SOVIET TROOPS AND SUPPLY INSTALLATIONS IN THE SOUTH URAL MILITARY DISTRICT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2011
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• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (South Urals)
SUBJECT Soviet Troops and Supply Installations in tho
South Ural Military District
DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 6 February 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Attached is a report on Soviet troops and supply installations, in the South
Ural Military District.
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 Alkino, about
30 km west-
southwest of
Ufa (%443N,
56-OOE).
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Soviet Troops in the South Ural ND
Installation
Location
Occupation
Low barracks
buildings, tents,
one classroom
building, one
mess building,
one motor vehicle
repair shop of
several brick
buildings, officers
billets, and an
athletic field; all
provided with a
railroad spur.
Both units
were subordinate
to the headquarters
of an MVD division
in Ufa, and were
transferred to
Oktyabrsk 54-2 N
53-23E).
an advance
party of a tank unit
moved into the motor
vehicle repair shop
building.
_~the tent
camp quartered an
infantry unit of
about )400 men who
were armed with
submachine guns and
mortars. They con-
ducted field exer-
cises in which six
tanks occasionally
participated. The
tanks were stationed
in Alkino.
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Just north of Housing for an
the Ufa-Chish- MVD school of
my (5h-33N, 150 officers and
55-25E) rail- NCOs, and a re-
road line, pair shop company
Remarks
A drill field was lo-
cated north of the
billeting area.
 -.Chelyabinsk
(55-loN,
61-2bE).
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1... Barracks..in-
stallation of
several large
brick buildings
and garages.
2. Barracks in-
stallation con-
sisting of two
three-story build-
ings, several small
brick buildings,
stables, and gara-
ges surrounded by
a board fence.
1. Tank parking
lot, surrounded
by a barbed-wire
fence.
-In -a wooded Occupied .by a tank
area about unit of 700 to 800
six ka north- men. Some armored
east of the vehicles leaving
city. the woods were ob-
served from a
distance.
East of the Occupied by 300 to
city and south 350 troops vies more
of Kirovskiy red epaulets and
Plant. black epaulets with
tank insignia. The
unit was apparently
assigned to guard
duty at the plant
and dispatched
newly mundactured
tanks.
On the south- From 50 to 60 tanks Young soldiers wearing
western peri- and 12 SP guns, cow- gold bordered black
meter of the ered with canvas, epaulets with tank in-
city. were parked there. signia were repeatedly
No troops other than saes in the city.
sentries were seen
there. they bell to a
tank school there.
Wooded area Throughout the
southwest of summar of 191,8,
the city. soldiers with tank
insignia were break-
ing in newly manufac-
tured tanks which,
according to the
soldiers, came from
the Kirovskiy Tank
Plant. The tanks bore
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a toothed -wheel,
the size of a plate,
with an embossed
KAZ plant mark.
The tanks had an
estimated speed of
50 km per hour and
seemed to be larger
than the German
Tiger tank. They
.had bogie wheels,
track-supporting
rollers, and tracks,
about 60 cm wide,
which were pro-
tected by armored
plates. The tank
hulls were smooth
and the turrets
conspicuously flat.
The tanks mounted a
very long 70 to 80
mm gun with muzzle
brake and, according
to the noise of the
motor, were Diesel-
driven.
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an A military hospital 50X1-HUM
1. Tank training Wooded area
grounds. southwest of
the city.
increasing number of was located at about
T-3I tanks, both with the southwestern exit
and without muzzle of the city. 50X1-HUM
brakes, were seen
moving toward the tank
training area along a
road on the northern
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2. Fuel depot
with railroad
spur, consisting
of one guardhouse,
one administration
building, four raw
brick buildings,
and one small wooden
shed surrounded by
a board fence with
barbed wire, about
two meters high.
On the edge
of a woods at
the eastern
border of the
tank training
area.
perimeter of the
training area. A
heavy SF gun ob-
served at the field
had a rigid super-
structure with steep
walls opening to the
rear and the top. It
mounted a gun of about
150 mm which did not
project beyond the bow
of the vehicle and
carried no muzzle brake.
The depot area measured
about 800 x 1,000
meters. From 12 to
15 fuel containers,
each about 15 meters?
high and 8 to 10
meters in diameter,
stood in the eastern
section of the depot.
The fuel was shipped
in by rail and pumped
into the containers
through surface pipe
lines. Military and
civilian motor ve-
hicles lined up in
front of the contain-
ers most of the time,
awaiting their turn
for fueling. Soviet
officers were at all
times seen in the in-
stallation.
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Magnitogorsk
(53-27N,
59-04E).
Former PW hospital
converted into a
barracks instal-
lation, consisting
of low wooden bar-
racks, brick build-
ings, administration
buildings, garages,
workshops, bakery,
and officers'
billets; all sur-
rounded by a wire
fence.
Near the
village of
Platina at
an almost
completed
railroad line,
about 600 me-
ters southeast
of the-dam
southwest of
the city.
Prior to the
arrival of troops
the installation was
inspected by a gen-
eral from Magnito-
gorsk.
an AAA unit of
about 40 officers
and 750 men, in-
cluding200 re
cruits, arrived
aboard, three trains
from the direction
of Magnitogorsk.
The troops moved
into the former PW
quarters and.tents.
They were commanded
by a major..
The unit was equip-
ped with 40 heavy
AA guns of about,100
mm which were parked
at two places outside
the billeting area
and were towed by
about 40 three-axle
trucks of uniform
type. Another 20 to
30 trucks, several
ambulances, field
kitchens, tank trucks,
etc .,were parked near
the tent camp. Further-
more several passenger
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those troops stay- 50X1-HUM
ing in tents were
later also moved into
the former PN quarters.
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August 1949.
Military camp con- About 600
sis.ting of low meters south-
wooden barracks, east of the
utilities build- dam, on both
ings, and tents. banks of the
Ural-El River.
Stayed in Military camp con- Near the
the PW camp sisting of low small village
opposite the wooden barracks of Platina,
military in- and tents. about 600
stallation. meters southeast
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cars and motor-
cycles were seen
there.
The troops were
daily engaged in
infantry training.
Some of the trained
personnel left the
installation daily
for the. construction
of field fortifi-
cations near the dam.
They took tree
trunks, eight to ten
meters long, with
them. There was no
firing practice with
live ammunition.
Occupied by an AAA
unit of about 500
troops, about one-
third of whom were
recruits. About
ten heavy canvas-
covered AA guns.,
six to eight large
searchlights, and
one range finder,
about two meters
long, were observed.
Occupied by an AAA
unit of about 800
men with 25 to 30
AA guns of 80 to
100 mm and about as
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observed 50X1-HUM
the arrival there of
an AAA unit of about
150 troops with sev-
eral heavy AA guns
and 50X1-HUM
stated that the troops
were temporarily ac-
cQmodated in tents.
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of the dam, on many trucks, which
both banks of had arrived by rail
the Ural-E1 and
River. by about 150 recruits
who arrived by rail
several days later.
Soldiers observed
wore red epaulets
with crossed-gun-
barrel insignia.
Ulu-Telyak Troop training Southwest of
(5t-55N, grounds. the town.
56-59E) .
A large troop train- The area was re-
ing grounds and test ferred to as Voina
range extended south- Bazar (sic; possibly
ward from the Ufa Voyennaya Baza
railroad line. Test Military Base).
installations for
tank-artillery and
mine warfare and
large reir shops
foi tanks and motor
venicles were located
in the woods of the
training-area.
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