OIL INSTALLATIONS AT TUAPSE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 18, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Bepionage Laws, Title
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COUNTRY USSR (Krasnodar Kray) REPORT
SUBJECT Oil Installations at Tuapsc DATE DISTR. 19 February 1959
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EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE.
APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
. A sketch of the Tuapse harbor area described in the text below
2. soil pier, located at point 25a on the attached map, was capable of loading
four ships simultaneously. Loading capacity of the pier was 2,000 tons per
hour per ship. Pipelines of 5, 10,and 16-inch diameters ran beneath a con-
crete walkway on the pier to small. bridges traversing the pier at respective
distances of 150 and 250 meters from the shore. Pipeline connections were
located under these bridges.
On each side of the pier was a gutter which caught oil
spilled drri.,-ag loading operations; the oil was carried through gutters to a
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3. The pier itself was 11.00 meters long and 1.5 meters wide and was constructed of
concrete. The walkway was made of square concrete blocks four square meters
in size.
Oil Depot
4. Oil handled at the pier came from the depot, located at point 14 on the map,
which was composed of nine tanks, plus another newer park to the rear of
this composed of eight tanks. Oil .was carried to the pier by underground
pipelines. The capacity of tanks in both parks was 6,000 tons each. At
point 17 on the map there was another park of five tanks, each with a capacity
of 4,000 tons.
5. Oil destined for the depot at point 14 was delivered in 50-ton railroad tank-
cars. The tankcars were brought into point 24 on the map where the oil was
transferred immediately to a park of eight tanks located above the ground at
point 22. These tanks were 10 meters long with a diameter of five meters.
The tanks were prefabricated elsewhere, brought to the site "rolled up" and
then were "rolled out" and erected. From these tanks the oil was pumped to
the depot tanks.
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6. The pump room, .indicated as '; point 20 on the map, had four large pumps
each with a capacity of 1500 tons per hour; there were also a number of small
pumps. Valves controlling the pipelines also were located in the pump room.
Each-pump was driven by a separate electric motor that operated on 220 AC.
The rotor on the motors which operated the large pumps was about 80 cm in
diameter. From the pump room, hoses ran underground to the depot at point 14,
coming out near the bridge at point 19, where there were six lines, with
diameters of 5, l0jand 16 inches, plus one steam line.
7. Very little crude oil was stored in the depot. Mainly the duo was composed
of distillate fuel, diesel oily and kerosene.
8. The remains of a tank depot which was destroyed in World War II and never
rebuilt, were located at point 10 on the map.
Oil Refinery
9. An oil refinery was located at point 9 on the-.map.
two smokestacks were observed in the refinery area
from which billowing white smoke continually poured, and a funnel-shaped
concrete column such as is found around hard coal mines, from which thin
white smoke came.
]+9. At point 15 was a laboratory which was fully equipped to handle all types
of oil an.al~yses.
Shipping
11. Soviet oil tankers were obliged to transport a certain amount of oil in a
given period. To accomplish this, very often a ship took an a load of oil
in Tuapse only to dump it again in Batumi.
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Legend to Sketch of Port Area of Tuapse
1. aaw mill with lumber yard.
2. Bridge, which also carries water mains.
3. Garden plots.
4. Newly constructed road leading through the military camp.
5. Air Force camp.
6. Open air theater and area for dancing.
7. Seaman's club.
8. Party building.
9. Rerttnery.
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10. Destroyed storage tank depot.
11. Clubhouse for petroleum refinery personnel.
12. in office of the petroleum refinery.
13.; Scrap iron storage yard.
14:, Storage tank depot.
15. Laboratory.
16. Factory manufacturing chassis for tow trucks.
17. Oil storage tanks.
18. Office.
19. Bridge, which also carries oil pipelines.
20. Pumping station with control house.
21. Workshop.
22. Eight horizontal storage tanks.
23. Wooden suspension bridge.
24. Unloading place for Gil tank car trains.
25. Radio station.
25a. Pier for discharging oil.
26. Wall.
27. Destroyed pier.
28. Wall.
29. Army camp.
30. Sports stadium.
31. Entrance gate.
32. Mooring place for passenger vessels.
33. Same.
34. Pier with three cranes and a storage depot for ship's plates.
35. Entrance gate.
36. Navy barracks and camp.
37. Shipyard.
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