CITY PLAN OF MAGADAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A039900320001-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 24, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Th1s material contains information affecting the National Defense of the IInited States within the mesaing of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, II.B.C. 8~sos. 79S and 794, the transmissioa or revelation of which Sa any meaner to an unauthorlaed person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY
IISSR (Magadan Oblast) REPORT
SUBJECT
City P1An of Magadan DATE DISTR.
2.4 January 1958
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The Magadan
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Dalstroy Chief Directorate, the main buIdi~ of the directorate,
a restaurant building, a theater, a central heating station,,s~.
market, a public park, and prison camp crease
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COUNTRY U83R (Magadanskaya Oblast) DATE DISTR. is Jaa 1958
8UB7E~T C i ty Plan oP Magadan NO. OF PAGE8 2
DATE OF INFORMATION
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THiS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
~1. Magadan (N 59-3~4, E 150-48), Magadanakaya Oblast, was !'ounded
?in .1931 or 1932. In 1952 it had a population~oP aboat
90,000, which included prisoners. Magadan was the only
populated point in the Daistroy territory in which free
settlers made up a majority o! th? population. In all
other populated points, prisoners mad? up the majority of
the population. Most oP the structures in the oity were
side-story wooden homes. There were a Psw two-otory
wo~ en buildings. Three-story stone dwellings were boated
only en the main street. The streets in the center of the
city Nere of roiled crushed stones the other streets in th?
city were unpaved. gidewalks were wood. .There was street
lighting at night but only in the oenter o! the oity.
8stablishments and dwellings on 'the main street in the
aentsr at town had central heating.
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2. Food, fuel, machine, and other depots were located in Magadan.
All Dalatroy populated points were supplied throu~.+:~~ Magad~ln~, .
Also looated in Magadan was a glees plant, electric bulb plant,
brick plant, and a sewing workshop.
3. There was one drama theater, in which prisoners performed for
the moat part. A moving pcture?theater, a hotel, a restaurant,
a radio receiving station (radiouzel), two ten-year Sohoola,
and a geological mining tekhnikum were also located in Magadan.
Another moving picture theater was located in the building of
the-Chief Directorate of Dalstroy. Moving picture performaa~o~es here
were not shown regularly and were only given for workers of
the Chief Direotorate of Dalatroy; sometimes perforsnnoea here
given for other workers of Dalatroy who came to Magadan, suoh
as those who might come to a oonferenoe. A sort was looated
The Pollowing is a legend to an overlay
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The building of the personnel asotion of the Ghief
Direotorate of Dalatroy. This was a U-rthapsd, two-story
oorrugated (rublenyy) wooden building, with a wooden root'.
2. The Chief Direotorate of Dalatroy. This was a five-story
U-shaped atone building with a sheet-iron roof. A statue.
of Lenin stood in-front of the building. A restaurant l~or
workers of the Chief Direotorate ~aa looated in the builds
ing.
3. Sever restaurant. This was a single-story Mooden house.
This restaurant was usually frequented by hooligans who
gathered there to get drunk and frequently to start Fights.
City people did not go there.
4. Theater. This was a two-story wooden building.
5. Central heating station. This building was enolosed by a
barbed-wire fenoe. Several iron pipet running frow the
building were visible.
~. Market. This market was open daily.
Park of Rest and Culture(Park kultury i otdykha is
ark had trees which were about six feet high.
these trees, which were planted to replace those of
a crest which was once looated in this area, will take
200 years to achieve a normal tine (sic) in this locale.
8. Areas with prisoner camps.
7.
Attaoh~aents Overlay to
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Magadan.
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