TOWN OF SUMGAIT

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• Publication Date: May 19, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material oontaina information atreoting the Natioasl Defense of the IIaited etaties within the meaning of the 8spionage Lava, Title
18, U.$.O. 8eos. 799 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to sn unauthorised peraoa is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY USSR (Azerbaydzhan SSR)
SUBJECT, Town of Sumgait
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DACE; ACQ.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. ~, '~ ~'?~;
NO. PAGES 1
REFERENCES RD f
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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reports on the town of Sumgait
a.. Fifteen page report and layout sketch of the town.,
b. Sumgait. Motor Park.
c. Sumgait Pipe Rolling Mill, wi~~h layout sketch.
d. Sketch of the .railroad station area.
2. The. town report covers the following topics;
a. General .town information, including the house numbering system..
b. Industrial installations.
c. Government and political installations.
d. Medical facilities.
e. - Hotels, restaur:a~s, and entertainment-facilities
f. Educational institutions,.
g. Transportation,.
h. public utilities.
i. Communications, including radio reception,.
~. hiving costs and availability of foods and consumer goods.
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1. Road leading to the Sumgait railroad station, 7 ksn, from the intersection
of Lenina and Staling Streets? {For details see attachments "Cn' and ~~?~ to
this report,
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2. Two-lane asphalted road approaching Sumgait from the Baku -Derbent highway,
It i s 2 ]nn, from the point marked '~2'~ on the sketch to the Baku -Derbent
highway. The brickyard of Sumgait is located near the intersection of
this road and the Baku -Derbent highway,
3. Yard for empty railroad cars of #~ and #~.
~., OZER (?) Works #1.~2,
5, SK Works (Synthetic Rubber Works).
6, Garage of #5.
7. Artificial bay and pier for AzneftT,
8, Kontora Soyuzprommontazh (All-Union Industrial Assembler Office).
9. Kontora Kauchukstroy (Office of Synthetic Rubber Construction).
l0, Garage of TBTs.
11. Zavod Kauchukstroy {Rubber Construction Works).
12. TETs (Teplo Electro Tsentral~- Thermal Power Plant).
13. Akhundova Street.
].1~., Construction Workers Club (Klub Stroiteley)~ 2:-story building.
15, Military commandantur and dormitory of military police (Komendantskiy patrol!),
15. Auto Park #!~ of Sumgait,
17, Vocational Training School for construction workers (Skhola FZO),
18, Trust ZAKPROMSTROY (Transcaucasian Industrial Construction Trust), 2-story
building,
19, Mechanization Park (Bozo Mekhanizatsii) of #18,
20. KPP (?).
21, Concrete Plant (Betor~ry Zavod
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32. Poselok Khimstroya (Chemical Constructions Settlement}, or, so-called "Old
30. New workers settlement.
31. Old workers settlement.
by the end of 1958.
29. New station of electric railway Baku -Sumgait; was to be put in operation
28~ Dumps of #26,
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27. Two-lane asphalted road, 3 lan, long, leading to the Baku - Derbent highw~r.
26. Pipe rolling mill of Sumgait (BTZ}~
25. Garage of #18~
21t. Garage of #23.
23. Aluminum Works (SAZ - Sumgaitskiy Alyum.~.niyevyy Zavod).
22. Soft dri s ac ory mon zavo .
33. vineyards,
31~, Taro-meter wide drainage canal of concrete construction.
35. Grocery store #8.
36. City Militia. Two-story building.
37. Plan houses.
38. Plan houses, so-called 23rd block (ltvartal).
39. Streetcar repair shop (depo).
l~0. Pushidna Street.
1~1.. Construction Yorkers Stadium (Stadion "Stroitel~").
l~2. Lenina Street,
~3. Bread -baking plant
l~Ia.. Dormitories of Aluminum Works, Located in 15th block (gvartal).
1~5.
1~6.
l~7.
1~8.
Club imeni Narimanova.
Office of Sumgait Trade Organization (Sumgaittorg),
Narimanova Street,
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Three-story building.~p manu~,~#,,; oods._st?re on_ f~,rst floor.
Sumgait"
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69. Five-story house, Furniture store on the first floor.
68, Three-story building. ?Pervyy Restoran" {Restaurant #1) on the first floor.
tailoring artel~,
67, Six-story house,. On the first floor -grocery store #66, bread store, and
66, Collective Farms Market,
to it,
65. Hotel for Collective Farmers (Dom Kolkhoz~nika) and cafeteria #10 adjacent
6lc, ~~Finrzi,.sh hausest~, one-story high wooden dwellings,
63. New three-story high apartment houses.
62. Park of #61.
61. Two-story club of BTZ,
60, Store #22,
S9, First-aid c13.nic (skoraya porno shch ~) ,
first floor, common (obshchiye) facilities on the second floor.
58, The old bath-house, Two-story building. Ten individual rooms (nomera) on
57. Pharmacy.
56, Three-story building, Library on the first floor,
in the near future,
According to city re-construction plans, this .building is to be torn down
55. Cafeteria ORS (oodel rabochego snab~heniya -department of workers supply)
5lt, Taxi. stand and bus terminal,
53, Park (skver),
51. Clinic off' BTZ.
52, Public lavatory,
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1~9, Three-story building; grocery store on the first floor.
5t}, Dormitories of pipe rol]3ng plant (BTZ), housing about 2':,000 people in a
square building with inner yard..
70. Three-story building. State bank (~osbank) on first floor_
71, City branch of railroad ticket office (gorodskaya kassa).
72, Butcher store,
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7~t.
75.
76,
77.
78.
Children ~ s epartment store ~~Detskiy Mir ?', ( ttChildren ~ s World~~ )
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Park
City Hospital.,
City Polyclinic,
Staling Street,
79, b~ndg~s1 Bank (Sberegatel~naya Kassa) on the first floor of a 2-or 3-story
g.
80,
ZAGS. on the first floor of a 2- or 3-story house,
81,
Three-story building. First floor occupied by MVD offices,
82
New apartment houses
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83.
Office of newspaper "~SumgaitFt~
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Artel Inposhiv (Individual~~y Poshiv-
Custom Tailoring),
85.
Hardware Store,
8b,
Photo Shop,
87,
Groeery Store #!~].,
88,
Vegetable Store,
89.
New post, telephone and telegraph office building - a three-story building,
Scheduled to open the end of 1958,
90, Milk bar (Kafe ~~Molochnoye ~-) ,
91, Savings Bank,
92, Shoe Store,
93. Book store,
9~. Old post office building,
95. High School #1, 50X1-HUM
96, Boulevard-like street, with trees on both sides of it,
97. Kindergarten of BTZ,
98, Two-story restaurant ~~Suragait?t,
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10G, Chemical. Institute,, opened in 1958.
101, People's Court (Narsud), 50X1-H U M
102, Grocery Store,#67.
1q3. Three-story building accommodating City Committee of Communist Party (Gorkom},
City Executive Committee (Gorispolkom}, and City Council (Gorsovet),
10I~, Lenin Monument,
1q5, Dancing floor (tanzploshcha:dka} of #106.
206. Club SK (#5).
1q7. Cafeteria ORS.
108. City Park,
1q9. Summer movie house of #108,
110. Winter movie theater "Vagif",
111, Summer movie theater "Vagif",
112. Amusement section of #108 (merry-go-rounds swings, etc,),
113. Park "Stroiteley" (under construction).
11?~, New three-story high hotel, To be completed soon,
115. Field road to Dzhorat,
116, Nizam Street,
117, Manufactured goods store #60,
99, RayPo Restaurant.
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 (Bakiriskiy Truboprokatnyy Zavod -Baku Pipe Rolling Mill) is located im
the southwest part of Sumgait and occupies an area of about ,5-6 sq, kra,
The plant which was put in operation in 19t~9-50 employs some 3,0?0 workers ~"
in three shifts. Former director of the mill, MAMEDf}V {fnu), died in 1956,
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the name of the new director is not Down
1-inch water and gas pipes used i.ri house construction.
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of the mill: pipes
5-6 inches in diameter, used by oil drilling procedure; pipes for oil we11
compressors, outside pipes - !~ inches, and inside - 2~ inches in diameter;
final products
a, Pipe rolling shop, 800 x 2,Q00 meter building, with railroad tracks
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b, Blooming mall, 500 x 1,000 meter building. The shop produced round
steel bars (kruglyye ba].ki.),
The following shops and departments of the plant are known
c, Open-hearth plant (martenovski.y tsekh), 200x500 meter building,
produced steel blocks {bolvanki),
d, Mechanical shop, 200 x 500 meter building,
e, Sma11 foundry and pattern shop (liteyno-formovochx~y).
f, Black-smith shop.
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g, Pile-dr3.ver department (kopro~ryy), Next to it was located an open
air scrap warehouse. The purchasing price of scrap steel is presently
25 rubles per ton as compa~^ed to ~ rubles per ton a few years ago.
h. Electrical department engaged in the repair and installation of plant
equipment.
~, Garage,
(For rough layout of the plant proper, see sketch attached to this report,)
The Pipe Rolling Mill has a regular gauge connection to the Sumgait railroad
station and also an intershop railroad connection. Th? platat proper is
surrounded by a. heavy wall and protected by military guards (voyeni~irovannaya.
okhrana),
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Rough Layout of BTZ Sum ait Wipe RollM].l)
Gate for Vass control booth
auto traffic
Blooming
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 automobiles, including trucks,. dump trucks, compressor cars, buses,
passenger taxi. cars.
2. The Avkobaza employed some 600 workers and was equipped with over 200
xu~V~rait~pVrt, auu ru.gnways o.~ xtiera. .arc, a.s 10CaLE'?fl some zuu-,~VU metiers ,
north of Zenina Street in Sumgait in the vicinity of OZER (?) Works, The
park provided for city transportation and was also engaged in the hauling
of various goods, basically, the construction materials by orders (zayavka)
of state enterprizes in Baku - Siazan~ area. 50X1-HUM
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3. A11 workers and eq+aipment were divided into three brigades as follows:
a. 50 ZIS-585 trucks, ~. G,AZ-51 cargo. taxi, b ~~Pobeda? passenger
taxi with attached personnel under foreman Misha (lnu), 32;
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The average monthly salary of the drivers amounted to 1,000-1,200 Rubles.
~. Superintendent of the Auto Park -fnu S~I,AMOV 50X1-HUM
Chief engineer -fnu MAMEDOV,
Personnel officer -Maria Pavlovna PLATO1VOg
Party secretary -Boris MURZO'
b. 100 ZII,-150 trucks (bortovik, as calle
personnel under foreman Sabir ALIY~V, 2 ;
c, 40-1s5 buses ZIS-155 under foreman Akop SHATiTN, 50.
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 ? 1, In 19lt6-~.7 Sumgait was s a sm age cons~.s sng o wo wor ers
settlements and khimstroy (settlement for workers engaged in the construction
of chemical plants in this area) . Right after World War TI, penal 1.abc50X1-HU
and German PW camps were located in these settlements. Presently, the
old barrack-type one-story houses are being t?rn down and two- and three-
story buildings are being erected instead. Upon co~letion of the chemical
plants, and, especially, BTZ (Pipe Rolling M311 of Sumgait), the town
began to boom, Now it is a modern city with straight,-paved, wide streets
built by plan. Present population of the city exceeds 90000 and consists m~
predominantly of Russians, followed by native~Azerbaydzhanians and Armenians
2. All street names (except for a few very new streets which have not been
named yet) are indicated on 12 x 50 cm. metal plates. The plates are convex
in shape, bulging out from the wall along the long axis, These black plates
with white lettering are mounted on corner houses. The whole city is
divided into blocks (kvartaly), Usually, the house numbers are the same
on both sides of the street, only block numbers would be different. That is,
Stalina Street would have two houses #].0 on opposite sides of the street;
one would be attached to the 7th block and the other to the $th block, ~?'he
house numbers (black metal plates with white lettering), have the block
number at the top and the house number at the bottom and are mounted over
the gates or entrances to the houses. The regulation requires the installa-
tion of an electric light (which burns all night} over each house number
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3. All streets of Sumgait are adequately illuminated by street lights.
Two lights are mounted on the cross-arm of each ferro-concrete pole
There are no street traffic lights or traffic directing militia men in
Sumgait,
The city of Sumgait has no churches or masques whatsoever.
It has 3 or !~ shops with 2,00 workers. The aluminum powder was delivered
from Rustavi in Georgian SSR, melted and formed into bars 5 x 2O x 3a cm,
No other information abaut plant production is availabl?~ Plant was pro-
tected by military guards; entrance to the plant was by passes only, By
special recommendation of the City Committee of Comimu3ist Party, some
~~ emigrants were permitted to work at this enterprise. The plant
had a garage (#2!G of Attachment '~A") with about 1O0 trucks under director
Industrial Installations and other State Enterprises:
Although Sumgait is located on the Caspian Sea, it has no seaport or
public beaches of its own. The beaches around Sumgait are story, and
the local. population uses a sandy beach of D~hor~at, l0 lay. southeast
of Sumgait The only marine installation of Sumgait is an artificially
made bay (#7 of Attachment 'tA") and pier in the northwest part of the
city for a small fleet of prospecting operations of Azneftt (Azerbaydzhani.an
Oil Trust).
OZER or OZIR of Attachment ''A'{ This abbreviation could not
See separate report entitled Pipe Rolling Mill~of Sumgait
One of the largest plants in Siungait is, undoubtedly, BTZ (Bakinskiy50X1-HUM
Truboprokatr~ry Zavod -Pipe Rolling Mill, see #26 of Atta~hmQ?+ uen~l ~
it was a military lent e~ to in
had no chimneys.
it was a chemical v an' . u
know w at the final products were,
8~ SK Works (Synthetic Rubber Works, #5 of Attachment "A"}, Employs 3,000
workers. Has a gas pipe line from Keshlya near Baku, One chimney gave
off milky, foggy smoke which had a very sharp smell. The garage of SR
( of Attachment "A"') had about $0 automobiles of various kinds, including
a first-aid ambulance, The garage super3.ntendent was {fnu) TARASOV,
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9. 8ubber Construction Works {Zavod Kauchukstroy) {#11 of Attachment "Au
1 s 1 $00 workers o tional information ca be su 'ed
The offices of the trust "~{auchukstroy" are
located at the sea shore, in the northwest part of the city (#9 of Attach-
ment "A").
10. Aluminum Works (SAZ - Sumgaitskiy Alyuminiyevyy Zavod, #23 of Attachment "A").
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11. TETs (Teplo Elec ro Tsentral ~ -Thermo Power Plant, #7.2 of Attachment 'tA'+),
supplies power to cities of Sumgait, I~rzyl-Huron and, partially, Baku,
Operates on oil using one train load daily (number of tank cars unknown),
TETs garage (#10 of Attachment "A?} superintendent is (fnu) DZHAYd~v
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12. Concrete plant (Betonrayy Zavod, #21 of Attachment '~"A?"). Employs 50O workers.
Director (fnu} YAZIROY. Fabricated bars (bolvanki dates, slate products
(shifer), ferro-concrete items. this plant had a
subsidiary under the same director c e P~ The meaning of this abbre-
viation could not be explained KPP employed some 1,500 workers and
consisted of a saw mill and awood-working plant which fabricated window and
door frames, floor material, etc. KPP (#20 of Attachment "A"') was located
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13, Treat Zakpromstroy (Transcaucasian Industrial Construction Trust, #18 of
Attachment 'tA'~). Located in a two-story building near the western end of
Lenina Street. The shops and garage (#25 of Attachment "A:') consist of
about 500 trucks dump-trucks, crane cars, and other construction vehicles
and are located near BTZ. Garage director - (fnu) ZUBIL'SRIY, chief
engineer - (fnu) MAMEDOY~ Mechanization Park (Haze Mekhanizatsii, #lq of
Attachment "A") of this trust was equipped w3.th dredgers, concrete mixers,
and other construction machines
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er enterprises of Sumgait)
Auto Park #~t (#16 of Attachment ?A?~) _
b, Soft drinks factory {limonadnyy zavod, #22 of Attachment ''A+;), Employs
lO0 workers. Director is (Erna.) STOTSKIY.
c, Bread baking plant (#!~3 of Attachment +'A++)
d~ Brickyard located near the intersection of the Baku -. Derbent highway
and short road (#2 of Attachment "'A") from this highway to Sumgait.
d~ Kontora Soyuzprommontazh (All--Union Industrial Mounting Office),
Governmental and Folitical Institutions;
15. City Committee of Communist Party - Gorkom (secretary - (fnu) ALIYEY), City
Executive Committee - Gorispolkom (chairman - (fnu} DZHA.LILOY), and City
Council are accommodated in a three-story building {#103 of Attachment +'A?)
near the eastern end of Leni.na Street
lb~ ZAGS is located on the first floor of the two- or three-story house (#8O of
Attachment "A") on the northeast corner of Canine and Pushkina Streets
1?. Peoples Comet (#101 of Attachment "A.~~) is located on the southern part of
Nizaani Street. ,,
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18, Office of the rayon prosecu o ? oy settlement
(#32 of Attachment "A'r'). Here also are located the Rayon Consumer
Organization (RayPo - Rayonnoye Potrebitel~skoye t~shchestvo) and the
old premises of the City Committee of Communist Party.
Security Forces:
19. The offices of MVD including OVIR are located on the first floor of the
three-story building marked "81 on Attachment "Ar'. MVD Chief -Maze
NADZHAROV~
20. Militia (#36 of Attachment rrArr) is located in a two-story building on
the western end of Akhundova Street,
21. M3.litary Comaaendantur and .dormitory of militate police (kommendantskiy
patrol r) are located at the western end of Pushkit~a_ Street.
Medical Institutions:
22. fihere is a big city hospital (#76 of Attachment."A") in the northern part
of the city and near it is a city polyclinic (#77 of Attachment r'Arr) on
Staling Street. There is a city-first-aid station {skoraya pamoshchr)
(#59 of Attachment '~A") on a small street off Lening Street. BTZ also
has its own clinic (#51 of Attachment rrA'r') on Staling Street,
Hotels and Restaurants:
23~
There is a hotel for collective farmers in Sumgait with cafeteria #10 located
near the fartaers r market (#bb of Attachment rrArr) ~ It is open for all .out-
of-town guests although the collective farmers coming on business trips to
town have preference, Anew three-story hotel in the eastern part of the
city is about to be completed and will be opened to the public soon..
24.
There are a number of restaurants, cafeterias (stolavaya) and snack-bars
in Sumgait, The best of them is reportedly the two-story restaurant
"Sumgaitrr on the southern end of Staling Street, Restaurant #1 (rrPervyy
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Restor~Y
anrr} on the first floor of a three-story building on the northwest
corner of Staling and Pushkina Streets is also supposed to be a good place
to eats Rayoo Restaurant on Nizami Street and two
ORS (Otdel Rabochego Snabzheniya -Department of Workers Supply) stolov
a,
one next to the bus terminal, and another in the vicinit~r of the city par
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25. In 1958 in Sumgait a Chemical Institute was opened, The institute (marked
#100 on Attachment r~A") is located near Nizam3. Street in the southeast part
oP the town. No further information could be supplied on this
institution of higher learning.
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Workers
26, The only other educational institutions) k were
High School #7. and the Vocational Training School for Construction
2?. There are a number of parks (see Attachment "A") where people of Suiagait
spend their leisure hours, The largest of them is the City Park occupying
the area northeast of the Lenina and Nizaani Street intersection, The park
has a big amusement section with a merry-go-round, swings, and other
attractions, and a summer movie theater, Next to the park, on Nizami
Street, is located the winter and summer premises of the movie theater
"Vagif" (marked #1.10 and #111, respectively) on Staling Street,
2$, Except the city entertaining establishments, almost all of the city's
largest industrial. plants has its own club and park. BTZ has a new two-
story club and park ad3acent to ~.t (for locations, see Attachment "A").
SK also has its own club on Lenina Street (#1?6 of Attachment "A"). One
of the largest professional groups - construction workers - has its own
two-story club on Pushkina Street, a stadium behind the bread baking
plant on Lenina Street, and anew park occupying a large area between
the eastern end of Lenina Street and the Caspian Sea was under construction,
Cultural and Entertainment Establishmentsr
29. The city library occupies the first floor of a three-story building on
Lena.na Street. No other information is available.
Out-of-town Transportations
30, The city of Sumgait has a railroad connection to Baku and points north
and also bus connections to Baku, Dzhorat, Nasosnyy, Kyzyl-Buren, Alty-Agach
and Stepanakert. The suburban electric railway connecting Sumgait to Baku..+---
was to be completed in the latter part of 195$. Sumgait possesses no sea -
or airport facilities.
31, The Sumgait railroad station is located 7 lava, southwest of the city on the
Baku - Moscow r~i]sa~d line, The railroad has double-tracks at Sumgait.
The terminal is a 30 x 50 meter one-story stone building with an open
asphalted platform in front of it. Tickets are checked at the car doors
or on the train. The express train (skoryy) #d3 (Baku to Moscow) stops
at Sumgait at 1300 hours local time; #blt (Moscow-Rostov/Dom to Baku) stops
at Sumgait at 1b30, Railroad militia i.s responsible for ke a.ng order at
the Sumgait terminal. (For. details see Attachments "C"~~~to this
report.) The railroad has a city ticket office located at Lenina Street
(#71 of Attachment "A").
32. Bus connections All out-of-town bus lines operate daily. Bus terminal
of A~ tta hment 'tA") is located on Lenina Street near its intersection
with Staling Street, It consists of a wooden sherd with benches and tables
inside, and a ticket office at the entrance,
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City Transportation:
33. Cit Buses, Tiro bus lines were operated by the Sumgait Auto Park, They
bo h used the same route, each operating two buses in opposite directions.
Buses of one line operating .clockwise from the bus terminal described in
Paragraph 32 of this report and was usually referred to as "ploshchadka"
("stagery~), Its route was indicated on route signs as ''Kol'tsevoy -
Ploshchadka - Khimstroy" ("Ring -Stage -Chemical Construction Settlement"),
The stops of this line were as follows (see Attachment "A"):
a. Line #1~ Stun~ait -Baker It operates yellowish-colored ZIS-155 buses
wi'~i a capacity of ~0 passengers each, Above the windshield is
located a white sign with black lettering showing a number "1" in a
circle and the words "6umgait -Baku", The same words are also shown
on the route plate on the right side of the bus between the front and
back doors. A one-way ticket to Baku costs 5,20 Rubles, Tickets are
sold at the bus terminal or by the bus driver along the way, Entrance
is thru the back door, exit is thru the front door,
This line operates from 0600 until 2300 hours with a bus departing
every 30 minutes, The bus leaves for Baku from the bus terminal by way
of the eastern continuation of Lenina Street and returns from Baku by
way of the southeastern continuation of Stalina Street, south of BTZ
(Pipe Rolling Mill).
Stops: Sumgait Brickyard - Dzheyram Batan - Sarai. -Transit (~unetion
of Kirovabad and Derbent highways to Baku} - Khurdalan -Baku.
b, Sumgait - I?zhorat: Operates PAZ buses seating 16 passengers (during
the s:?~ng season some ZIS-l55 ax'e added to this line), A bus leaves
every 30 minutes from 0600 to 2200 hours, and the far+eis 1,50 Rubles one-
c, Suit - Nasos Operates PAZ buses from 0600 to 2200 hours, every
one-ham. .hour, a fax~is 2' Rubles one-way,
d, Sumgait - ATasosr~r - Kyzyl -~ .Buren: PAZ buses, No fixed schedule, A.
bats departs when enoug passengers are present, The fare is 10 Rubles
one-way,
e, Sit -_ A_lty-Agach via Nasos~ and Kalpuzi) ~ A P.EiZ bus leaves Sumgait
once a, day, at 000 hours,
f, S ait - St anakert via Shemakha - Akhsu - aeokch dash - Khaldan
ev - am A -1 eparts from gait once a day, at O'~OO
hours.
Ploshchadka
Trest (Oil Trust)
AluminiyevY3r Zavod (Aluminum tnTorks)
Povorot TETs (turn to Thermo-power Plant)
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Khimstroy
Militia
Akhundova Street (corner Staling Street) then down Vagifa to Pushkina Street
Kolkhoznp~y Bazar {Farm Market)
Lenina - Staling Streets
Ploshchadka
The other line operated two buses on the same route counter-clockwise with
a minor change eliminating Vagifa Street and following Staling Street
north up to the very end, These buses carried route shields with "Khimstroy -
Ploshchadka" on them,
Both lines operated from 0630 to 22W hours daily, The fare was 15 lc~+peks
between any two stops, and the tickets were sold on the bus by conductors.
The tickets of yellowish and blueish colors were kept iri rolls in a leather
bag hanging over the conductor's neck.
3l~~ BTZ Buses: Operates 3 or !~ ZIS-155 buses taking the workers to sod from
~ before and after each shift (as late as 0200 hours), The use of these
buses is not restricted to only BTZ workers, but is available to the public,.
The tickets are sold on the bus by a conductor, One route leads from the
bus terminal south on Staling Street to BTZ; another goes by way of Lenina
Street and the Aluminum Works to BTZ.
35. Streetcars: Streetcars were supposed to be introduced in Sumgait in the fall
o~195S,~At this time they had already been delivered to Sumgait (source
unkr:own} and placed in the streetcar repair shop, The construction of the
tracks was completed in July 195$. .The future route of the streetcar line
should be as follows: Nizami Street - Southend of Staling Street - BT`L -
Aluminum Works - TETs -Militia - Akhundova Street - Nizami Street,
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36. Taxis: "ZIM" and "Pobeda" taxi. cabs are operated by the Sumgait Auto Park
The taxi stand
ZIStes and grey Pobedais are marked by a single band of black as d white
checkered squares about 10 cm, wide on a level with the top of the door.
All taxi cabs operating from 0600 to 2100 hours have 20x341 cm, black
meters installed in the middle of the dashboard, On top of the meter is
attached a signs "700 meters - 1 Ruble"'. Below this sign is a kilometer
indicating window; to the left of it is a window showing the total fare,
7`~t3fw . 1 P'r6?.
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37, The city of Sumgait is supplied with electric power by Sumgait TET$.
(Teplo-Electro Tsentral -Thermo Power Plant) operating on oil delivered
from Baku by tank cars, The lant consumed a train load (number of tank
cars unknown) per day,. this power plant also supplies
electric power to Kyzyl-Bvu-un ands partially Baku. The city is entirely
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Water Supply:
38, All apartments, houses and yards in Sumgait are supplied with water from
the water pumping and purifying station located ir: Nasosnyy~ which also
supplies the city of Baku with water. Nasosnyy, in turn, receives the
water from Khudat by a canal, At the present time another water pumping
station is under construction in Nasosnyy,
Sewerage System:
39. All sections of Sumgait except the two so-called "Workers Settlements" (#30
and #31 of Attachment t{A"), have a modern sewerage system equipped with
slate (ebifar) concrete-like pipes. The workers settlements are served
by tank trucks which dispose of their contents at the city dump near the
brickyard,
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only two public restrooms in Sumgait, one on Lenina Street
behind the bus terminal, and one near the railroad terminal.
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A two-meter wide canal (#34 of Attachment "A") of concrete construction
running west of Narimanov? and Vaeifa Streets into the Casp~.an.5ea is also
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1~a.. A newspaper of small format, two pages, entitled'" "~ } " appears daily
in the Russian and Azerbaydzhanian languages. Ths offices of this newspaper
(#83 on Attachment "A") are located off Pushiki.na Street near the inter-
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Communications:
l~5, The old post, telephone and telegraph office was located on the southern
side of Lenina Street (#94 of Attachment "A") in a one-story building,
The new three-story post, telephone and telegraph annex (#89 of Attachment
"A~~') is located across the street from the old post office building and
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47, Tele h. In order to send a telegram, one did not have to identify himself
ter f fling out a standard form, wh3:ch included the sender's address. The
form was obtained at the telegraph counter. The fee was governed by the
number of words in the telegram, however, the rate of charge per word is
not known 50X1-HUM
48~ Tell ne. The city of Sum ait had 1 50p telephones, and, according to a
local newspaper article it should be increased to 2,50 i.n
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In order to install a telephone, a request had to be made at the local
telephone office. Often on the same day the telephone was installed. Ths
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rate is not known
There are two k3.n se s o alna a Zn the stores: a dial-type phone
at a cost of 160 Rubles and anon-dial, phone at a cost of 80 Rubles, The
dial telephones, which are owned by state enterprises or by persons having
a private phoney have a direct connection to ATS (Autom
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value may be used, Long distance calls may be made at the local post
office, The request for each individual call has to be placed there at
least 5 or 6 hours ahead of time
Radio, There is no radio station in Sumgait, The owners of radio sets
1.3' seen to Radio Baku, The monthly charge for the use of
di
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7 Rubles, There is a closed circuit broadcast including street loudspeakers
in Sumgait
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roa cas s ixa recent ears,
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Two hundred rubles per month were paid for quarters and
the r airing money was spent for food and clothing, whit
were enormously high in cost in .comparison with earned wages?
Besides the high prices, some of the food and consumer goods were very
difficult to obtain in state owned stores, Fresh meat, which was a rare
item in the stores, was also difficult to obtain, Most of the stores
carried only frozen meat Fresh meaty along with rice, vegetables and
other country products? were obtainable at the collective farmer market
(#66 of Attachment ~'A"), The individual collective farmers and farm repre-
sentatives were 3.ssued special permission to sell their products after
state inspection of the quality of the goods, The prices at the farmer
market were between 25 and 5o percent higher than in the stores,
52. Good quality fabrics for menus and ladiest suits and coats could be bought
for higher prices by having ~~connections~f in the state owned store. Other-
wise, fabrics could be bought along with other scarce products, such as
radios and beds, at so-called ~}free market~- (vol ~r~yy rynok, or tolkuchka) in
Baku for 180 - 200 percent of the original price.
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