"AIRFIELDS NEAR KIMRY, USSR"

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL .INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY -. USSR
SUBJECT P Airfields near Kimry, USSR
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I noticed aircraft activity to the -nortne
heard of aircraft activity at other points near
2. Reference is made to chart, number 37-10 A M S Series N501 of Kimry
(360 Joe 14 370 18o E) on which I can locate the following points
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Point I Airfield
Approximate location of flying activity seen from the
center of Kimry. I saw aircraft ascending and descending
in this area and assumed that there was an airfield 5X1A
located here. This activity was greater than that a
the Borki airBf ield (point 4), and this activity was
I ob7ser?ved jet fighters of an unknown type, and also twin-
engined aircraft, type unknown, flying around this area.
At night, this area was well lighted, but no beacons or
searchlights were noticed. Flashes, as from guns, were
also observed at night, followed by the sound of the
report, Parachuting activity was not obserAved. .1 never
asked any Soviets for further details, because I knew from
experience that the Soviets would have answered with their
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Point 2 Kimry
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Point Sav~ ova
(56? 521 N 370 22f E) Zee cormri;ep,
Point 4 Airfield
Approximate location of an airfield known. as Bcrki to
the Germans. I deduced that this. was . the airfield from
details given me by Germans who had--been there. There
were two parts to this airfield, one part used for flight
testing the Junkers experimental airplanes.produced at
Podberesje, and the other part'-was a military field. The
part, used by the flight testing crew was rather primitives
.according to Germans who had been there, and was,.not
usable during the rainy and thawing per ds,-,df .the,- year.
The. military part had a concrete runway with steel mat
extensions and was probably usable all year round. I
heard that this section was quite new, had modern
buildings,. and that jet fighter aircraft of the SAF were
based there.. I myself observed aircraft aim.lar to MIG-
15's flying around in the area from my apartment in. .
Podberesje. I am quite sure that they were SIG-151:s as
they were identical to MIG-15 ' s-, I saw in Dessau, Germany
in August 1951, The Soviet flight testing'crew at
Podbereeje began operations here in September 1949. They
could either take a truck to Kimry, using the road (point
5), cross the Volga River with a ferry and then drive
south to the field, or they could take amotorboat down
the Volga River, disembark near the field, and walk the
rest of the way.
Point Road
Coarse stone covered road, about 5 to wide, soft shoulders,
impassable in the thawing and rainy periods, rand in winter
only passable by sleigh.
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Point Nikolskoye
(56? 3Q1 N - 370 301 E approx) I.heard from Soviets that
there was an airfield near this town-which had once been
considered for flight testing Junkers ex erimental air=
craft. I do not know why Borki (point 43,0h ad
been
selected instead of this field, The Nikoll~ dye field was
k
under consideration in April-May 199, after flight
testing was no longer done at the fields in. Ramenskoye
(55 34' erN - 380 141 E) and Toplistan (about,-20 km SW of
Moscow).
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