1. POWER STATIONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEAR ARKAGALA 2. WOLFRAM MINE AT ALEKSADOV

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• Document Release Date: March 21, 2008
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• Publication Date: May 24, 1955
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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USSR (Magadan Oblast, Yakut ASSR)
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SUBJECT
1. Power Sta
near Arka
2. Wolfram M
tions under Construction DATE
gala
ine at Aleksadov
DISTR.
24 May
1955
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
The D-2 Power Sta ion
1. A new power station, called D-2, was under construction near Arkagala
be a hydroelectric station, cause a "Is was
it might
,
being constructed . east ten trucks of coal arrived daily. No
power lines were up. the station would supply current to
the entire Kolyma region sic and would probably occupy an area 500 x 500tm.
2. The D-$ rare*& Labor damp had 2,000 political and criminal prisoners, living
in 17 barracks. Nov barracks were under construction. Several nationalities
were represented in the can, including Germans, Koreans, Poles, Armenians,
Ukraininas, Chechen, Ingush, and Ossetian s.
The lnyy Korpus Power Station
3. A second power station, called Otdelnyy Korpus, was under construction
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men each were employed there, pertly in
300 x 300 a. Six brigades of 25 ui~nt had not yet been
concrete. In summer 1952, the electric e. trucks from
pouring a steam boilers were set up. Many
led from a
Two pipes
The water
inmtalledArkag~ala, brought but wo coal largto the construction site.
lake approximately Coal one kilometer away to the construction site.
The forced labor camp for the construction s.te
was used to produce ateas. or No. 13. In 1951, approximately 200
T Karpus or Casp
was also called OtdelnYT Karpus camp No
pris=Ork were sent there from. Camp D-2.
Wolfram Mine at Aleksedov
was located approximately 600 - Boo m from the Arkaga a1'
(sic)) )' by truck,with only minor stops.
4? 2
journey of three days and nights 00 m wide was crossed by ferry.3
are, & Enroute frog Arkagala, a lar8e rivet 15 dsys,'with same stops for tepai s
The trip froze Alsl~stdov to Ma8-dan about three hours of dayligh ,
on the trucks. In fsll, there were only it was daylight all the time.
In May,
in the winter it was dark all day.
Th+e nine had two shafts, one i3?
5. p wolfram sine was located at Athe miov.
ne pit, there were tunnels two or three
a deep, the other 170 s. Pros the mi lour or five kit Eros the sine.
ks lcng. The ?re was taken tof the factory. American equipment, operated
Source slid not know the
u
by aoMprissed air, Vag
the
6 There were two forced Labor "0 in the Ales One camp had seven
prisoners were employed in the Sine or the factory.
barracks add 800 - 900 inmates.
~ca ~utt on th, Arangas River.
^. as he pie n called Uliskit,
point 3.
and Uliskit May be references to Alyaskitevyy
d
v
o
Comment s Aleksa
River .
-S?~ E 1141-35), on the Aranlas
app~cos
ate The Crossing was probably over the Indigirka River near
s era.
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