GROUPS OF GERMAN SCIENTISTS IN THE USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Living and t-,orkiv Conditions of Leuna Fersonnel
in Dzerzhinsk from
1. tilthough a few Leuna scientists live in the hotel in Igumnovo (approximately
560161N - 43?35), the majority of them live in a large newly built, (1?47)
block of small flats in Dzerzhinsk (56015% - 43?24'0 -
2., The following scientis.te are known to be living at these addresses in the
large block in Dzerzhin,k:
3, who suffered from-gall-trouble, was offered a six weeks, cure
on the black Sea, Fearing that he might not return, he refused the offer,
4., The scientists receive from 5000 to 9000 rubles a month, whereas Soviet
workers pet an average of only 300 rubles a month. The food situation
has imlroved; food is obtainable on the free market. Textiles and clothes
are very expensive o
.5~ Beginning in 1949, the scientists, children have been going to a Soviet
school, where they are required to learn.Fiussian:.
6. All scientists in the Dzerzhinsk area are allowed to move about freely
and often use the Dzerzhinsk-Igurnovo train to get to their place of
work. '4henever the political situation is tenser however, (e.g, at the
time of the Berlin crisis or the Four--Power Conference) the scientists
are escorted by armed guards wherever they go.,
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7. Airmail letters from Austria to Dzerzhinsk take an average of-15-25 days,
Often a month's mail is accumulated before it is delivered to the scientists.
A telegram from Austria to Dzerzhinsk and return takes 36 hours,
8? When the Leuna Werke machinery was being unloaded at Zavodstroi, the Leuna
scientists #ho 'were standing by were dismayed by the state in which the
machinery arrived. They estimated that it would take at least 5 years to
reconstruct the plant as it had been in Germany,., Part of the machinery
was to be installed at Zavod Yava,
Launa personnel in Dzerzhineka, prinP_lq
All Leuna personnel employed in the Uzerzhinsk area in the spring of 1947
were allowed to move about freely and frequently went to Gorki by train,
10.: On a Sunday in the beginning of 1947 two young engineers25X1
decided to visit their colleagues in oscowe They intended to go by train
and return the same day. Upon arriving in b.oscow, however, they were arrested
and promptly escorted back to Dzerzhinak..
11.. E.a a result of this incident, none of the scientists was even allowed to
go as far as Gorki without special permission.
German Scientists in the Voroshilovgrad Area. April .o..
12. A group of German chemists and engineers (not Leuna personnel) are
employed a fet kilometers from Lis-Khimstroi?Lisichansk?in the Voroshilov-
grad area.(48 34'N - 39?20'E)e
13, They frequently come in contact with the small group of Leuna specialists
working at Lis-Khimstroi.*
This is btably the correct name for the 'fLichinstroi" referred to
paragraph 1. .
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