PORT OF ARKHANGELSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005900430010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 7, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Port of Arkhangelsk
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains informaWon s1lectlng the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the espionage Laws, Tilde
18, U.3.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the tranamieslon or re~elatlon of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
SECRET
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
7 March 1955
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They were sailing in line formation with a distance of 300 to x+00 meters between sh~is
and at a speed of about 15 to 20 miles. All the ships were alike: about
100 feet long, with one stack and one mast at the forward edge of the stack.
Two guns were located close together on the forward deck. The after gun of the
two had a Smaller barrel, which P9inted directly upward, and the forward
of the two had a shier. There .were three guns -of equal size qn the after- 25X1
deck, two (Sic) on each side dust aft of midsh.ips, and one on the centerline
a wes war course near an at the eastern part of the Murmansk coast.
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two groups of similar ships. The first group 5X1
consisting oP five or six ships, was seen ~uat outside the mouth of the
Dvina River and was northbound. The second group, of seven or eight shipE25X1
met ship in the river and was qutbound.-The ships in the Dvin~.
possibly a little larger than
down the Dvina. It was 150 to 175 feet long, with a short forecastle and
one large stack with a high mast at the forward edge. At the top of the 25X1
mast was a large sphere of a lighter color than the mast. The midship sec-
tion was built all the way to the gunwalEw~There were four gone on the forward
deck, placed two-and-two behind shields. 25X1
.~+. At Krasnaya Kuznitsa three floating docks, two of which were of
but the stern was more square. On the afterdeck there were also some barrel-
shaped objects with a rail arrangement for releasing them over the stern
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ose seen o urmansk coast. The rig and armament were the same 25X1
the usual type. One lay dust north of the bay at the shipyard, and the otr?r
on the north side of the bay. The third was a pontoon 110 to 120 feet lonb25X1
bu of 1 plates, and lying between the other two docks.
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5? There was a trawler in the outermost dock, and there were several ether
apparently new trawlers in the shipyard. Outside the outermost dock lay
a merchant ship of about 1,000 to 5,000 tone, apparently completely new.
Many smaller ships lay in the shipyard bay.
6. The boat-building yard in the Dvina is member 112
Here there were five or six steel ships on the slips. They
were all the same type, about 35 feet long, with a small pilot house,
and no mast or stack. The aft part of the hull was xmzch shallower than
the forward part. Two propellers hung in rings stuck out from the ledge
between the two parts of the bottom. The rudder was all the way aft.
The ships were lying with the stern toward the main channel so it was
not easy to see the bow. there was
nothing unusual about it. The ships were painted with red lead and seemed
almost finished (see sketch).
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p 3,23, and 26. No. 26 is the lowest on
east ank, No. 112 _ No. 23 is on the west ~~X1
panx No. 1391 I No. 3 is above the town, probably No. 122
A streetcar guns to the town dust above the quay. ~ ~ 25X1
Sketch of soviet Vessel:
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There is not much of a built-up area around the shipyard. There are no
workshops, and only a few ordinary houses.
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