PROWEHREN AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700140007-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION 5A'" "CUNTA0L - Lb AND & ITISH UFFICl '
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CEN ~v LB16 i'G"ENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
REPORT NO.
CD NO..
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25X1A
COUNTRY
US1 (Baltic)
DATE DISTR.
7 Feb. 1952
SUBJECT
Prowehren Air f ield
NO. OF PAGES
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25X1 C
DATE OF
INFO.
SUPPLEMENT TO 25X1X
REPORT NO.
1. The airfield was Located northwest of Kaliningrad,, southwestfof Promehren
(5 rts ' Ni 2C~'2`~~ `a aid was bordered by a woods on the north and east railroad
line ran along the ed=Te of the field. The former Geri:-ail elementary school, a
four-story brick building in Tanrienwalde (541145"N1/200277,,).. was used as an
officers' club; An air force headquarters was located in four other douses.
The Iornor `T'anneirvaidp estate was converted into a ration supply depot of the
air force di.visiot:7 stationed at the airy ielc_ o
2. The field hac" an fast-vnst concrete runway about 50 to 60 meters wide . Fifteen
foririer RAt) (I eich;3 Labor Service) huts were set u;~ by V s at the eastern edge
of the field? Ila ar1miny strati',n building, two fuel tanks about 43 meters lon-:
and 2 r^eters: in dl.ameter., and, siT' ammunition bunkers which had been built by
the Gorr.an wore at the field. Aircraft arraront ammunition and light
bombs were e-toroci in she bun'cors.
An air rogi%:ent aad a technical regiment of a r, air force division were stationed
at the field About 30 Soviet fighters pore soon at aircraft dispersal areas
individual and, formation flyin: with four and nine aircraft and firing at towed
air targets wore observed.. "hen the 1":i camp was closed in A.;arch 1947 the air unit
stationed at the field in ept nber 19) was still there. Four officers i ho
we a s!eros of the Soviet Union were attached to this unit.
Colonel iiuzftetscv (fnu), v io was mace a riajor ~ eneral in Tioverrber 1946, was
CO o::' the m it stationed at tih, field. He was simultaneously division coim andder
oi` V-.Ye air force amts stationed there. Political oi'iicer c? the civision wa-
Licutenant Colonel ~Vzarsk-J The officers' club was run by .".ajor :,mirnov
MO., and after 1>47 by Captain Georgiev (fnu).
The motor tr?an port comiany of the air force division *a::; quartered in the woods
between the a rf t_.;lc and the Tannenwalde settlement.
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