1. GERMAN SCIENTISTS IN THE USSR 2. SETTLEMENT OF GERMAN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS AT LYSKOVO, NEAR GORKI

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2004
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• Publication Date: September 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTEL. GENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUN-i"RY USSR
SU!JEO1l? German Scientists in the USSR
2. Settlement of German :cientists and Engineers
at Lyskovoo near Gorki
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4, Settlement of German Scientists ana smears at l.skoVo_ raea~ (ao_lsi
Iher?e as a settlement of Gerat:an scientists and engineers near fyskovop a
small. vii:.age 40 km east of Gorki, (See attached sketch.) The is about one kilometer from the Gorki-Kazan highway on abrarachtroado hichkovo
is to the left, if one travels from Gorki to Kazan?
meters from the Volga. To the east along the Volga,, downis only a hundre
stream fromYLyakovo,
is a mall. grove of trees in which are located the villa-like buildings of
the settlement of German scientists and engineers
5. At the branch of the road to Lyskovo from the main highway is a turnpike
barrier, where all cars are stopped and searched and drivers questioned.
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6, A small German P1f camp, no. 7117/11, is on the right hand side of the highway,
directly opposite the village of Lyskovoo Supervision of the PV camp was lam
until December 1928, when the suspicion of the Soviet officials was aroueed
by a request on the part of the German scientists that the PWs be allowed to
celebrate Christmas with them, The P camp was immediately enclosed in a
double fence of barbed wire, and the number of guards was increased.. These
rigorous measures made encounter of the PWs with the German families impossible
except for very rare instances when great risk was taken. '
7- Although there are only about 40 scientists and engineers here, the settlement
numbere from 80 to 100, because some families followed the technicians to the
USSR, The families are quartered in two villa-hike buildings several stories
high. There is a Soviet house manager in each building who is responsible for
the supervision of the Germans in his building, aouth of the houses occupied
by the Germans, on a small road leading to the main highway, is another villa
occupied by Soviet officers who supervise the neighboring two houses.
S. The German inhabitants of the settlement may move about freely in the general
vicinity. They enjcy an extremely good reputation with the local Soviet popula-
tion, The men are picked up each morning at 7:00 a.m. and brought back each
evening at 7:00 p,mo by two buses, -;ach bus takes about 20 mien, The men and
their families appoar to be.under strict orders not to disclose any information
concerning the technicians' work in Uorid,
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9. Payment for
theoretical
technicians
whether or
work is made according to rank and title. Doctors, probably mostly
scientists, receive 6,000 rubles a month, while engineers and
get only 3,000 rubles a month. Payment is made regardless of
not the mien have families.
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nning, the z~oviets did not give the Germans a work contract, nor did
them of their length of stay in the USSR. Men one seientiat
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villas for
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