PULKOVO AIRFIELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010200150002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad)
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Pulkovo Airfield
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1. The civilian airfield, about 6,600-foot square, was about 10 miles from
the town center of LENINGRAD, Leningrad Oblast, west of the road to
KRASNOGWARDEISK, north of the Pulkovo Hills and about a mile southwest
of a double overpass crossing the main road. There was an E-,,' runway,
about 160x5,000 feet. Concrete parking sites and approach roads, a
large flight control station,?repair shops, etc., were also available.
2. Boundary lights of the runway: A single insulated electric about
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40 mm in diameter, without armor, was being laid in a 32 l ,
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runway. Connections branched off from the cable at intervals of about
130 feet. The lamps were not connected. For night take-offs red and
green lamps had been installed in a makeshift way.
3. The airfield personnel, excluding the administration in the Aeroport
building, numbered about 40 civilians.
4. The airfield was permanently occupied by 10 to 12 twin-engine commer-
cial planes, some of which had a nose wheel. No military aircraft were
seen.
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