KANOERSKIY AND BALTIC SHIPYARDS IN LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700170005-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
SUBJECT Kanonerskiy and Baltic Shipyards
in Leningrad
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7 March 1955
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
SOURCE EVAL APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. Between 0500 and 0600 hours on 17 August 1954, a modern Soviet cruiser believed
to be of the SVERDLOV Class was observed putting to sea from the Neva River.
At about 2130 hours on 18 August, a large submarine was observed entering the
Neva River from the sea. At about 0530 hour on 19 August, a Soviet submarine
was seen putting to sea from the Neva River. 25X1
2. the Kanonerskiy Shipyard was used for repairs to
rc n snips onlyy, o slip was seen on the premises of the shipyard, which had
three floating docks of about 6,000 tons lifting capacity each. The Soviet
motor ship AKADEMIK KRYLOV was moored at the shipyard, and a Soviet steamer
was accommodated in one, of the floating docks. Work in the shipyard was con-
ducted on a 24 hours a day basis, and the workshops and engine shops were 25X1
brightly illuminated during the night.
3. On 27 August, the Soviet steamer VOLGA was moored at Kanonerskiy Shipyards
and the steamer PETROVSKYwas accommodated in the floating dock. Two other 25X1
unidentified ships were moored in the shipyard. A large sheet piling (sic)
extended between the premises of the shipyard and the flooded area at its
rear, where a dredge with hopper barges was in operation. It was believed that
a large shipyard basin was being built there and that the shipyard plant was
being enlarged. Another dredge working in the Morskoy Canal emptied dredged sand
on the shipyard site through a discharge pipeline.
4. The approximate position of the Baltic Shipyard could be determined by the
360 ton floating crane which towered over all other installations. It was
learned that four submarines were under construction on the building slips
of the Baltic Shipyard.
5. On 4 September, four finished submarines of the No. 4+0 type were moored at
the outfitting quay of the Baltic Shipyard, els believed to be large
minesweepers re seen on the building 25X1
slips. A th r snip or similar type was nearing completion. A finished cruiser
with two stacks and two SVERDLOV-Class cruisers '-,re also moored at the Baltic
Shipyard. One of the ] tter had a coat of minium paint and lacked some side
STATE X I ARMY _ NAVY AIF: FN
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plates, which apparently had been removed from the finished hull to be altered
or strengthened.
6.
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One very high luffing crane capable of^lifting-about60 tons,1etwolluffingpyard:
cranes at the rear, and a 30 ton crane to the right of the first crane, three
comparatively large cranes to the left and at th
e rear of the 30 ton crane;
and ,continuing north on the right bank of the Neva River, one hammerhead crane,
one floating crane of about 50 tons lifting capacity, one large heavyrlift crane
of about 200 tons capacity, three more hammerhead cranes, and one tall crane.
Cranes observed in the Neva River bend included one large and one small luff-
ing crane, three hammerhead cranes, one tall luffing crane, and one hammerhead
crane. One large luffing crane, three hammerhead cranes, and another two cranes
were seen in the direction of the cathedral. A tall power line pylon was visible
at the far end of the shipyard.
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