PORT INFORMATION: LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A008300190001-4
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The following information is based on personal observations
2. Al tical Des tors In connection with inforlaation contained herein,
, specific points of in rest are noted, on photostatic copy of BA it No 2239
and. referred to in this report by the following alphabetical. designators:
A. Berth 4
B. 'Turning area on departure 25)
C. Norwegian merchant vessel
D. Cold. Storage Refrigerated warehouse
N. Kanonerski Shipyard
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3. Approach and Pilot Vessel
arrived laltIl partial cargo onboard, discharged no cargo and lined 1560
metric tons baled cotton camel hairs goat downs, and genteral caigo. Vessel
arrivedr at Leninga.d Light Vessel 0110650C Nov 55 and drifted until vilot boarded
a? 25e.
Pilot came out in a motor launch that displayed the international 411ot lighta.
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departure vessel was boarded by pilot 01:50140C at her berth; he conducted her
out of harbor, and was discharged 081220C at Leningrad Light Vessel. airing
period of visit) weather was very cold with rain and snow. Sae** of
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weather (0800C daily recordiSgs) during visit follows: ,
Bats Wind at Barometer Temperature Remarks
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4 Nov 33 251-2 Cloudy 30.12 28?7 .
3 Ndv 33 Cale Overcast 29.67 3707
6 Nov 33 IN-2 Cloudy 29.96 30?7 .
7 Nov 53 101-3 Overcast 30.08 17?F
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4. Anchorege Vessel, aid not anchor at any time during her call. ?
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a cold storage EDISMetrataa/"I'001280 IS lesson
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teas :Vessel vas boarded at her berth, labeled designator A, at &MOO
?loy-a boardiag party compoised of customs officer, ismigration officer
? besltkofficer and two representatives of INNIS!, state maritime agency,
les perry completed its business ?in ON4 houro _The customs repreesstativeseeel
yes elos radio and all cameras0 le did mot seal radar, sextamtp.guns at
ailnakittinip ;revisions binoculars, flares, or personal effects,' ISM immigrae
tiom officer checked. ail seaames papers and, issuedsehore pass's? Vessel vas
?not seerekee ,arrival or esparture. Immediately Were Tonne' nalled, it
geation officer returned to pick up shore passes free creme Gme sentati inn
posted** messelos gangway on quay at all times during her call to check
passes pees boarding ant leaving vessel.
70 irether Craft Veseel was sly assistance by two tugs on arrival in berth sad
? ispirtere in leaving berth and terming. Noth tugs were large, stean-powered,
anftwessel vas tufted on emparture at position labeled demignatorld?
L. Nerth V ssel Vas delayed over an ur in getting into her berth at desepater
-Alircanse of poor ellotage and failure on the part of quay personnel to decide
like* sections of quay vessel was to occupy, Quay alongside which vess I
moored is built of stone and is equippld with a *rani treek and:two railroad
spur traeks on the *pron. Beyond a fee* space, a rm. leads ep to a vardssuses
as shown in the sketch, According to pilot, depth orvater alongsi is 220
although depth was only 11.80 alongside? 25e1
? To complete loading cargo, n was necessary for a raft to be ;laced between
vessel One quay, ileppg quay is sufficiently long to accommodate five ocean-
goingeorehant vesme*s? Vessel commenced loading cargo Ok1600C and with
Continuous 24-hourlleading cagpletee operations 080500c, with interruptions
vhen it rained on 5 ley 55 and snowed, on 7 Nov 55. Cargo was brought to
? dockside by truck transport and loaded into vessels bolds by two fieseton
cranes most of the tin*, and by four five-ton cranes for a Short period vim
they were not working another vessel along quay, Two gangs of stevedores
? composed of three men each in the holds were used, except when four cranes
were in operation, at which time four stevedore gangs vere used, Bight-hour
Oireweetre worked! aroundetheeclock, Females were employed as tellYeen and
crane operators? Froficleacy of stevedores was not good by US standard*, am&
their prOricisacy reached its lowest point during the night working beera,
Vessel Imago). no sapplies or bunkers, at s ject port and. did. not use
electricity, steak or water available at her berth. Sketch of berth Is
attached,
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10. ,Shipbuilding and Ship Repair The Nanonerski Shipyardves observed at desig-
nator N0 It coniiste4 of one floating 4rydock and. facilities for alongside
remit*
and upkeep of vessels. An old Soviet merchant vessel
was undergoing repairs alongsi. at this yard.
110 Banal Vessels Vessel vas pros t at subject port during annual celebration
ofthiioishavik.Revolti of 1917? at least 25 Soviet stito
Marines proceeding up the Great meee Rivor in the direction of the *ait section
of the city on the holiday.
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sea. lt appeared to be a merchant vessel hull, but mithALmider beam than
usually found on such vessels. It had a high superstructure running ;beset
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the length f the ship and looked like the type =lift that would carry tanks
in amphibious over tio e closest vessel res ling it is Soviet ARO,
Nommuna.
12. Nerd/ant Vestiels
Mettliant vessel moored at designator Co
vhlit Vas loading a tau cotton cargo. The Soviet icebreaker NS ON vas present
in xymit p. being fitted
out for partici tiOn in ,Stivi t antarctic expedition. sh.e has
b fitted out vith a platform at for helicopter ue .
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Nkstch. of Vess los
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