GORUBSO MINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012300150008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDY-4TIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Gorubso mines
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1. The headquarters of the Third. Directorate of the Gorubso Mining Eriteeirlse.vere
located in Madan village, Smolyan district. The directorate manager was a
certain Mikhailovits, a 38-year-old Soviet engineer who was tell, blond, and
blues-eyed; he was married and lived with his wife and child in Madan. A certain
Gramadnikov, a Bulgarian engineer, was the assistant manager of the directorat4e,
2. There were about 10 Soviet technicians employed at Madan in addition to the
Bulgarian employees.
3. The following mines were under the supervision of the Third Directorate:
a,, Sharenka, about three kilometers west of Madan;
b. Vurba,, about five kilometers west of Madan;
c. Spolnika; and
d. At an unidentified location.
4. A newly-opened shaft near Sharenka had the following installations:
a A mine car track which leads to the entrance of the horizontal shaft of
the mine and extends about .150 meters into the main tunnel and about 30
meters into the lateral tunnel of the mine;
b, Three air compressors of British manufacture;
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Pipes conveying compressed air to, the drills;
Water pumps) and
Electric lights.
In August 1951, the Sharenka mine had only one lateral tum 1, about 30 meters
long; the tunnel was. later abandoned. The main tunnel was worked by three
shifts of 40 men each, Ore was being excavated from four points along the
main, tunnel..
ore at the Sharenka n3.n was loosened with four drills, then loaded on mine
cars and transported by the mineas Soviet-made OHP 30-horsepower tracctor. The
tractor pulled three cars each trip; each car held about 1,000 kilograms of
ore. The output of the mine was about 25 tons of ore every eight hours. The
transported to Madan by truck.
7. The Georgi Dimitrov Foundry in Kurdzhal,i employed about 500 workers. An un-
identified Soviet engineer was the foundry mamager; there were also various
Soviet technicians. employed by the foundry, among whom was a certain
Zelezbarov, an electrical engineer.
86, Road.maintatnence in the mine area is under the supervision of the Government
Construction Enterprise of Sofia. In the summer of 1951, the following roaFs
were completed,
Pechinsko-Borieva, a distance of about five kilometers;
b.. Borieva-Petrovtsi, a distance of about three kilometers; and
c. Pechinsko-Boevo, a distance of about three kilometers.
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