GELENDZHIK PORT FACILITIES AND LANDINGS IN GELENDZHIK BAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 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.
25X1A
COUNTRY USSR (Krasnodar Kray) REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Gelendzilik Port Facilities and_ DATE DISTR. 20 May 1953
Landings in Gelendzhik Bay
NO. OF PAGES 5
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
25X1A
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
SOURcE:
REFERENCES
The Crelendzhik (N 14-34, E 38-05 port was small, and. was uses on y
for local passenger transportation. It had. regular passenger service
(Novorossiyak-Gelendzhik-Tnapae-Sochi) supplied by two diesel passen-
ger ships, the YTJPITER and the ORION, belonging to the Sochi Steamship
Company - Mle. In addition to this service, regular launch traffic
ran between Gelendzhik and. Novoroaaiyst, and between Gelendzhik and
Mys TonkSry. The launches oh this run were the ELVA and. the GELENDZEIK.
The Port Captain in Gelendzhik was Captain, ME, Lev Pavlovich (mu).
His deputy was Mikhail MISHCHENKO. There were about a dozen port
employees unknown to me, including officials of the Port Inspector-
ate (portnadzor) of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet.
Gelendzhik port facilities L'i.ee page127 consisted of:
a. Concrete pier, approximately 30 x 100 m. Vessels could land. on
both sides of the pier.
b. Port Administration building located. approximately 50 m from the
pier. This was a, one-story stone building 20 x 30 m, a continua-
tion of ihrhich was a tobacco warehouse.
SECRET
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
25X1X
25X1A
(JO
25X1A
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
-SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION
-2-
c. Port reStaUrant located behind the Port Administration
building and tobacCo warehouse. This was a one-story building
? approximately; 20 x?.100 m.
. Part Workshops which were housed together in front of the
Port Administration building, very close ,to the seashore. The
only shop I have seen there was a forge where repairs on
coastal landing equipment were made. I am not familiar
with any .other of the portb workshops.
Rescue Station which was equipped with two row boats', life
? jackets, and other 'rescue equipment. The rescue squad
consisted of 14 men. Two of these men were always on duty from
0700 to 2200 'hours during the swimming season.
f. Luggage Room 'set up for the convenience of passengers.
The depth of the sea at the pier w s approximately five meters.
This depth was enough to enable the diesel ship YUPITER to use the
pier, but. the ship ORION,: which was considerably larger, had to
drop anchar.on the Gelendzhik roadsteads located approximately
'one-half 'mile from the pier. The transportation of passengers
from the pier to the roadsteads and back was done by the port's
launch GELENDZHIK. The navigation season on the Novarossiysk-
Gelendzhik-Tuapse-Sochi line normally began in April and lasted
. Until the end.of November. Through this period one of the diesel
ships on the'Novorosslysk-Gelendzhik-Tuapse7Soch1 run would land
at .Gelendzhik at about 0900 hours; the other,t on the Sochi-
loYoroSsiysk run, arrived in Gelendzhik at 1650 hours.
I lelaw nothing 0f the. technical characteristics of either the
MITER orthe: QRZQN, except that they had diesel engines and
,were propeller-driven. , The YUPITER's capacity was approximately
'.200 passengers.; the ORZOWs capacity was 350 to 400 passengers.
At the .height of the tourist season the average number of
passengers arriving daily..at.Gelendzhik by sea. was 75-100. Since
there was no railroad connection between Novorossiysk and
Gelendzhii, (which left only the Sea as a means of transportation),
Many people preferred to travel from Novorossiysk by sea. The MMF
14tunch ELVA of the Sochi Steamship Company normally made two
daily runs between Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk. Usually it left
Gelendzhik'at 0600 and.was back from Navorossiysk at 1200 hours.
its Second daily run from Gelendzhik was at 1400, and it returned
at 2000 hOurs.. The Capacity of the ELVA was approximately 100
persons. The other_launckthe GELENDZHIK, which belonged to the
Gelendzhik: port administrationomade several daily runs between
the Gelendzhik Tart and Mys Tonkiy. It capacity was about
30-40 'passengers. Its first run was at 0700, when it usually took
the air force personnel from Gelendzhik to the airfield located on
Mys Tonkiy ejee?es-IG,630g: " The last run w s at approximately 2200
lours. (In winter, however, the GELENDZHIK made only two or three
round trips daily.) 04 arrival at Mys Tankiy, the GELENDZHIK
always 'landed at the pier located close to the airfield.
The other landing facilitie in the Gelendzhik Bay consisted of:
a. Landing Of the Solntse resort (which included a sanitarium,
several rest,:hores, and a Tioneer (Xoung communist League)
,
' summer cm* this landing consisted of a concrete block. 20 m.
long next to the shore. During the war this pier was
aatually much langer-but the larger part of it was destroyed
by German air raids's and no repairs were subsequently made.
The SoIntse landing was serviced by the GELENDZHIK when there
was.a need for.paSsenger transport to and from Solntse. Other-
wise there-were.no scheduled Solntse runs.
SECRET
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
25X1A
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003
SEGRET/sECURITY INFORMATION
-3-
b. Landing of the Parishskaya Kommuna fishing kolkhoz. This was
a wooden landing approximately 50 m, long, built for the
convenience of the kolkhoz? which was located in Gelendzhik
on Pervomayskaya Street, but on the other side of Gelendzhik
Bay.
(1) This kolkhoz had a fish pickling plant; it was
located at the pier and consisted of several buildings
where the fish taught by kolkhoz members were cleaned,
pickled, packed into wooden barrels, and shipped,
normally to Novorossiysk. I never visited this plant,
but I heard that it had several shops and a few hundred
? workers.
(2) In the spring and Omer seasons, the fishing kolkhoz
always had good catches of gray mullet, plaice,
dolphin; "lobae, "barabullW, and in fall and winter of
herring and "kOmsa". All of these fish, except dolphin,
were pickled in the Parizhskaya KommUna Pickling Plant..
Dolphin was shipped to Novorossiysk for processing; part
Of the meat was smoked and the rest was used for the
production of dolphin liver oil,
(3) The kolkhozys fleet consisted of nine trawlers equipped
With ?ao.1ie These trawlers had originally
belonged to some Rumanian fishing enterprise, but after
World War II they were taken over by the Soviet Fisheries
as reparations and brought to Gelendzhik. The nine trawlers
were organized into three fishing brigades of three'
trawlers each. . Loading capacity of each trawler was
-approximately 20. tn, of fish; I knew of this personally,
because sometimes I had to haul the fish in my truck.
c. Passenger landing on Mys Tonkiy. This was a concrete landing
approximately 100 m. long; it was for the convenience of
inhabitants of the settlement of Solntsedar- -and pefrsorirrel-:
employeC at the Mys Tonkiy airfield.
d. Naval Lighthouse on Mys ToleV,T.. Ido not know when this
lighthouse was built, and I am not sure it was there before'
World War II; I noticed it first when I returned to
GeleWhik in 1945. I do not know any details about the
-lighthouse, except that it gave a permanent, fixed direction
light 'from sundown to sunrise and was manned by Soviet
naval personnel.
e. Gelendzhik Port MMP Lighthouse. It flashed combinations
or greet and red lights arranged in series of three; it was
provided with three horizontally placed light openings showing
either a red light in the middle and green on the sides, or
vice versa. I never knew what these combinations meant.
The character Of the shore in Gelendzhik Bay Was rocky. The shore
was 5 m to 20 is. above sea leveL There were only two sand
beaches;
a.- City beach located to the south of Gelendzhik Bay almost
opposite the stadium. The beach length was approximately
400 m.
b. Solntse Beach, approximately 500 m. long, located 50 m. east
of the Solntse landing.
SECRET
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4
?4
25X1A
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003
SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION
-5-
Legend
1. Pier
2. Workshops
3. Tobacco Warehouse
3a. Port Administration
4, Restaurant
5. Rescue Station
6.. Luggage Room
7 Roadsteads
8. Landing of Solntse Resort
9. Landing of Parizhskaya Kommuna Fish Kolkhoz
-10. Passenger Landing on Mys Tonkiy
11. City Meteorological Station
12. Fish Pickling Plant
?13. Lighthouse (Navy)
14. Port ()MF) Lighthouse
15. Beach
SECRET
Approved For Release 2002/02/05 : CIA-RDP80-00810A001100020003-4