DETAILS ON SOME IMPORTANT ARCTIC AREAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 21, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Details on Some Important Arctic Areas
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Guard station was located some 10 miles down the river on an island.
Solambola Shipyard
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Archangel Area
1. The-port of Archangel is located on a deep river about 12 miles wide. Adjacent
to the docks are large lumber yards. Most of the storage facilities and open
storage space were across the rivelrin the town itself which was reached by means
of a two-lane pontoon bridge. The railroad terminal was in the town also so all
freight had to be carted across the river from the piers. As late as 1940 there
was very little mechanical unloading equipment and that was very poor. A Coast
Solambola shipyard
employed over a thousand men and work went on twenty-four hours a day. The
s ipyard hagd three or four drydooks with machine shops, a steel plant, a worker's
school and other facilities. there were about four merchant ships
of some 6000 tons being built and one submarine in drydook being repaired. 50X1-HUM
3. In about 1935 they started building a port called Molotovsk about 60 miles up
river from Archangel. This was to be a big naval port and the work of building
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nd dredging the river was being dunes by people from a concentration camp nearby.
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4. Up to about 1933 there was considerable traffic handled at Archangel. Most
any day you could count 15 to 20.rships at the piers and some out at anchor.
After 1933 traffic declined and by 1939 there was very little.
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6. Novaya Zemlya (75N-60E) - The passage south of the island, Karskie Vorota
Strait, is generally blocked with ice, necessitating an icebreaker unless the
wind is in the south. On the northeast tip at Cape Zhelaniya is a small polar
station with not over 50 people. There is good anchorage there but no piers.
There are no naval facilities located on this island. 50X1-HUM
Dickson island (73N-80E) to Laptev Sea
warship destroyed the pert. There are no naval facilities The
passage northeast from Dickson Island is very difficult because of the many small
islands. On Voronina Island (76N-93E) there is a powerful radio station and
on Russki Island a small polar station but no piers.
8. The strait, Borisa Vilkitskogo (77N-105E), is generally blocked with ice except
in July and August. In case of storm, ships go into Shokalskogo strait (78N-100E)
where there is good anchorage for many ships to weather out storms or to conceal
themselves.
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There is a good bay at Dickson Island and anchorage for three to four ocean-
going ships. There is a polar station here but no piers. In 1942 a German
9. At the Cape Chelyuskin polar station (77N-105E) there are about 200 people who
remain all year round. Komsomolskoi Pravdy Island nearby has a small polar
station.
Laptev Sea Area
This sea is always stormy with much ice necessitating icebreakers.
11. At Tiksi Bay (72N-130E) there is a port at the mouth of the Lena River with two
big piers repair and machine shops. Coal is mined nearby by concentration camp
people. all the wealthy people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
are in this concentration camp. 50X1-HUM
12. Tiksi is an important port where shipe plying between Archangel and Provideniya
Bay stop for coal, supplies and necessary cepairs. There is an airfield there
and the bay is used sometimes by seaplanes. It has a powerful radio station and
an MVD detachment. There are no roads or railroads into the port and it is
not protected from the north.
13. Nep.rby there is a polar station, also one at Muostakh Island just outside the bay.
14. At Stolbovoi Island (73N-136E) there is a radio station and a small polar station
of ten to fifteen persons.
15. There is a radio station and large light.at Cape Svyatoi Nos (73N-140E). The
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adjacent Strait Dmitriya Lapteva is a quiet protected passage. On Bolshoi Island
(74N-142E) there.are two small polar stations, one at Kigilyakh and one at Cape
Bolshoi"Island (74N-142E) to Bering Strait
A, etyrelhatolbovoi Island (71N-162E) there is a powerful radio station and
small one at Leonteva Island 20 miles west?
17. At Ambarchik (68N-162E) there is a polar station. There is also a coal mine
which is operated by a concentration camp and an MVD detachment for guards.
l8. Chaunskaya Bay (68N-170E) has good deep anchorage. Peveke on the north shore
has an Eskimo population of about 300, a radio station and one pier with deep
water. It is used for a coal and oil fueling station. There is a small coal
mine nearby operated by concentration camp personnel and the usual MVD detach-
ment for guards.
19. Cape Shelagski (70N-170E) has a powerful radio station, lighthouse and small
polar station. At Cape Billings (70N-176E) there is a lighthouse
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