PORT FACILITIES, INSTALLATIONS, AND VESSELS SIGHTED IN BLACK SEA PORTS

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• Publication Date: November 12, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT I NFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United states within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Been. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY USSR/Rumania
SUBJECT Port Facilities, Installations, and DATE DISTR. /2 November 1957
Vessels Sighted in Black Sea Ports
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reports on Black Sea -ports
Subject
Is'ighting of unidentified
naval vessels and merchant ships in the Black
Sea and in Braila.and Zhdanov; port installations
and controls in Brai>.a.axed Zhdanov.
Sighting*of Soviet naval and merchant vessels in
the Sea of Marmara, in Kherson and Zhdanov;
port facilities and controls in Kherson and
Sighting of unidentified Soviet naval vessels,
including one submarine; radar station, tower
for unidentified purpose, coastal batteries
on Ostrov Nikolayev; shipyard activity in Kherso
Searchlights in the Ochakov area; navigational
data on Ostrov Nikolayev; shipbuilding activity,
installations, and vessels in Kherson.
Routine port activity in Tuapse?
Routine port activity in Poti; sighting
of three small naval vessels, similar to the
KRONSHTADT-c lass sub chasers.
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Port controls at Odessa and Kherson; shipyard
activity and naval vessels in Kheraon; prohibited
area near Constanta.
Sighting of Soviet naval vessels in the port of
Noyorossiysk, including unidentified small craft
Installations in Kamysh Burun Harbor,
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the coastal, section be:'?re the entrance of the
Strait of Kerch was observed from the sea roadstead from a distance
c,f about 145 nautical miles. According to the nautical chart, the
torn 'zf K eh Bur?uneki is located at this part of the coast and 50X1-HUM
about 7 Uj e kal south of the town of Koroh, A bay bordered by a spit
Ile vest of the Loin a large lake is situated, Data as to the existence
bbl a A r Wr in this area of Kerch Peninsula are not entered in the
chart,. It was observed, however, that a considerable number of modern
c=ranes '4th 'high booms quay sheds or warehouses were in existence
behind the afore mentioned headland. The quay installations were for
the most part obstructed to view by the spit which ended with a turn
toward =-thwest, Masitop bridge superstructures, and, stack caps of naval
vesssels, yet icna may have been destroyers or cruisers., were seen inside
the bays The s "Ups" hulls were not to be seen.
2. Nri"z an observation period of about two and a half hours, five
barge trains,, that is tugs with one or two boats, coming from the
Sea of Azov, entered the harbor and three other trains of similar
formation to sea toward the Sea of Azov. In the harbor area as well
as north and eat of Its, a large number of factories, shipyard installations
with h1gh chimneys and other large buildings were located. They
irtel.ud 1 two hauling plants which extended from the hills beyond
the town down to the h4 rbOr terrain,
t' d%eMj The report concurs with available records, according
tr.; which fs naval construction shipyard for craft of up to about
destroyer Is !Qcated in Kamysh Burunski. The shipyard was established
during tIu war and, s>fter the war, improved and enlarged by means of
insta. , ,atirjns dismantled from the Neptun Shipyard in Rostock. Kamysh
Buryan;ikJ. Ls not a naval base. It seems, however, that town and harbor
are being improved and enlarged at a large scale so as to take over
the functf.ons previously executedb IC x ' since Kerch was destroyed
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(herson and the NIKCLAEVm0CHAK
GV areas;
GCI3 KOV Large , strong searchlights were observed in this areas The channel from this area
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up to the mo=uth of the Dneiper River had red and green lights. The green lights were on the
right as one goes towards the pert of Kherson. The distance between the tame colored lights
was 1.5 miles, Red posts were located between the lights and at every 50 meters. No search-
lights were observed from this area up to Kherson. On the basis of the routing of the ohan,-
nel, no walls are fo d up
light,
NIKCLAEV ISLAND:
There is a lighthouse
light Just as indicated on
light which is white. The
to the entrance to the Dneiper River, Inforant retuned by day-
located at the Northern side of the island which has a steady red
the chart, At a short distance, further east, there is another
chart indicates this light to be green. This light is located
on top of a netted iron square column. The didIth between its supports is about 8
it has a height of about 20 meters. Rothing else outside of the light was on top of the
colon s
There is a breakwater along the entire l th of the eastern side of the island, Many
ocil wi.s were observed on top of this breakwater which took up the entire length and width,
They were black and probably made of iron. The columns were thin,, 5 -6 inches, and had a
height of 7-8 meters. There was a white light on top of the columns.
No searchlights or radar were observed on the island.
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it was a Naval Base, 4-5 small, one-story build-
ings were observed on the northern portion of the island near the lighth^use and the
columns, Nothing else was observed. No persornel was within the buildings or near them.
The roofs were probably made of concrete. They were flat,
KKHERSON:
I- ORGANIZATION:
1- 20 oil tan%&o-of medium size were observed here, jhey were about the size of those at
Drapetsona, A small, wooden pier with 2-3 slips wage observed in front of the oil tank3.
2- Two shipbuilding grids were observed ? o'-jb '4%.
the shore. A ship was being built,
(5-6000 tons) on the one on the right going up. Only the holds had been built. It had no
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A crane located between the two grids which served both oo them,
The direction of tree drydocks create an impression
because older information, (pictures) derive that the building slips are installed towards
the direction of the current of the river and at its most southern point. It is probably
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that they may ^the drydocks mentioned in a previous report which could have boen changed
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At the interior
and the silo site, a gypsum
had a height of 10 meters. F_
burner was observed. It had three built smokestacks. The
it had 7-8 ovens. Fire was coming out of the smokestacks,
II- DOCKED SHIPS:
a) MERCHANT SHIPS:
were a o 7 old soviet chips of 6-8000 tons.
There
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SUMM Port of T01PSL,
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2- The following ships were at the petroleum piers Dne 1500 ton Yugoslav tanker taking
a load for RIJEKA (FIUME) and the Soviet 20000 ton ship ,"LENIN",whose destination was
ODESSA.
The following ships were at the old piers One Soviet freighter 4f;000000 tons which
was loading general merchandise.
The following ships were at the new pier load i.n g lumber s Two smoi . 100-1500 ton
ships.
A barge o1. t; roxirately 2,000 tons was at the petroleum pier. Or. it was machinery
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used fur port work as well as a cram con:r-t
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, , 3- 'pork on the co*struotion of the two warships mentioned
co'itirn)es intensively. They have already finished half of the outside cover-
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No .mph. bious trucks were observed. Of the two aaWpatserif4
one of them had been hoisted on land,
the propellors of the craft were in the middle and slightly sternwim.
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to the bridge as in the diagram belows
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4.. NO warship was observed.
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GENERAL INFCRI~,ATION
I - ORGANIZATION
1. Location where the signal station is housed in a
Signals are hoisted on top of the building.
II - DOCKED SHIPSa
2.
There were no other foreign ships in port
about ten small Soviet ships.
3. Location 'Of a moored destroyer
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one-story, square building.
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repair.
b) RSHIPaa _WA 4. No warship or suoriarine was located here.
Three small warships were firing on targets outside the port
There were also
it was under
The ships' lines are similar to t he KRONSHTADT CLASS.I
In respect to its armature, the ships had the similarity of the
KRONSHTADT CLASS except that they did not have the stern tower. They had davits
only. The prow had a twin tower.
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III OTECTION:
5. Two rows of barbed wire were observed in this area moored on buoys.
IV - NAVIGATION:
6. Location where a drydock is located. Two smallia.rsbips were on drydock.
7. A vice type dredger was operating at this location which is the entrance to
the port.
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III OTECTION:
5. Two rows of barbed wire were observed in this area moored on buoys.
IV - NAVIGATION:
6. Location where a drydock is located. Two smallia.rsbips were on drydock.
7. A vice type dredger was operating at this location which is the entrance to
the port.
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SUBJ?1CT?DESS&. KH RSONPCONSTAANTA
at ODWSAI the currency rate between the dollar and the
ruble had been rearranged, Officially, the rate is to 10 rubles, Beforea, it was
]. to 4 rubles.
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a) There were two cement drydocks docked at point "A". They were empty.
can take ships of 3000-4000 tons.
b) A 1e o o 0 .,~;o ,r t i..ltns
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ship
to the "ELLS II".
The drydoeks
a shipyard is under construction at point " r- ".
a Soviet ship at OD
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It looked like a siAt,.r-
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It had no exceptional equipment and it had
no radar.
6- Approximately 6 miles East of the main breakwater outside the harbor,
warship was firing at a target
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The ship was
of the G. CORDI type. The target was tugged into port during the late afternoon hours
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7- While sailing towards CONSTANTA the ship\
received a wireless signal, an announcement to sailing ships,in English. Ships were pro-I
hibited to touch the area on the right of the entrance beacon, 6 miles East, and 6 miles
North , approximately a square, from 0500 to 0900 hourst(GM',.
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