SOVIET NAVAL VESSELS OBSERVED IN KRONSHTADT AND LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005900350010-1
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
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2. At the Zhdanov Shipyard in Leningrad, there were ten small vessels,50 to 60
meters in length,at the western end of the slipways. The vessels had.a flush
deck.and a long sheer, two. masts, and a single stack.
they were corvettes. On the north side of the dock, there were two large
naval vessels in the canal. They had two masts, with a radar antenna of
the parabolic type on the after mast. On the afterdeck, there were two
turrets with two guns each. here vessels were light
cruisers. Two slips at the Zhdanov Shipyard were empty.
3. At the Marti Shipyard, a large naval vessel high on the water
in the channel north of the dock area. It had two gun turrets with three
guns forward. There were only cargo ships in the'Kanonerskiy Shipyard.
J believed to be a cruiser. It had a gun turret with two guns on
10._0_00 toy capacity. West of Kronshtadt, there was a vessel at anchor
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three naval vessels were tied up .
in the middle basin at Kronshtadto They appeared to be destroyers but were 25X1
not of the same class. There were also
seven submarines, two of'which were very large, and a large repair vessel with 25X1
a bridge which was square on the aft side and aheavy boom at the stern. In
the eastern part of the harbor, there were two'floating docks, on one of which
the name of "Danzig" was visible although painted over. The latter had about 25X1
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Soviet Naval Vessels Observed in
Kronshtadt and'Leningrad
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7 March 1955
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