1. THE CITY OF MUKACHEVO AND VICINITY 2. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON BOLEKHOV

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• Publication Date: January 14, 1960
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This material oontalno Information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 780 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SULIECT 1. The City of Mukachevo and Vicinity
2. Miscellaneous Information on
Bolekhov
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1. Mukachevo C 48-27, E 22-437 had a population of. about 75;000, half of whom
were Hungarians and Ruthenians while others included Czechs and Russians. The
city had an important wood and furniture industry, and it was a railroad
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of geologists were at work there for over a year; accor,ing.to y~ ailroad L~ official, signs pointing to the existence of uranium were disco!! 9 in the
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3. During 19551956, geological exploration was underway In the Mukachevo-Khust
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were arrested; one of the men opened fire on the police.
road near Svalyava 48-33, E 22+5 7and two persons suspected of being spies
authori:,ips. At about the same time a surprise check was made of vhhicles on
set (false beard, mustaches, etc.). He reported his findings to the security
at the hotel had starched his personal effects and discovered among them a disgui
foreign agent. According to rumor, anotheroffi^er aho had shared a room with h
officer was a*ested at the Zvezda Hotel in Mukachevo allegedly for br reC
clothes men, were asked to identify themselves. In mid-1957, a senior Sov
officially unrestricted, a secret, thorough check was in fact made on all
persons entering and leaving. Strangers in the town, unknown to the plain-
sto it was
2. The town was located within the frontier zone and, although aes_
area.
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5. The residents of Kosinyo, a border village also inhabited mostly by Hungarians,
engaged in smuggling drugs from Hungary to the USSR. ( R
were distributed. The police, composed of local Ukrainians, were replaced b
personnel from the eastern parts of the Ukraine upon the outbreak of the
Hungarian revolt.
populated villages. Leaflets expressing solidarity with the Hungarian re
Beregovo, which was inhabited by Hungarians and surrounded by Piungari
4.. During the Hungarian upetsing, a pro-Hungarian demonstration was r
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Military and Related Information
6. A large unit of tie frontier guard was stationed in a suburb of Mukachevo, at the
end of ulitsa Kirova. The headquarters of the unit was housed in a five-story building
in the center of the camp. The tall aerials on top of the building indicated that
this was also an important signals center of the frontier guard. There was a special
dispensary in the town for personnel of the latter. The frontier and hospital
formerly located in Mukachevo had been transferred to Chernovtsy N 4 -18, E 25-56 in
1956/1957.
7. Frontier guard units were also stationed in Beregovo, Svalyava, and Chop C 1,8-26,
E 22-1J. Chop had been greatly damaged during the war and had not been reconstructed.
Entry to Chop required a special permit issued by the police, and frontier guard
patrols required persons leaving the city's railroad station to produce these permits.
There was much traffic through the Chop railroad station since it was passed by
express trains from Germany and Hungary. The Chop-Lvov railroad line was electrified.
8. A military cantonment containing a motorized infantry unit was locat6d one-half
kilometer from Mukachevo, along the road to Uzhgorod C 4+8-37, E 82-l~. It was near
the bridge across the Latoritsa River.
9. Also stationed near the bridge, along the right-hand side of the road to Uzhgorod, was
a radar unit.
10. A military transport unit was stationed near the local civilian hospital, at the
corner of ulitsa Dukhnovicha. .
11. A military hospital consisting of about thirty buildings extended about 500 to 600
meters along ulitsa Lenina, near the railroad station. It served all units in
Carpatho-Russia.
12. A tank unit and a heavy artillery unit were stationed near the hill inside the twwn.
On top of the hill was the Zamek castle.
13. A military airfield was located two or three kilometers from the -town, to the left
of the Mukachevo-Bergovo road coming from Mukachevo. A jet aircraft unit was
stationed at the field, which had been adapted for jet traffic in 1957, when all
piston-aircraft formerly based there were transferred to Stanislav f 4+8-56, E 24-4 .1)7.
Improvement of the field included the repair and extension of its concrete runways.
MIG-15 I_FAGOTJ planes;were frequently seen flying over the town and vicinity. A.
radar unit was also stationed at the field.
14+. Numerous military installations had been erected in the forests around Svalyava and,
according to rumor, comprised a whole military cantonment.
15. Complaints were made in 1957 by Soviet &$.r Perce officers stationed in Mukachevo to
the effect that American aircraft often flew over Soviet territory at such high
altitudes that the Soviet Air I.ree was incapable of intercepting them.
16. A secret underground cable, used for communication between Moscow and the cBIA0_::
countries, passed through Mukachevo.
17. A large underground public shelter, still under constr,.vction in late 1957, was located
at 3 ulitsa Lenina. A state delicatessen shop bordered on one side of the shelter,
and a four-story building, once the property of a nobleman by the name of Schonbrun,
was situated on top of the shelter. Judging by its construction, it was destined
for atomic defense.
. Public Facilities
18. The following public facilities in Mukachevo and vicinity were reported:
a. The city hospital, which had 500 to 600 beds and all of the usual departments.
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b. A hydroelectric power station, which had been constructed between the villages
of Turiya Bistraya and Turiya Remeti. A large part of its output was supplied
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generated by the station was to be used for "security purposes". (This may be
understood to mean that the electric power will be used in the exploitation of
the uranium mines discovered in the area.)
c. A new railroad ling, which had been constructed from Mukachevo to Batyevo
ZN- 1.6-A1, E 35-57 during 1956/1957. A line parallel to the existing one to
Beregovo was also constructed. The work was carried out by railroad troops.
d. The Latoiitsa River Bridge, which was made of reinforced concrete, wan:-.100
meters long and about 12 meters wide. It had been destroyed during the war,
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19. A legend and sketch of Mukachevo and a report on Bolekhov (N 49-0J+, E 23-52)
Attachment-1: Legend and sketch of Mukachevo.
Attachment 2: A four-page report on Bolekhov and vicinity includes information on
industrial installations, bridges (one in Bolekhov and one in Goshov), and an-i.
unspecified tank unit stationed in Bolekhov.
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Leiend to Sketch of Mukaohevo
1. Railroad station.
2. Feel depot.
3. Locomotive repair shops (depo).
4. Grain stores (sagotserno).
5. Headquarters of the bridge guard.
6. Railroad workers' dispensary,
7. Military hospital,
8. Military cantomient.
94, Hill with the Zamek castle on top.
10. Nevsky* ulitsa,
11. District Military Cosettseariat (RWvoenkoanat).
12. Main post office.
13. District and City Militia Directorate.
14. Municipal Council and City Party Coenittee.
1,5. Stalin ulitsa.
16. Dukhnovicha ulitsa.
17. City pharmacy.
18. Interurban bus station.
19. District Party offices.
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20. Lenin ulitsa.
21. City market.
22. Kirov ulitsa.
23. Unidentified inttallation.
24. KGB offices.
25. Local prosecution offices.
26. military unit.
27. City hospital.
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Niscellan u Information on BO10khav
1. Nelekho~ .'r)rass-i 11101echow) had beef.
the Btaaislav OW,art since 1918. Mader Polish rt.
ad about 8,000 iffiabitants, but in early 1957 it,
s . Nast of the inhabitants of folekhov worked in shilov Kalkhos, the only local collsotivs. The towr:~
amp rised several modest pleats, including the followint- :
a. A tanpssp (Xoa}y-Kavod) on Do1*hmaka Street, a rain
street of the try Mhich employed about 3W worts-re.
b. A salt miapr (801 Zavod) on the road to St,,yi about
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three Ian from the center of k3olekhov. The mine, which employed
about 150 workers, had been in existence since before `world
war II.
c. A combine consisting of a sawmill with three frames
and a furniture factory, looted about one km from Holekhov
railroad station, by the side of the track to Stanislav.
The plant, established before World War II0 employed 500-600
workers.
d. A brick works, located near the salt mine. A pre-
war plant, it employed about 150 workers.
e. The town power station, a mall, old plant located
near the railroad station,
2. The Bolekhov railroad station was a small building on the
site of the prewar station, which was cowplotsly destroyed and had
not been fully reconstructed. There were four tracks at the
station, a loading and unloading yard and a warehouse for the
storage of salt. Apart from these, there were no other installa-
tions.
3. The Sukel (Sukul?) River which flowed through the town
was crossed by a road bridge, a part of the main Stanislav-Stryy
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highway. The bridge was about one km long and eight meters wide.
The whole structure was of wood, including the supports, just as
before World War III there were no arches. The bridge was capable
of carrying a heavy tank, but to avoid weakening the structure,
tanks would usually ford the river, which was shallow at this point.
During most of the year the width of the river did not exceed
approximately 15 meteors.
4. At the village of Goshov (N 49-02, E 23-534 about four ion
from Bolekhov, there was a large road bridge across the Svitsa
River, on the Stanislav-Stryy highway. Nearby was a large mona-
stery. This bridge, also a wooden structure, had an estimated
length of 1.5 kar. In early 1957 the construction of a concrete
bridge was begun about 20-30 meters from the wooden bridge.
5. About one km from the aoehov road bridge, on the Stanielav-
Stryy railroad line, there was a railroad bridge, about 1.5 km
long.
6. An unspecified tank unit (Tankovaya Chant) had been
stationed in Bolekt.ov aim. 1945. It belonged to an armored
division whose headquarters were in Stryy; other units of the
division were stationed in Drobobych and Saanbor. The Bolkhov unit,
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co11m-anded by ,a colonel (Polkovnik), had its barracks in the former
German colony (Nieaiecka Kolonia). The barracks consisted of two
buildingsc ones, the former School of Forestry (Szkola Lasowa), was
a large, three-story structure; the other had served as a law court.
An ammunition depots, the former Evangelical Church,, was located
nearby. The unit's tank depot and tank repair shop were located on
Voroshilova (formerly Risovska) Street, about one lam from the center
of torn. (Voroshilova Street was the road leading to the villages
of Tisov and Polenitsa.) The tank repair shop was housed in the
former Kurser tannery. The shop was about 100 m from the Sukel
River and about 500 m from the ammunition depot. The tanks were
kept in open sheds in a yard next to the tank repair shop. The
8olekhov unit had about 1,50 tanks, described as
"heavy" (no specification of type), old, World War II vehicles.
Every year, from the end of April until about October, the unit
left Bolekhov for a smeser camp in Yavorov at the Polish border.
Each tank was transported on a three-axle flatcar.
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