VOLODARY AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007200450011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2009
• Sequence Number: 11
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2009/03/12 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007200450011-8
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CLASSIFICATION Si ll FICIAL5 ONLY
. CENTRAL I LLIGENCE A REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Gorki Oblast)
SUBJECT Volodary Airfield
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 24 April
~_ NO. OF PAGES I
NO. OF ENCLS.
(U$T'ED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1:; The airfield, north of Voloc3s '43oi_0`1E/56?i4'1I4)s, G,~rrki Obla tr,
and the railroad line to _Qorki (56-2ON, I-O(% extended
about S;12OO feet N-S and about lO~OOO feet B_W;,
2;:. EM q .uarters, officers9 billets; and administration buildings
ere in the southern section of the field extending along tb e.
railroad line,., There were no runways or hangars,;
3:; The fie ld was ^,ccupied by single-engine fighters with in-line
engine with which individual and fc rnation flights and .also
individual night flights were made, According to observations,
a fighter training school was there,,
4,: The field was occupied by jet aircraft for the first time
in the Fall of 1947,
Descriptionv Air intake aperture in nose, air exhaust set step-
wise below trailing edge of wings a landing gear retracting In?-
ward
On seeing aircraft charts source identified the observed jet
aircraft as Yak-15s.
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