PORTS OF KRONSHTADT AND LENINGRAD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENT~L INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage fmws, Title 18, U.S.O. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
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1. On 5 September 1953 at Kronshtadtiat the position usually occupied by the
OKTYABRSKAYA REVOLYUTSIYA,there was a cruiser at anchor'. It was said to
be. one of the new cruisers. The second mast of this vessel was located
forward of the second stack and it had two triple turrets of heavy guns
forward and similar heavy armament aft It appeared to be o. the same
class as the SVERDLOV. This vessel, or one of similar class,.wab in the
same position on 16 September 1953.
2. On 5 September 1953 the following vessels were seen in the dockyard at
Kronshtadt:
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a. A destroyer with two, stacks, a tripod foremast, and a short mast aft.
Its armament was not seen.
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A large number of small craft which were possibly MTBs or minesweepers.
On 5 September one destroyer and two minesweepers were moored to the ouay
of the small repair yard at the northern end of Kanonerskiy Island. (See
attached sketch). The destroyer which had two tripod masts and three
stacks appeared to belong to an old class. It was armed with four guns of
the same caliber. One gun was mounted forward, two aft of the second mast,
and;oue between the second mast and the third stack. It had two sets of
triple torpedo tubes amidships. The minesweepers had one mast and one
stack each. They had no guns mounted o~the foredeck. They appeared to
be old German vessels.
A new cruiser which informant believed was of the SVERDLOV Class was tied
up at the position sho'wn'on attached sketch, in the Admiralty Shipbuilding
Yard. (Admiralteyskiy Sudostr''oifelnyy Zayod),
Two Urge floating cranes were Loored at the Admiralty Shipbuilding Yard
as shown on attached sketch. The one in th^ more northerly riosition, which
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was opposite the yard workshops, was the larger of the two.
6. Two transport vessels of between 4,000 and 6,000 tons each were moored in
the vicinity of the Admiralty Shi.rbuilding Yard as shown on the attached
sketch. They were painted gray, and they had one stack and two masts each.
7. No observations were made at the Kirov (ex-Putilov` Shipbuilding Yard.
8. .ro cruisers, the positions of which are shown in the attached sketch,.
``ire under construction in the Admiralty Shipbuilding Yard. Work was under-
way on the superstructure and turrets of the cruiser on the northern side
of the basin, and work had just started on the superstructure of the
cruiser on the southern side of the basin.
9. On the night of 9/10 September a large submarine, considerably over
300 feet in length, was towed by three tugs out the Neva River into the
Morskoy Canal. The conning tower appeared to be very high and there were
raised platforms fore and aft.
10. On 16 September', three cruisers were observed in the vicinity of Kroxishtadt.
One appeared to belong to the SVERDIOV Class and the other two seemed to be
smaller. Later, two cruisers were seen off the coast n,:' the Estonian.SSR,
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Sketch of Le?i arad Harbor:
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Admiralty
Shipyard
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