THE CITY OF RUSE; INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONSTRANSPORT THE RUSE-GIURGIU BRIDGE HOSPITALS AND PERSONALITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL.:1NTELLI?GENC:E AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 a $ 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person Is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form in prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT The City of Ruse: Industrial
Installations, Transport, the
Ruse-Giurgiu Bridge,.. Hospitals,
and Personalit1ee
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 20 March 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3.
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. 'The city of Ruse now has almost 80,000 inhabitants as compared with about 60?000
in 1945.1 The increase is principally due to the influx of country people from
the surrounding villages in response to the labor shortage in Ruse.
Industrial Installations
The city of Ruse has about 60 industrial undertakings which are described in the
following paragraphs,
The Georgi Dimitrov (formerly Muelhaupt) Works concentrates on the production of
various. agricultural machines (exbept combines), It also produces steel pipes,.
steel mill wheels, and cylinder heads for engines, and repairs diesel and steam
engines, The plant has a foundry 'with blast furnaces making a special malleable
cast iron and is well-supplied with machinery, One thousand men working in two
shifts are employed in, the plant, and it is intended to raise the number of em-
ployees to 5,000, Two years ago a school for lathe operators, mechanics, and
foundry workers was attached to this plant.
The D.I.P, ttZhiti" (A1rzhavno Industrialno Predpriyatie "Zhiti" - State Industrial
Enterprise "Zhiti")2 is situated on' the Byala highway about two kilometers from
Ruse. Its chief products are wire, nails, wire netting, screws, and bolts for
fastening rails to railroad ties. The plant also makes zinc white and red lead
for the manufacture of paint and various glazes for earthware crockery.. About
500 men are employed in three shifts.
The Bela Piakova woz+ks (formerly Postoyanstvo), one of,the largest cotton mills
in Bulgaria, is situated not.far from the Georgi Dimitrov Works, There are about
500 or 600 looms in the plant, a dyeing and dressing department, but no spinning
mill. The factory makes tents and khaki summer uniforms for the army. There are
about 1,000 workers employed, including 900 women. The factory operates in three
shifts.
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6. The Yuta sack factory is located 200 meters from the Zhiti plant. It was origin-
ally Austrian property which was seized by the Soviets and sold to the Bulgarian
Government in April 1952. A speciality of this'factory is the production of can-
vas sacks for the Ruse sugar refinery. About 400 to 500 men are employed in three
shifts.
7. The Gavril Genov Works (formerly Iskovich and Levi) are located opposite the
Zhiti plant. The factory makes Bakelite paints, lacquers, shoe polish, and cellu-
lose paints, as well as boxes for their own goods. These works possess automatic
machinery for the production of tin boxes, printing presses for stone and zinc
plate processes, 100-ton powered rollers, a well-equipped laboratory, a repair
workshop with lathes, and drilling machinery.
There is a large leather factory, formerly named Penko Popov, near the port on
the road to Sredna Kula village (formerly Sreden Chiflik, N 43-48, R 25-57). About
500 men are employed in three shifts.
The Trud factory produces fireproof brick and good quality tiles.
10. There are three flour mills in Ruse:
a. Mitiev (former name), with 400 horsepower diesel engines;
b, Kalnie (former name), with 150 horsepower diesel engines;.and
c. Shulian (former name), with 100 horsepower diesel engines.
11, Other goods made in Ruse include canned food, refined sugar,; and natural silk.
Transport
12. Thy. 'Crektiya. ?ailroad locomotive and car repair shops employ about 1,000 men.
13. The rails of the Sofia - Gorna Oryakhovitsa - Ruse railway line are to be replaced
with 20-meter rails.
14. There are dockyards for repairing the Danube River boats and tugs on the aide
of the port which is open to the public.
15. In March 1952, on the eve of its relaunching ceremony, the passenger vessel
VULKO CBE'RVBNKOV, which had been sunk during World War II and later repaired at
a cost of a million old Lava, was set on fire by an act of sabotage. Two hundred
workers were arrested as a result of this and are still in jail. Repairs on the
ship have begun again.
16. There is a ferry service between Ruse and Giurgiu four or five times during the
day as well as frequent crossings at night. The ferry boat has three pairs of
rail tracks and can take a total of 18 railroad cars. The cars arrive empty from
Rumania and return filled, generally with grain from Bulgaria,
The Ruse Giurgiu Bridge
17. In July or August 1952, work was begun on an old project, a bridge to connect Ruse
and Giurgiu. The bridge will be about two kilometers east of the sugar refinery,
near the Trud brick factory and Lovdzhiyski (Hunters') Park. The concrete founda-
tions for the pillars have already been laid on both sides of the Danube. The
work is being carried out under the direction of a number of Soviet experts who
are aoxm moda ted in hotels, and the project offices are housed in the former Chamber
of Coimerce opposite the Post Office, with some additional space in the sugar re-
finery. Two Mann buses run a special 15-minute service for the workers.
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Hospitals
18, There are two hospitals.in Ruse, an old hospital not far from the barracks of the
5 Infantry Regiment on Ulitsa Stalin, and a new one on Ulitsa.Tolbukhin, near
the Sveti Georgi Cinema. }
Electric Power Transformer Station
25X1
19. In 1951 a transformer station was built for the high tension current received from
Rumania by an under-water cable The station is
about three kilometers due east of the Georgi Dimitrov Works on the Lipnik High-
way, Rumania supplies 2,000 kilowatts per hour at 6,000 volts. Subsidiary trans-
formers later break this current down to 220 volts, It is planned to standardize
electric current all over Bulgaria at 220 volts.
Miscellaneous
20. Opposite the barracks of the 5 Infantry Regiment there is a technical trade school
with sections for general engineering, electrical engineering, and flour-mill
construction.
21. All air raid shelters in Ruse were cleaned and refitted in the summer of 1951.
Personalities
22. The following personalities in Ruse 25X1
b. (fnu) Kazandzhiev,'manager'of the Georgi Dimitrov factory,\
as Miko Nisimov, manager of the Bela Piskova textile combine, 25X1
d, Viii Schvarz, Trade Union manager in Ruse, 25X1
Comments:
(fnu) Eisner, manager of State stores in Ruse, 25X1
1. Resultats Preliminaires de Recensement de la Population au 31 Decembre 146
(Sofia 1947) gives the 1946 population of the city of Ruse as 53,420.
2,
the name "Zhiti" is derived from Zhelezna Telena In-
dustria (Iron and Wire Industry).
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