YABLONKA OIL FOELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007000740015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS DOCULt MIT #ONTA!HS INFORLIAT!O:'I AFFE'.:TIHG THF. '4ATIOHAL DEFENSE
Ot' THE U141TED 5TATES. 931TH!N THE HEARIF'.C OC TITLE 18, SECTIONS 798
ADD 794. OF THE 13, S, CODE. AS A0U1 DFO ITS TRANS1155ION OR REVEL-
ATIOH OF ITS COUTEHTS TO OR RECS P: BY AH URAUTHORIZED PERSON
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THIS IS UNEVALUATEc) INFORMATION,
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:1.;, C-n the xy_ i~t N7:_2, of tie ' olga River, about 71) lo' abcre iiuibyy:isev
~o0 9Z ) there ,'ss a:i oil f_eld opposite Stavropol (13o31ai~/190 1JA a.yd near
the smell vii 1-a,e of Yoblonka a few kilor.:oters wos`c )f 'Odi,aslmnoyreo oil
'o1d was 1 w e and about 35 to 1 ) k1:; !on,,., and its narrow side ad joinec.
the river. The center of the oil f ]-old., built, up t ?1nsely with eicrrici:,s, ccierec1
only a f v, .sgiiaree :ilo.seters. Other drilling; sit(,,- "::ere midel.y scattered,
2 '.:'his oil. :['field was an old one hich, ho-,:ever, was :,,.ploitad full-.only af -, ~rthe
rraro At the close of the aar eight wooden de,rric? , 3:) to 35 meters high, s{,.ood
on t re o .,.l fie-.6. `bou.t 10 to 12 derricks were c 1.nted IM 1916, about 35 it
1.9!,7, < o'IJt 0 in limn, and as many as 75 or 0 iirilli ng o'e.rat?.o is
tore bC i n- non !cued,, A very small number of ti'." C r 11 _ilt; and. producing ci ; icks
in operation in :ay l ;0 were old wooden atructi-:,us , 2to 35 i.eters high- r^ost
of these (;:crri cks were up-to-date steel s tructu c:s of varj?inr; !eigh'lts, r. tly 25
to 30 meters
3, _"re wells were connected to several groups of 'sus by urm-_erous Urancl. pipe lines,
:3o ue of tse branch ige linosp after passim. frx a (gh these tanks, b-,, into
t.a ::ens l y Yl a on E 7 Cl a wharf in the river , 17111: others ran. into a large twin
p oe line ggoin,: to KU.i'u shev and dyzran. Tiie )ipe line system was o aerated by
c^. `~TI.'"?lixl : station 17itu intermediate stations, inumber of tank J r, the oil
fi ld roper incr-3a sed from 4--6 to about L',-2(., -ir c'ia_:Teter ?,. s enerally
Stated to be 2v m tors, but estimates of their hei ,; tt ranged Lc.':reen 1.0 and 15
m,et.ers 0 !'t the e.xi of t-:e pipe line at the r:-cer =l ro both ti,, 6111. stations
r-i SS tidi'.%. a `': )w'~~'"... try' of h.,500 irutrlc toils
for the Y:, ri: rs and ab ut 15 storage to
and over,
7 ^_ the Ct; e o' he T .olC.. was an oil-filters n mac?::t Z th a 1 so-' _s.ne??sc Sara.tin
Karin , '.1 c 11_at on for the oil field' s own .re ire,;its a. loo Len and
#e- .'_ ilic i)f.?Y' of -f U"t7.i1L' "tie .~y eStl
?tC:G at Zb)'~?:, 21 to j'Je aC'L?j.SP.r wold9 1-ere