CENTRAL ENGINEER GROUND NEAR MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000300170004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 18, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY .USSR
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the Central Engineer
close to the Cen-
~ rovc a ou on a
good asphalt road .and turned. again to the right on to a dirt, coun-
~r another 12 - 15 km., twice
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p g ly the r4ad?led into a pine
Eventual
hil~.s
over some
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four kilometers.
foreist tYirough. whieh.ndrove for .bout..: three or
ve ma e e wo r an. urns. e s ance~ /
from Moscow to the Cerstral Engineer Grouxad was- probably about 25 km.
arbed wire PeMee erected ire apse forest;
there was a ga a guar..ed-by an armed sentry,. There w~s.n? po text
? or sign indicating this name orch~.racter of the establishment.
? Moscow to the northeast) , , and` twice ~nadaa~right hand turn (one
~n Moscow and .one after-we left~Moacow)', that the Central Engineer
Ground was probabl ~ northwest of Moscow.
Central Engineer Ground near Moseo
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an officer
sume~ was ~e;~ o~`~he ~rounc~ was ~ t e gate
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their o eration a laix~ed
chart on the wall; this chart represented a mine e
a central position, located far behind the field, the individual
sections of this mine field could be blown electrically b~ pres-
sing a button.. The purpose of this exhibition was to demonstrate
to students how the individual sections of Due's own mine field,
if penetrated by the enemy, could be blown from a command p?st
or some other appropriate place. The actual mines on the chart'
were represented by small electric bulbs of different colors. The
red bulbs iric~ieated antitank mines; the blue bulbs indicated
antipersonnel mines. Several types of these and other Soviet
ines were shown to the students in the same room and
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barracks-type building approximately 154 m. long which was
located about one kilometer from the gate.
In the first large room of this :building a large. 5ox1
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another large ro?m where ?n the floor
there wad a re a map o errain; a miniature mine field occupied
one part, of this relief map. Several miniature tanks approximately
30 em. ling operated. either by toy motor or electricity were
moving on the relief map approaching the mine field. One by orae
as they ;~~atered the field and passed. over the n~izaes there was an
explosion and the tanks were either stopped or overturned. When
this was.., completed, the operation of a mine-clearing tank (tank -
tral'shehik) was also 8emonstrated on the relief map. A model
of a cor~yentional tank probably the T-3~+ was used; a system of
rollers .were attached to and extended in front of the tank for
a diatar~ce equal to one-third of the length of the model tank
itself.' When the tank entered the mine field and a roller passed
over a dine there was an ~.mrnediate explosion,. but no damage was
.done to the tank. As a result the other tanks could move freely
through the mine field b following the path made by the mime
clearin '
in 19 or 19 5 a Soviet Army sergeant I_ I 50X1
had invented a special kind of electrically
charged .^,a e w c when thrown by some mechanical device int ' 50X1
ne mine field would cause the ene ~:s mines toe lode.
a m nes located up to
one me er a ow a ra ec Dry o is cable and from 1~ - 2 m.
on either side of it would explode as soon as the cable passed
aver they; evidentl an ene 's electrical
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In the courtyard of the same. building shown a newly 50X1
was wear.~ng this-suit and equipped w ru er gloves went
unhurt over a b~.rbed wire fence charged with high tension current.
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invented protective suit which had: been even ed by some Soviet
electrical engineer, against high tension current. This suit
was similar to overfills,with an attached hood - helmet; it
vas covered on the outsid;e-mith some metal alloy in small links
si~nilar,to snake skim and was lined on the inside with some
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ano er sac ran o e roan a sec on .was.. oca e
e,p~roxim~tely irhree or four kil?meters from. the gate near an
t~~ dentitied river. Here shown various secti?ns ?Y'
Arxgr prefabricated bridge , n brill es and several b ~es.
of~colla Bible bbe boas
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ru er oa s could accommodate approximately 30 met aid-that-
the. small ones could accommodate from 8 to 10 men:. Th?re Mere
also some boats for two-or three men.. 3?me experime~ats,in
gr?umd drillings for bridge cuppbrts done-with eleo.trical.
machinery, as~well as the actual demonstration c~natruction
of a "large pontoon bridge, wore carried out
the central Engineer ~rcund occupied a very extenaive~ area of ~~~
y egi~are 'k~lrrmeters, c?vered mostly with, pine forest. The
entire-area i~as surrounded by a bar'4ed wire fence and guarded
by'~armed sentries.
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