1. PORT OF MEZEN 2. AIRFIELD AT MEZEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R003400190006-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
,INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of. Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SECREET/C0NTR0L US OFFICIALS. ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
DATE OF INFO.
1. Port of'Mezen
2. Airfield at Mezen
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THE APPAAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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k.. There were huge quantities,. of lumber in.Mezeb4
the
sa'imill area .was being ,expanded An easterly and .zrortherly.directions. New
plank fences, were. set up. around. the enlarged area. The fence posts. were logs
with the, usual horizontal planks.. and- with pointed planks standing side by -side
between the posts. The.$hight of the.fence.was estimated at 2.,20 to 2.30 'meters.
Between the inner and ;outer pontoon dock there was a'shoal,which informantts ship
had great difficulty in passing. ITh-- dh ;pc dragged:...: bottom the whole time.
The river was.dredged above the upper pontoon.dock, where the passenger boats.
'were -usually anchored.
the tank which was.located south:'of Akulov Point was a
.tar tank. There were ..thousands of tar barrels in the area,, and
there was also. a tar factory. T66.- ,capacity :of:;the tank wa:s . estimated at' 30, 000 to
1+0, 000 liters. 50X1-HUM
6. In the Chetsa River there were same small docks.-along the shore. At these docks
there were two or- three trawlers.: of 500 ,or .60o .tons. There seemed to be a
.rather gild port at this point.
7. From the lower pontoon..dock
took a .bearing toward the airfield'. The beaming 'as 1359directly toward
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tli point where aircraft came in for landing.and disappeared behind the trees.
This t ould..nlace the field lust mirth of 'the city. of Me:zen itself.
craft had three,engines.
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All the air-
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