NAVAL VESSELS AT LENINGRAD AND KRONSHTADT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200170010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Baltic)
SUBJECT Naval Vessels at Leningrad and Kronahtadt NO. OF PAGES .2
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, W I T H I N THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 193
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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Leningrad
I f,]Lowing vessels at the Bal.tiyskiy Zavod shipyard:
as A cruiser on the west building ways, It was equipped with four triple
turrets, which were being installed Other outfitting work was also
in progress. The cruiser appeared to be ready for early launching.
b. A cruiser under construction on the center. building ways. The frame
had been erected and installation of the plates was in progress
but had not yet reached deck height.
c. On the east building ways no work was in progress. The ways were
completely empty. -
d. The O abrskaya Revolutsiya was undergoing repairs by the equipment
wharf, together with another very large hull, which may possibly
have been the ex Martt, (sic).
2.. Along the wharf on the south side of the Marti shipyard a newly-constructed
unpainted ship, which may possibly have been a large destroyer, was
undergoing fitting. The ship apparently had, been launched quite recently,
and the turrets were not yet installed.
No ships under construction could be observed at the Zhdanov shipyard.
Kronshtadt,
A destroyer, marked 1739 was moored to the wharf. The forecastle deck
terminated with a sheer amidships. In other respects the ship was of the
usual type.
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NAVY
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DATE DISTR. 8 August 1952
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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50 A destroyer
was observed under way outside Kronshtadto It was
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new: -built and hacdt a m
ern appearance and a straight deck line
It moved through the newly-formed ice without
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difficulty and at a good spe
ed, while the ordinary ice breakers had some
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trouble in making their way. Both destroyers had two smokestacks, of which
the forward one was somewhat larger and taller than the after. Both had
tripod masts forward of the smokestacks,
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