TOWN PLAN INFORMATION ON BAKU

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• Publication Date: April 14, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY USSR (Azerbaydzhan SSR)
REPORT
SUBJECT Town Plan Information on'Baku
DATE DISTR. 14 April 1961
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ten-page report which provides a general physical description of the
cit of Baku `~nvi ui inn
descriptions, addresses or general locations, and general commentaries
on the seven rayony of Baku, trolley routes, and street names and locatio~x:lfir
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: USSR (Azerbaydzhan SSR)
1. Together with its suburbs Baku, the capital of the Azerbaydzhan SSR,
had a population of one million, includag Azerbaydzhanis, an equal
number of Armenians and Russians, and Tatars who originated from the
Kazanskiye Tatary. Until 1957/1958, the town was divided into eleven
municipal districts. At that time, some of the districts were merged,
mi reducing the number to seven districts: Stalinskiy Rayon,
Ordzhonikidzevkiy Rayon, Kirovskiy Rayon, Shauniyanovskiy Rayon,
Oktyabrskiy Rayon, Voroshilovskiy Rayon, and Sovyetskiy Rayon.
2. The Stalinskiy Rayon, which was tie southwestern part of the town, comprised
the Bibi-Eybat workers' quarter (Posiolok) and the directorate of an oil
trust called Upravlevlenye Stalin Neft, to which some twelve oil wells
were subordinate. On its north side, this district was bordered by the
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"Paris Commune" shipyard (Sudostroitelniy I Sudoremontniy Zavod Im.
Parizhskoy Komuny), which was actually situated in the Voroshilovskiy
Rayon. Stalinskiy Rayon also comprised the largest ship building and
refitting yard in Baku, Vano - Struya, and included the new ship refitting
yard called Sudoremontniye Maysterskiye, which was completed in 1955.
According to plan, the "Paris Commune" shipyard was to be transferred
to the new yard and thereby vacate its present site for the extension of
Primorskoy Bulevar to the military port. Stalinskiy Rayon, which was
mainly populated by Russians, also included the town gasworks (Gazoviy
Zavod) and two oil industry machine plants subordinate to the trusts
called Az - Nefte - Mash: One was called Mekhanicheskiy Zavod Im.
Oktyabrskoy Revolutsii and the other Mekh. Zavod In. Volobarskogo. The
Baku military port (Voyenniy Port) and the Krasin power station, located
on Ulitsa Krasina, were also located in this rayon.,
The Voroshilovskiy Rayon extended to the northeast from Stalinskiy
Rayon and was a district of housing estates and institutions. The only
industrial enterprise in this rayon was the Paris Commune shipyard. Among
others, this district comprised the following:
a. Passenger and commercial ports.
b. The Caspian Sea Passenger Shipping Directorate (Upravlenye Kaspiy-
skogo Grazhdanskogo Parokhodstva) and the Fuel Shipping Directorate
(Upravlenye Kaspiyskiy Tanker), both of which occupied a multi-
storied building on Ulitsa Voroshilova.
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c. The Ministry of the Oil Industry (Ministerstvo Neftyanoy Promish-
Lennosti), which occupied a five-story building on Ploshchad Az -
Nefte.
d. The Azerbaydzhan SSR Party Central Committee, which was situated on
Lermontov Street.
e. The town Party committee (Gorkom - Partii), which was situated at
9-11 Chkalova.
f. The town council (Gor-Sovet), which occupied a long, large five-
story building on Komunisticheskaya.
g. The University of Baku, which was also located in Komunistieheskaya,
in close proximity to the Gor-Sovet. The presidium of the Azer-
baydzhan SSR Supreme Soviet (Prezidium Verkhovnogo Soveta Azerbaydzhana)
was situated to the rear of the Presidium building. One of the
Academy's institutes was located on Olginskaya, which was also in
the Voroshilovskiy Rayon.
h. The Azerbaydzhan SSR Agitprop Center (Tsentrainiy Dom Agitatsii
I Propagandr Im. Kirova), also situated on Komunisticheskaya.
The main streets in the Voroshilovskiy Rayon were Komunisticheskaya,
Lermontova, the former Kaganovicha (present name unknown), Ploshchad
Az - Neft, Prospekt Stalina, and Primorskoy Bulevar.
~+. The Ordzhonikidzevkiy Rayon, extended to the east from Voroshilovskiy
Rayon and comprised the following institutions:
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a. The Republican KGB directorate, which occupied a gigantic f4.ve-
story building Shaumyana Street.
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b. The Central Republican MVD and Militia Directorates, which were
located at the corner of Prospekt Kirova (popularly called Bolshays
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in 1959
was transferred to a new building on a street cd.Bazarnaya.
c. The buildings occupied by the KGB and the MVD and Militia directrates
were situated close to each other. They were separated by a large
building which housed officers employed in the Regional Frontier
Guard Directorate and-their families.
d. The Regional Frontier Guard Directorate (Upravlenie Pogranichnogo
Okruga), which was located directly opposite the MVD and Militia
directorate.
e. The central town post office, which occupied a three-story building
at 35 Shaumyana.
f. An MVD club (Klub MVD), which occupied a new six-story building that
was completed in 1958, on the corner of Ulitsa Leytenanta Shmidta
and Shaumyana.
g. A teachers' training college (Ped - Institut), which occupied an old
multi-storied (~?) building on Shaumyana.
h. The Azerbaydzhan SSR Council of Ministers (Sovet Ministrov Az.
SSR.), which occupied a gigantic building on Ploshchad Stalina, a
large new square at the end of Prospekt Stalina. Work started on
the construction of the building prior to World War II, and it
was completed in 1956/1957. It housed all the Republican ministries
except the Ministry of the Oil Industry.
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5. The Shaumyanovskiy Rayon extended to the east of the Ordzhonikidzevkiy
Rayon. Called the " (Cherniy Gorod);vthis rayon included
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all the oil processing and refining plants in Baku. The industrial
plants and othe~Lnstitutions located in this district were the following:
a. The Stalin refinery, which was the largest plant of its type in
Baku.
b. The Zhdanov refinery.
c. The Frunze refinery.
d. The Dzhaparidze refinery.
e. The former Molotov refinery.
f. The new BNZ (Bakinskiy Nefteperegonniy Zavod), which was already
working to its fullest extent but was still in the process of
expansion. The refinery was located between an oil workers' housing
project called Posiolok NZS (the meaning of the letters unknown)
and a new workers' quarter called Posiolok 8m0YKM.
g. An extensive C/t ttk covered by oil tanks.
h. The Krasnaya Zvezda power station.
i. The large Shaumyan hospital.
J. The Kislotniy Zavod (acids factory).
k. An oil industry equipment plant called Zavod Neftyanogo Oborudovanya
Im. Leytenanta Shmidta, which was the largest plant of those
incorporated wittn the framework of the Azerbaydzhan SSR Ministry
of the Oil Industry. this plant had received 50X1-HUM
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1. Two vehicle repair plants: the ARZ (Avtoremontniy Zavod), located
in the center of the district, and another plant (name unknown) located
in the vicinity of the Leytenanta Shmidta oil equipment plant,
between the Montina and Kishly quarters.
M. The central oil industry supply stores of the Azerbaydzhan SSR
(Tekh. Snab Az-Nefti), which were located in the center of the district.
n. A meat combine (Myaso-Kombinat), cement, macaroni and biscuit
factories, and a central metal store (Glav - Metalo - Skiad), which
supplied various raw metals to the entire republic, were located
in the Kishly Quarter of this district.
6. The Kirovskiy Rayon extended to the north of the Shaunyanovskiy Rayon
and was an entirely residential district, which had been inhabited only
by Azerbaydzhanis. The district had no industry, and the only insti-
tutions worthy of mention were the following:
a. A television station.
b. Polytechnic Institute (Politekhnicheskiy Institut) for which new
buildings had been constructed in 1957, when it was separated from
the Industrial College (Industryalniy Institute).
c. A large new civilian hospital, which was opened in 1958.
7. The Oktyabrskiy Rayon included the town's northern quarters and was
populated mainly by Armenians. The following were located in this
district.
a. A new Medical Institute (Med Institut) building, which was opened
in 1951.
b. The new Teachers' College building (Ped-Institut).
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c. The Azizbekov Oil and Chemistry Institute (Azerbaydzhanskiy
Institut Nefti I Khimii Im. Azizbekova), which was the new name
of the Azizbekov industrial college at 20 Prospekt Lenina.
d. The Semashko hospital, which was the largest in the town.
e. New sports stadium, which was constructed in 1955/1956.
f. Race course.
g. Broadcasting station.
h. Central passenger railroad station and the Sabunchinskiy Vokzal
electric train station, whbh connected the town with its suburbs.
In 1957, the electric railroad was extended to Artem Island, which
was located 70 kilometers from the center of Baku and was connected
by a dam to the mainland. This branch line, which was first used
in 1959, led to the new industrial center of Baku called Sumgait,
which was situated some 35 kilometers from the town on the way to
Makhachkala.
8. The Sovetskiy Rayon, which included the town's western quarters, was
mainly a residential district. Some 90 percent of its inhabitants were
Azerbaydzhanis.
9. The following streets in Baku were considered to compose the town center:
Ulitsa Komunistieheskaya, Prospekt Stalina, Prospekt Kirova, Ulitsa 28
Aprela, Prospekt Lenina, and Primorskoy Bulevard, with streets such as
Ulitsa Voroshilova, Ulitsa Zevina, Ulitsa Krasnoarmeyskaya, and other
side streets.
10. The town's public transport facilities were provided by trolleybuses,
streetcars., buses, and taxis as follows:
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a. The seven trolleybus routes:
(1) Route No. 3 - The central railroad station, Ulitsa Svobody,
Prospekt Stalina, Ulitsa Chkalova, Ulitsa Komunisticheskaya,
Ulitsa Zevina, Prospekt Stalina, Ulitsa Svobody, and back to
to the central railroad station.
(2) Route No. 2 - The central railroad station, Ulitsa Svobody,
Prospekt Stalina, Ulitsa Zevina, Ulitsa Komunisticheskaya,
Ulitsa Chkalova, Plosh. Az-Neft, and back via Prospekt Stalina
and Ulitsa Svobody to the central railroad station.
(3) Route No. 1 - Ulitsa Svobody, Plosh. Stalina, Prospekt Stalina,
Plosh. Az-Neft, and back via the same streets to Plosh. Svobody.
(4+) Route No. 1 - Plosh. Kirova, Ulitsa Komunistiches-Kaya,
Ulitsa Lermontova, the Kirov municipal park, and back.
O Route No. 5 - The Central railroad station, Ulitsa Svobody,
Prospekt Stalina, Plosh. Az-Nett, Ulitsa Chkalova, Ulitsa
Komunisticheskaya, Ulitsa Zevina, Prospekt Stalina, Prospekt
Kirova, Ulitsa Krasnoarmeyskaya, the Semashko hospital, and
back.
(6) Route No. 6 - Ulitsa Svobody, Prospekt Kirova, Ulitsa
Krasnoarmeyskaya, Semashko hospital, and back.
(7) Route No. 7 - Plosh. Az-Neft, Ulitsa Krasina, Krasin power
station, and back.
b. Following were among the ten streetcar routes in Baku (services on
Prospekt Stalina, Ulitsa Komunisticheskaya, Ulitsa Chkalova, etc.,
had been discontinued):
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(1) Route No. 1 - From Plosh. Az-Neft to tte Krasin power station
(according to plan, this service was to be discaatinued).
(2) Route No. 2 - From the central railroad station to the Sovetskiy
Rayon.
(3) cute No. 3 - The railroad freight station (Baku - Tovarnaya),
the central passenger station, Prospekt Lenina, the electric
railroad station (Sabunchinskiy Vokzal),Ulitsa Surakhanskaya,
Ulitsa Gorkogo, and back.
(4) Route No. 4 - Ul. 9-go Yanuraxya, Ulitsa 28-go Aprela, via the
Shaumyanvskiy Rayon to the Krasnaya Zvezda power station, and
back.
(5) Route No. 5 - The railroad freight station, central passenger
station, the electric railroad station, via the Oktyabrskiy
Rayon to the Semashko hospital, and back.
(6) Route No. 6 - From the Krasnaya Zvezda power station to the
Lenin cotton weaving mill and back. The Lenin mill was located
on the road to Zykh village. An oxygen plant called Kislorodniy
Zavod was located on the righthand side of this road coming
from Baku, some three kilometers from the Lenin mill. In 1944,
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the oxygen plant, which was located about ten kilometers from
the Krasnaya Zvezda power station, produced liquid oxygen.
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(7) Route No. 8 - From the central passenger railroad station to
the Montina quarter and back.
(8) Route No. 12 - From the central railroad station to the Oktyabrskiy
Rayon and back.
(9) Route No. 13 - Prom Ulitsa 9-90 Yanvarya (a main street of
Baku) to the Tekh-Snab-Az-Nefti stores.
Ploshchad Kirova, Ploshchad
Az Nefti, and Sabunchinskiy Vozkal.
d. The streetcar and trolleybus garages were located near the central
railroad freight station. F
11. The Port of Baku, with the exception of the military area, comprised
36 docks, of which two were for passengers and the remainder for freight,
oil, etc. The main freight docks for general cargos were Nos. 25 and 26,
alongside of which all the general cargo warehouses were concentrated.
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