CITY OF LENINAKAU

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The city of Loninakan i,s; built on rather hard ground. There are wheat and
barle7 Tiolds in the level ground around the city, but there is also much
barroa greunE,
Tho citY, which vas not affected by WorlA War II, is built in the old style
of architecture. her has leen no recent change in the basic city plan.
There aro ol(t towers in the southern part of the city and a church in the
center of the ciy, The city has grown in an irregular manuev, not according
to any :plan. Tha ptreets are straight and wide and are electrically lighted.
Three or foux motor ears can pass at a time in the streets, .The numbers of
the steets are rritton in white on :late s of black sheet iron which are
fixed at the str,Let heads. On one FAde Jf the street houses bear even nuMbers
ana OA the otsx zidc boar oda nupbers, GorkAva, Tivehenka, Uskin, Flekhonovr
Lenin and 5talin aro the Izilci-oal streets.
The buildings ved as residences are generally one -storied, The buildings
tb- center of the city .vhiLL are used as government demartments, bankn,
instit-ates. hotels, clu7es, and theaters are two-eteried. PAe State buildings
do not have ay cheracterie;ie style,. The barreels of the 261st Infantry
which f.e just, outside tho city. also is two-storiad. There are few
ldit in Len'unbuilt aT biness of flats. The roofs are generally
COVOV3f1 thtfle:. In El?vlYtion, there arc nu6.-covered houses such as the ones
fl -1 1.rzurun, Tarkey. The buildings are generally rray,
4. Tho poprO,at'5,on the tAy ls 85-90 -)ercent Armenian. The rl are few Russiaps
and G.orgianc. Tliuusands workers who came to 'cork at the textile facto
hero 'ncressed the pooulation. The Amienianc who migrated lo F071Gi.; ATMCPLI
'7TOM carn:,ri% alzo ::xicLf_lz to -.,-,Julation. There are Tar;-er.
21=f ..d31)7,n, r,aC 011.o7r (xcl:ps. he An'Ionians belong to the Oritodox
byt '71'51 of anothe:: s3et anong 7,113M ;:ho do not fax;
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?,),, 777a5 cal,..i.- railtmy station is in the Bouthern part al' the citT and is knour
as tho Laala'==.1 station. The froieht yarda nre roar the main bullan.E.,
There arca. aant 12 :U..nes. The station is two-storied and 1.411tewasbati? Z:a
till) naw liaas, 14,-.A. tite statloaa are laGili:; cf brie,: ..ure,. painted white-,
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6, Leninekan Is ceneectod with Tbilisi, Yerevan, and Ears by main rail 'ince.
It in aleo eonneeted with Agtik by a secondary line 30 kilometers loner
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SLOE :.o Going to thezo cities arc eingle tracked. Two passenger trine
pass throlegh Leninakan daily, running between Thiliei and Yerevan. There
nre a 'gaw taint weekly to and from Zars, Turkey. Teo passenger tr:ains
run delly to end from Artik, one in the morning and one In the evening.
Also five or sin freight trains pass through the station. The trains are
run byeteve enenes.
7, There le a lailitery airfield 5-6 lee, southwest of the city.
Er There eue boxes running from the station to the center of the city and from
the eenter of the eity to Mar'alik (30 kne. south). The brews accommodate
20 - persons. They are yellow aad red, but the part covering the engiee
is alureve painted dark green. The fare between the center of the city at
the etatton Ss 50 kopekv. Soldiers in uniform do not travel Zree. There
are also tamisch 8:78 painted dark green.
The eite milltia han only normal police functiener It regulates traffic
and eeleetoine orier irmide the city.
.Or The ericee are fleed by tho state. There io no local price-fixitg. Goods
gech Ra radios and sugar, which are produced in general by the State ad are
under State mozepely, are Bold at the same prlcee all over the Soviet Unien.
Yor eemeole, uneer is 13 rubies in Lentnekna and tn Moscow as well. The
reeicea of foodetizZfe whiCh aro not under State monopoly but are produced by
the peivete indIridualo vagy in accordance with local conditions. Zvery leeed
of coneneer gooe exints IA the cooperative and government stores. As the
people ko.re no eeee?eazine eapacity, there in no black market at orasent.
:Oueiseo the wsr, teaanse nothiree weld be obtained from the cooperatives, there
did.exeet a blaek market. he pare:hosing capacity of the poprlation of eaeh
cetw 12 te1eon ie,eo corsideratica wIreen connueer ieoode are distributed to the
coopeza`Avcs. geesre are no mite of very good quality at the stores in Lenina7ere
beosaeo ne. ono 9.st LaniAnx could afford to wear wac7a a mit. In Hoecow i.there
EO veey geod melts in the storee, because there Are onoy persons in that oity
rho deees well.
11. The 71v:elation of Loninakeu le employed in the textile factory, the clans
faetie the ment combines, and in varioum trades.' The workers are free to
look Zoa? WO.rk. nvery Soviet citizen who reaches working age applies to the
fat' or inotttuto which neodo laborer* and has published notices to this
effect. El) fillu a form and starts to work immediately; that is all the
forsslity required. It is very difficult to trensfer to another factory while
werking
at one faotory. There are special laws about laborero. laborer, on
beccmine; ill, lo eenb to a doctor. IZ Ms ailment forbide his working, he ob-
tains hie medietw and. takes a rest of the requieed length. EA receiver, hi*
full seeees duriee thie period of rest, is given an increazed diet, and TeteAT103
fooemteffe free of charge.
12, A pepsr eallod .7.seete pUbliehed in Armenian in Leninakan. Thera is nv
Daerian paper 1..e. the city.
There arc public: loudepeakers in parks and ovares in Leninaken. LoweTc3r
vidralc can hsve their own receivers, which can be perchased for cash
withoot caapone. Ownerehip of private receivero in not eebjeot to any
reseriettons. ;):ew types of radios have been marefactured in Soviet to
facion elnee the war, including the fallowing types Rekev, Eabedo, Stleel.tt
and. Pionarka. 'en, addition, radios and other commodities, such as clothing
furniture, at-
tees brought by soldiers and officere from *rope= coontriee efter
Wor:i.d.Wer II and have net been collected by the government yone poesoseine
a redio eet San listen to forei tations and fin theogy it '3 not ferbliYoll to
do but insiividuale are 70Ty mach afraid to de so. I
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tW4 simple 1o'sd2salcera contacted with a lino whIdh pauses to the atreet. Zs.
thic ;the on3y broadcast that can te?heard ia that Provided by the contra
radiQ vtatica. At olacce Where there is no electricity, radios are run 4
batterile. Dry batteries are sold 17 electric elope for money without doeJment
Umnplcto spare c-Ifainment, earPhonel, and tubas Thr a radio can be secured from
hcpi.7hron young radio amatimrs build small receivers.
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in CA Llatitate a music and a technical Institut* in Leninakan. There lc an
ATIrwuian theater, a Znasien theater, and two cinemas. The Russian theater is
at no disposal e the A.rmF. Yootball and other sports are played for recreatio
are AO RT177 UctitS inside the city of Leninaknn.
Pway for the city of Lealnalcan is vapraled from the hydro-electric station.
As tho city has much :cower, the neighboring villages and factories also receive
their olectrlI mercy from tills slhltion, There are central trunaformere. The
currcnt', le or:plied constantly, 24 hours a da nand is 220 volts in the center
of tho city and p1147,;ht1y hialer in the neighboring houses.
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