CITY OF BAKU: PHARMACEUTICAL SCHOOL, KIROV UNIVERSITY, CITY PLAN INFORMATION, KIROV OIL TRUST-(DESCRIPTION MANPOWER, PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION AND PIPELINES AS THE OIL TRUST)

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1959
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INFORMATION REPDRT MFORMATION REPORT
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.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Azerbaydzhan SSR) REPORT
SUBJECT City 'of Baku: Pharmaceutical School, DATE DISTR.
Kirov University, City Plan.Infor-
mation, Kirov Oil Trust NO. PAGES I'
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Q_, p y & 1 7 l REFERENCES RD
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
following reports on Baku LN 40-23, E 49-55:
Attachment 1: A two-page report on the pharmaceutical.school, describing
the school, entrance requiremmnts, courses and instructors.,
Attachment ~: A two-page report on Kirov University, containing locations
of the various schools, and subjects and instructors of the geology and
geography faculty.
Attachment 3: A two-page legend and memory sketch.of Kommunisticheskaya
ulitsa and vicinity.
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Attachment 4: A two-page report on the Kirov Oil Trust, including a legend
.and memory sketch of the area.
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Sketch of Kommunisticheskaya Street and Vicinity in Baku
1. Saving Office (sberkassa)
2, Movie House "Araks"
3. Nizami Museum
4, Bazarnaya Street
5. Palace of the Press
6 & 7. "Monolith, a seven story apartment house with a number of stores on the
first floor
8. Biological Department of the State University
9. Supreme Soviet of Azerbaydzhanian SSR
10. Academy of Sciences of Azerbaydzhanian SSR
11. Taxi. Stand
12. Military Commendantur
13. Kirov State University
11. Post Office
15. Baku City Council (Baksovet)
16. High School No. 132
17. Polyclinic
18. Bath House
19. Second Precinct of Militia
20. Arsen Amiryan Street
21. Party School
22. Dormitory for Iranian Students of the Party School
23. Former Iranian Consulate
24. Military Selective Board (Voyenkomat)
25. r e n ~s o ~ . ~ b lding occupied b y various state organizati
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26. Telephone Exchange (Stantsiya)
27. Kur-Araks Construction Offices
28. State Philarmonic Building
29. Pioneer Park
30. Old City Fortress
31. Ministry of Oil Industry of Azerbaydzhanian SSR (Azneftt)
32. Boulevard (Prospect Stalina)
33. Hotel "Intourist"
34. City Committee of the Communist Party (Gorkom)
35. Communisticheskaya Street
36. Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaydzhanian SSR
37.. Feldsher (medical orderly) School
38. Lermontova Street
39. Pharmaceutical School
40. Eye Clinic
41. So-called "Dead Park"-
42. Kirov Park
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Sketch of Kommunisticheskaya Street
Baku
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a3. Thy- Pharmaceu evtiicnesxlyy Lexnnixum) ox tsaxu is unaer
the direction of the Ministry of Health of Azerb. SSR. It is located in a
small two-story b din on Lermontova Street, 58
in Baku. The school had three au 25X1
oriums, a library,, and gymnasium. No dormitories were provided for
students, other than for students of Iranian origin for whom the school had
rented a private apartment on Mukhtadir Street, Siding (Tupik) #3, House #5.
The school director was Ali SHAMSIYEV. At the time of information the 25X1
school had 80-90 students, 90 percent of them were females.
entrance
2. Formerly, in order to qualify for competitive/examinations, this school 25X1
required seven years of elementary education, however, this was changed
to nine years in l954-55. High school (10 years) graduates were admitted
to the second year of study. To be eligible for entrance examinations, one
had to submit to the school authorities an application, handwritten: auto- 25X1
biography, certificate of physical examination, three photos, and produce
a passport for inspection. The applicants with top marks (otlichniki) from
the previous place of learning had no entrance examinations, all others had
undergo examinations in chemistry, physics, history, Russian or Azerbaydzhanian
languages. The course of study was three years. The best students were.
granted scholarships, 1!}0 Rubles per month the first year., 160 Rubles per
month the second year, and 180 Rubles per month the third year.
3.
The school was divided in two sections - Russian and Azerbaydzhanian. All
teachers, with the exception of teachers of Russian and Azerbaydzhanisn
languages, instructed in both sections. The following subjects were presented
at the school:
Subject Instructor
Pharmacology Dr. (fnu) GULIYEV - he also was the
program supervisor (zavuch)
Organic chemistry (fnu) ZUL'FUGAROV - he also was the
C O H E I R chool party secretary
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Inorganic chemistry (fnu) MEDETOV
Pharmo-technology (aptoko- (fnu) ALIYEV
tekhnolo giya)
Practical work Rashid (lnu), Director of Pharmacy No. 12
Latin ?
Anatomy (fnu) HUSSEINOV
Botany ?
Mathematics Mussa (inu)
History (fnu) SAFAROV
Russian language (taught in (fnu) ALLAHVERDIYEV
Azerb, section)
Azerbayydzhanian language (taught ?
in Russian section)
Physical culture (fnu) AGASIYEV
Military training (fnu) SAAL'NIKOV
4. The practical work of the students was conducted at various pharmacies of
Baku. At. the end of the second year all students were sent for 10 days
practice to the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Works of Baku (Bakinskiy Farmo-
Khimicheskiy Zavod). It was located about one-half a kilometer west (toward
Baku) of the electric railway station Beyuk-Shor and employed 200-250 workers
in one 2-story building. The plant, under Director Hassan RAGIMOV, produced
bandage gauze and a variety of drugs, such as ichthyol, glucose, pyramidon,
streptocyte, and others.
5. Before the state examinations at the end of the school all students were
sent for two months of so-called "state practical works. to the pharmacies
of their choice. The graduates were distributed among pharmacies of Azerb.
SSR, with the title of pharmacist helpers. The majority of the graduates
become affiliated with the Pharmaceutical-Chemical Works of Baku described
in Paragraph 4.
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The main three-story building o rbaydzhanian State University imen125X1
t1rova is located at Kommunisticheskaya Street, 6, in Baku, The biological
/ department occupies.a part of the Azerbaydzhanian Supreme Soviet building 25X1
? next to the University, on Kommunisticheskaya Street also. The law school
is accommoda - t
"Old Europe"
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2. The president (rektor) of the University, also the president of the Academy
of Sciences of Azerbaydzhanian SSR, was Yusuf MAMEDALIYEV. He had two.vice-
presidents (prorektor), one for program supervision, (fnu) ALIYEV, and the
other for supply,, Col. of Reserve (fnu) GADZHIYEV, former batallion commander
of the Military School for Iranians in Baku in 1947.
3.
the University had eight departments:
h. Eastern (The length of study here was 6 years in comparison to 5 years
in the other departments)
a. Geology-Geography
b, Chemistry
c. History
d. Physics and Mathematics
e. Law
f. Biology
g. Literature
geography department, Sardar SULEYMANOV. Each department was divided into
two sections: Russian and Azerbaydzhanran,rwhere the courses were conducted
in respective languages.; 25X1
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Faculty of Geology and Geography.
Dean - Sardar SULEYMANOV
Assistant Dean - Abdurahim KHADYZADE
Presented Subjects
Geographic Sciences
Geography
Economical Geography
History of Geography
Geomorphology
Geology
Geodesy
Astronomy
The following subjects
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Instructors
Gyul (lnu)
(fnu) KERAMOV and Shamil ' KERIl()V
Gady ALIYEV
Osman VAGABOV
(fnu) SULTANOV
Khaver (fnu)
Named ALIYEV
Ragim RAGIM)V
were taught by listed staff at all departments:
History of the USSR
Political Economy
Physics and Mathematics
Chemistry
Russian language
Physical Culture
(fnu) GULIEV-ANALIYEV
Nariman (lnu)
Muzatar GADZHIYEV
(fnu) ABDULLAYEVA
(fnu) FARIDE and (fnu) OMAROVA, the
wife of MUSTAFAYEV, the first
secretary of the Azerbaydzhanian
Communist Party
(fnu) BAKSHALIYEV
Military training was compulsory for all students and included familiarization
with gas masks, rifles, machine guns, artillery'guns. The practical exercises
were conducted at Kirov Park in Baku. Military training was included in the
state examinations
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other university branches
6. Scholarships are granted to the best students and to the children of World
7.
industrial objects,
War II veterans. The latter also have a priority in entrance competition.
A special section (spetsotdel) of the MVD is attached to the University.
Among other standard activities, it regulates the excursion visits of 25X1
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i, 'rne xirov vii trust, unaer the supervision of Abul Ifaz Samedovich BEDIRDV, 25X1
consists of seven oil fields, six of them located in the vicinity of Kirov
Settlement north of Baku, and the seventh located in Kirovabad area (Naftalan,
Mir-Bashir, Kazanbulak). The seventh field was composed of producing wells 25X1
of the former Kirovabad Oil Trust dissolved in 1953 or 1951.
For location of.the oil fields and trust facilities see attached
sketch of the Kirov Oil Trust area
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Each of the oil fields is divided in four sections (uchastok) and employs
300-140 worke's,in three shifts. In the summer, the first shift starts work
at 0700 hours, in the winter it starts at 0800 hours,
the names of the following oil field directors: (fnu) VERDIBEKOV
of the second field, (fnu) KHANKSHIIEV of the third, (fnu) NEKHTIYEV'of the
fifth, and (fnu) SIL'VESTROV of the seventh field. 25X1
2. Trust offices (kontora trests) are accommodated in a two-story building
located about halfway between the Kirov Settlement and Binagady. The offices
engaged some 60 employees, 80 percent of them of Russian origin, 10 percent
Azerbaydzhanians, aAd the remaining 10 percent of unidentified origin.
Trust Superintendent - .Abul'faz Samedovich BEDIROV. 125X1
His deputy - Kerim AZINDV.
Chief engineer - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich LOBAC
Chief geologist - Ayvaz AYVAZOV, former superintend-en of Kirovabad Oil Trust.
Chief mechanic - (fnu) ALIYEV.
Chief electrician (energetik) - (fnu) DAVUDYAN.
Party secretary and chief of spetsotdel - Ivan Ivanovich ANTIPOV, 25X1
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3. -Trust includes the fol wings ops..an (many trust units previously
referred to as kontora - office - are.now being called tsekh - shop):
Electrical shop (elekto-montazhnyy) under (fnu) AZIZOV.
Testing and Measuring Instruments Shop (kontrol'no-izmeritel'nykh priborov -
KIP) -(fnu) GANIBEKOV.
.Construction and Mounting Shop (stroitel'nomontazhrWy) - (fnu) MAKHMUDOV.
Underground Repairs Shop (podzemnyy remont) - (fnu) AVETISOV.
Oil Pumping Shop (nefteperekachka) - (fnu) RAGIMOV.
Transportation Shop - (fnu) SMIRNOV.
Heavy Repair of Producing Wells (kapremont skvazhin) - (fnu) ABIIAV.
Drilling Office (kontora bureniya) - ? .
Secondary Method Office (kontora vtorichnogo metoda) - ? ?
Gas office (gazovaya kontora) - ?; the 'last supervisor (fnu) MAK}IMUDZADE was
fired for spending of official funds.
Communal' Construction Office - (fnu) DASHDEMIlK)V.
MPVO - (fnu) ZHIRV.
4. the output of various producing wells averaged from one 25X1
to forty tons and that six local fields of the trust fulfilled their daily 25X1
quota by 102-105 percent which amounted to approximately 2,000 tons. Once
during his regular night duty at. the Trust office
offices. From there the oil is pipe lined to an unknown destination.
5. All producing wells are interconnected,by a system of pipes; the main pipe
of this system leads to a reservoir (char), of which there is one to each
field. These oil reservoirs artially underground,are about 10-15 meters in
diameter. the capacity of the reservoirs. From here 25X1
the oil is compressed-to the o storage which consists of 6-7 reservoirs
similar to those described above. This oil storage is located on the firs 25X1
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formerly the oil was piped to Batumi, but in recent years
i is sp an oil cracking plant imeni Stalina in the Bailov_ section
of Baku. This plant has been on fire several times, the last big fire was 25X1
in 1954 or 1955 when about half of the plant facilities were put out of order.
At present, the plant has been fully reconstructed,
6. On Kirovneftt proper are located oil machinery producing plants "Pervoye Maya"'
(1st of May) and imeni Sardarova, and also one construction materials plant.
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materials, The pipes are supplied by the Sumgait Pipe Rolling Mill.
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7. I he underground gasoline pipe line (benzoprovod) Baku - Sumgait
runs the proper of the fifth field. The local drivers needy for extra
gas were aware of its location and pumped out the desirable amount by drilling
holes thru the pipe. 25X1
8. Attached to this report is a
CO, HOENTIM
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Sketch of Kirov Oil. Trust Area Kirovneft1 near Baku
1, "Semashko"' Hospital,
2. First Aid Department of No, 1.
3. Dormitories of AMI (Azerb. Medical Institute).
4. 4th (?) Nagornaya Street,
5. Republican Stadium imeni Stalina.
6, Two-story apartment house occupied by families of Air Force officers.
Building completed in 1957.
7. Same as No, 6.
8. Housing area (voyennyy gorodok) of Air Force personnel and dependents.
9. Cognac Factory,
10.. Stop. of Bus (diesel-motor) No, 9 (Baku - Binagady - Baku) and No. 26
(Baku - Race Track - Baku).
11. Race Track (ippodrom),
12. Barracks of mounted militia, so-called "konnyy divizion",
13. Narrow gauge railroad serving industrial installations of this area. and
also providing passenger service to inhabitants of Kirov, Vorovskiy and
Montina Settlements.
14. Main railroad - Baku to points north via Sumgait,
15. Main highway - Baku to points north via Sumgait.
16. Livestock yard (Zagotskot). On its property is located an ice manufacturing
shop - marked "A"'on this sketch.
17. Secondary Method Laboratory of the Kirovneft' (laboratoriya vtorichnogo
metoda).
18. Offices of salt mine enterprise.
19. Underground water canal from Caspian Sea to No. 20
20. Main water pumping station. Has pipe connections to all field water pumping
stations (one station to a field) of the Kirovneft' (Kirov Oil Trust).
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21. Construction materiels. plant, Produces slate items, concrete pipes and
prefabricated stairways for buildings.
22. Kirov rayon warehouses for pipes, construction materiel, working cloth, etc.
23. Basin for excess water and oil of drilling operations.
21.. Gas office of Kirovneft'.
25. Secondary method office of Kirovneft' (kontora vtorichnogo metoda).
26. Stadium.
27. "Pervoye Maya" Oil Machinery Plant.
28. Sardarov Oil Machinery Plant.
29. Wells underground repair shop of Kirovneft' (tsekh podzemnogo remonta
vyshek). 25X1
30. Military barracks. tanks and artillery guns here.
31. Construction and Mounting shop of Kirovneft'.
32. Military Selective Board (voyenkomat).
33. Pharmacy.
34. Movie Theater.
35. Office of rayon militia,
36. Office of rayon prosecutor..
37. Bakery.
38. Oil storage and pumping station (perekachka), 6 or 7 oil reservoirs.
39. Hospital.
40. High School.
Il. Testing and Measuring Instruments Shop of Kirovneft'.
42. Electrical Shop of Kirovneft'.
143. Transportation Shop (garage) of Kirovneft', with motor pool of about
1,000 cars.
14. Main compressor shop of the trust. 25X1
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46.
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Two-story building accommodating Rayon Committee of the Communist Party -
Raykom (secretary - (fnu) AGAYEV), and Rayon Executive Committee - 25X1
Rayispolkom (chairman - (fnu) DZHAVADOV).
ground.
Anti-atomic shelter. Completed in 1958. About one-half meter above the
Wells heavy repair shop of Kirovneft' (tsekh kapital'nogo remonta vyshek).
Two-story administrative building of Kirovneft'.
Fire House.
MPVO.
Workers' housing area, wooden ramblers.
Warehouse ORS (Otdel Rabochego Snabzheniya - Work Supply Department).
Park.
Communal construction shop of the trust.
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