1. INFORMATION ON DALSTROY 2. URANIUM MINING IN THE LAZO AREA

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• Document Release Date: July 18, 2008
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY USSR (Magad
an Oblast) REPORT
SUBJECT
1, Information on Dalstro
2. Uranium Mining in the
y' DATE DISTR.
Lazo Area
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1. The entire Kolyma refion was under.Dalstroyo the headquarters of which was
in Khabarovsk (sic). There were recruitment officers in many cities.
Administration
2. Dalstroy was connected with the MVD. On many papers the sign
(sic)---MVD. On other papers he saw the sign of Dalstroy inscribed in a
hexagon. It looked like this:
,.W- u~~cc:~ura.ces under Laistroy:
a. Southwestern Directorate (Yugo-zap&1dnoye upravleniye), the head-
quarters of which was in Seymchan.(N 62-53, E 152-26). Lazo (N 63-
13, E 152-10) was under this directorate.
b. Central Directorate (Tsentralnoye upravleniye), the headquarters
of which was in Yagodnyy (N 62-33, E 149-40),
C. Northern Directorate (Severnoye upzavleniye),
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d. Indigirka Directorate, the headquarters of which was in Indigirka.
4. In regard to prison camp administration,
following organization:
a. So
cr
uthwes
iminal
tern Camps (YuzlagtYugo-zapad
prisoners in Seymchan, Elgen
nyye lageri), which
Ugol (N 62-54, E 1
handled
51-46),
an
d
La
b. Co
pr
zo.
astal
isoner
Camps (BerlagBeregovyye lage
s in the same area.
ri), which handled
politica
l
c. Us
vitlag
.
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it handled forced labor
until 1950, when t
he crim
in
als
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an
d. Fo
la
d the
rced l
borers
po t cal prisoners were sepa
abor (katorzhaniya /aic1) 2.
in Elgen (N 62-48,"'2 150-44)
rated.
There were groups o
and Butugychak (N
f forced
61-19, 5
14
9-
11
) to w
hich this title applied. The
se prisoners were l
ocked in
th
eir ba
rracks after each day's labor
.
Miscellaneous Information.
5.
6.
8.
Dalstroy disseminated a great deal of propaganda all over the USSR.
After World Var II, one of the chiefs of Dalstroy was Lieutenant
General Ivan Feodorovich Nikishov.3
one harbor on the Kolyma River. It was called Zaryanskiy
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(sic) and was located north of Seymchan. At Zaryanskiy, there was a
camp for political prisoners, who were moved to Lazo in 1951,
A new wolfram and uranium mine was opened in 1952 near Medvedka, 12
km from Pyatiletka (N 62-18, 1 151-27).
ployed there for about six months, and th
Political prisoners were em-
en they were replaced by cri-
minal prisoners. In 1952, very little wo
rk had been done there; there
was only one tunnel, which was about 20 m
long. it
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was common talk among the workers that ur
anium anduaolfram were mined
there,
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At Pyatiletka there was a small cassiteri
te mine, which was worked by
criminals and free workers. The ore was processed in the Second
Factory. At Camp Chapaye+v, located three kilometers from the Third
Factory, there was also a small cassiterite mine and the beginning of
a uranium mine.
9. From Pyatiletka to Camp Chapayev, there were two telephone lines and
one power cable of finger-thickness.
10. The road from Lazo to Seymchan was as wide as the main highway from
Seymchan to Magadan (N 59-34, 5 150-48). It was a dirt road with
room for three trucks side by side, In winter, it was kept open by
snow plows when there was up to one meter of snow. When there was
more snow, the machines cleared the frozen river, which was smoothe
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s, at Seynchan and at Magadan.,
C,~auwe,~.
1. The headquarters of Daistroy is in Magadan.
2. This is probably gatoxzhantikt9 trudoyoy lager - $TL (.hard labor camp).
3, Aikishov was recalled to Moscow in 1946 and re-
tired because of Dals~troy's nonofulfillment of its production plans.
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