1. FACTORIES IN STARA ZAGORA 2. PLAN OF STARA ZAGORA

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CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Bulgaria
SUBJECT 1, Factories in Stara Zagora
2, Plan of Stara Zagora
The following descriptions are keyed to
Zagora which is to be found on page 6a
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTEP4T IS TENTATIVE.''
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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20 March 1953
18 3p and li. Flour mills. All three flour mills are powered by electricity,
Mill No. 1 is a 14---story building.
2e Glue factory. Located 20 meters from Bidechka Stream and'about 100 meters
south of flour ,mill no. 19 its equipment includes two large steam engines.
Waste products from the'leather factory (item 23) are used as.raw materials
in making the glue. In addition. the local population is perrriitted to make
use of the factory's equipment for making their own glue by paying seven
lava per kilogram of treacle boiled in the factory's kettles.
4, Highway maintenance and repair shop.
5, Underground gasoline depots
'6. Military hospital of the 8 Division.
7. Canning plant. Located on the Piperka (Gradina) Square', about 100 meters
eabt of the. Market Square.. in the middle of a group of small,,1-story private
homes. its equipment includes boilers 20 meters long and 5 meters high. Due
to the seasonal nature of. the work., there is a maximum of 200 to,250 workers
employed from July to November,# while only a third of that number is employed
during the other months. All varieties of vegetables are preserved in tins
and cartons; marmalades are preserved in large barrels. Other products -
par or e produce -quantitynot specified) is son to, e Soviet Unions the
remainder going to local cooperatives.
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Knitting mill;. Located on the Nova Zagora highway about 80 to 100 meters east
of the-Stara Zagora ? Tulovo (N 42-34,, E 25-33) railroad line. The factory is
surrounded by a wall two meters high. There are no external security guards.
After identifying oneself, it is possible to talk with a worker at the entrance
gate. The mill produces underclothing for both men and women. The products
are distributed through cooperatives. All of the mill4s personnel is Bulgarian.3
10. Electric power transformer station. Located 200 to 300 meters west of Bidechka
Stream, between the Stara Zagora - Tulovo and Stara Zagora - Burgas rail lines
and about ,500 meters northeast of the Christian cemeter. There are three
transformers placed about 15'to 20 meters'apart. The transformers are about
10 meters high. Power for Stara Zagora is supplied by the'thermoelectric power
plant in Rakovski (Dimitrovgrad) which was enlarged in 1950 and 1951 with the
help of Soviet technicians. Administrative offices of the transformer station
are located in a 3-story, 8 by 20 meter whitewashed stone building and two
2-story buildings located at 30 meter intervals about 50 to 100 meters west of
the transformer station. The 3-story building houses the offices of the engineers
and the administrative officials while the 2-story buildings house the clerks,
technicians, and laborers. The area is surrounded by wire entanglements attached
to concrete posts. There is.a single gate on the west side. In order to enter
the installation on business, it is necessary to sign a register and to leave
one's identification card'with the watchman at the gate. The
and there are also auards within the installat a
The per-
sonnet is entirely Bulgarian.
11. Grain depot.5
12. Nadezhda bedstead factory. Located between the railroad station and the grain
depot, it is about 100 meters north of the railroad tracks. The factory con-
sists of three connected sections of 1-, 2?, and 3-stories. Built of stone,
it is one of the oldest factories in Bulgaria, but has been greatly expanded.
It employs not less than 100 workers, and produces metal bedsteads, spring
mattresses, portable iron chairs, portable tables, perambulators, and wheel
barrows. The factory is surrounded by barbed wire and access to it is restricted.
13. Railroad station.
15. Winery.
16. Cotton spinning mill. Located 100 meters north of the winery on the fifth
street to the west of the park at the and of Stalin Street, it is in a blind
alley. Most of the workers are women, and the personnel is entirely Bulgarian.
The factory produces cotton thread only. The factory is surrounded by a wall
two meters high. Communication with the workers is possible only at the gate
under the supervision of the watchman.
17. Plaster factory. Located about 100 to 150 meters west of the copper sulphate
factory (item 21) and about 50 meters south of the football stadium, this factory
is housed in a,3-story whitewashed stone building with a 20 to 30 meter con-
crete chimney. There is a wall on one side of the factory and there Are wire
entanglements on, the other sides. Entrance to the factory building itself is
restricted, but there is free access to the yard. The factory produces plaster
in powder form and white lead. These are packed in barrels for shipping. The
personnel is entirely Bulgarian.
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18, Locomotive repair shops Located 80100 meters east of the railroad station
on the south side of the railroad tracks and 50 nesters west of the Istanbul
highway, the repair shop is housed in a high 1-story metal building. 0 o-
site the shop, on the north side of the tracks, is a silo
locomotives are repaired in this shop. Strangers are not permitted near
the shop, and any contact with the personnel of the factory must be arranged
through the railroad station9s Militia detachment. The personnel of the shop
is entirely Bulgarian.
19.. Cooperative center and depot.
20. Wool and cotton carding plant.
21. Copper sulphate mill. Located about 200 meters southeast of the railroad
station and 150 meters west of the Istanbul highway, this mill is housed in
a 30 by 10 meter 2-story stone building which is surrounded by a wall. Access
to the mill is restricted. During 194 6 - 1911.8, copper utensils were gathered
from vineyard owners in the Stara Zagora area, the amounts being pro-rated
according to land holdings. Those owning 1.5 decares were asked to-give 0.5
kilograms and were given an unspecified amount of copper sulphate in return.
During 1946 1948,9 people desiring electricity in? their homes were `required
to procure an amount of copper equivalent to that to be used in the insta].la~
tion. Products of the factory are hydrous and anhvdrous coo--er sul--hate.I
220 Georgi Chankov iron foundry. Located 50 to 60 meters south of the intersection
of the Istanbul highway and the railroad lines it is housed in a 30 by 20
meter stone building. Part of the building is one`.story high, and part is
two stories. It has a brick chimney which is 10 to 15 meters higho The
foundry-is surrounded by a wall and has a continuous 2-man guard. Access to
the foundry is restricted. Raw materials consist of scrap and cast irons e-
quipment includes a large pneumatic hammer, dye casts, smelting pots and molds.
The factory produces ploughs, pick-axes, shovels, tiro wheels,
23. CIII December leather factory. Located 200 meters south of the railroad and
100 meters south of the Georgi Chankov iron foundry, it is housed in a 1- and
2-story stone building. A new 2-story concrete building is under construction
near the Istanbul highway (the shell is completed), and there is a 20-meter
brick chimney which-is not.yet in use. On the first floor there are six con-
crete washing ponds, two lime slaking pits, one leather drying machine, one
electric sewing machine, and six engines. One engine is near-the washing pond
and uses electric current supplied by the city. There are about 1140 to 160
officials and laborers in the factory. Its administrative personnel consists
of a director, chief accountant, chief of planning, one cashier one chief
clerk one storekeeper, one chief of supplies, and a postman.
as Zhelyu Dimov Chief Accountant and Deputy Directs
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the dyes used are also im
? a er buffalo hides, cowhide, and pigskin are tanned and
The technical personnel of the factory consists of a mechanical engineer, a
leather expert, and seven supervisors. The labor force includes both skilled
and unskilled
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and dressed in the factory, which also produces leather straps of various
widths., sole and shoe leather. The products are sold to State institutions
as ordered by the Ministry of Industry (sic). In 1948 the factory worked
on one shift of eight hours with paid overtime.
214. Chemical factory. Located about 30 to 50 meters south of the XCIII ]December
leathern factory and about 50 meters north of the sunflower oil extracting facet
toryp its equipment includes a "chimney-shaped"-kettle., three meters in dia-
meter and 15 meters high. Unslaked lime is placed in the kettle by a roller
manned by two men who stand on the upper edge. The factory produces sodium
carbonate; other products were not known
25. Sunflower oil extracting factory. Located 20 meters east of the Istanbul
highway and 40 to 50 meters south of the chemical factory and 50 meters north
of the slaughter house., its equipment consists of a flower-cleaning machine.,
a seed separator, a seed pressing machines and "screw-jacks". The personnel
consists of about 20 officials and workers. There are two eight hour shifts.
Sunflower oil and seedcake are produced, the oil being sold through cooperatives.
After service charges are deducted., sunflower growers are paid for the products
in cash.
26, Slaughter house.
27. City 3ail.6
28. Paint factory. Located 200 to 250 meters west of the prison on the Istanbul
highway., the factory is housed in three buildings of one, two, and three
stories. The 2-story building is 30 by 10 meters. In its courtyard there is
a chimney which is 30 to 40 meters high. The factory is surrounded by a wall.
Distemper is produced and is distributed through cooperatives in barrels and
packages.
29. Oxygen factory. Located about 15 to 20 meters from the Istanbul highway$ this
factory is housed in a 20 by 10 meters 2-story yellow-painted concrete building.
There are three or four 4 by 6 meters 1-story stone buildings about 4 to 6
meters'from the factory. There is a large terrace in front of the factory.
There is a wall at the rear of the factory and wire entanglements on the other
three sides. Liquid oxygen is produced and boiled in steel tubes, 1.5 meters
long and 30 centimeters in diameter.
30. Ammunition dumps belonging to the Army. Located near a picnic parks they are
situated at the base of a fir-covered hill northwest of the city.?
31. Parks.
32. KazanNk Street.
33. Stalin Street.
3)4. Molotov Street.8
35. Dimitur Blagoev Street.
36, Rakovski Street.
37. Patriarch Eftimiy Street-8 the southern part known as the Istanbul highway,
38. Georgi Dimitrov Street.
39. Market Square.
40. Piperka (Gradina) Square.
41, Square.
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therefore urge to tr p
ence with caution. There is little information available on the subjects dis-
cussed abovep bu several of the map locations given in this report agreed
with those giveni (see below in comments) which may be an indica-
tion of the validity of s report.
2. Stara Zagora hospital at the western edge of the city,
in the block be weep Ts air Kaloyan and Tsar Boris streets where they come to the
western edge of the city.
30 (item 34a) locates a factory for the manufacture of woolen goods,
under construction, at the same point.
4. (item 32) locates a cemetery just south and east of the junction
of the Stara Zagora - Burgas and Stara Zagora - Tulovo railway lines.' which
is approximately the same as the location given in this report.
5- (item 3lLb) places a factory for the manufacture of breadmixing
machines to the east and slightly north of the Stara Zagora railroad a??on
The grain depot mentioned above may be connected with this factory
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that the name of the street on which it is located is Ulitsa Nine September.
8. Other reports indicgte that Patriarch Eftimiy is the old name for Molotov
Street. The stree i
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probably Nine September Street.
Comment: The area marked with'a dotted line on the accompanying map
was c scussed in the referenced report, which included a larger scale sketch of
this central area. For the copyenjAncA of he reader the following installations
shown in the referenced'sketc have been marked on
the sketch accompanying this report. The key to these locations follows:
A. Municipality buildings.
B. Elprom factory.
Co Cigarette factory.
D. Radio station.
E. Post, Telephone, and Telegraph building.
Comment: For the convenience of the reader, the probable locations of
sar oyan and Tsar Boris Streets were shown on the accompanying sketch by the
letters "Y" and "Z" respectively.
(item 21.) locates the Stara Zagora jail similarly, but reports
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