THE CITY OF CHIRPAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700230004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 784, of the U.B. Cade, 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.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria REPORT
SUBJECT The City of Chirpan DATE DISTR.
31 July 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Chirpan (N 42-12, E 25-19) is a city of approximately 14.000 inhabitants.
The Machine Tractor Station (MTS, Mashino Traktorno Stante3ya), one of the lar est
in Bulgaria, was established at Chirpan in 1949. It now serves approximately 10
ovllective farms -in the 52 villages of the district. The station has five combines
arid' a'o6nsiderable number of tractors, and it receives additional machinery yearly
from the USSR. The station's other agricultural machinery is old. The station is
slab equipped to make yearly overhauls of machinery and employs approximately 100
mechanics.
3. Student 'tractor-drivers who come from the neighboring villages for instruction at
the Ch.rpan,MTS live in the Synagogue in the Turkish quarter of the town,
4s A second MTS is located at Meriohleri (N 42-08, E 25-30), in the Chirpan 0koliyai
5? The collective farm, which was established early in 1951, now includes approximately
100 families,
The`Rudishnoet agricultural machinery factory is located near the railroad from
Chirpan to Plovdiv, 100 to 150 meters from the Chirpan station.
7. The 1 May flour mill, the largest of three at Chirpan, is located in a 3-story
building near the Sudiehnost factory. It gets current from the Maritsa Mine Power
station.
8. A 'cotton depot is located in a 2-story building on the highway from Plovdiv to
Stara Zagora, approximately 300 meters from the police atatj,on. It has sufficient
space to store all cotton produced in the area.
9. The hospital,, .gift of the Polish government after the 1928 earthquake, is located
near the railroad station and the Machine Tractor Station. Twenty doctors are on
its staff.
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10, Chirpaxi has-five elementary schools of four classes each, two intermediate schools
offering 3-kear courses, and one secondary school. Secondary schools with four
years of elementary and six years of secondary instruction, in accordance with the
Soviet pattern, are to be established for use beginning with the 1952-1953 school
year. Oneof these schools will be located in the center of town, near the town
garden,., and a second in the Levski quarter.
11. A trade school offering tailoring and carpentry instruction to 200 boys and girls
in located in the yard of tre school near the town garden.
120 An infantry unit of 300 to 350 men has been quartered on the former playfield since
1950.. The unit?s headquarters is in the former orphanage.
13. The police station is located in the center of the town. The police force comprises
approximately 100 men.
ltj.. The local and district councils and the post office are located near the police
station.
15. The following personalities are known.,
Captain'Zhelyu Natshev, chief of police
P6M9 (lnu), manager of the Budishnost factory
Zhelyu Tonyev, mayor
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