AIR-RAID SHELTERS IN RIGA (TOWN PLAN)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 4, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.8.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Latvian SSR)
SUBJECT Air-Raid Shelters in Riga
C Tow Pjp,n
DATE OF
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DATE ACQ.
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REPORT
DATE DISTR. April 1961
NO. PAGES 2
2. About 200 meters from the Riga Opera House, bordered by Kaleju, Ridzenes,
and Teatra Streets, there is an air-raid shelter approximately 60 meters
long, 30 meters wide, and 4 meters high. The two main doors of sheet-
iron panels open on Kaleju Street and Ridzenes Street and are approximately
three meters high and two meters wide. There are also two smaller auxiliary
doors (1.50 meters high and 1.20 meters wide) set at an angle in the middle
of each of the other two (bides of the shelter. Five cement air shafts, with
six opeinings in each, protrude about $i0-70 centimeters from the top of the 50X1-HUM
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door, two staircases to the top of the shelter were still under construction,
upon completion they will lead to two terraces
provide with benches. When o served, the shelter was still covered with fine,
gray sand and was not yet camouflaged. (See Attachment No. 1) 50X1-HUM
3. Behind the Opera House, at the intersection of Krisjana Barons Street and
Padomju Bulvaris, there is an air-raid shelter approximately 35 meters long,
15 meters wide, and 2.meters high. This shelter had only two doors--one
which opens on Padomju Bulvaris; the other in the opposite direction. These
doors, with sheet-iron panels, are similar in dimension (2 meters high and
1.50 meters wide) and placement to the auxiliary doors depicted in Attachment
1. There are two cement air shafts, each with six opanzngs, which protrude
about 60-70 centimeters from the top of the shelter. Grass covers the entire
shelter, which is so well camouflaged so as not to be discernible from the %
lawn of t-.-,e adiacent nark. and ivy covers the two air shafts. 50X1-HUM
(See Attachment No. 2 bUA1 _NUIVI
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4+. Another air-raid shelter on Radio Street, about 15 meters from the
large radio antenna, is visible from the railroad station and from the
downtown area. The shelter is approximately 30 meters long, 15 meters
wide, and 2 meters high, has two sheet.rbn, doors (2 meters high and 1.50
meters wide) set at an angle into the shelter wall, and has two cement air
shafts with six openings in each protruding 60-70 centimeters above
the shelter. a staircase descending about three meters
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depth. However since a branch of the Daugava River is only some 20
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so good as the shelter on Padomju Bulvaris, which is probably newer.
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selected high-priority civilian agencies. Since the shelters are located
short distancesfom each other, at least the Padomju 50X1-HUM
Bulvaris and the Radio Street shelters may be connected. (See Attachment
No. If)
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IEVEROJAMAKIE ARHITEKTORAS
PIEMINEKIJ UN CITAS EKAS
I RIGAS PILS (XIV CS.). PIONIERU PILS.MUZEJI
2 VALSTS AKADEMISKAIS DRAMAS TEATRIS
3 SAPJU DIEVMATES BAZNICA (XVill GS.)
4 ANGLIKANU BAZNTCA
S ZINATNES UN TEHNIKAS PROPAGANDAS
NAMS
6 VIDUSLAIKU DZTVOJAMAS EKASTRIS BRA-
L1 ? (XV-XVIIGS.)
7 MARIJAS MAGDALENAS BAZNTCA
8 JEKABA BAZNTCA (XIIIGS.)
9 LPSR AUGSTAKAS PADOM#S EKA
10 ARSENALS (XIX GS.)
U. DZELZCEI,A BILESU IEPRIEKSPARDOSANAS
'KASE
12 ..ZVIEDRU VARTI" (X111-XVII CS.) ARHITEKTU
14 PULVERA JEB SMIL?U TORNIS (XIV GS.).
REVOLUCIJAS MUZEJS
15 BRIVIBAS PIEMINEKLIS
16 MEDICINAS INSTITUTS
17 MAKSLAS DARBINIEKU NAMS
18 STARPPILSETU AUTOBUSU BILESU
IEPRIEKSPARDOSANAS KASE
19 LARP KULTORAS NAMS. MAZA QILDE"
" (XD( GS.)
20 VALSTS FILHARMONIJA. "LIELA QILDE"
.(XIV-XIX CS.)
21 LATVIJAS PSR ZINATNU AKADEMIJA
22 LATVIJAS PSR TAUTAS SAIMNIECTBAS
PADOME
23 XVIIIGS. DZIVOJ AMA EKA
25 RICAS PILSETAS IZPILDKOMITEJAS CELT-
NIECTBAS UN ARHITEKTORAS NODA1 A.
PILSETAS GALVENAIS ARHITEKTS
26 PETERA I PILS-DZTVOJAMA EKA
27 POLITEHNISKAIS INSTITUTS
28 DAA'NENSTERNA NAMS (XVII GS.) '
29 PETERA BAZNTCA ()WI GS.)
30 JANA BAZNTCA (XIV GS)
31 "EKA KONVENTS- (XV GS.)
32 NOLIKTAVA-BfJ. JURA BAZNTCA (XBIOS.)
33 KRIEVU. DRAMAS TEATRIS
34 PILSETAS IZPILDKOMITEJAS NODAIAS
35 LPSR ZINATNU AKADEMIJAS FUNDAMEN-
TALA BIBLIOTEKA
36 KING KOMJAUNIETIS"
37 KINO AINA"
38 VIESNICA RIGA"
39 MAKSLAS SALONS?MAKSLA"
40 ZINU BIROJS
41 VALSTS OPERAS UN BALETA TEATRIS
42 CENTRALA CRAMATNTCA
43 CENTRALAIS RICAS UNIVERSALVEIKALS
44 VIESNICA "METROPOLE"
45 DZELZCET.A STACLJA RIGA"
46 ZINU BIROJS
47 AUTOOSTA
48 TURISMA UN EKSKURSIJU PARVALDE
49 NOLIKTAVAS (XVII CS.)
50 REITERNA NAMS (XVII GS.)
Si REFORMATU BAZNTCA (XVIII (;S.)
52 STARPPILSETU AUTOBUSU BI~ESU KASE
53 JURA PATVERSME (XIXGS.)