MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN THE LENINGRAD MD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001100670010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Aulitary Infonurtiuu
Iir.Q of Source and IM-Stalla;,ion
25X1 Prior to
{-. -a' , February
26-00) 7-950,
Location Occupation
Barracks instal- Eastern
ration of 2 L- sector of
shaped four- the eity,
story buildings, about Y)0
1 workshop com- meters
pound, 2 mate- north-
riel and West of
eluipment store- the farmer
houses,, 1 large Eatenian
garage, 1 ration railroad
storehouse and station,
4 new of f'icers,
billets: aluipoed
with a rallro:~d
spur track, and
enclosed by a
wall along the
eastern and
southern edges
and a barbed=
wire fence
along the
western and
northern edvesm
..a engineer unit of 800 to 1.000 men referred to as
rstallat;ona
regiment aocupied the northern section of the
The soldiers received meals in Pour groups of 200 to 250
man, They wore bl'ck-bordered epaulets with crcased-tool
ana ,,;nia- The unit waa o itmanded by a colonel and includ-
ed three or four majors,. It was equipped with, rifles,
submachine guns;, :tight machine guru:;,, end n:>nrarous
Studebaker tru~:ksz Too+s o.` every type, and wooden boxes
resembling mines were stored in the material depot,
A railway artillery battalion o- about 401 men aacupied the
southern section of the barracks installation:. The men gore
red-bordered epaulets with insignia consisting of a gun barrel
with two wkeels, Besides light infantry weapons,, source
almost daily observed two railway guns mounted on flatcars on
the rsilrosd spur near the workshop eompoundc He as told by
Soviet soldiers that the runs whose ba;rrols prolooted h yia.,d
the front edges of ta.s flatcars were 212=mr gusts,
Source occasionally saw a general in he barracks ins a!
tion who lived in the ;_`ity, Ancordiug t4 aoiiet soldlers1
general was the post conimander~
The afficers~ mess was loo"ted north of the barracks
installation; i3uildin;materis s were etered oppos to the
installation. A ration supply depot v:as 1ooaced in the
southwestern sector of the city..
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Time of source and
Observation _ Emploiment
Prior to
lay 1,949
Barracks
installation o:"
4 three-story
bul ldin ;s, I
smaller hea.d-
buildin;,, 2
kitchen and
mess build-
ins, and 2
gar, es? 80
meters long,
enclosed by
a brick wall,.
2,5 meters
hi;h.
Jarracks
installation
of 1 old
'our. story
bui1din;,
Lac,..>
to: th:arn
perinater
of t"
ei-ty,
about
400
meters
northwest
of the
railroad
station
and
directly
south of
the air-
field.
On Cit. east
side of ?ik
Taen in the
wester
sector oP
Vie city,
e3-
Occupation
y,R.r v _ a,. 3 e -~.c~?-ries of AA)'.
d the installation i,rior to May 1949
'
itdit t AA d
~e un Na ~..,.,rnaeo anAiririon
;rith division headquarter. located in
9-29 2(, 3I' There were about 830 men in
the Snit. the en.iis.:e3 mr.cil :,.,e army unifcros: After
19495 thr' W'ficar'v "cxc }~'~L116u a9r TIT- a ?r;-_
r4.
light=blue patches, mho unit was cd,uc. d.d b' a t~ne1
ource observed, in "Ie garage, an unidentifi;:d nu.nber
of heavy ',r. Guns simians to the German 88=mn 1;.'% gun>
and 25 to 30 trucks,
One battalion o' a, security dzv si>n of about 400 r.;o,-.
it was assigned in the restric e ce'astal area around
and east o' -~cr ? (is rg_.G, ., , b-50, and oocupi od the
i.,stallat.ior, which pans referred to ae in"antsy ,,tracks
by residents, The soldiers .ore green cap bards and
groan-bordered epaulets. They more eauio?,a
'.,
a.ni.ral-.arav,,n vericies carryin:*, 10 to l2 hear
rn ch.ino runs nine 3 to 10 20-T ":":, r