WARSHIPS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT THE BALTIC SHIPYARD IN LENINGRAD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R011100020010-9
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad (Yolast )
SUBJECT 1''arships Under Construction at the Baltic
Shipyard in Leningrad
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1, Concrete trorlk on slip A :;a? coupleted E urine; the period., from Jul,;, 1949 to
Decer..er~ 19)49 Three launching ways were canstrucued. T 1,e r planki.rll; consisted
of two layers o4 oat:. the upper la cer ,was built of 10 parallel lan'ks, each
about 150 rm r:'ide, vhe total width being; approxiriately 1.5 to 2 neters,> (1)
2. The reraaixider of a battleship which laar on slip A had a flat bottom and. was
sealed off by wooden ; oards toward the stern. Its outer plating bulged outward
cols: iderably . Two cylindrical, circular bulges, wall thickness about 10 to
12 nm, were connected on the inside with the skin plating; in a -'rare-like
manner about 2 . titers apart. A double bottom extended between the to er edges
of the ;;linters. Its height was vaguely estir.tated by source at between 100
and 300 rail, The wall thickness of the inner bottom was considerably smaller,.
A flat deck, 110 to 10 mm thick, extended between the upper edges of the blistetu.
Relatively strong walls were fitted on the two sides. Above the blister s, the
ships sides =i,~ere flared s_.ightly. Two other decks, about 2 meters apart,
ware fitted above the thick deck, They were 15 ran thick., The upper one was the
upper dock n)" the shin. The total height was estimated at between 6 and 7 meteres?
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The r.3lolrr ship was ~i_1 on the slip x? 19146.
Its forward and after section
were broken off in late 1911;8 or early 1949. The original stern was not noir.ter1
and did overhang rloticea:,ly, , Tlo reconstruction was observed ti is 7 December
1949; however, :stocks S or the bo1' section were prepared, and'; finished coi;',i)~non 1:
were ke;-)t ready,
1, newly 'built ci wiser left the western Slip a few lours earlier than scheduled
on Revolution Day in 1910. M he was later lying beside -h .e eastern slip alor;gskll e
the outfitting quay Fou or six Tie:ev'r guns were seen being installed when
source was doing repair :.ork to the quay in August and yep ter:ber 19!:9,, The
barrels of the ^u. were :bout t to 10 r.;etern long and had t :o barr'e1-jact;et
fitted iw"ith screw wedge breech blocks. 'heir caliber zrc.s
172 n r... Gun platform and fire control positions were cnr,:t)letely asser:rble;d m.-ld
had a ,- at-ing of red lead in Decor-l; ;r 1.9119, (3)
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included a lame n~: ?er of small ve s se_s e the cruiser rI-rra' 3a mss'';? cu a,r.
ly largo ship,, alle,-edly a danagod foxri er German vessel, it turrets of
which the stumps of blasted heavy guns could : till be 'seen` i,uetu~f~r and
the new _ -.built crui se_r,>
6Q The Luetzow was permanently moored at the quay and was be,z anriibalized?
Her :each nery and interior f itting? were taken, to the sto?:- _'um or,.
Yossaya st'reet, Source ttieeu ht that the ship was eventual o~cen lip. '11-le
25X1 name Luc: Mow was mentioawct by ^ naval veterans (14)
.70 /i s}-ii,:, `1v ChapayeSi ;. w:s put into coinnission and ,s.;ubsequ:, p oc `.;de to Wiest
in the .,all
N in ?u2.: It012n,eC: on platforms were sea n on aship In CQL^: '..nY1Y`{.,r, DP; CAC
the qua;;r_, and on other eoi::,issioned vessels? In ga drill. :e," r:?ov in such
a manner as though to counterbalance the motions of thn s:.i in They
were mounted fairly hi h above the deck and d.ivoted on trnnn.ons0 (5;
9. Twin gu is were also kept ready beside the quay' for installation I.Y. the cr'uhse.r
being outfitted 0 This s !i2 had two super ix::posed triple turrets at Gnc end &nd
one triple turret at the others the runs "-ad a caliber of
between 150 and 180 rn0 (c,)
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(1) Ye cont~ e'ion us slip A is I_noti.n from previous is crmatiot:
(2) The ink aria io . concernin the struc''.ur?al data of the battleship was received
for the first tine, The data indicate that the undert-. to protection is
similar to that of the Italian 35,000--1tnn battle shits of the Littorio Class-
The height of the double bottom is balievod to he underest,inatP ccn?sideraUitr
and will most, proba'hly be 1,,2 or 1.5