SOVIET TROOPS AND SUPPLY INSTALLATIONS IN THE BELORUSSIAN MILITARY DISTRICT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300010011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

0..', QP., PAGES'
THE SOURCE 'EVALUATIONS IN THIS . REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
% -`,THE,. AAPRA1SA4 OF $QNTENp .IS TENTATIVE.
This report. ec tains ? info'mition 'on Soviet troops and supply installations
in' the Rel?ri714ii An IM 14' +.w..1- ri X4...,4..
Approved For Release 2001/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300010011-5
~,tF RMATION
_--_... ..,-......p.~.. ...... ,,,y?vn. ,nq,cago or --E--1 Held Distribution a ". - - _-- ~
Approved For Release 200171 2~1 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300010011-5
COUNTRY.: USSR (Belorua elan S~SR~
t t t ~i
..,'REPORT,. NO.
25X1A
Sovi et'Tropps...an4 :Suppljr' liia't~illati'or . DATE, DISTR. 19, Niax~~h 1953
in thy. Helmru si xi, I(iLi.t ry, D .ai{ ct
~1s l5gqument contalns'intoXlnation affecting the Na-
tlpnai tiefense Of the Visited States, Within the mean-
ifig of Title 18, Sections 763, and 704, of the T7,8. Code, as
lu4iende.d, Its tr*n'smissioii or revelation of its contegts
to or receipt by" an unauthorised person ie prohibited
? ' law. The reproduction' of, this form is prohibited.
 Brest-
Litovsk
(N52-07,
E23-42):
Approved For Release fOgWflfl gA-RDP80-00810A000300010011-5
Soviet Troop Units and Military Installations in the Belorussian 1D
installation Location Occupation
Troop camp.
Remarks
25X1X
obliquely in excavations, were
observed east of the railroad
line. Crews of soldiers were
seen pitching tents and doing
excavation work.
Pilsudiskiy
Barracks-of
light stuccoed
brick buildings.
Old barracks in-
stallation of se-
veral white and
red brick build-
ings, is an area
grown over by
trees and con-
taining a water
tower.
Two to three km
southeast of the
city, on both
sides of the Kovel-
(N51-13,E2444)
Brest-Litovsk
railroad line.
Wooded area about
three km southeast
of the city and
west of the Brost-
Litovsk-Koval rail-
road line.
North of the main
railroad station.
The camp was still under con
struction 15 July 1951. Not
less than 500 round tents,
each for about 20 men and
surrounded by a one-meter
earth wall, were observed
in an area ex ending along
the west side of the rail-
road line for more than one
km. Only a few tents, but
a large number of tanks and
artillery pieces standing
Occupied by a major tank unit
up to July 1951,
Occupied. to capacity since 1948
by aunit of soldiers wearing
red bordered black epaulets
with an undetermined number.
Light AT guns were seen stand-
ing in the barracks yard. Troops
received training with rifles
and mortars of various calibers.
Approved F 1/11/21: CIA-RDP80-00810A000300010011-5
 Approved For Release IA-RDP80-00810A000300010011-5
Military quarters
in the former
citadel.
West-southwest of
the city.
Occupied by-several thousand
troops prior to July 1951. Tanks,
AT guns, rocket launchers, ar-
tillery pieces of from 100 to
150 mm, and heavy prime movers
were seen parked in the open.
Military quarters
in a large private
building.
Military-
installa-tion of several
low brick buildings.
Officers' house, a
yellow four-story
structure, and
other installations.
Southwestern sec-
tor of the city,
on the west side
of Karl Marx
Street and north
of Moscow Street.
Just east of the
railroad bridge
across the Bug
River.
Just south of the
main railroad
station, at the
south end of an
iron footbridge
across the rail-
road tracks.
Occupied by a signal unit.
About 50 soldiers were seen
practicing in the yard. An
antenna system of two masts,
about ten meters high, was
located next to the building.
A unit of soldiers was seen
there at the end of 1949,
old fortifications were notic-
ed south of the city,. in the
area east of the Bug River. The
fortifications were dilapidated.
No new bunkers were seen. -
apparently unoccupied. Other
nearby concrete bunkers were
Also referred to as officers,
club and mess. Officers, billets
were located north of the cita-
del. Military personnel were
also quartered in private houses
and earth shelters. Several gen-
erals were noticed in the city.
W labor units-were replaced by
Soviet labor battalions in the
summer of 1949.
Approved FaRel as 01/11/21 : CIA-RDP80-00810A000300010011-5
 Minsk
(N53-5o,
E27-35)
25X1X
Approved For ReIeaa@ : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300010011-5
-h-
Military school of
one six-story main
building, with a
portico in front,
and three wings; com-
pleted in 1947 and
surrounded by a wire
fence.
MD headquarters, a
five-story brick _
building completed
in 19147.
Old four-story
barracks building.
Barracks installa-
tion of several
two-story and
three-story brick
buildings.
Former FN camp.
Three five-story
apartment houses
containing offi-
corsI billets.
Northern sector of
the city, near the
opera house.
Northern sector
of the city near
the aforementioned
military schooll.
Northeastern eat
of . the city,- on_
.the north side of
the highway to
Moscow.
In the woods about
six km northeast of
the city, just
south of the high-
way to Moscow.
Northeastern at
of. the city, south
of the highway to
Moscow.
Northeast of the
city an the north
side of - the high-
way to Moscow.
Called an Army Officer Candidate
School by the PWs and occupied
by more than 1,000 officer can-
didates from. all branches of ser-
vice. The. trainees were estimat-
ed at 20 or 21 years of age.. The
office of a three-star general
was located on the ground floor.
According to a signboard on the
ground floor, the building hous-
ed the headquarters of the Be-
lorussian MD and a corps head-
quarters to which one Major
Budiovakiy (phonetic spelling)
(fnu) belonged.
Occupied by a unit of 200 men
who wore red epaulets and who mere
armed only with rifles. The
soldiers performed guard duty
at the officer candidate school.
and other military installations.
Several 76.2 mm AT guns and AA
guns were noticed in the billet-
ing area at the and of 19148.
Occupied by a penal battalion
of about 400 officers and men.
The unit was employed primarily
in construction work.
Occupied by more than 2,000 persons.
Approved For Re WM21 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300010011-5
 Rechitsa
(N52-22,
E30-23)
Borisov
(N 54-13,
E28-30)
Approved For Relea W i ??: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300010011-5
Ordnance depot con-
sisting of several
open and-closed
storage buildings
and other brick
buildings.in an
area of about tjOOx
250 motors, over-
grown with trees
and surrounded by
a high board fence
with watch towers.
About six km south-
east of the main
railroad station, supply base for an artillery
en the south side division allegedly stationed
of the highway to in the Minsk area. He added
Mogilev and north- that the depot contained au-
West of a large merous now artillery pieces
motor vehicle of various calibers, rocket
plant, launchers, AT and AA guns,
and heavy mortars. Source
observed rocket launchers and
some artillery pieces of 122
and about 150 mm on an open
square.
Prior te-duly-19!L8, pff camp No
189/8 in Rechitsa was guarded by
soldiers who were No 127 an their
epaulets. One Major Kunichov
(phonetic spelling) (fuu) was camp
commandant.
Veterinary equip-
ment depot of se-
veral brick and
wooden buildings,
surrounded by a
barbed-wire fence.
On top of a wooded
hill -about two and
a half km south-
west of the city
and southeast of we Source was
the railroad line unable to determine the items
to Minsk. stored in the depot buildings be-
Approved F j 01/11/21: CIA-RDP80-0081OA000300010011-5