CITY PLAN OF PETROZAVODSK WITH INFORMATION ON THE ENVIRONS

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Karelo-Finnish SSR)
SUBJECT City Plan of-Petrozavodsk with Information on
the Environs<
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The following is a legend to the sketch of Petrozavodsk (N 61-49, E 31+-20): 25X1
1. Station building, a one-story frame structure. It had a first class restaurant.
The square and the streets around. the station were asphalted and lighted. In
the vicinity of the railway station there used to. be a hotel, but it was closed
down (1953).
la. Market place where milk, meat, potatoes, berries, fish, bags, used clothes,
shoes, etc., were brought to market,by private individuals from the country
or the city itself.
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2. New.two-story masonry dwelling house.
7. Waiting-room., small frame building. Busses go from here to certain of the
rayons of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.
8. Dressmaker, photographer, and barber shop (one-story frame building).
.9. Grocery store.
10. Bakery,.on first floor; two-story building.
11. Chaynaya Restaurant (formerly the second class Onega Restaurant), two-story
3. Railway. employees' garden.
4. High bridge over the railway line.
5. Baths for railway employees.
6. Shoe store, one-story frame building.
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12. Party Institute and City Komsomol Committee, two-story frame building,
siding painted pale green.
13. Delicatessen and jewelry store, three-story frame building with white
stucco on the outside. Next to it, in a small frame building, there
was a.wine store, cafe, diet kitchen.
14. Automobile repair shop, a one-story frame building.
15. City jail. Two-or three-story masonry building surrounded by a high
stone wall.
16. University. Four-or five-story white masonry building.
17. The new station building, a four-story masonry structure; will presumably
be put into use at the end of 1953.
18. The State Pedagogical Institute (ulitsa Anokhin, building No. 79)6. Four-
story yellow masonry building,
19. New motion picture theater "Pobeda", two-story yellow masonry building.
There was advance sale of tickets and seats were reserved. Ticket prices
were from three to six rubles.
20. New four-story masonry dwelling building. Consumer goods store on ground
floor..
21. New four-story masonry dwelling building. A cafe, a book store, and a
savings bank were on the first floor.
22. Hotel and restaurant, "Severnaya". Five-story masonry structure built in
1947. In the basement, across from Prospekt Lenina,there was a delicatessen.
The building was equipped with an air raid shelter with "vacuum doors". The
hotel was well patronized and it'was often difficult to get accommodations.
For a bed in a common room the charge was seven rubles and for a private
room, 18 to 25 rubles. On registering for a room one had to fill out a
blank, show employment or service identification, and turn over one's pass
to the lady at the reception desk. One had to pay in advance; on leaving
the hotel, the chamber maid wrote out a receipt showing that everything
was in order, and on presenting this to the receptionist one received one's
pass back again. There were telephones in the private rooms, but no tele-
phone books.
23. Architectural technical school and the Geological Prospecting Directorate
of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, four-story masonry building.
24. Library technical school and Committee for Culture and Enlightenment of
the Karelo-Finnish SSR, two-story white stuccoed masonry building. The
president of the committee was Chervov.
25. Building of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR,
four-story, white building.
26. Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Karelo-Finnish SSR; a four-or five-
story dark masonry building. Nearby there was a high wall with barbed
wire, probably around the jail.
27. Polyclinic, pass bureau, and apartments for MVD (MGB) Karelo-Finnish SSR.
Book store on ground floor; four-story masonry building.
28. The Central Department Store; two-story masonry building.
29a. Two-story masonry apartment building, new.
b. City baths; one-story masonry building,
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Four-or five-story apartment building. On the bottom floor there were
fisa and meat markets.
31. Four-or five-story masonry building.' This building housed the writers'
association of the Karelo-Finnish SSR and probably also the artists'
league. A'Jew by the name of Strong was probably chairman.
32. Four-or five-story masonry building. '`Grocery store on bottom floor.
33. Hall for "the people's creative activity" (Dom Narodnogo Tvorchestvo - DNT);
two-story frame buildings, siding.. The director of DNT was a woman named
Maltseva.
34. New four-story masonry building. Stores on bottom floor.
35. New, four-story masonry building. Drug store on bottom floor.
36. The Central Telegraph and Post Office. New four-story masonry building.,
It had a bell tower Lcould possibly bea clock tower,to97 with a spire, on
top of which there was a star,
37. New, four-story apartment building.of masonry. On the bottom floor there
were food and consumer goods stores.
38. Lenin Square and memorial.
39.
Two-story, masonry, government building (Ts1 KPSS, Ministry of Agriculture,
VLKSM, Ministry of Information, a new bank, and the Supreme Court of the
Karelo-Finnish SSR).
40. New four-story building. "Dynamo" stores on bottom floor.
41. New four-story masonry building.
42. Editorial offic esof the newspapers Totuus and Leninskoye Znamya; two-or
three-story masonry buildings.
43. Gosbank of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, large new masonry building.
44. Secondary school No. 8 (number uncertain).
45. Two-story masonry building. "Dynamo" stores on bottom floor.
46. Polyclinic, two-story masonry building, new.
47. Party building; new two-story, greenish masonry building.
48. Pioneer Palace and the Library of the Republic.
49. Kirov Square with memorial column.
50. New drama theater (under construction).
51. Culture and Rest Park.
52. Drama theater, a one-story white, masonry building.
53. A Little Theater ("Kantele" in Finnish).
54. The Central Watchmaker Shop, photographer, barber shop.
55. Stadium.
56. Party School; two-or three-story., white masonry building.
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57. Secondary School No. 14, for girls.
58. Grocery and consumers goods store, two-story masonry building.
59. Church and cemetery.
60. City baths, two-story masonry building.
61. A motion picture theater ("Sampo" in Finnish).
62. Fire station, two-story frame building. Tower on roof.
63. Regional Museum.' Next to the museum is'a bronze memorial column to
Peter I.
64. Onega Plant (Onega Zavod). There were railroad tracks leading to the
plant. Where the tracks crossed the streets,there were level crossings
with booms.
65. Department store, one-story frame building with a high concrete basement.
66. School for vocational training (Fabrichno-zavodskoye obucheniye - FZO),
two-story frame building, siding.
67. Grocery and consumer goods store, two-story frame building.
68. Academy of Science of the Karelo-Finnish SSR. Two-story white masonry.
building.
69. Household goods store (Kommisionnyy magazin), one-story frame building,
siding; accepts second-hand goods for sale.
70. Market place with tea shop and a large number of consumer goods and food
booths.
71. Two-story frame residence building, yellow.1
72. Pioneer Park,
73. Summer Theater.
74. Rayon Military Commissariat; one-story, pale green, frame building, siding.
75. National Drama Theater. Old. two-story frame building.
76. City polydlinic.' Two-story masonry building.
77. New four-story masonry apartment building.'
78. The Central Delicatessen Store, one-story new masonry building with round
cupola.
790' New four-story military barracks, masonry.
80. Department store, old one-story yellow frame building.
81. Bread and food stores? Old two-story. frame building.
82. New four-story masonry building. Food stores on bottom floor.
83. Okrug Officers' Club. Former stone church edifice. There was a fence in
front of the building.
84. Old. four-or five-story masonry building surrounded by an iron fence.
Some military staff was located here.
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85. Railway Directorate, four-story masonry building.
86. Ministry of Forest Industries, two-story yellow frame building.1
87. Art and music studios, two-story old.. sided. frame building. The
music studio was on the first floor-and the art studio was on the
second floor.1
88. Pedagogical school.
89. The Central Polyclinic and hospital. Large, two-story masonry building.
90. Otdel Kadrov for UITL (U.pravleniye ispravitelnykh trudovykh lagerey),
Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps);a new two-story frame building.
Parachute tower,
92. A large new one-story masonry building for some institution.
93? Mirror shop.
94. An artisan school.
95. Tribune. Festival site.
96. Secondary . School No. 9, for boys, Four-story white masonry building?1
97. Military barracks. Old four-story masonry building. High fence around
it.
98. Large five-story building with quarters for senior officers (starshiy
nachalstvuyushchiy sostav).
99. New four-story masonry building. Store for Voyentorg on bottom floor.
100. Small booth; there was a taxi stand here. There was a lighted sign,
showing a Pobeda automobile, with the inscription "take a taxi" in Russian
and Finnish. There were at least 20 cabs in the city. The only way to
tell a taxi from an ordinary car was a sign in front of the driver; it
indicated whether the vehicle was engaged-or available. Source himself
had ridden in a taxi from Petrozavodsk to Pryazha. He didn't need to
show any identification papers and was not asked his name. The fare was
120 rubles. If there were four persons in the car for the same stretch,
they paid 22 rubles apiece. Within the city the fare was two rubles per
kilometer.
101. Newspaper stands.2
102. Telephone booths; ordinary type with glass walls and doors.
103. Wooden bridge over the Losos River. Only.for pedestrians. The other
bridges over the river were also of wood and were for vehicles.
104. Little one-story masonry house. Offices for the City Military Commissariat
(Gorvoyenkomat) as indicated by a sign outside the building. The latter
was very old and may have been torn down.
105. The Division of the Militsiya.had offices in these places.,
106. The bread combine was located in this area?3
107. The Zareka section of the city. In this area, right after the war, there
were several camps for prisoners-of-wa rand for civilians.
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.108. The Golikovka section of the city.
109. The Kirov section of the city.
110. This section of the city along the lake shore was destroyed during the
war and was not yet rebuilt (September 1951).
Additional Information
1. The streets which are shaded on the sketch were asphalted and well lighted. In
the other areas there was hardly any electric street lighting.
2. The First of May Highway (Shosse pervogo Maya), from the northwest end of the
town where it left the Sulashgorskoye Shosse to the bridge over the Niglinka
River, was surfaced with red, brick-like stones over its entire: width of eight
or nine meters. The First of May Shosse was lighted, but very feebly. The
sidewalk on both sides of this road was made of wood and very poor. The bridge
over the Niglinka river was wooden.
There were regular bus routes on the important streets but not nearly enough
to-take care of the volume of traffic. There were always long waiting lines
and there were frequent complaints of poor service. The buses had women con-
ductors; the fare was 10 to 20 kopeks for each bus stop.
4. The road from Petrozavodsk to Olonets (about 80 miles-southwest of Petrozavodsk)
was being improved and in the summer of 1953 the work was complete as far as
Pryazha (N 61-45, E 33-45). The road was asphalted for the first 20 to 22 km
and the project was planned to be completed to Matrossy in 1953. This goal will
hardly be attained, however, since the prisoners Tho were working on the road
were released in connection with the amnesty.
5. There was a regular bus service from Petrozavodsk to the largest places in the
area. Every morning and evening there was a bus to Olonets via Pryazha.
Formerly the route was covered by a small bus with room for 18 people, but new,
larger buses had been put in operation on this road. There were ticket clerks
on the buses and the fare from Pryazha to Petrozavodsk was 22 rubles. Source
himself had never been subjected to any checking of identification papers, nor
had he ever heard of any such checking.
6. Source had heard-that a railroad was being built up to the 20th forest section
south of Matrossy (about 13 miles west of Petrozavodsk).
7. Source said that the road bridge across the river at Kindassovo (N 61-44, E 33-28)
had been rebuilt so that one could again travel directly from Pryazha to Korza
without having to make a detour via Petrozavodsk.
Comments.
1. Numbers 71, 77, 86, 87, 96, and 105, given in legend, were not located on
the city plan.
2. There are three numbers 101, probably all referring to newsstands.
3.. There are five numbers 106 given on the city plan. It is possible that
some of these were used in place of the missing numbers.
4. Since Matrossy is between Petrozavodsk and Pryazha, it is probable that
source refers to the asphalt cover that is to be completed.
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