HOUSING CONSTRUCTION AND AIR RAID SHELTERS IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A053600130001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 20, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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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.
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COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
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SUBJECT Housing Construction and Air Raid DATE DISTR. a0 A pr i 1 960
Shelters in Moscow
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Live-page report, including location
sketch, on the construction of apartment houses for Aircraft Engine Plant
No. 45 in Mbscow. The report also describes air raid shelters constructed
in the basements of the apartment houses and the absence of civil defense
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COWRY: USSR(Moscow oblast) REPORT
SUBJECT: New Construction and Air Raid DATE C
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NEW CONSTRUCTION AND AIR RAID SHELTERS IN MOSCUW
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2. Refer to page 5 , an overlay of the city of Moscow on which new
construction sites are pinpointed. The following legend identifies numerical
designations:
Point 1. Borovaya ulitsa (reference point).
Point 2.
New construction on Borovaya ulitsa. This was a 10-story red
brick building covered with buff ceramic tiles. The building
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the overall building length at 400-500 meters and. the
width at 15 meters. One wing was about 150 x 15 meters in areei5?X1 -HUM
dimension, whereas the shorter wing was about 100 X 15 meters.
Most tenants of this building worked in Plant 450 but 30 percent
of the apartments were placed at the disposal of the Mos-Sovet,
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which rented them to city employees and to various factory workers.
The building had 13 entrances; each entrance served two apartments,
each of which had two, three, or four rooms ranging in size from
12 square meters to 25 square meters. The building had a basement
which was designed to serve as an air raid shelter (see paragraph
3 below). Construction of the building was started in 1953 and it
was finished by the end of 1955.
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Point 3. New construction area. As of 1953, five or six 10-15 story
apartment buildings were under construction in this area. These
buildings were finished by the end of 1955 or in the early part
of 1956.
Point 4. Meyerovskiy proyezd (reference point).
Point 5.
Point b.
Point 7.
Point b.
Point 9.
Point 10.
New construction on Meyerovskiy proyezd. The construction of this
building was started in summer of 1955 and was not completed in
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October 1956.
inis building was supposed to be used for Plant 45 personnel only.
It was a six-story structure of white-buff brick, U-shaped, 250-300
x 15 meters in area dimension, with two wings, each about 150 x 15
meters in area dimension. The building's basement was designed to
be used as an air raid shelter (see paragraph :1 below). I
Rayon boundary (reference point).
Parkovaya Tretyalvalltsa.
Pervomayskaya Verkhnyaya ulitsa-
Izmaylovskiy bulvar.
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construction of this building was started in 1953 and was finished
in December 1954. This was a U-shaped, white-buff brick building.
The center section had six stories, the wings had five stories. The
center section building was 200-300 x 15 meters in area dimension,
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and the wings were each 100-150 x 15 meters in area dimension.
Each of the six entrances served two three-room apartments. The
roomsarvged in size from 16 square meters to 22 square meters.
1"'lligilitad one room (20 square meters) for which he paid monthly
5b rubles for rent, eight rubles for electricity, three rubles
for gas, and eignt rubles for his share of the telephone (shared
by all three tenants or the apartment). All residents in this
building were Plant 45 employees. The building also had a basement
which could be used as an air raid shelter. (see paragraph 3 below)
Point 11. Parkovaya Odin4adtsa-taya ulitsa.
Point 12. New construction area. Ea...1'v apartment buildings, ranging from five
to ten stories in height, of various sizes, were built in 1950-1956
in the area between Parkovaya 3-ya ulitsa to Parkovaya ulitsa.
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Air Raid Shelters
The new buildings on Meyerovskiy proyezd and on Borovaya ulitsa, and AMOMMItz
111111.11111M, all had basements which were intended to air raid shelters. In
each of the above mentioned buildings the shelter area occupied all of the
basement space, and there were no basement living quarters. The basement
in each building was partitioned in sections, and provided sufficient space
for all tenants of the particular building. The walls in the air raid shelter
were of reinforced concrete, one meter thick at the bottom, one-half meter
thick at the top. The ceiling was of reinforced concrete one-half meter thick.
The solid, double steel doors had rubber gaskets and there was an airlock
between the two doors. The total thickness of the doors was 20 centimeters.
There were no holes or windows in the doors. Each section had several rooms,
each 45-60 square meters, three to four meters in height, with separate toilets
for men and women (each toilet room was 12 square meters in area dimension) and
a kitchen 16 square meters in size. Each kitchen had 20-25 stoves. All
rooms in each section were connected by doors. There were plugs in the walls
for telephones and radios or television sets, however none of this equipment
nor stores of any kind were in the shelter. There were water ninpq nnd wnter
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the building shown as point 2,
page 5 had a tunnel which led from the basement of one wing to the street.
The tunnel was constructed of brick, three meters in height, one meter in
width, and about 10-12 meters in length of distance from the basement to the
street. These air raid shelters
were slightly below ,;round level.
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Location of New Construction in Moscow
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Based on Moscow City Map
Scale 1:35,000
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