CIVIL DEFENSE IN DNEPROPETROVSK (BRIEF DESCRIP. OF CIVIL DEFENSE INSTRUCTION & AIR-RAID DRILL)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 2, 1961
• 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 USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SUBJECT Civil Defense in Dnepropetrovsk
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March 1961
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REFERENCES
1. A two-page report on civil defense in Dnepropetrovsl~
2. The report briefly describes civil defense instruction and air-raid drills
held in 1958 and 1959.
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COUNTRY: USSR (Dnepropetrovskaya Oblast)
SUBJECT: Civil Defense in Plant No. 210
and in Dnepropetrovsk
CIVIL DEFENSE IN PLANT NO. 210 AND IN DNEPROPETROVSK
1. About six times yearly, there were after-hours civil defense meetings at
Dnepropetrovsk Plant No. 210 at which D officials or the PVO 50X1-HUM
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2. The urban population could receive civil defense instruction through
lectures organized by the rayon instruction centers, but public reaction
to these lectures was unfavorable and so little interest was shown that the
government had begun the practice of delivering unannounced civil defense
lectures during the showing of commercial movie films. The radio, press
and television were not used as mediums of civil defense instruction and
source never saw any pamphlets on the subject.
No. 210, 15 to 20 persons were involved in organizing civil defense groups
among the approximately 2,000 employees to receive special instruction in
first aid, firefighting and use of special a ui nt.
was ven to doctors an nurses in Dnepropetrovsk. In Plant
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. equipment consisted of gas masks, first-aid kits, and litters
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4. Once in 1958 and once in 1959, Plant No. 210 employees were required to
participate in air-raid drills. They were alerted by a long blast of
the siren to stop all machinery and proceed to an open field outside the
plant grounds, where they remained approximately half an hour until three
short blasts on the siren indicated the all-clear.
5. Each rayon in Dnepropetrovsk had air-raid warning sirens.
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an loudspeakers alerted the population. All traffic was halted for half an
hour and the population was required to seek shelter.
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construcOon had basements and each family was assigned a section for storage
of personal goods. N made for use of the basements as
air-raid shelters but they would serve well in that capacity.
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