PORT OF LOMONOSOV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200400003-2
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 703 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
SUBJECT Port of Lomonosov
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DATE DISTR. 14 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
The military port of Lomonoscv is the oomplement of Kronehtadt naval base, the
two ports forming one unit. Lomonosov is subordinate to the Kronshtadt Glavnyy
Shtab (Headquarters),
1, Three naphtha stores about 450 meters from the coast. They are connected with
the pier (4) by means of a subterranean pipe line which carries the fuel to the
distributor, for the supply of naval units at Kronshtadt,
2, A ground floor building with a sloping redbrick roof.; it is 80 meters long,
and 30 meters wide, and is a store for supplier for the Navy,
3. Wire fence preventing access to pier; only those working on naphtha supply to
to the Navy are admitted,
, Pier which is used partly for the mooring of coast guard vessels (20). Naphtha
is supplied from this pier, Naphtha supply points are located in the center,
as marked. A railway track extends to the head of the pier. From the pier the
line Joins the broad gauge line bound for Kingissep (N59-22, X28-39)0
5. `Watch and control post for access to pier (4).
6, Signal station, at head of pier (4).
7. Distribution office, for?EM.pplie s for thhWavy. The building has two floors,
a two-sloped, red-brick roof, and is approximately 100 by 25 meters.
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8. A landing for small local ships only. Zone No.. 20 is so encumbered with dead
weights and with units moored there, that no ship of medium or small tonnage
can land in the zone.
90 Mooring pier for military transports which are loaded with heavy motors and
artillery pieces by means of a travelling crane. A railway track under the
craned runs the entire length of the pier and is connected just beyond the
pier with the line for Kingissgp.
10. Watch and control post.
10a. Barbed wire fence.
11. Wooden palisade about 2 meters high, which limits the mooring zone for commercial
units of the coastal traffic between Kronshtadt and Lomonosov.
12. Passenger quay, on the palisade listed in No. 11.
13, Control post for passengers. A special section of the naval police, directly
under the NKVD (sic), is in charge of this control post. The members of this
section wear a navy uniform but with a peaked cap, and two yellow stripes on
the right sleeve. This section has complete control of men and material; it
has the power to arrest both oivilians and the military personnel of any of the
services.
14. A wooden building; It is six or eight meters
high, and covers an area o a ou by 1 O meters'
15. A small natural peninsula shorter than pier No. 4. There are no installations on
the peninsula.
16. A wooden sentry box, with a small trellis surmounted by a white lantern. This
lantern with its intermittent light is believed to serve as an alignment to
another lantern. The location of the second lantern is not known precisely,
but is believed to be between No. 13 and 15.
l7. Seaplane station; east of Lomonosov port, and subordinate Glavnvv b
at Kronshtadt.
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A fast motorboat for towing seaplanes; it is shown on the sketch at its
usual mooring place.
Three very large hangars
with small cement runways to the
the installations
with a grey material, which could be either eternit (sic)
C. Barracks for the men in charge of the seaplane station.
D. Watch post.
E. Barbed wire fence surrounding the seaplane station.
are covered
as many as six sin,-le-engine aircraft in flight
they Were not jet, but were
co n aircraft.
Other observations the uniform of the
Fleet Air Arm is similar to the Navy uniform but with a yellow, double-winged
propeller on the left sleeve; and the uniform of the police section attached
to the Fleet Air Arm is distinguished by the letters OKVF, Guards of the Red
Banner Air Fleet (Okhrana Krasnoznamenogo Vozdushnogo Flota).
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18. Railway station; a rather small building with a two-sloped, red-brick roof. The
station is about 1* km from the shore.
19. Railway line, aT et ar - ; ?, + ?. 7f xe d t=)-j?- 'Os'--;ii fgr&d.
19a. Railway line, steam- iyapi the last stot) for '
Soviet-gauge tracks and the first one to be reached by the normal European-
gauge tracks. This line tranships both passengers and material.
20,, Mooring zone for the coast guard.
21. Railway station quay.
22. Level crossing of the railroad.
23. Railing which divides the railway station from the station plaza.
The Naval Command of Lomonosov is situated in a building of the port zone, the
location of which is not precisely known, It is a local command subordinate to
the Glavnyy Shtab at Kronshtadt.
The following coast guard ships are usually moored in zone No. 20: BUR=N sic ,
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The ships which serve in the Lomonosov port are subordinate to the Glavnyy Shtab
at Kronshtadt. These ships are probably K-type towboats. There are only two or
three small towboats in the zone, and a few small naval motorboats for local
urposes. A considerable number of sailors are stationed in the zone but no x}aval
n nt Yd The whole port and railway zone is very well illuminated,
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