction materials and machines for Nebit Dag, Cheleken, and Krasnovodsk, and
they leave loaded with Central Asian cotton, Turkmen oil, sulfate of the Kara
Bogaz Lake, and the ozocerite of Cheleken. The amount of cargo now being brought
to Krasnovodsk is twice that of corresponding periods in previous years.
The port operations have been mechanized. There are huge derricks and load-
ing and unloading machines.
Industrial establishments are steadily being built in tse Krasnovodsk area.
The construction of these establishments is facilitated by the fact that the
mountains around Krasnovodsk supply the white stone (Ak dash) which is of high
value for construction purposes. Krasnovodsk has now a fish combine to which
great quantit?iea of fish from the Caspian Sea are delivered daily.
After becoming an Oblast center, Krasnovodsk grew considerably. Recently,
new schools, health centers, social and cultural centers, and several apartment
buildings were built.
The city's streets have been paved, and many gardens have been developed
in its surroundings.
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PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Ashkhabad
DATE
PUBLISHED 20 May _ 22 pug 1953
LANGUAGE Turkmen
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TASHAUZ -- Ashkhabs', Sovet Turkmenistany, 4 Jun 53
Tashauz is situated on the Shabat Canal of the Amu Darya River, in the cot-
ton field area of the northeastern Turkmer, SSR.
The most important streets are the Pushkin, Karl Marks, Lenin, Pochta (Post
office) and the recently constructed Lermonotov Koetche.
Among others, there are now in Tashauz two cotton carding plants, two ,jute
plants, a creamery, a Brewery, and a tY.er~oelectric power station.
Tashauz is su lying the USSR with thousands of tons of cotton, high-grade
,jute, cocoons, and high-grade karakul dirs.
Thr nearly laid C~ardzhou-Kongrad rail line connects Tashauz with the rest
of the USSR. This line serves both the passenger and freight traffic. Tashauz
is served also by civi]. airplanes. The distance between Tashauz and Ashkhabad is
now covered in a matter of hours by plane.
Tashauz has a teachers' institute, a pedagogical school., and agricultural
tekhnikum, a school for medical assistants, and a school of music. More than
4,000 students attend the city's schools.
CHARDZROU -- Ashkhabad, Sovet Tu.^kmenistany, 16 Jun 53
Situated in the southeastern section of the Turkmen SSR, Chsrdzhou is the
center of Chardzhouskaya Oblast.
The main trade activities here center in cotton, cattle, silk and indus-
trial products. During the last Five-Year FLan an orygen plant, excavator mount-
ing plants, and other plants were established in Chardzhou.
Among the institutions of learning established recently in Chardzhou are
the State Pr_dagogica~ .nstitute, the agricultural tekhnikum, several tekhnikums
for river navigation, the industrial school, the teachers' normal school, sev-
eral 7-year and secondary schools, the Medical assistants' school, the school
cf medicine, and t?he school of music. The number of students attending these
schools is over 10,000.
There are several hospitals and clinics in Chardzhou.
Among the new constructions completed during the last 2 years in Chardzhou
are the kolkhoz vrtkers' house, the pedagogical instl*,ute, the agricultural
tekhnikum, a dispensary for emergency and minor ailments, and about 30 apartment
houses with 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, and 12-room sertions.
A new railway station, as veil as nev buildings for the Gidrotekhnikum and
for the industrial tekhnikums, will be completed during the Fifth Five-Year Plan.
During .1951 and 1952, more than 40 kilometers of Chardzhou's streets and
more thnn 12 kilometers of its sidewalks were repaved.
Ashkhabad, Sovet Turkmenistany, 19 Aug 53
During the first 6 months of 1953, 33 government buildings (among them the
living quarters of the pedagogical institute and the building of the agricul-
tural tekhniktim) and 120 dwellings were completed in Chardzhou.
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At the same time, the city's rater supply station on the Amu Darya was cuw-
pleted and connected with the city; 2,950 running meters of water mains were
added to the city's rater supply system. Three and a half kilometers of the
city's streets were improved, and 11,000 square meters were paved with asphalt.
A stone-paved road'was constructed from Leningrad Koetche of Chardzhou to the
Maksim Gor'kiy Kolkhoz. The city's electric system rill be overhauled in the
near future, at which time the electric power produced rill be doubled.
NEBIT-DAG -- Ashkhabad, Sovet Turkmenistany, 16 Aug 53
Situated at the foot oP the Balkan Mountains in Krasnovodsk~ya Oblss*.,
Nebit-Dag has grown steadily since the end cf World War IZ from a smug tcwn
to a large city. In the 3-year period 1949 - 1951, 118,000 square meters of
living space were constructed. The city's houses nor have gas and running vo-
ter.
During the same period, 7 million rubles were open: on the construction of
social and cultural centers. Svoboda ploshchad is the center of Nebit-Dag.
Around this square are locateu the main offices of the "Turionenaebit" Petroleum
Administration, the post office building, and seversl other government buildings.
The social cent?r of the construction workers, the five-story building of the
petroleum tekhrikum, the secondary school, and the Fioneez house are J.ecated
:lose to Svoboda ploshchad. The palace of culture of the petroleum workers is
situated at the end of Vokzal Koetche, which extends from the rsilway station to
Airindzhi May (May Day) Koetche. Another important thorcughfsre of Nebit-Dag is
the 3-kilometer boulevard named after th_ 26 Baku Commissars. Since 1949, over
300,000 rquare meters of streets and =ldewalks of Nebit-Dag have "been paved wish
asphalt.
Turkmen petroleum workers are taking courses iu the hitther institutions of
Moscow, Leningrad, and BaY.u.
A machine mounting plant, a meat ~omtine, a cold-s*:orage i,lant."'and a plsnt
producing corstrur_tion materials were ccnstruc+.ed re_ent..ly 1n Nebi??-Dsg and are
now in operation.
The mea? and flour combines ..re the two most importarr, collective orgsn:za-
tions of the ciiy of Mary. The work of +.he flour combine is not satisfactory.
and itr. production is lagging greatly because of the defective machinery of the
flour mill. However, the meat combine's production of meat and sausages t:as
been abcve the plan.