(SANITIZED)ORDER OF BATTLE(SANITIZED)

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2010
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• Publication Date: February 4, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contain Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the WOMAN* Laws, 71U S
18, U.B.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorised person Is prohibited by law.
USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
DATE DISTR. I+ February 1957
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DATE OF
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Date Distributed: 3 January 1957
COUNTRY: USSR
5OTE: This report
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Matters of priority importance
for early warning are dealt with in full detail in this report.
Topics not prima:q ,ly,;of~.,importance as .imminence indicators
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I. Military
1. 7 the following information about the unit
(a)
it was an antiaircraft artillery regi-
ment (ar_ illeriyskiy zenitniy polk
(b) The subordination of the unit was unknown.
(c) The actual strength and the authorized unit strength
were unknown. However, the regiment
consist of the following:
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One 85 mm antiaircraft gun battery, the
strength of which was unknown.
(2) Three or four 57 mm antiaircraft gun batteries,
the strengths of which were unknown.
(1)
(3)
was probably a provisional
The Fifth Battery (pyataya batareya), which
Iwas made up
of 50 trainees, three cadre officers, and three
cadre noncommissioned officers.
over 90 percent of these trainees
had no previous military training.
(d) The winter quarters of the unit were located in
Uzhgorod (N48-38 E22-16),Ukrainian SSR, on
Mukachevakaya ulitsa. The summer camp was lo-
cated in Lesiyets,which was approximately 10 to
12 kilometers from Stanislav (N 48-56 E 24-42),
Ukrainian SSR.
(e) No other training areas were used, other than those
listed under "d".
(f)
(g)
Uzhgorod.
the regiment was located in
(h) The unit commanding officer was Colonel Sagach (fnu).
(1)
The major items of equipment held by the unit were:
(1) An unknown number of 85 mm antiaircraft guns.
(2) An unknown number of 57 mm S-66 antiaircraft guns.
eight 57 mm s-60 anti-
aircraft guns were assigned to a battery in
wartime and six were assigned to a battery
in peacetime. the s-60 57mm
gun as a four-wheel mounted gun, weighing
approximately 4,600 kilograms and capable of
either off-carriage firing by an unidentified.
radar or by an unidentified PUAZO ( rp ibor
upravlen artil er: skim ze itnym o n yem -
antiaircraft director), or o -carriagefiring,
As mans as eight 57 mm guns could be plugged
into the battery junction box in remote-control
firing. The maximum rate of automatic fire
of the gun is 60 rounds per minute. Its
maximum effective range is 4,800 meters, and
its initial muzzle velocity is 1,000 meters
per second. The gun crew, which included
the gun commander, was made up of eight in-
dividuals.
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(3) Approximately six unidentified radar vans.
(1) Approximately six unidentified PUAZO anti-
aircraft directors.
(5) An unknown number of Studebaker, GAZ-51,
and ZIS-151 cargo trucks.
(6) An unknown number of unidentified tracked
prime movers. These unidentified tracked
prime movers were to replace Studebaker
Du`cL trucks as prime movers for the antiaircraft
weapons in the regiment. However, as of
July 1956, Studebaker trucks were still
being used.
(7) An unknown number of unidentified two-way
portable radio sets.
(8) An unknown number of small arms.I
(j) Type of recent training received: unit
received basic and antiaircraft artillery
training
also received an unknown number of hours of train-
ing-ineindividual defense against atomic attacks.
training did not include any training films,
nor was any special-type equipment discussed.
2. Other installations and units
(a) An unidentified antiaircraft regiment moved into
the ummer camp area
(b) Unidentified mechanized or tank elements were
located in a casern adjoining anti-
aircraft regiment's casern.in Uzhgoro
saw either unidentified self-propelled guns. or uni-
dentified tanks, or both, in this area
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(d)
lations:
(1)
the location of,the following instal-
An unidentified military airfield, located at
Stanislav.
(2) An unidentified military airfield, located at
Stryy (N 49-15, E 23-50), Ukrainian SSR.
(3)
An unidentified military airfield, located at
Mukachevo.
(4) An unidentified military airfield, located at
Bushtino (N 48-04, E 23-28), Ukrainian SSR.
(5) An unidentified POL dump, located approximately
six to eight kilometers from Mukachevo.
(6) The Svalyava Wood and Chemical Plant i/n Stalin
(svalyavskiyr leso-khimicheski zavod imeni
Stalina), located in Svalyava approximately
2S kilometers northeast of Mukachevo.
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5. he age class _of the Fifth Battery
from 1923 to'193O inclusive. These draftees, who were
all CRuthenianik and Mo],davians, underwent a two-month
training period. The remainder of the regiment was
made up of regular conscripts whose
births were from 19 to 193 -
[Ruthenia had been drafted for a
full conscript term until approximately seven years
after the Soviet occupation of this former Czechoslovakia
territory,. which occurred in 1945. The reason for this
was the possible political unreliability of this group.
no significant incr a in aircraft at
airfields noted the appear-
ance of two unidentified helicopters which landed at
the Mukachevo Airfield and remained there
several days before departing.)
8-18.
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all radar is operated 24 hours
a day, but with incomplete crews during the night hours.
20.
all antiaircraft positions are
manned 24 hours a day, but with incomplete crews during
the night hours.
II. Civilian
no information of an emergency nature
III. Intelligence Activities
no information of an emergency nature concerning
intelligence activities directed against the West.
1. / Comments From the description
of these small arms, they were probably
SKS carbines (si menov karabin samozaryadnyy),
Kalashnikov sub chine guns and unidenti-
fied large pistols with wooden holsters.
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