ECONOMIC INFORMATION: LENINGRAD 1. COST OF LIVING 2. INDUSTRIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100760007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 23, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT ~rcononti.c Information, Leningrad:
1, Qost of Living
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1. 3'he cost of living in the Leningrad area ie eatramely high and prices
vontiaue to rise. With the normal pay of a trorker or official at 450
to ,~QO rubles. seat costs 50 rubles Ter k3.logran, fish I2 to Z$ rubles.
salt butter 60 rubles. fresh butter 70 rubles. The cost of transporter
lion has greatly increased. Only Soviet officials live Drell. Por
aaar.~ale, Pyaaenko, heats of the merchant fleet at Leningrad, who official]y
receives ul~ to x,000 rubles plus various bonuses, also speculates 3n
contraband in collusion ~,rith ships' captains.
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Class. C'rIAD?GED TC : TS 9
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"t has recent]y received mas3hine tools and transformers from abroad.
Tgpe of yroductian: Generators. turbines, cad electrical
ega3Lpment.
Number of workers: 4.000
Jlirector: Huldiin
~. ~+,}rcraft_,~~to~* No. 47
Lirector: ShestaI~vich
T,,~pe of ~roduotions Serial production of longaraa~^s fi~tera,
ma~6Y from tiermaa prototypes.
Number of shifts: Three ,
7E'asta of airoraft are Ada at P~ilkavo and at`other small airfields.
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i'ype of productioas l~sdium tanks.
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7,'ypa of pradnatioas Snbmsriaee.
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Yn 194?. has lamnohed lZ anbmarines of ~f~oo,s
classes sad a large immber of aswal lauachos
(3~eter~.
In dry docks ane mru~iser. tyra ganboats. oae destroyer.
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Type of proda,ations 8epair Bad assembly workshops. ~ large
naraber of alraraft of old types ere befog
dismantled:
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