HAKHODKA - PORT INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A009000310001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 9, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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merchant vessel arrived at Nakhodka. USSR
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Approach to anchorao twn television
antennae, of similar design at point 1 on overlay No 3.
One of the television
antennae was ro a ng i. e, o start a cross. ars were moving as a unit).
A rough sketch of the antennae appears in the box numbered 4 on overlay No 3.
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A large radar scanner at point 2 on overlay NQ 3 eras noted
"probably 50 feet or more across and Ulted at an_
angle of about 15 degrees o"
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three large square doors or openings, close together
and in line, just under the crest of a hill. at point 2 on overlay No 3.
Each opening faced to the southwest, and was surrounded by what appeared to
be new concrete.. The hillside in the area appeared to be scarred by excava-
tion work. The position was fixed by cross bearings.
this might be a coastal defense installation..
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A gunboat was picked up one mile off Cape Povorotnyy, and it followed the
vessel to the anchorage. During departure,, the gunboat followed the vessel
30 miles to the sea.
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The quarantine procedure was the same as experienced recently by other non-
Communist merchant vessels entering Nakhodka.
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Anchorage. The vessel anchored at point 1 on overlay No 1 for four days.
The holding ground material was gray clay with weed on top. The holding
quality was excellent.
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Approach to harbor. The approach to the harbor from the anchorage was a
track bearing 273 (marked point 5) from the leading
overlay No 1. This track was taken by all ships ent
lights marked 20 on
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buoy marked 3. (Dead fix. Flashing every three seconds. Can
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Top Mark). It bears 0120 T from M Astaf'yeva and is 900 feet from that
point.
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The depth in the deep water channel is at
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least 2 feet? for the vessel's draft was that much upon entering.
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The largest vessel using the channel was a Soviet Liberty-
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type ship under full load.
10. The pilot was taken aboard at the anchorage and debarked at approximately
the same point upon departure.
11. Controls. The only item sealed aboard ship was the main radio, and this
was done in a fashion so careless as to permit its use.
12. Security guards patrolled the quay., and one each was placed at gangway,
bow and stern in port.
13. Harbor Craft.l miscellaneous harbor craf~ moored in the
area marked 19 on overlay No 1. A self-propelled floating crane (underway),,
capacity probably about 50 tons., was noted in the e? losed portion of the
harbor, near the area marked 13 on overlay No 1.
i4+. Berth in port. The ship was berthed at point 2 on the quay marked 14 on
overlay No 1. A detailed sketch of the quay is provided on overlay 2,
although it is not to scale. The length of the quay was approximately
five thousand feet. It was a concrete seawall type with bolted wooden
bumpers and with an asphalt apron. The direct line of the quay was 206? T
according to the ship's gyro-compass which was running one-half degree
high at the time of calculation. The depth alongside was at least 28 feet
since the vessel's draft was that figure when it tied up.
dredging had obviously occurred. An area,, approximately that marked on
overlay No 1, had been reclaimed for the quay.
15. Five sheds, each several hundred feet long, were observed as
shown on overlay No 2. The sheds marked 1, 2, 3 and 4, were of stone and
brick construction. Shed No 5 was of wooden construction.
16. Approximately 30 cranes were observed on the quay, straddling the three-
track railway (see paragraph 27 below). Six of these were 15 tons OWL
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and spaced equally along the quay amongst the others,, which were of three-
five tons SWL. All were electric and mobile on rails, and all but two
were of the luffing jib type.
In addition, seven cranes were observed inshore as sketched on overlay
No 2. Four of these, marked B on the overlay, were ibile and of
about 15 tons SWL. Three others, marked C, were mobile on a liner.
A coal dimm was observed on the quay as sketched on overlay No 2.
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approximately 15 thousand to 20 thousand tons or coax, at - uUUW.
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the area of the quay marked "A" was apparently. reserved for
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20. Soviet Liberty-type ships were loading what appeared to be military equip-
ment, painted a "greeny-gray" color, at sheds marked 1 and 2 on overlay
No 2. This equipment included trucks, cars,, bulldozers., and other
machineryF_
21. Three railroad tracks of standard Soviet gauge, were observed on the quay.
The middle track was apparently used as aswitch track in order to leave
the other two uninterrupted during loading and/or unloading activity.
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areas marked 8 and 9
on overlay No i
had apparently been f113 d
=the track through area 8 has apparently been linked with the track
shown on the chart as running north of Nakhodka Bay.
allow extension of the railroad through the areas, as sketched.
good
27. Cargo Operations. Unloading was done by cranes (see paragraph 16 above)
using clam shovel type grabs. The grain was loaded into temporary bunkers,
then fed by gravity into boxcars. The boxcars had apparently been con-
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quality was
11 grain operations on the quay appeared to be handled by grabs ana
peers, but that "mobile suckers"-had been promised the port for the
28. The dock workers were adequate in number and quality
The 10 thousand ton cargo was unloaded in four and a half days wi h a
24-hour work schedule.
29. Construction. a considerable amount of railroad construe-
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