SOVIET PRESS REFERENCES LINK WHITE SEA MILITARY DISTRICT AND CITY OF ARKHANGEL'SK

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 247
• Publication Date: December 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Military - Order of Battle, districts
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 30 Sep 1954
LANGUAGE Russian
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SOURCE Krasnaya Zvezda
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REPORT NO.
SOVIET PRESS REFERENCES LINK
WRITE SEA MILITARY DISTRICT AND CITY OF ARKBANGEL'SK
Two articles appearing in Krasnaya Zvezda, 30 September 1954, under the
heading "White Sea Military District" suggest the possibility that the military
district's boundaries now encompass the city of Arkhangelsk, and that the
Arkhangel'ak Military District no longer exists. The Arkhangelsk Military Dis-
trict has not been mentioned in the Soviet press in well over a year, and a new
district, the Northern Military District, has received repeated mention in past
months
The first article stated that Polar Aviation planes regularly fly the run,
Moscow-Arkhangelsk-North Pole, and that troops of the White Sea Military Dis-
trict have struck up friendships with the fliers and scientists on their way
to the drifting stations, North Pole 3 and North Pole 4. One of the fliers
wrote an article for the district's newspaper, and a biologist made a speech
before troops of the district on the work of polar microbiologists.
The second article, discussing the abundance of wild life along the shores
of the White Sea and Northern Dvina River, mentioned the fact that officers from
the White Sea Military District, aided by the facilities of the district's mil-
itary sportsmen's base, make frequent hunts in that area on Saturday evenings
and on holidays.