CERNAUTI - TOWN DESCRIPTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030214-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 214
• Publication Date: November 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION C ~ _
CENTRAL ,
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Cernauti - Tovn Description
PLACE
ACQUIRED
LATE DISTR. H~v i952
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SUPPLEh1ENT TO
REPORT N0.
sketch of the city, sat drams to scale, ahowiag the location of the
principal buildings. 1Fumbei~s oa the akatch correspond with .he numbers listed
below.
1. Two bridges over the prst River. One i? for motor vehicle traffic and is of
steel and concrst? construction. It it tour lanes vide sad vi:1 accommodate
large trucks fully leaded, The second bridge i? a railroad bridge with one
track. It ie also of steel ccastructicn and is located about two hundred feet
vest of :he first bridge. Bath bridges xere erected is the middle 1920?s.
2. Artillery barracks located is 8ad,agura, a email village shout two kilometers
north of t~e~ bridge.
3. Garaaare railroad station. Thi? builalo3 frents oa Oarei Street. This i? the
larger of the twa statioae iu the town. It is used by both passenger en4
freight trains. There are about 35 tracla is the terminal arde. r
theme from Bucharest and I.vow, poised, and, ~ ive
from gotta oa the Dniester.
k? needquar+.ers for the torm'e military commander.
5? A town square named pieta Uairei.
6. L'ity hall. Three floor brick construction. Birth, death and tax re?-ords are
i:ep+, here. All records of road maintenance are 'rept here. Po?ice TrPadqu~~ters,
city jail and afire station ese aJ.so located in i:hia building. Le6a~ ~>scrip-
tione of real prnAerty are kept hare.
7? A town square named pieta Alexandri.
8. Municipal thenter.
9? Railroad administration building for the province of Bukovina.
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 10? University of Cernauti.
11. Roman Catholic Archbishop;, residence. It ie situated on s prominent hill.
12. Principal Jewish synagogue.
13? gtefaa cel liars Street.
i4. Iancu Flondor Street. The town's principal stores are located on this street.
ly. Town eQuare. Aot identified.
16. Conservatory of IMuaic.
17. Administration building of the Province of Pukoviaa. The Prefect of the Province
has offices here. daoag the racords kept here ar? those of roads and forests
as well as health statistics.
18. Cuciurul Mare street. This leads to the small vfllage of Cuciurul which is
nbcut 20 kilometers south of Ceraauti.
19? Greek Orthodox. Church.
20. Barracks for infest:,/ troops. They will accommodate about 2,500.eo].diers. This
barracks ccntaias z small military prison.
21. Hukoviaa provincial penitentiary. Three stories of brick coartruction and one
floor underground.
CONFIDS6TIAL~
22. llariseti Street.
23. Small railroad station located about three kilometers east of Iaacu Floador
Street., Thil~ station 1~ used chiefly b}r freight trafae. Thera ors a'reut five
or six warohouss? near the station,
2k. Pudic park r+aoud (lrs~diaa yublica.
25. A silftary schwl "Liceul Hflitar".
26, 27 and 28. Barracks for infantry, sstillery aed mountain tro%,ps. This is !hs
principal military area in tie town.
29. Sursei'Btreet.
30. stock ezahangs,
31. flair post offias. Telephone and tele~rsph offices are locateQ is this b~aldtng.
tour floors, brick coastrnction.
32. 6pitalnl Gentry Hospital, ~battt sight hu~dr'd bads. It 1e operated by the
healLli drpsrtdsnt of tha natioas.~ goernieat. paljr patie~rts ~fio ry;-ia. in
Bukoviaa Province asn acctpted.
33. Insane uylud.
3~. A small hospital operated bar Dr (fau) ~erlievici. It i.^ locates in a resideace-
type building.
35? This street, ammr not ideatiried, fads to a sdcil airport which is about three
kilometers aoutbeast of the insane aphid.
36. Airport,
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 37? Bee teraiaal.for-intercity busses.
38. lEuatoipal ~eleetrical pavar p3aaat~. ?aQal paovidee poyer?'There i~ 9dtficient
poyar to provide all-sight street lighting oa the principal streets.
39? Ifi~aicipal eater plant. Source uS eater is from springs anti not from the Prot
Hiver. _,_
4G, lfatianal Bank. 6ovei-ament owned. .,
41. Marnaros Bank,~a s;sll institution privately owned.
Bach street-has its?oyn numbering system and there ie no uniformity. Street
cars and t+usaea n?n on thr principal streets. Source of power is electric.
Trallay system is needs.
n~~ (~)= Bltetch, not drays to Basle, of ~ernauti, Husania ehoyiag location
of gsisoi~h'bnlltiap.
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ccx~lnarwria;i
sketch, not drain
to scale, shoving principal
buildings in ~ernauti,
Rumania, 1939.
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