TOWN INFORMATION - SAMBOR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A060400070001-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 26, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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I N FORMAT ION REPORT I N FORMATION REPORT
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.B.O. Bees. 798 and 798, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Drogobych Oblast) REPO
SUBJECT Town Information - Sambor/ h1~t.~, ` 1 DATE DISTR. o?4 September 1961
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SUBJECT : Town Information - SAIBOR
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aLuu_. 0 percent of whom were t crainian. The town's main streets
(Kop,,r.ii:r, Ivana Franko, Lenina and: Permishlanakaya) were asphalt-
paved and the remaining streets were stone-surfaced. There was
no bu$ transportation. All the houses were two or three-storied
brick constructions. The water supply was obtained from wells
operated y _.and pumps, and there was no central sewerage system.
Borislav '9-17, E23-25 furnished electric power for the town.
The Sambo:r railway station, which was in need of renovation in
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1959, had 15 sets of tracks. The town's places of entertainment
consisted of two cinemas, a municipal cultural center, and a rail-
ways cultural center.
2. . Military units stationed in Sambor were:
a. An artillery regiment (art. polk), equipped with 122-mm.
howitzers, which was stationed on di. Lenina in buildings of
the former commercial high school (during the Polish admin-
istration).
b. A signal unit, including radio and radar stations, which
was stationed on i1. Peremishlanskaya, on the outskirts of
town, in barracks of a pre-war cavalry unit.
3. The following industries were in Sambor:
a. The Sambor sugar factory (Semborskiy Sakharny Zavod), which
was located in the north end of town and which had a railway
spur leading into the plant compound. The factory began
operation in 1955, and during the season of 1958-1959 employed
some 400 workers. Most of its equipment was of East German
manufacture, although the plant had a 3000-kilowatt Czech
turbo-generator which operated by coal until 1958 and subse-
quently by gas from Dashava ON 9-16, E24-OJ. During its
peak season (September to March), the sugar factory used only
1800 kilowatts, and the remaining power was used to supply
the town. At the end of the season, the generator was closed
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down. During 1958-1959 the factory produced 3000 tons of sugar.
The refuse (molasses) was given to an alcohol distillery in
the village of Voyutyche L9-33, E23-067, about 10 kilometers
northwest of Sambor, although a plan existed to build an alcohol
distillery at the factory site.
b. The clothing factory (Sheveynaya Fabrika) on Muzealnaya Street,
which manufactured mainly men's clothes, employed some 800
workers in two shifts.
c. The glass factory (Stekolny Zavod) on Valova Street, which
began operation in 1956, employed some 60 workers.
d. The locomotive repair shop (Parovoznoye Depo), which employed
approximately 150 workers.
4. Sambor had the following schools: five 10-grade schools, a medical
school (med. tekhnikum) at 13 Peremishlanskaya Street, a school
for cultural workers (kult-prosvet tekhnikum) on Mitskevkha
Street, a commercial school (torgovoye tekhnikum) on Lenina Street,
a pedagogical school (ped. tekhnikum) on Kalinina Street, and a
statistical school (statisticheskoye tekhnikum).
5. The following government offices and public institutions were located
in Sambor:
a. The town MVD office on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street; the local
militia numbered some 50 men.
b. The town KGB office on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street opposite the
MVD office.
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c. The Gorkom Partii on Kopernika Street.
d. The Raykom Partii at 4, Lenina Street.
e. The Gorispolkom on Stalina Square.
f. The Raispolkom on Peremishlanskaya Street.
The Gorvoenkomat on Koshchusko Street.
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