OBSERVATIONS OF VESSELS AND INSTALLATIONS IN NOVOROSSIYSK

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1960
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COUNTRY USSR (Black Sea)
SUBJECT Observations of Vessels and Installations DATE DISTR.
in Novorossiysk
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
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Also included is an annotated sketch of the city.
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two possible RIGA-class escort
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vessel sightings; or installations; and annotated sketches
of the harbor area.
small oa ng crane and two small submax;Lnes.
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and navigational controls and problems.
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The port of JOV 06SIYSK is equipped for the repair of small ships.
It has no exhaust fans for tankers, although these are rigorously prescribed
for work inside the tanks.
There is a single crane running on tracks along the quay. The floating
dock can hold ships up to 320 meters long.
the shipyard employed 500 in and
women, in two shifts, from 0700 to 1500 hours and from 1500 to 2300 hours.
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the shipyard had two
or three dry cargo vessels under repair and a German tanker in the dock
with engine trouble. After the German tanker left, the dock was occupied
by two small Soviet tankers.
A former German ship was filled with sand and sunk with its stern
toward the head of the fuel oil loading pier, thus increasing the pier's
capacity. The first of the tankers to come alongside moored at this
sunken ship.
From the Bay of NOVOROSSIYSK to a distance of about 16 miles west,
the coast has an average height of 20 to 30 meters. During the first 5
or 6 miles of this stretch, the altitude [of the coast] increases gradually;
beyond this it increases more rapidly. In this latter part, there are
small inlets, such as that of CCVARSK (?) [unidentified], where ships can
find refuge when a strong northeast wind is blowing and they cannot anchor
in the NOVCRCBSIISK roadstead.
For 10 im 1.3 miles west of NOVOROSSIYSK, the vegetation is rather
dense and sometimes comes right down to the shoreline.
In some stretches, the water is deep right up to the coast, which
rises perpendicularly, while in others there is, at most, 18 feet of water
at a distance of 80 meters from the shore. The bottom is generally rocky
and the beach about 10 meters wide at most, rocky, and ending abruptly in
c lifts .
The coast is kept under watch by motor patrol boats, which stay about
a half a mile offshore, and by military patrols equipped with dogs on the
beaches and on the edge of the cliffs which drop steeply off into the sea.
To enter the Bay of NOVOROSSIYSK, the ships coming from the west have
to pass 100 to 200 meters from a buoy marking a sandbank which extends for
about 300 meters. The leading light located almost at the outskirts of the
built-up part of the city can be recognized in the daytime by its trapezoidal
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shape and because it is painted white. Ships coming from the east follow
another leading light and can pass between the coast on the right side of
the bay and the sandbank.
During the night, the bay is under the scrutiny of motor patrol boats
with
which move about lights out. Searchlights stationed some distance apart
along the entire periaster of the bay sweep the waters at irregular intervals.
The shipyard is not equipped to make major repairs. There is a single
floating dock limited to ships up to 120 meters. In additio* to a crane on
land, there is a floating crane of limited capacity.
Both women and men are employed in heavy and, light work.
all men working in the shipyard were over 30 and that some of
them were even quite old. Members of the police force, on the other hand,
were generally young.
In the naval area of the port there were two small slips, to the left
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were occupied by two motor patrol boats apparently having their bottoms
cleaned.
The main road from the city toward Point DOOB is readily visible
because it is cut out of the rock.
There was a good deal of tanker traffic in the port but dry cargo ship
traffic was quite light.
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Naval vessels in the port
Four motor tankers flying the Soviet flag (No 1 on the sketch); they
were used for transporting water. On the bow of the tanker
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here was a sentry, armed with a submachine
gun, who constantly kept an eye on the freighter from the sea side.
Six Soviet PTB's (at No 2 on sketch). Some of these put out to sea
toward 0800 hours and returned toward dusk.
Merchant vessels in the port
Four steel motor trawlers at No 4 on sketch.
A large Soviet tanker of about 40,000 tons; a new vessel taking on
petroleum (at No 5 on sketch).
Large, old, decommissioned tanker, firmly moored to the fuel oil pier
(at No 6 on sketch).
There was continuous traffic of Soviet tankers to the fuel oil pier,
marked red on the sketch; other tankers waited their turn in the roadstead.
Harbor installations
Masonry structure used as a refrigeration plant for fish at rectangle
marked A on the sketch.
Grain elevators, at rectangle marked B.
Small floating dock occupied by a Soviet naval tug, perhaps having
work done on the hull below the water line, at No 7 on sketch.
Large floating dock with a capacity of 13,000-15,000 tons, occupied
by a Soviet freighter of 7,000-8,000 tons under repair, at No 8 on sketch.
Wooden pier about 50-60 meters long, reserved for small Soviet naval
craft, colored green to the sketch.
Fuel oil pier, colored red on the sketch.
Pier for coal or concrete, colored blue on the sketch.
A 3-ton crane, portal type, still not in use, indicated by a small
black triangle on the sketch.
An automotive crane is used for working vessels to replace the 3-ton
crane.
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The quay section marked in black lines on the sketch is being banked
up with fill dirt.
The dockworkers loaded freighter's cargo of lumber by working from
0600 to 0100 hours continuously in three shifts of 15 men each. Women
were employed as checkers.
NOVOROSSIYSK
(The numbers in parentheses correspond to those on the sketch).
The petroleum pier (1)
The hull of an old ship with the superstructure removed was moored
to this pier. It was reduced to a landing platform and served as an exten-
sion of the oil pier so that four tankers could moor there at once. This
hull was equipped with four 16-inch outlets, two on each side.
Loading operations were interrupted several times. This was explained
by the fact that the tanks, about 2 or 3 kilometers from the port area,
remain empty, until the oil is brought up there in railroad tank cars each
time [that a ship is to be loaded] and then pumped from the tanks into the
bunkers of the freighter being loaded.
The freighter took on 15,500 tons of crude oil, the first time in
60 hours and the second time (the voyage of this report) in 1+0 hours.
The grain pier (2)
At the head of this pier there is always moored a tugboat, or at
least a naval vessel definitely employed in keeping a watch on the port
area.
The lookout station is still at the head of the pier (a sentry box
placed on the conduit containing the conveyor belt for grain loading).
Reclaimed area (3)
Approximately as indicated on the sketch. At low tide, it is clearly
delineated. A continuous dumping of fill material by trucks was observed.
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Four or five marker buoys (4).
Large steel floating dock (5).
Shipbuilding yard; one portal crane was observed (6).
Mooring area for fishing craft (7).
Mooring area for naval craft (8).
Steel floating dock for vessels up to 2,000 tons (9).
Lookout station (10).
Freighters in the Port
Yugoslav freighter Alan;
Yugoslav freighter from ZADAR SREZ.
Port controls were normal. Nothing was sealed. The rooms and quarters
were superficially inspected. The master's quarters were not inspected.
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a barge with a diver and a
small floating crane about 400 meters from the head of the loading pier,
working on the bottom with a steel cable. From time to time scrap iron
was brought up, probably from some shipwreck.
In the naval area were, among a number of motor patrol vessels, two
small submarines estimated at less than 500-ton displacement. One of these
vessels, or both in turn, left port every night3perhaps to engage in
maneuvers or train new personnel.
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REPORTS CONCERNING VISITS TO SOVIET PORTS 2T 1
NOVOROSSIYSK
Naval Vessels Encountered
about 5 miles a
2300 from Cape Chersonese
a, destroyer, followe
at a short distance by a submarine. The two vessels were headed north.
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a submarine about
2.5 miles towards the shore. It headed toward Cape Sarych, and at one in-
stance, the ship and the shore station exchanged Morse signals with light
flashes.
The two submarines observed were merely judged "very large", without
any other special information.
1. Miscellaneous Information
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The floating dock was occupied by a Soviet oil tanker.
Freight on the pier: many bales of cotton and bundles containing
qod flooring from the, Far East.
2. Military Vessels"
two naval 'vessels
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(sister ships) left the port of Novorossiysk.
Brief description: very raked and high bow;; continuous deck,
relatively low hull, thick mast, and large funnel raked toward the stern;
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[Numbers between parentheses refer to attached sketch]
Naval vessels and military zone
(2) Military piers.
(3) Four or five tugboats.
(4) Ten coast guard vessels, all armed with a gun located foreward
of the wheelhouse; these guns were covered at the time of obser-
vation.
(5) A suction dredge.
(6) Guard posts; Navy personnel are on duty there; entrance to mili-
tary zone.
(7) Military pier: masonry apron having a length of about 30 meters.
(8) Landing stage: about 60 meters long; usual mooring for two
torpedo boats.
(9) Metal floating dock, about 60 meters long.
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Miscellaneous information concerning the port zone
(10) Old bridge: closed to traffic for resurfacing work.
(11) New wooden bridge.
(12) Mooring for 7 or 8 motor fishing boats, all of metal and having
radar, direction finding, and radio equipment.
(13) Fish cannery.
(14+) Mooring zone for merchant vessels loading lumber.
(15) Fueling pier.
(16) Soviet tanker of about 25,000-ton capacity, moored by the stern
to the head of the pier (15). Used as a fuel depot; in fact,
the tankers engaged in fabe loading and unloading crude oil tie
up there.
(17) Small landing stage.
(18) Reclaimed zone; a suction dredge at work there, sucking up sand
from the adjacent waters and discharging it in the zone under
reclamation.
(19) Piling and retaining boards that encircle the zone (18).
(20) Buoys.
(21) Metal floating dock of large capacity.
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Port Situation
Military. Moored in the northwest zone of the port were 4+ or 5 50X1-HUM
naval vessels
they might be 2 destroyers and 2 or 3 cor-
vettes, or corvettes near smaller ships.
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square stern, one funnel, and in general, rather complex rigging, with
radar antenna installations.
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Note: Freighter
remained at Novorossiysk
'o load 10,423 metric tons of hard wheat
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Commercial. Commercia
1 traffic was quite light.
Soviet freighter
No commercial activities of any interest were carried
out; for the most part, grain and cement were loaded.
The floating dock, moored at the foot of the eastern outer break-
water, was occupied by an oil tanker.
Miscellaneous
New Aqueduct. Novorossiysk lackewater reserves, both for indivi-
dual and industrial consumption; the water is brought to depots by tank
trucks. According to statements of local individuals, a large aqueduct
(which "comes from very far away") is under construction; thanks to it,
the water supply of the city will be permanently assured.
Automotive vehicle traffic.
great movement of trucks which came from the city, reached the hill behind
the cement factories, used packed earth trac_s to cross over the top of the
hill, and continued on the opposite slope. These were very powerful trucks,
and only those going up the hill were loaded with material which the agent
was unable to identify.
That activity made one believe, however, that beyond the hill
co"iderab3.e work was under way.
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