PORT FACILITIES AND MARITIME INSTALLATIONS IN LEPAYA

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION 25X1A
USSR (Latvian SSR)
Port 'F'acilities an 'Mar?time
,Installations in Lepaya
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DATE DISTR. L June 1953
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1. The f 01li wing :factories . or. shops were located.An'Lepaya. .
a. The Tosmare Shipyard (approximately N 56-32, E 20-02) was used for
repairs on vessels of the Soviet Navy, and was officially known
as Morskoy Zavod. The factory had a three-digit number, of which
informants remembered only numbers 2 and 8. The shipyard has not
been expanded since the war; as late as 1948, some of the war damage
had not been repaired. The yard probably employed more than
1,000 persons. Fishing vessels were also repaired at the yard.
b. The Sarkanais Metallurgs was a wire factory employing about 1,500
persons in the production of wire, nails, and steel forms and angles.
A new sheet mill was constructed at the factory in 1950, but it
had not been put into successful production.
c. A linoleum and cork factory was located in Lepaya. This factory,
e. The Lepaya Match Factory, formerly called the Vulkans Factory,
employed about 1,000 persons. The quality of the matches
was very poor.
between 300 and 400 persons.
which was formerly known as the Wicander and Larsson Factory,
employed between 700 and 800 persons.
The Plyito Metal Factory, which produced scythes and axes, employed
f. A beer plant was located in Lepaya; informants did not know
the number of its employees.
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g. The fish conservation plant in Lepaya was considerably increased in size
in 1951, and was now housed in one of the few.new buildings in the city.
2. Informants had never heard of the existence of an airfield at Materi,
Latvia.
3. While informants did not know the composition of the Soviet Naval Staff in
Lepaya.j they were certain that some type of staff was stationed in the Lepaya
Naval harbor.
4. Informants did not know of any construction changes which might have beer
made in the'Soviet cruiser KIROV, which was stationed in Lepaya Harbor. The
name of the vessel was clearly indicated on its stern. Informants were not
certain'of the number' of armored gun turrets. or of the placement.of
weapons on the KIROV, or on the other cruiser stationed at Lepaya. This
second cruiser came to Lepaya some time in 1949.
5. Informants were convinced that no mines were laid in the Lepaya Harbor area.
6. Informants said that the Middle Entrance.to Lepaya Harbor was almost always
open, although it could be closed'by a barrier.
7, The depth of the. Naval Harbor canal was unknown, but it was deep enough to
permit passage by the KIRtOV. The canal in the Free Harbor was deep enough to
permit transit by a 25,000-ton passenger ship, and informants estimated that
It must be about ten meters deep.
8. The northern pier and the pier in the Free Harbor were still in place, although
they were half-destroyed during; the war, and had not been repaired. Most piers
in Lepaya Harbor were damaged during tha war, and had only been repaired. in. a
makeshift fashion. The tip of the pier between the Winter Harbor and the
C4mercial..Harbor was destroyed during; the war and.had been replaced by a
temporary wooden superstructure. The southern pier was in relatively good
condition.
9.
None of the bridges in the harbor havebeen repaired..: Almost all of the bridges
were constructed before the war. During the war the Germans built a
Commercial Harbor bridge and a.temporary wooden railroad bridge; both of~these
were still in use, although only light equipment could use the latter. The
bridge in the Naval Harbor was old and had not been repaired.' The Commercial
Harbor bridge shook when a heavy.truck used it, and the passage of two street-
cars over it at one time was not permitted. The wooden bridge was used only
for light equipment. Informants had no additional information on the railroad
bridge.
10. Informants did not know if the hulls of vessels,which appear on,the',sketch,,
had been raised and salvaged.. They said that in the fall of 1949 there were
three hulls in the port. In 1950,one of the hulls was raised and tied up at
the Naval'Harbor pier, but it has since been removed. Only one hull was still
visible in the harbor.
11. The following vessels had been repaired or overhauled at Tosmare Shipyard:
a. The KIROV in 1949 and 1951.
b. Various submarines.
c. The GOSMORLOV, a fishing cutter.
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d. A large, white, wooden vessel, which the Soviet Navy took from the Germans,
and used as an admiral's yacht.
12. No new vessels were built at Tosmare shipyard, which was the only shipyard in
Lepaya; vessels were not built at any other place in Lepaya Harbor. The
Bolshevik fishing kblkhoz had a small repair yard for its fishing vessels;
the Gosmorlov fishing combine had a workshop on Rigas'.iela,in a shop formerly
used by some fliers named Cukurs. Fishing vessels of the Bolshevik kolkhoz
were, on some occasions, sent to the Mangali Shipyard in Riga for repairs.
This shipyard was under the jurisdiction of the Fish Industry.
13. Informants believed that -all submarines in Lepaya were moored in the Naval Harbor;
they doubted that there was any other submarine base in the Lepaya area.
14. A naval school was located in the "Emigrant House", located near the Lepaya
railroad station (approximately N 56-31p E 21-01).0 This was neither a
Nakhimov school nor an officers' school. Informants believed that the school
was used for training non-commissioned naval officers. They did not believe it
was used for political training of naval personnel.
15. Petroleum was stored near the'Winter Harbor in tanks that had been built before
the war; petroleum was also stored in four cisterns located opposite the sugar
factory, on the south side of the canal in the Naval Harbor. Another storage
area was located near the bend in the railroad tracks, in the area where one
track led to the sugar factory. and the other continued to Tosmare. There were
two large cisterns in this area for the exclusive use of local military units.
Informants did not know if there were any underground fuel depots in Lepaya.
Petroleum was also stored on the tanker GROZNYY.
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