TOWN PLAN OF IASI

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2010
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• Publication Date: June 30, 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 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.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Town Plan of Iasi
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 30 June 1959
NO. PAGES I
REFERENCES RD
sketch of Iasi,, Rumania., with legend attached. Included with the
sketch are miscellaneous items of information on the Iasi area.
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INFORMATION ON IASI, RUMANIA
An unidentified army corps headquarters is located on Copou Street (5).
It was formerly located on Stefan Cel Mare Street, in a building now occupied
by the Municipal Collector's Office and the provincial government office.
An unidentified barracks of an artillery and armored vehicle (?) unit
is located on the premises of the corps command just mentioned. The following
were observed:
a. guns; from the description given these might be field guns;
b. unidentified armored vehicles (possibly tractors for drawing
the guns);
c. ZIS trucks, with a capacity for 4 tons of materials or 24
soldiers; all wheels powered. The soldiers wore green rhomboid collar insignia.
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An unidentified infantry unit is located in a'large
(37). There were many stables and draft animals.
old barracks
this was the barracks of the 2d Infantry Regiment before World War II.
The district office for the induction of draftees is located on Alba
Avenue (50). The recruits called up are sent to the barracks of the un-
identified infantry unit just mentioned to get their uniforms and to be
sent to the various forces.
The militia command is located on Republica Street in a four-story
building (21).
The military hospital is located in the building; of the former military
college, in a five-story building (30).
The officers' club is housed in a four-story building, (16).
The Soviet office for assisting traveling military personnel is located
in a four-story building measuring 80 by 30 meters, formerly a. residence,
surrounded by gardens (49). All traveling Soviet military personnel stop
there between trains whenever necessary.
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1. Bridges over Bahlui River in IASI:
a. Railroad bridge (75), continuous beam trellis, 40 meters long,
widened after the war. There is one span and a single mixed European and
Russian gau3e track, that is,three rails. The trains do not slow down.
b. Highway bridge (76), over which passes the Sosea Nationala.
An old masonry bridge, with cut stone facing, 40 meters long. There are
two spans and one stone pier about 3 meters wide. Width of bridge: 0
meters plus two sidewalks of 6o centimeters each. The bridge has a stone
pavement, masonry railings, masonry abutments, no concrete bed. Capacity:
tanks and busses pass over it.
c. Wooden footbridge (77), 40 meters long and 1.5 meters wide.
d. Wooden highway bridge (78),30 meters bng, three wooden spans
with wooden abutments to break the ice; width: 4 meters. Capacity: light
trucks pass over it.
e. Concrete highway bridge (79) called the Podul Rosu (Red Bridge),
reconstructed after World War II, 50 meters long and 12 meters wide, includ-
ing two sidewalks of 1,20 meters each. There are three asyrrtrical spans
[see diagram on original] and two concrete piers, each 2 meters wide.
Porphyry cube pavement. Tubular steel railings with tubular steel rail
posts. Concrete bed. Capacity: not known, but two streetcar lines pass over
f. Wooden highway bridge (80), 20 meters long and 6 meters wide,
a single span.
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2. Road Conditions. There is a new asphalt road from IASI to TIRGU FRUMOS.
It is popularly called the "Speedway" and leads from the PACURARI Raion (northern
outskirts of IASI) via PODUL ILONIEI to TIRGU FRUMOS and then (according to
hearsay) connects with the previously existing asphalted ROMAN-BACAU-BUCHAREST
Road.
1. Food: New refrigerating plant for butchered meat to be sent to
The building measures 100 by 40
meters and is 30 meters high, gray walls. The meat butchered at the muni-
cipal slaughterhouse (57) is brought here by trucks. After refrigeration,
it is loaded at the SOCOLA railroad station. A railroad connection from the
plant to this station is planned.
IASI has two reservoirs for drinking water. the location 50X1-HUM
one, the tower tank at (1).
metallurgical plant for the production of
agricultural implements and cast iron pipes (38), with training school.
The plant consists of four three-story buildings. There is a smokestack
30 meters high. The plant produces simple agricultural implements such
as plows, harrows, hoes, and rakes, and cast iron pipes for water conduits.
b. Weaving and spinning mill, called Tesitura IASI (55). There
are about a dozen buildings and a smokestack 30 meters high. Employees:
about 3,000 persons. Raw material: cotton; products: cotton cloth.
c. Jute and hemp spinning and weaving mill, reconstructed plant
called Textila Rosie (51). The plant area measures 300 by 200 meters.
There is a 30-meter smokestack. Production: jute and hemp sacks.
d. Pre war railroad shop, called Ilie Pintilie
(formerly Nicolina), immediately south of the station of the same name (56).
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Area occupied: 600 by 200 meters along the railroad. There is an undeter-
mined number of buildings, with vaulted and sawtooth roofs. Employees: about
b,000 workers in three shifts. The shop repairs railroad passenger coaches and
locomotives and manufactures freight cars, all of European gauge.
e. New antibiotics factory (69), which began full-scale operations
in 1956, located on a hill 5.5 kilometers northwest of IASI, 100 meters from
the road leading to PODUL ILOAEI, and 200 meters from the railroad. This
place is called VALEA LUPULUI. Production: penicillin and streptomycin
in vials, tablets, and ointments, as well as various other medical products.
f. Mill for carding, spinning, and weaving wool (7). This mill
also produces three-quarter working coats for peasants and laborers.
g. Victoria textile mill (68), formerly owned by an Italian.
3. Electric power: Thermal electric power plant at IASI (26).
Equipped with diesel engines. Production is insufficient for the needs of
the city, which receives electric power from other undetermined sources.
4. Railroad transport: Russian-and European-gauge railroad junction
at SOCOLA (65). The IASI station has a Russian-gauge track for passenger
trains. The SOCOLA station is the marshalling yard for the transshipment
of goods; there are about 20 tracks of alternating gauge. There is a load-
ing platform 80 meters long with a concrete edge one meter wide and an
approach ramp of tamp,:u earth. Sheds for freight are in the immediate
vicinity.
trucks and tanks loading and unloading there.
The station switches are manually operated.
5. Miscellaneous: Civilian fuel depot at IASI (72).
a railroad spur, and steel tanks of varying size.
are also underground tanks there.
Civilian airport of IASI (62).
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Half a dozen buildings in the southwest corner of the field serve as
hangars (62a). There is one concrete runway (62b) 1,500 meters long, width
not recalled; unsurfaced (the airport lies on a kind of plateau). Pre-
vailing north wind in the winter.
The airport falls under the jurisdiction of the BUCHAREST-BACAU-IASI
civilian airline and is served daily by a conventional twin-engine plane,
observing the following schedule:
0630 - leave for BUCHAREST;
1130 - arrive from BUCHAREST;
1330 - leave for BUCHAREST;
1830 - arrive from BUCHAREST.
This is the surmner schedule.
The local sports club uses the airport for gliders.
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Legend for Sketch in Attachment No 2
1. Drinking water reservoir
2. Stadium
3. Park
4. Monument to the Soviet soldier
5. Unidentified headquarters of Army Corps and Artillery Regiment
6. Copou public garden
7. Wool carding and spinning mill
8. Former seminary, now technical school
9. Streetcar lines in use
10. Botanic garden
U. University and polytechnical school
12. Textile Institute and part of the polytechnical school
13. Girls' school
14. Houses for railroad workers, built in 1951
15. University student home
16. Armed Forces club building and lodgings for officers
17. Securitatea (Security service) headquarters
18. University library
19. Soviet consulate
20. Electrically powered roller mill, formerly called Romila
21. Office of Naval Section
22. Steps of the Scara Raps, Galbena (Yellow Bank Stairs)
23. Lyceum
24. Main railroad station
25. Streetcar yard
26. Thermal electric power plant
27. S. Spiridon food market
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28. Pacurari food market
29. Medical Faculty and S. Spiridon civilian hospital
30. Military hospital
31. Statue of A. I. Cuza (being removed for undetermined reasons)
32. Telephone Office building
33. Postoffice building
34. Former Notre Dame Convent, now secondary music school
35? Previously existing National Theater, building measures about 80 by 35 meters
36. C. I. Parhon civilian hospital
37. Unidentified infantry regiment barracks (Graniciari, Border Guards)
38. Metallurgical plant.
39. Open air dump of cast iron piping produced by plant at No 38
40. "English" park
41. Sfatul Popular, municipal building
42. Municipal tax collecting office and building of district government
43. Orthodox Church and office of the Metropolitan of IASI
44. Trei Jerarchi Orthodox Church
45. Catholic cathedral with bell tower
46. Haza food market, very large and partly covered
47. S. Nicolae Orthodox Church.
48. Exposition building
49. Soviet Office for traveling military personnel
50. Military district building
51. Textilia Rosie jute and hemp spinning and weaving mill
52. National Bank
53. Barracks of fire fighters
54. Sanatorium
55. Tesitura IASI, spinning and weaving mill
56. Ilie Pintilie railroad repair and construction yard, formerly Niculina
57. Slaughterhouse
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58. RATA bus yard
59. Brick kiln
60. Niculina railroad station
61. Eternitatea cemetery, for Catholics and Orthodox
62. Airport
62a. Hangar area
62b. Runway, about 1,500 meters long
63. Insane asylum
64. SOCOLA station railroad junction, for switching from Russian to European gauge
65. Marshalling yard for the transshipment of freight from Russian to European
cars and vice versa.
65a. Loading platform
66. Brick kiln
67. Target range
68. Victoria textile mill
69. New penicillin factory
70. Cetatuia Orthodox Monastery.
71. Tobacco factory
72. Civilian fuel dump
73. Single-track Russian-gauge railroad line running to the IASI central
station
74. New refrigerating plant for export of butchered meat to the USSR
75. Railroad bridge
76. Highway bridge with stone floor.
77. Wooden footbridge.
78. Wooden highway bridge.
79. Podul Rosu concrete highway bridge.
80. Wooden highway bridge
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58. RATA bus yard
59. Brick kiln
60. Niculina railroad station
61. Eternitatea cemetery, for Catholics and Orthodox
62. Airport
62a. Hangar area
62b. Runway, about 1,500 meters long
63. Insane asylum
64. SOCOLA station railroad junction, for switching from Russian to European gauge
65. Marshalling yard for the transshipment of freight from Russian to European
cars and vice versa.
65a. Loading platform
66. Brick kiln
67. Target range
68. Victoria textile mill
69. New penicillin factory
70. Cetatuia Orthodox Monastery.
71. Tobacco factory
72. Civilian fuel dump
73. Single-track Russian-gauge railroad line running to the IASI central
station
74. New refrigerating plant for export of butchered meat to the USSR
75. Railroad bridge
76. Highway bridge with stone floor.
77. Wooden footbridge.
78. Wooden highway bridge.
79. Podul Rosu concrete highway bridge.
80. Wooden highway bridge
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