NOWA HUTA - KRAKOW AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 20, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION 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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
REPORT
SUBJECT Nowa Huta Krakow Area DATE DISTR.
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1.- In early .1948 Nowa Huta had 80,00 iab4Ants; its development
plan provides for a population increase to at least .1.00,000 persons.
Nowa Huta is part of the municipal area of Krakow, but has a
separate Regional National Council (Dzielnicawa Rada Narodowa)
which enjoys a greater degree, of autonomy than other local
authorities in the area. The city's Party Committee is also
very powerful, exerting a decisive influence on public affairs
The public institutions include a regional police force and
Prosecutor's Office; it is not known.., however, whether the
latter is an independent unit or part of the Krakow judiciary.
2. Nowa Huta is divided into four administrative sectors (osiedle),
designated A, B.p C, and D. Although the streets have already
been named, the inhabitants are accustomed to indicating their
addresses by the sector letters and house numbers. Public
thoroughfares referred to by their proper names are the main road
from Krakow, Wojewodzka Street, and the main square, Plac Central
Buildings in the city range from one to seven stories, the largest'
containing about 80 apartments. The latter type constitute 10 to
15 percent of the city's construction which is of low standard, being
built partly of bricks and partly of prefabricated frames filled
with hollow bricks. The doors and windows are also of inferior
quality and usually require repairs after a year.
3. The majority of Nowa Huta's inhabitants. are employed at the.Ler,,.__
Foundry, which is situated. approximately two km. northeast of the
central square (Plac Centralny). Recently a number of plant workers
have been dismissed (no further details are available),
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4. The Sanitary and Electric Installation Union (Zjednoczenie
Instalacji Sanitarnej i Elektrycznej) is situated in the D-3
zone (Osiedle D-3) of Nova Huta. The union is subordinate to
the Krakow Building Administration (Zarzad Budowlany), which
is under the Ministry of Building. The union is in charge
of sanitary and electric installations in Nova Huta, but not
at the metal works. In 1957 the total budget of the union
amounted to 60 million zlotys. Its staff consists of approx-
imately 500 manual workers, and 120 other employees of whom
about half are engineers and technicians. The union.is headed
by a general director assisted by the following:
a. Chief engineer, who is in charge of the prefabricated
construction department, general department, production
manager, sanitary installation section which has three
foremen, and the electric installation which has two
foremen.
b. Deputy admiinistrative director who controls the supply
department, financial. and accounting department, and dispatch
department.
c. Personnel department.
5. Nowa Huta receives its water from the Krakow central pump-
ing station and from nearby wells. Both Krakow and Nova Huta
are frequently short of water because the Vistula River.is
polluted by phenol waste.products from the Dwory chemical
plant. (This also kills the fish.) In order to supply fresh
drinking water, construction of a new supply station was
begun in late 195+ which will draw water from the Rudawa
Rudawkaj7 River north of the Vistula and supply consumers
with water from both rivers. The water mains at Nova Huta
consist of cast iron pipes approximately 500 mm, in diameter.
In various parts of the city there are boiler plants which
supply hot water for domestic consumption and for the central
heating system. It was recently proposed to replace these
installations by distribution centers which will receive hot
water from the metal works and pipe it to consumers at the
required temperature and pressure. Gas is piped to Noowa Huta
from the central Silesian supply system (from Krosno and Jaslo).
6. A large meat-packing plant, a dairy and a food testing insti-
tute are located at the so-called supply base (baza zaopatrzenia),
approximately three km. northwest of the central square. This
site, which was formerly the village of Krzeslawice (N 50-05,
E 20-04), is at present included in.the Nowa Huta area.
Approximately two km. south of this supply base there is a
prewar airfield known as Rakowice.
7. Approximately 1.5 km. southeast of the central square there is
a movie theater, and z km. farther in that direction a large
hospital with 700 beds which was recently constructed. It is
planned to build a town hall (ratusz) approximately 300 m. north
of the central square, and a House of Culture (Dom Kultury)
approximately 300 M. south of the square. As of early 1958
work on these projects had not begun.
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8. In the southwestern part of the central square there is a
Polish-Soviet club housed in a five-story building , the
ground floor of which is occupied by shops.
Krakow and Vicinity
A sheet metal products factory (Fabryka Wyrobow Blaszanych),
which manufactures tank parts, is located on the northwestern
end of Wroela.wska Street in Krakow.
10. Prewar military barracks are situated on Mogilska Street in
Krakow. In early 1957 trgops stationed there were replaced
by a unit of civil police.
11. The Krakow Voivodship Police Headquarters is situated in
Plat Szczepanski, in a seven-story building which prior to
World War II belonged to the Fenix Insurance Company. The
Krakow City Police Headquarters is located on Siemieradzkiego
Street.
12. A new road was recently constructed which starts from the
northwest end of Bronowicka Street, across the railroad tracks,
and leads north, linking up with the road to Krzeslowice. At
the point of intersection, a ,new road was constructed leading
east to Nowa Huta. By avoiding the center of the city, this
road serves as a by-pass for traffic from the western part
of Krakow to Nowa Huta. In 1955-1956 construction was completed
on a road which links up, at a point some two km. south of the
Podgorzeplaszow railroad station, with the road leading to
Wieliczka (N 49-59, E 20-.,o4). This road provides a route
for traffice from the northeast to the southeast without entering
the city. In 1956 a road 12 m. wide and made of basalt was
constructed from Wieliczka to Bochnia (N 49-58, E 20-26). It
links up with the highway to Przemysl and relieves the traffic
load on the old Wielliczka-Bochnia road which follows a different
route (through Gdow, N )+9-55, E 20-12) and is difficult because
of its narrowness and numerous tharp turns.
13. The construction of a pipe factory was recently completed
in Borek-Falecki (N 50-02, E 19-56), near Krakow. The plant
manufactures pipes for sewers and central heating installations.
11!. A metal testing institute(Instytut Odlewniczy) is located in
Lagiewniki, near Krakow.
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Legend to Sketch of Nowa Huta
1. "Supply Base"
2. Rakowice airport
3. Site of planned town hall (Ratusz)
I, Polish-Soviet Club (Klub Polsko-Sowiecki)
5. Site of planned House of Culture (Dom Kultury)
6. Movie theater
7. Hospital (number of buildings unknown)
8. Lenin Foundry
Trolley lines. Trollies from Krakow are No. 5 (to the
north of the metal works) and No. 15 (to the south of
the plant). There is also an internal line, Number 14,
which starts in Sector D, passes through the central
square and continues in the direction of line No. 5.
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