AREA DESRIPTION OF RUBEZHNOYE AND THE KHIMKOMBINAT

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• Publication Date: November 9, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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amended. Its transmission or revelation of its conteny
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COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR) REPORT
SUBJECT Area Description of Rubezhnoye and DATE DISTR.
the Khimkombinat
9 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 24
DATE OF INFO.
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The following changes should be madeg
1. Rubezhnaya should read Rubezhnoye throughout.
2. Nachalniks page 21 should read nachalniki.
3. Tratsh? page 2, should read Trach.
4. Lissichansk should read Lisichansk throughout.
5. Donetz should read Donets throughout.
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DBSCRIPTION OF RUBSZHNAJA
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sketch of the layout of Rubezhnaya
but it is admittedly rough and incomplete Lpee page
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Point 1, Militia Headquarters
30-40 x 15-20 x 8-10 meters, red brick building with a flat
roof. Houses unknown number of blue-uniformed militiamen.
Point 2 Culture' Park ?
400 x 200-300 meters. Surrounded by wooden fence about two
meters high. Children's playground, restaurant, summer
movie theater.
Point 3 Textile Department Store
10-20 x 10-20 x 8-10 meters. Gray brick building with a
flat roof. During the last year or so (1950-51) textiles
(partly imported from Czechoslovakia), carpets and furs
were available here on the free or unrationed market.
Point 4: Ben k
30 x 15-20 x,1015 meters. Gray brick building with flat
roof. .
Point 5 House of Culture
40-50 x 40-50 x 40 meters. Concrete construction .with a
flat roof. Big theater on first floor where movies were
shown in *inter. Smaller rooms for cultural purposes
(music rooms) and party meetings on upper floors.
Point 6 Store III
30-40 x 15-20 x 10-15 meters. Gray brick building with a
flat roof. Sold foodstuffs, soap and other toilet articles.
Point 7 Apartment Building
100 x 10-15 x 15 meters. Gray brick construction with a
flat roof. Housed GerMan families and a number of Soviet
plant officials (Nachalniks). The building contained
? about 40-50 apartments of two rooms plus kitchen.
Point 7a Apartment Building
30-40 x 10-15 x 15 meters. Gray brick construction with a
flat roof. HouseiSoviet Khimkombinat director TRATSH and
a,number of Soviet-families.
Point 8 Nursery.
30-40 x 10-15 x 8-10 meters. Gray brick construction with
a flat roof. Room for about 50-80 babies and children up
to three years of age.
Point 9 Hotel
20-30 x 20-30 x 10-15 meters. Gray brick construction
with a flat roof. Capacity, about 20-30 beds.
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Point 10 Vegetable Store
8-10 x 8-10 x 5-6 meters. Gray brick construction with a
flat roof. Vegetables, potatoes, meat ,vodka, wine were
sold here.
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20-30 x 20-30 x 10-12 meters. Grayish-yellow brkek
construction with a flat roof. Dishes, glassware,
Soviet cameras (copies of the German Rolleiflex),
bicycles, ready-made suits and dresses for men and
women were sold here.
Point ha Department Store
8-10 x 8-10 x 5-6 meters. Gray brick construction with a
flat roof. At first specialized in baby articles; later,
general department store goods.
Point 12 Bookstore and Gastronom
30-40 x 15-20 x 10-15 meters. Gray brick construction
with a flat roof. Bookstore sold books in Russian and a
few German books plus sheet music. The Gastronom sold
department store articles, vodka, wine, chocolate, sweets.
Point 13 Stocking Factory
40 x 40 x 10-12 meters. Gray concrete construction with a
flat roof. Employed about 50 - 100 female workers.
Produced simple socks and stockings for men and women.
Other details unknown.
Point 14 Store IV
20-30 x 20-30 x 8-10 meters. Grayish-yellow brick
construction with a flat roof. Sold same goods as
Gastronom (see Point 12 above).
Point 15 School for Artisans (Handwerkerschule)
40-30 x 30 x 30-40 meters. Gray brick construction with a
flat roof. Training of apprentices (artisans) and music
students. Capacity of about 150-200 students.
Point 16 Technical College
40-50 x 30 x 30-40 meters. Gray, probably concrete,
construction with a flat roof. Allegedly technical
college for chemistry and engineering students. .
Capacity of about 200-300 students.
Point 17. Hospital
Comprised five or more buildings, barracks
brick construction, details unknown,
style light
.1 it had an isolation ward and an
operating room. No further details.
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Point 18-
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and 18b
Point 19
Point..20
Point 21
Point 22
Point 22a
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Khimkombinat for details see pages
Railroad Station, Rubezhnaya
30-40 x 20 x 10-15 meters. Brown brick construction with
a flat roof, located on double track (double since 1949)
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traffic in both directions. cars-carrying
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One fast train came tnrougn Eueeznnaya
going in the direction of Kupyansk around 0800 or 0900
hourspand another going in the direction of Lissichansk
came through about 1600 hours. Also, at least one passen-
ger train came through Rubezhnaya in the morning and one
in the afternoon
the fast and passenger trains were
frequently late.
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30 x 30 x 15-20 meters. Concrete construction with a
flat roof. The children of German scientists and Soviet
officials and technicians were taught here. The language
spoken in the school was Russian while the language
taught was Ukrainian. About 400 students in attendance.
Sthddi
30 x 30 x 15-20 meters. Concrete or brick construction
with a flat roof. A seven year, popular school; as a
whole, the 'teachers were less qualified than in Point -20
above. The language spoken in the school was Ukrainian
while the language taught was Russian. There were about
300-400 students.
Apartment Building .
80-100 x 40-x 40 meters. Yellowish brick,construction
with a flat roof. Completed in 1951 but apdttments not
yet occupied.
Former Prisoner of War Camp
80-100 x 40 x 40 meters. Yellowish brick construction.
with a flat roof. After the prisoners were evacuated ?
is 1950, the,building was used as an apartment building.
Number of the camp is not known.
Point 23 i Bungalows
Point 23i
10-15 x 10-15 x 8 meters. Groups 'of seven to ten; brown
brick constructions with flat gabled roofs,, each having
three rooms and kitchen. Intended for use by the German
Scientists, they were taken over in 1949 by directors'
and officials of the Khimkombinat.
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New Laboratory
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Gray brick construction with a fiat roof, new
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laboratory of the Khimkombinat,
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Ambulatory Clinic (Poliklinik)
20-2-5?x-20-25-7e8-10-meters. Brown brick construction
with a flat roof. General and specialized treatment of
out-patients-. About 10-12 physicians, mostly women.
Point 26 Store
8-10 x 8-10 x 5-6 meters. Brownish brick construction
with a flat roof. Foodstuffs, vodka, wine were sold here..
Point 27 Pharmacy
15-20x 15-20-x8-10 meters. Brown brick construction
with a flat roof. Medicines, bandages, medicinal soabs,
reading glasses were available here.
Point 28 Orphanage'
No details..
Point 29 Postal and Telegraph Office
15-20 x 15-20 x 8-10 meters. Brown brick construction
with a flat' roof. About six to eight employees. No
further details.
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Point 30 School
Language spoken was Ukrainians language taught was Russian.
No further details.
Point 31 School and Court of Justice
30-40 x 30 x 15-20 meters,. Brown brick construction with
a flat roof. No further detail's.
Point 32 City Soviet
30-40 x 30 x 1520 meters. Grayish yellow brick con-
struction with a flat roof. Meeting place of the local
Soviet. No further,details.
Point 33, Wooden Bridge Across Swamps
About 1000 meters long and three to four meters wide,
resting on wooden pilings spaced about ten meters apart
and about three to five meters above the swamp: On either
Bide of the bridge were wooden handrails about 60-70canti-
meters high. The bridge Was for. pedestrian use only arid
in verydbad condition because many of the boards had.been
stolen by the local inhabitants for firewood. Very danger-
ous to use at night,.
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Point 34 Pontoon Bridge Across the Donetz River
About 50 meters long and three to four meters wide. A
temporary bridge for cars, trucks and horse-drawn vehicles,
taking the place of a permanent construction blown up dur-
ing the wara concrete pillars of which could still be seen.
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Point 35 Donetz 'River
Of varying widths as it flowed past Rubezhnaya, the average
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It is frozen over from the beginning of December to the
middle of February and floods the surrounding area in spring.
The banks vary from sandy, rocky :to swampy and flat to ?
steep.
Point 36 Coal Mine
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the coal is close to the
surface and is obtained by both surface or open pit mining
and shaft mining. The shafts are not steep. Ithe
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-Point 57 Aerial Cableway
About 1 kilometem long, supported on steel masta about
150 meters apart. The dibleway leads from the mine to
the boilerhouse of the KhiXkombinat 5ee Point 18b2.
Point 38a Waste Water Disposal
A natural lake about 200 x 100 meters of unknown depth.
which receives waste water from the Khimkombinat.'
The overflow runs from here via a brook to tne river.
Point 38b Waste Water Disposal
Same as 38a, 100 x 50 meters in size, depth unknown;
Point 590, Lake
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100-x 200. meters. Depth unknown.
Point 39b Lake
. 400 x 600 meters. Depth unknown.
Point 390 Lake
'200 x 300 meters.
Point 39d
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Depth unknown.
Lake
700 x 400 meters. Depth unknown. These lakes?Points
39a to 39dpare partly grown over with reeds.
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Point 40,? Main Road, Varvarovka-Lissichansk
About four to five meters wide, cobblestone or asphalt
surface in poor condition. Heavy traffic as well as horse-
drawn vehicles. Cargo, origins or destinations unknown.
Then 19 also a bus:route between Varvarovka and Rubezhnaya.
Point 4i' Bain Road, Staro Krasnenko - Rubezhnayag
This road connects with Point 40 above, about five to six
meters wide, asphalt surface, partly in poor condition.
Heavy traffic, no details.
Point 42 Bazaar
Area 300 x 200 meters. Mainly foodstuffs sold here,
? vegetables, milk, eggs, fruit, potatoes and meat.
Point 43 Apartment Building
x 15-29 x 8-19 meters., Gray concrete and brick
construction with a flat roof.
Point 44. Stadium ?
300 - 460 x 200 meters. No further details.
Point 45 Block Huts
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Point 46 Dimensions vary from 3 x 2 x 4 meters to 6 x 8 x 4 meters.
Loam or brick constructions, whitewashed. Housed
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there were.Csrlaln-aspects about
the Ahimkombinat and its layout-that are shown inanother4aketch
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,Point Tcar Depait Shop
-A one or two story building, 40 x 15 x 10 meters.
-Probably concrete constructiOnt.with a flat roof.
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Point 2 Boiler House
Three or four story brick building covered with gray'
plaster, 40 x 30 x 30 meters, Three or four black,
sheet-metal smokestacks, about-four meters high and 80-
100 centimeters in diameter, rise above the flat roof.
Point 2a Aerial Cableway
Leads eouth about li kilometeis from boiler house to
coal mind located on south bank of the Donetz River.
Cableway is mounted on- steel or concrete masts spaded
about 150 meters apart.
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Pornt 3 Production Building for Intermediates
Three-story building0-30 x 20 x 20 meters. Probably of
briek construction covered with gray plaster, flat roof.
Point 4a New Laboratory and Pilot Plant
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Point 4h
Two-part building of concrete construction, flat roof.
About 60 x 25 meters (a), the laboratory, about 15 meters
high and (b), the pilot plant about 30 meters high. In
this build ng the Wolfen specialists worked
Points--5, Production Buildings
6, 7, and
8
Three-story buildings, about 30 x 20 x 20 meters, probably
brick construction covered with gray plaster, flat roofs.
Point 9 Shed
Point 10 Old Central Laboratory
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Two-story, brick construction covered with gray plaster,
flat roof, 25 x 25 x 15 meters; dye shop, library and
several offices on ground floor, laboratory with five Or six
work benches on second floor.
Production Installation for Nitration
Probably concrete construction, flat roof; 40 x 25 x 15
meters.
Point 12 New-Production Building
Jiluilding consists of two parts, concrete construction,
flat roof; 80-120 x 30 x 25 meters; for vat dyes and
probably Naphthol AS products.
-Point 13 New Power Plant
Concrete or brick construction covered with gray plaster,
flat roof; 40-x 40 x 30 meters. According to rumoriplant
houses high-pressure boiler installation- and steam -
turbines. No further details.
Point 14 Laboratory Building
Brick construction covered*with.gray plaster, flat
roof.- 20'w 15-x 15 meters.
Point 15 Area Including 20-25 Buildings
.These buildings pre nf vArinuR Ri7AR and nnna+rlin+
? Point 16 Another Area Including 8 - 12 Buildings
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Point 17 Administration Building
Three story, concrete construction, slightly gabled roof;
25 x 20 x 20 Mears. Ebuses plant director and chief
engineer.
Point 18 Building for Educational Purposes
Two story, concrete construction, slightly gabled roof;
20 x 15 x 15 meters.
Point 19 Concrete Construction
20 x 15 x 15 meters. Purpose unknown.
Points 20 Gates, with Guard Rooms
through
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5. In order to gain entrance to the plant and laboratory building
had to show the gate guards a pass or propusk; the pass issued
was of plain brown calico, the outside of which was blank, _The
inside contained the data illustrated on the rough sketch
which is approximately to scale See page 13_7. There were two or
three rubber stamps on the right lower half of the pass to indicate
the gate permitted to USE
All of the German specialists and
carried the same passes.
the Soviet laboratory personnel
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passes were provided yearly throufl the Soviet liaison 50X1-HUM
official assigned to take care of the needs of group and
were issued from the personnel office. Each time 50X1-HUM
had to supply two recent photos o e
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to receive a new pass
offidial, one of which was used on the pass.
If one
iorgot a ?ass had to return to his home to find it. Once-one
lost his pass, but apparently he was able to give a
VS ? excuse because he was issued 'another wihout being punished.
Occasion-
ally the gate guard would spot-check the briefcases or bundles
carried by the German or Soviet personnel.
6. Our working papers were looked up by a Soviet woman laboratori.
worker in sharge of security at the end of each day in an old,'
worn metal cabinet fitted with 'a padlock. They could be taken out
of the plant after obtaining written permission from the director
of N1OPIK. However, members of our group often took their papers
home whenever they felt like doing so and nobody was ever caught.
The papers themselves bore no manner of classification but were
Identified by the signature of the individual submitting the paper.
The workers
badges. while at work.
did-not wear identification
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S. Each of the six gates of the plant was tended by a gateman (or woman)
armed with -a pistol and a civilian guard (man or woman) armed with a
rifle. Some of the civilian guards wore Communist Party jackets,
part of the official CP uniform, or sometime red arth bands. In.
addition
addition to the gate guards, there were about 40 civilian men and
woman patrolling the plant area at one time. The gate men, or women
were usually middle aged while the civilian guards were between 17
and 30 year of age.
barred window*, flood lights, steel sa
precautiome exiated
kept in kennels in the northeast part
accomnanl the guards while patrolling
dogs barking during the day,
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fee or other physical security
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