SOCHI STATE STEAMSHIP COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100570005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
. SBCRBT
SECURITY INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
USSR (Black Sea)
Sochi State Steamship Company
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ins of Title 18. Sections 789 and 794, of the U.S. Code. as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an uniuthorimed person it prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form It prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 2 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES l 25X1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES 25X1
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OP CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. The Sochi State Steamship Company (Sochinskoye aosudarstvennoye Aarokhodstvo)
was a steamship company subordinate to the Ministry of We Merchant Fleet (1W)
through the Chief Directorate of the Southern Sleet. Administration of this
company was to ated in Sochi in Staryy aorod (exact location unknown). The
company was organized is 1939 when the Black Sea State Steamship company was,
divided into three independent steamship companies: the Black Sea, Asov, and
Sochi.
2r .The Sochi State steamship Company maintained communication lines between the,
following Black Sea ports: Sochi, Adler, Gagry, Gndanti, Sukhumi, Ochemohiri,
Poti, Batumi,, Tuapse, Gelendihik, Novorossiysk, Anispa. The main activity of
this company consisted in passenger transport. Its freight transport was rather
insignificant and did not exceed 500 thousand tons per navigation,; year.
3. Organisation of the co an y i s administration was similar to- that of the Azov
steamship Company but on a smaller scale. Sea-going personnel of 25X1
this company wasabout 500-600 men, shore personnel about 125 man.
4. The fleet of the Sochi Steamship Company consisted of 15 freight-passenger
ships with displacement up to one thousand tons, mainly diisel. In addition,
there were five or,six launches.
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