1. IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN THE DANUBE VALLEY 2. FACTOIRES AND COAL MINES IN THE DIMITROVGRAD AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008200610014-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2012
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
CLASS I-ILAI ION
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
DATE DISTR. 1 Ana 131
SUBJECT 1. Irrigation Projects in the Danube Valley,
2, Factories and Coal .'-'lines in the Dimitrovgrad
Area
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
TRIG DOCUEIEOT COSITAAHS INFOSWATIOII AFFSeTIITTTHS NATIONALDEPEHDE
OF THE UpfP1D IRATES WIT61U TDE WEA11118 OP THE ESPIONAOII ACT 00
1. S. C. AI AND 88. AS AMENDED. ITS TWANSSISSXON OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS COETEi NTT IN ART EARNER TO AN ONAUTHOEIEHD PEIWON IS PRO-
IIIDITED by LAV7 REPRODUCTION OP THIS FORA I9 PEO811MD.
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1. Until 1945 the total irrigated area in Bulgaria was 30,000 hectares. The
anount being irrigated at present is 130,OCO hectares. Along With construction
of the dams on the Danube, trhich are supposed to be completed in 1955, worlt is
proceeding on the project to irrigate the valley of the Danube. The irrigation
project is to be completed in 1952. The Soviet Union has sent the electric
equipment uhich t=rill be used to paver the pumping stations.
2. The first part of the irrigation project was completed in 1950, and the valley
of the Belene River, between Nikopol and Svishtov, is under irrigation. About
the end of thy 1951 a second irrigation system was put in operation northeast
of Ruse in the lower valley of the Brushlyaaska River. The area of the two
vv-s..Ueys now under irrigation is 30,000 hectares.
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Th?, state paid 2,,250,000,000. va for the irrigation systems, and the expenditure
will reportedly result in an increased annual income of 2,850,000,000 by for
the peasants of the area. The peasants of all valleys mouth of the Danube will
have an ir..creased annual income of 16,500sO001,000 lava.
a. The Vulcan cement factory which employs 800 to 1000 workers. The factory
is orked in four six hour shifts;] The wages vary between 280 and 360 leva
per day. The factory produces 806-tons of cement each dayA
coal mines are in the Dimitrovgrad area;
Dimitrovgrad has 26,000 to 28.000 in1sabitants. The following factories and
electricity.
d -) The Vulemn coal mine. which employs about 800 corkers
b. A porcelain factory,'., which employs about 500 workers.
co Iltririyno elentric power station, 'which employs about 300 or 400 roftcers?
This plan4 supplys t2omchilgrad, K.rurovgrad, Kurdzhalie, and Ziatograd with
The r eager of the factory is Angel Pilchev,
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wage of the workers is 420 to 650 levy each day.
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e. ~ Mariyno coal mine, which employs between 300 to 400 workers.
f. )Novi Rudnitsi coal mine, three kilometers east of 2,5ariyno, which
employs 200 to 300 workers. C,
Nadezhda coal mine, which employs 300 workers.
h. Iierichleri coal mine, which employs 400 workers.
5. By December 1951 a nitrate factory for the production of fertilizer was to
be completed east of the Rakov ettlement in the Dimitrovgrad area. The
factory will produce 80,000 tons'--bf fertilizer.
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