"AREA DESCRIPTION OF KIMRY, USSR"

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• Publication Date: March 27, 1952
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COUNTRY : USSR SECRET 25X1A DATE DISTR. 52 , MAR SUBJECT'- Area Description of Kimry, USSR NO. OF PAGES: 4
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stayed near the center of the city and,, with one exception, Point 15 below9
I saw no industrial"installations. I estimate the population of Kimry to
be about 309,000 to 35$000 people. I know that it was the main city of the
rayon, but I cannot give any further details about its importance.
List of Installations and Points of Interest.
Reference is made to Enclosure (A), an overlay of USAF Target Complex
Mosaic 01.54?9895-25M of Kimry (560 541N - 370 18!E) on which I can identify
the following pinpointed sites:
Point 1 n Athletic Field. Covered an area of about 160 x 100 m. There
were four tiers of wooden seats on the long sides.. A soccer field and a
running track were the'main features. The northeastern side was lined with
large poplar trees, a good landmark.
Point 2 Hospital. Brick building, 30 to 40 x 15 x 9 m, two-storied,
gable roof covered with gray tiles. I only entered once and saw that it
had X-ray equipment..
Point 3 - Market Place. An area about 50 x 30 rn. Occupied with booths
selling all imaginable articles.
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PoiatN 4 - Hotels The "Great. Volga Hotel" was a brick building, 15 a 10 x
9 m, with a'gable roof . covered. with slate. The ground floor had a bar with
an attractive blonde waitress who spoke very good German and -took ' good care
of me. This bar was usually filled with air force officers dressed in: the
ua ,l dark brown khaki Soviet uniform with a visor cap which had a light
blue band around it. Their shoulder boards had a blue stripe down the
center and blue piping. Their trousers had a light blue cord down the
seams. Army officers were: also seen here. Their uniforms had red trimming
instead of blue They 'did; not like the treatment I received, from the wait-
ress and would not talk tome; hence, I did not find out where they were
stationed.
Vodka sold for 3.60 rubles per.100 grsmad.,
The. first floor had a restaurant with red plush drapes, and individual.
alcoves for patrons. There was also a billiard'. room. I'do not know if
there were any rooms for transients and I do not know the manager's name.
l'aiSt. 3 ik! ins. A brick building. 40 m long, width u~iknown, 12'm high,
two-storied, gable roof covered with slate. This "Zentral Univermag" sold
almost everything except foodstuffs.. The articles.were displayed in.;dis,-
. play windows about 5 m l ong,_ and there were sic (6) of them.
Point 6 - Food Store. Prick building, 25 m long, width unknown, 12 a high,
gable roof covered with slates This "Zentral Gastronom" sold meat, fish,
bakery goods, vegetables ' and :other foodstuffs. It had four display windows.
In July 1950, people still queued up for sugar and bread.
Point S ,nave. An unpaved area, about 75 x'50 m, with a statue of Mar
shat Stalin in the centers, .
Point 8- Stre,eta. The streets in the, center of Himry were all cobblestone.
The streets on which the athletic field ' (Point 1), the market place (Point,
3), the hotel (Point 4),.and leading south'from"the food store (Point 6),
were all about 8.m wide, and had conorete-&lfate sidewalks on, each side?
about 2 m wide. The other,streets which I noticed were all about 4.m widen
with sidewalks about 2 a wide.
Pint 9 _ ? id,,. Wood beam girder, about 150 m long, about 8 to 10 m wide,
including sidewalks about 1 to 1.5 m wide on each side. An 80 cm,wooden
railing was on each side. The flooring was wooden planks, thickness unknown.
The bridge was about 3.5 to 4 m above the mean water level. The bridge was
resting on land for about 25'a on each side of the river. The wooden gird-
ore were about 6 to 8 m apart. There was a scale on the northern side of
the bridge on which heavy vehicles were weighed before they crossed.. There
was no scale on the southern end.. Guards were not seen. I. never noticed'
any other.regulation of vehicular traffic on this bridge and did not see'
any load limit signs posted.
Paint 10 -_A csad. Led to,Podbereeje. This road, which was cobblestone to
the outskirts of town and from there on to Podberesje was a dirt road,
about 4 m wide and severed with field stones haphazardly tossed on it.
3 m on each side could also be used as road during the summer when it was
d?. The sides became a mire whenever 'it rained or thawed. In winter the
road was completely hidden by snow and even snowplows could not clear a
path.
Point 11 Landing Place. 80 to 100 m long, 25 to 30 m wide. The quay
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was a wooden construction. Ships from Moscow tied up here to discharge
passengers. Ship schedules were not. known to me. Cranes were not seen.
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Point _12 - Perry. One ship could . carry about 250A-6 350"passengers, ' It had
a diesel maw tor. The other ferry .could. carry a 3-ton 'truck and was powered
by an electric motor receiving'-current from a cable across the river. The
cable was about 4 m above the water, carried by wooden towers on each side
of. the river. Their height was not 'known. The German flight test' an
going to the"?airfield at Porki :crossed on this ferry. I noticed
another passenger ferry about half the size of the first one mentioned
above, but never saw it operating, so assumed it was in reserve. 't'hen ,ice
floes occurred in the river the ferries became inoperative and all traffic
across the Volga stopped until the river was completely frozen over.
Point 1'3 - Savelova. (560 52:N'm 370 22'E) It had about 10 to 12 thousand
inhabitants. .1 had no.opportunity to see much of the city, as I was only
there once
Foi a t1 . Street. Cobblestone, 10 m wide v . no sidewalks.
Potnw 1 - Planto A complex consisting of more than 6 buildings. They
looked rather new, since the tile roofs were still a bright red in July
1949 when I-wwA there to play against a soccer team from this plant. 1,
have no knowledge of the total number of 'buildings, name of the plant, what
was produced, etc. In August 1948, the development plant in Podberessje
where I worked received from this plant two-bearing pivot forgings for the
main landing gear of the BY 140 V-3. As far as I .know, these were the only
parts ever received by the.-Junkers group from'_thie plant. They were well
forged. The buildings were.built of bricks, some were stuoooed,'and they
were two and three'stories high. 'Chimneys were not seen: 'This complex was
surrounded by a 2.5 m high brick wall. 1 caught a fleeting glimpse, of the
building while passing the plant entrance. I assume that the plant had a
railroad connection.
Pointolsa River.
Point 1 . - R ilroad. I never saw 'it! but know there. was - one in this area.
because many of the women from Podberesje boarded the train for Moscow here,,
in. order to evade travel restriotione imposed. in the station at Dimiitrov
(560 171N - . 37?' 30 'E) Passengers already on trains passing through +imi-
.trov were not oheeked.
Phvsic characteristics,
Ximry wasss'situated on a level, sandy plain, with very few rises in eleva-
tion.' I assume that its climate was not very different from that of Pod-
beressje, which had an average winter'temperature of minus 30?C and plan
3.560 in summer.
Industrial and Economic Characteristics.
A. Besides the industrial plant mentioned under Point 15, which was
-located in Savelova, I saw no other industrial installations,' I assumes
however, that there were two other fairly large plants,'as I played soccer
against their teams, and . soccer''.teamis. are usually associated with indus-ft
trial plants in the USSR. The teams were known as Plamia gimry and
Spartak'Simry.
b. I did not see any high tension lines and had no informatics an
electrioity, water, and gas supply. I do not think there was a sewage
system, since the toilet in the hotel. did ' not have water flushing. There
were no street oars or busses, and I do not remember any street names.
There was a telephone connection from Kimry to Podberesje.
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5m . Socuri. stems and Measures. .
I have. no information on ,security regulations and prooedures, travel
restriotion..e9 identification dsotzments and,passesa passive defense:sieasurss
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Engloaure: (A) Overlay of USAP Target Complex Mosaic
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