FABRIKA VILLAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A008100090007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
DATE OF INFO.
DATE ACQUIRED
Fabrika Pillage
DATE DISTR. 27 September 1955
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1. The mining village of Fabrika is located near Peohinska (N 41-28, S 24-59)
and Qradishte (N 41-27, S 24-50), The village has been but recently
established and does not yet appear on Bulgarian mapas The total popu-
lation of the village, approximately 2,000, is made up principally of
miners at the nearby Gyudyurska and La7kov Chukar load mines. The workers
and their families occupy one or two-room apartments in stone buildings
which have four or five stories. Although the apartments have bathrooms
they are not generally used because of the water shortage,
2. Fabrika has a small radio transmitter which serves the village alone,
a school, a post office, a public bath, a theater seating 250 peoples
and a small ten-bed hospital. The hospital has an ambulance and a
pharmacy and the medical staff consists of two doctors, four nurses, and
three orderlies,
3. The miners at Fabrika live oomparitivel.y well, excluding their occu-
pational hasards, A miner who fulfills his quota earns approximately
2,000 lava per month, but he can go as high as 6,000 leva per month by
overfulfilling his quota,
4. The two lead mines, Gyudyurska and Laykov Chukar, are located three to
four kilometers south and two kilometers southwest of Fabrika respec-
tively. The Germans worked the mines during their occupation of Bul-
garia, but large-scale operations were not initiated until recently.
The joint Soviet-Bulgarian company (Gorubso) controlled the mines until
1945 (sic)l, when the mines were returned to Bulgarian ownership. In
march 1955 however, there were still now Soviet experts employed at
the mines. Approximately 50 Soviets and their dependents live in a
3-story building in Fabrika,
5. The Gyudyurska mine covers a large area and goes down to an approximate
depth of 300 meters. Both the rdka and Laykov Chukar mines supply
a large quantity of lead. The lead from the Gyudyurska mine is sent
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for processing to Madan, and that from the Laykov Chukar mine is sent to
Zlatograd. Both mines have new equipment such as large compressors and
electrically operated pumps.
6. The wet-drilling (Mokro Biene) method is used in both mines. Prior to
the irtroduction of the wet-drilling method, the number of cases of
silicosis among miners was constantly increasing. Since wet-drilling
has been in use, the incidence of silicosis has continued to decrease.
7. The sketch below shows the Fabrika area.
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