DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF GORODENKA [HOXODENKA] LOCAL CONDITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060086-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: June 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
DATE SUPPLEMENT TO
ACQUIRED REPORT NO.
1. The city. i:?:,kr~/Hnrcdal aj t..d a population of 12 thousand in 1939.
Th .... a slight :hilL.~ i'here yore eight thousand persons of
Ltkr?: :w:. t"s.'_ origin, thr.t~e thousand Tewish, and one thousand of polish
Thera were to large Greek Cut u;lic ::Yraruhes, ea?c's, with a capacity for one
thousand pp!riions. The :.,nur:'h e were. Old an'i of brink construction. The
city also 1-ad on Jewish 5F,,agngoe aoad one Roman Catholic Church.
4. Sera*intse alizsa, the min e,?sr_n;, ran through the center of the city. It
ran sourhesat to Zs?leehch k, and northwest to !es'vicka. it was stone and
gravel sur.fac':d end two :ars vide.
About th;ree kilomete-s nortave~t from Gorodenka there was a railroad station.
A large ya.;ar beet factory was located alongside the station.
The usual xor+ie of tmnsportetio.. as horse and wagon, iicycles were
occasionally used. There ware no street cars. Buses ran through the city
er.-outs, to other cities anal ' *21ae.es. The city also had tarie ffiyarkas
which were horse drawm buggies.
7. Fszn ers and villagers who lived fairly close to the city would bring the
sugar beets by horse and wagon to this sugar boet factory. Others, who lived
further away brought their beets either alongside a railroad line or a asin
road to be stacked, picked up and shipped to the factory.
8. Principal crops in this area were wheat and rye which were brought to the
cooperative warehova and association in Gorodenka where the grain was
cleaned, processed and exported. However, ihrmers who had large fags
raised sugar beets exclusively.
9. Every villager and city dweller had some sort of garden where he grew vege-
tables for hose use or to soil on the open a.arket.
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10. Schools, the postofLice and telephone station and city administration offices
were of brick construction. The telephone office, post office and telegraph
office were in the same two story building in the renter of the city. y pry
few homes were c;ons..rueted of brick.
11. In building a home logs were split in two, the flat part would be on the out-
side and the curved part on the inside. Flat smooth planks were nailed to
the timber on the inside and then plastered with gypsum. Houses ave,-.aged from
three to four rooms depending on the ,ice; of the family. The hones were heated
by wood as the rural areas were covered with forest.
Sach home had its own a tei.dr. water well ease the eveter tins always .o._ 1{
tasty and very clear. , fresh,
!tomes, main streets and office buildings -vere electrified. A power plant with
a number of ganarators was located or the Couthern outskixt9 nr_+ e.oyty,.
Me rainy season d'!.d not affect tll
A :: a tiorodenka too uch as they
were solidly c enstruoted. l?o'4Jt;'( !;' - .: ne: ....!..Lsj e , treP.'ct+
wee difficult. ',would be mudd;r and travel
.
i' ~ People in this they rarely threw , ?;r, x 7.,..=u:::,?. n=,,ab''ihe few who lived in
'.rick homes Mead were better ++i'1' ;:(e!111' . tae:.r
garbage and take it .out of
the city to the dumps or sle2 ',
SQ?cool?s, city oft- :cs and '>a.!.ldt n.'; ir.i Yev Pi ;"rate citizens had phones.
17. Homeu in the ce r., r. of the :'JTy had radios run by electricity. Roises in the ur-
ban areas had. :sry type radios. Ther?.More quite a few radio repair shops
in the city,
3-8. Near the 'het lactcT',Y was a emali pond used for swimming, There vi*
also a ,,,;r,lic swi*maing pool nomtined with a restaurant in the center of the city.
19. In. ;t the beginning of the Soviet o: ..u atior + N
' F z her_ were about two thousand
Soviet s.;laiera iivinu in private domes and who e~eo took over the schools for
their living quarters.
20. The jail a..? :curt houee wer?o: three stories high, fairly new and of brick
construction. They were lccatfd s:i.dee_ by side in the center of the city. Cells
in the jail normally hoia aoou*? 1'cu-Yive persons but the Soviets cr"ed the
entire jail with over two trenched persons.
21.. The NKVD police rare dark grey jacket.+_. identification on the shoulder boards, a
dark grey car with red trimmings and a red tar on the esp. They pore boots
and breeches, The NKVD police were very well'cir>usrd but the soldier's uniforms
were shabby,
22. Scattered about the city were ti.nsrsithe, booimakere, tailors and furriers.
23. There was a hospital, two stories high, Just cant. of the main street.
24. There were two large theatres in the center of the city, each vim., a, sent.
ing capacity of six hundred. Before the Soviet occupation many Us Miss
in thesO??theatres. The dialogue was in I9nglish but words were written in
Ukrainian underneath. After the Soviets took over they produced their own films
it. the Russian Ian~.
25. There were from five to six small libraries scattered throughout people could cos in and read or the city where
' f;; .. ... take out books
26. Ono Main road ran soutit fres flom3to io ,' "`?? ; '~. ,
icryy`. It was Hour co" paved with atones and gravel and solid enough for buses to use. Anoths! r~
zee from Oorodenke? sontheast to Zalashchiki. This we also stone and gravel,
earlaald W& Om e/!'ttli- Another main road ran frcw Oorodenta south to
Lgjat?s and ma.. three owe wide.
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27. Secondary roads ran from Oorndenka northwest to Nan 'viska. 5i Anther r from
Gorodenka west to Chortovets ffi .,aucaf nort:eat'tli sst::trcuQe odedk to
Sesakovtss. Lsi j. .AU three Tmac& vere