NAVAL AND HARBOR DEVELOPMENTS AT TALLINN AND KOPLI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A007000010042-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: March 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (Estonia)
SUBJECT
11.16 Official* Olaf
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE /AGENCY
INFORMATION IMPORT
Naval and Harbor Developments at Tallinn and Kopli
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"The 60th Naval Landing Battalion Verskoi Desantny Latalion has been
stationed in Tallinn-Kopli, the part of the town situated on a peninsula.
This battalion wears the naval black unifOrw. It appears to consist of
four companies of 120 each. In these numbers they have been observed at
troop reviews. At such reviews the battalion has been armed with auto-
matics of the type PPS-43, At exerciSes.they have-been observed also to
use hand machine guns (ruchnye pulemeand antitank rifles of the type
PTRS-43,
"in Kopit,ale, in the basin at the Mew POst OADAW ) %bout 30 landing 50X1 -HUM
boats of the type BDB have been stationed since eept
The BIB boats ere metel pontoons of about
120 tons. They have a gAsoline engine permittina a speedol up to 50X1 -HUM
15 knots. Their length is 26 meters, the breedth six meters and the depth
one meter. On the bow they have one 45 ita PO (antiairoraft gun,
"In the naval port of T,..11inn CSOJASADAM1 a Guards Division of Torpedo
Cutters has been stationed since Sept 53. The cutters are 33 meters long,
4.9 meters wide, 1,6 meters deep and do 55 knots, They are armed with one
37 Tam gun, ono to four 20 mim guns and two 53 ram, torpedo tubes. The
commander of the division is Serghei Osinov Guards C-ptain of the let rank,
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The Soviets have deepened the entrance to the Naval Port ('MI/NISADAW)
/difference between Sojasedem and Miinisedam not explained-7 of Tallinn
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and its quays to eiGht meters. The depth was six meters in independent
Estonia. The Naval Port has the form of a box with two entrances, the
sides of the box being 750 in long, It is unknown whether 50X1-HUM
they have deepened the middle of this basilkin independent Estonia it was
4.5 m deep. In 1953 the cruiser MNIRDLOV and several other cruisers lay
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in the Naval Port.
5. "In 1953 work was started on shelters 4or cruisers and other craft along.
theSbUthWestquay of the pOrt;. These 'shelters have a box shape and are
covered with reinforced concrete. Their apparent purpose is to protect
the warships from observation from the air, The construction of the shelters
presents no difficulties as the sea bottom,dn'the Naval Port is extraordinarily
hard.
6. "The Tallinn trade harbor. and fishing harbor, have been merely rehabilitated
and are at present more or less in their pre...World War II state; the New
Port has received much attention. It it a natural harbor'a small bay
with a depth of 10 in. Before World War. II there was only one small quay there
and some oil stores. It was used for the import of oil and for the export of
the products of the Estonian oilshale industry. The Soviets have built new
Tlays of 1000 in. long, on its southeast and south 'shores. Work is at present
/ Jan 19547 in progress on the northwest shore. Hitherto the quay has been
used for naval transport shipping., d.eattoyers Ceskadrennye minonosty9 and
other small naval craft.
7. "Followizo is a rough sketch showing the location of the Nava1,"0 and New
Port of Tallinn
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