FACTORIES, COOPERATIVES, AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON SILISTRA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001400340010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 8, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Factories=Cooperatives, and
Miscellaneous Information on Silistra
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
The town of Silistra (N I4-08, E 27-13), with a population of 18,000 inhabitants,
has the following industries'.
a. The Dobrudzha cottonL products works, located one and one-half kilometers
west of the army barracks, has 150 looms and employs 120 persons;
b. A brick and tile factory, situated four kilometers from Silistra on the
highway to Shumen (now Kolarovgrad), was enlarged recently with the aid of
modern machinery and employs 200 to 250 men in the summer season. The daily
output is 100,000 bricks and tiles;.
A wool spinning mill on the Shumen highway, nearer to Silistra than the brick-
c.
yard. It employs between 30 and, 40 workers;
d. The Stomana machine works, located arrthe ied center of typessof machinery,
a number of separate premises.
but recently has taken up the construction of lathes. Late in 1952 the
construction of a special building was near 300 MTS station, where all
its workshops are to be moved.
e. The Lipa State Carpentry Workshop, located in the center of Silistra, employs
280 workers;
f. The IX'September Carpenters' Cooperative, also located in the center of
Silistra, has 80 members;
g. The Korina Flour Mill (former name), situated on the outskirts of Silistra
on the Tolbukhin highway, employs 15 workers. Electricity is used for power; an
h. The Sideri Flour Mill (old name), located'on the Danube River, employs 30
men. It was reopened early in 1953 and has electric machinery.
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2. The TKZS (Trudovo Kooperativno Zemedelsko Stopanstvo; Cooperative Farm) at
Silistra, the management of which is housed on the western outskirts of the
town has 200 members and owns 500 hectares of land. The number of members
has not increased since its establishment in 1945. Since 1952 the amount of
land has been increased when several dozen peasants yielded their land without
compensation to the local council because they either could not or would not
fulfill the high quotas imposed on them. They preferred to go into industry.
The TKZS does not have enough labor for the cultivation of the entire area and
hires between 30 and 50 laborers by the day.
3. A large state farm is..located on the Ruse highway approximately four kilometers
from Silistra. ,It includes an agricultural school with about 100 students.
4. An agricultural machine and tractor station (MTS) has been established on the
Ruse highway two kilometers from Silistra. It has 20 to 25 combines, 30 to 40
tractors and some other machines.
5. Electricity is sup,.Lied to Silistra from Rumania via Ruse, and from Varna.
There are four transformers at different points. Severe power shortages have
occurred since work was begun on the construction of the Giurgiu-Ruse bridge.
Work proceeds on the bridge day and night. In March 1953 construction was still
in progress only near the banks on either side of the Danube.
6. About 650 meters from the Sideri flour mill, on the banks of the Danube, there
are 12 iron fuel tanks: with an average height of ten meters, and set approxi-
mately 30 to 40 meters apart. The fuel is brought from Ruse by tankers or
trucks.
7. Silistra port, unchanged in the past.few years, has two piers: one for passenger
boats plying between Silistra and Ruse., and one for freight vessels. There are
no loading cranes. The only building of importance is a large ten-story grain
silo which is equipped with sorting machinery and an elevator but has no direct
loading chutes for barges. The port has no dock facilities, and vessels go to
Ruse harbor for repairs.
8. The Specturg (Specialna Turgovia; Special Commerce) shops formerly catered to
the families of regular Arrrr officers and to civilians employed by the Army.
Since May 1952, when rationing of food and clothing ended, these shops have
not differed from other state shops and now serve the public as a whole.
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