PORT OF ARKHANGELSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005800670009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL ' INTELLIGENCE`, AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the mapionage Laws, Title 18. U.S.C. Oses. 7833
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthortew person is prohibited
by law.
SECRET - US'OFFICIALS ONLY
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
Port of Arkhangelsk
REPORTS
DATE DISTR. 2$ January 1955
NO. OF PAGES
REQUIREMENT
REFERENCES
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1. in June 1954ship seat its estimated time of arrival t 25X1
Arkhan elsk means of-us Vardb radio. 25X1
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vessels Just outside the control station.
2. As ship was entering port, eight or ten small naval 25X1
the vessels all had the same shape aft. Several similar 25X1
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up and down the river constantly.
vessels were at Solou balm and there were also several of them that sailed 25X1
end of the quay. The waiting place was numbered 54; the number was painted on
a pole. At this point, the quay-had rotted and could not be used for loading.
The ship was taken to pier No. 48 to be loaded. There was room for only one
barge north of the ship's berth. There was a lumber-loading pier at this point 25X1
which consisted of pilings. ship loaded down to a depth of 18 feet.
The quay was long enou to accommodate to six or eight vessels. There were no
cranes on the quay and no more than four or six "straddle-trucks" 25X1
16-17. At first, the ship had to anchor in a waiting. place at the extreme south
The ship loaded at Sawmill No. 25X1
1. The gate to the harbor area was south of the southern end of the quay. There
was a small boat-building yard on the left of the gate. Five or six snurpedorriers
were under construction at this yard.1 They were being built in the open, and
no workshop buildings were visible. The boatyard was guarded by an armed soldier.
5. Just south of Sawmill No. 16-17, at No. 128 on the German city plan, there was
a large three-story easerne. naval personnel in a window of this 25XI
building. On a street farther inland, possibly at No. 199. there s a large 25X1
four-story caserne which covered a who3.e quarter (sic). -7saw soldiers
in army uniforms in this area.
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6. From Sawmill No. 16-17 there was a streetcar to the city of Arkhangelsk.
On the other side of the bridge one could transfer to either another street-
car or a bus. The bus vent down the main street of the city of Arkhangelsk.
7. A new bridge, somewhat farther up the river, had been built halfway across
the river on the Arkhatplsk side. The bridge, which rested on many formed
pilings, was flat and it was about forty. to fifty feet above the surface of
the water even the bridge's road surface was on a
base of stee .
8. In the southwestern part of Arkheags Ir- on the corner tween Nos. 63 and
202, there was a lame building whic would be a seamen's
building. Because of the fine furnishings visible from the street,
it was to be a hotel. At No. 140 on the city map,in the
northern part of city, there was a hospital. Further along the main street
in a southerly direction, there was,on the right side of the street ,& large
new three-story residential building surrounded b a arden.
~oldiers in the garden. In the same area a park and
a seamen's hospital. The latter was at No. 42. osp presented a poor
appearance from the outside but inside it was attractive and clean.
omment: Snurpedorriers are probably purse-seine dories.
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