OBSERVATIONS AT THE FORMER LAVROVSKI MONASTERY IN KIEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007200660003-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2009
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• Content Type: REPORT

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1, The former Lavrovski ' onastei;r was in .Kiev (50023111-/300301E)., west of the
Dnepr River, One build-;.n[: in the cloister was still occupied b.- ranks but
one of the old: cloister buil 'ns v--as i eiw recond-11
ti nec<
USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
Observations at the Former Lavrovski
Ironastery in t?'i li-A F R 1' n I-
this building bras completed.
in October 49 Its equipment with uniucn-
tifi' d, .Machinery was complete(. in early 19t 9, arad since about th. same tine
the r:cchiner; installed there had been in use. :;ext to this reconditioned
building construction work was bet.;un on two new buiidints in 1949, but
these i;uildin,s were not yet eor.:pl.etec: in Novcrbaor 19t-.9,
20 V o rocondi t? ? nos: :111 a Z C ng rrns .a tv o-etory Z r c': s truc t:2.re, i is su1C Lr'ii^. 35 x -
j r.Iotcrs, covore tr.i vac a t,a. is rov. ::,..,..c of sheet T.io lar2.c rooms J1
equal tiiz ? were T15'i.7~1eL :in trio baseuent Marc: on tI':o two 1loorsm The co lings
were supported by two reinforced concrutc pillars and reinforces?. by T-?:?irders
3.
The installation of i.oundctiol"s for machinery war, not notes
the workers who loft this reconditioned building were al-
ways covered with black dust, possibly graphite dust.
The labor detail employed at the cloister gent by the name "building site
Lavra 33", -rork was done day and night in
the reconditioned building after early 19b9, The work force was composed
mostly of youn r men from 10 to 20 ;ears old, *
Corrr:.ent. The data on the location and layout of this test station agree
with an earlier report. a Fron the two reports, it is inferred
that the=-. installation n r be a physical research laboratory for the testing
of metals arc rrtificia7.::,ateriais. The statement 'that the workers leaving
the reconditioned building were covered with black dust may be esplainPd by
their being assigned to hardening; or sintoring work. Atomic or bacteriological
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