DESCRIPTION OF PODLIPKI AREA

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• Publication Date: September 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION (REPORT
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network. This, line was, the main supply artery fox the plant. The line was
eauied with, an overhead electrical system and ran about one km west of the
COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT De$cription of Podlipki Area
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Points,oi'. Interest at Podlipici
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Paint 1.. Highway. A two-lane, asphalt highway, about 8 meters wide, . which. led
from Moscow to Yaroslavl. This highway ran parallel to the railroad line,
(Point 2) and past the plant (Point 17).
Point 2. Railroad. line. A doubles-track, Sovie t-gauge' railroad line ran .ap-
proximately parallel to the highway,,(Point 1) and was part of the Trans-Siberian
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Point 3. Narrow-gauge railroad line. A very narrow-gauge' railroad line ser-
viced the leather factory (Point 4) in Ivanteyevka.
Point 4. Leather factory. A small leather manufacturing plant and tannery
located in a small village, Ivanteyevka, four q'r five km north of Bolshevo
(Point 5).
Point 5. Bolshevo. This was a resort-like little, village,, with an approximate
population :of 1+,;000. There were many frame:.iweekend cottages built here, which
were used by rich city dveller's from Moscow. ILLEGIB
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Point 6. Small Plant. This was the approximate location of the anrxe4;to
the plant, it
was located here. It resembled a large laboratory building and possibly housed
the wind tunnels of Nil 88. This small plant had about four or five large,
three-story, stone buildings
Point 7. Roads A small,, hard-packed gravel road, about four meters wide,
connected the highway (Point 1) and village (Point 5). The total length of
this road was about five km and it extended from west to east.
Point 8. Railroad line. A single;-track Soviet-gauge railroad line;, which ex-
tended east from the railroad. line at point 2 and led to Monino, a small town
northeast of Moscow This was the supply artery for the plant which it bordered
on the north. The line was not electr,fied.
Point 9. Unidentified Shops. A small group of shops into which Soviet '-34-type
tanks often entered. The shopp were entirely surrounded by tall trees through
which visibility was restricted.. There were approximately three to four
50- to 60-meter-high brick smokestacks protruding from the shop area. The
area was bordered on the north by a road (point 7).
Point 10. Railroad Station. A -three-- or four-track station called Podlipki
which served the plant. It consisted of a small wooden building, single story,
about 18 meters long, in which there were two ticket offices, and a wooden,
open-air platform about 65 meters long and four meters wide. This station
was on the northern side of the railroad line (Point 8).
Point 11. Town. Podlipki had a, population of about 15,x000 and bordered the
plant on the east. The personnel employed at the plant used this town for
shopping, medical care,, and recreation. Most of the houses in this, town were
three-story, stone buildings with gabled roofs covered with red tile. The
natives of this town,atated on several occasions that the town was established
in the year 1922. It had not been touched by the war, so no damage was evident.
Most of 'the streets were covered by hard-packed, gratrel,. an tkRR main street saphalt-
covered. Podlipki was completely electrified and had a goad ester system
which was supplied by a large water reservoir located several kilometers north-
east of the city.
Point 12. Canal. This two-meter-wide 'nderground canal, covered by earth and
stones, probably supplied the town-,of Podli ki with wate this canal
E carried the
towns water supply from the reservoir mentioned in Point 11 to another smaller
reservoir southeast of the city.
Point 13. ,airfield. This grass-covered, unkempt field about 1600 x 800 meters
in size was used. by both light liaison-type,, and ;DC-3-type aircraft, which flew
to and from this field with' officials who had business in the plant. F_ I
here were no permanent personnel at this field, but the two cor-
rugate , iron hangars, about 35 x,'.35 x 10 meters, were occasionally used by
maintenance personnel for the purpose of servicing visiting aircraft. There
were no guards stationed ground 'the field, except when aircraft were present,
and then ox.,y near the aircraft itself. Each time aircraft took off from this
field,, they would make the take-off run in a northwesterly direction.
Point lit. Statue. A four-meter-high statue of Lenin sculptured from white
stone, facing nor'thvest and o;,a one-meter-high, white stone pedestal, sur-
rounded by a small wooden picket fence was located Mere.
Point 15. Town. Mytishchi, a small -town with a population of about 15,000
was southwest of the pant. '7,h.e houses in this city were all three-story, stone,
gable-roofed buildings covered. with red tile. The actual living area was well
scattered and gave the impression of a fairly large co=unity. In reality it
was not any larger than the town of Podlipki (Point 11). There was also a
railroad station (Point 16) in this city,
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Point 16. Railroad Station. Mytishchi, a fairly large station consisting
of eight tracks, with a two-story, wooden station building containing four
ticket offices. The railroad station had a large switching building lo-
cated about 50 meters northwest of the station
This switching building was about 20 x 12 m in size. The
a n orm was a 50 x 8 in, stone platform which was used by passengers
only. The freight traffic did not stop at this station but was routed
directly onto the railroad. line (Point 8).
All freight traffic that
went to the plant was switched directly to this railroad line.
Point 17. Plant. A large plant called Nil 88 was engaged in the research,
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there were other activities at this plant
The plant was sometimes referred to as the Kaliningrad
Guided Missile an but the most common name was NII 88.
Point 18. Group of Buildings. About four large, stone, barrack-type,, three-
story, red-tiled, gable-roofed buildings, which were in some manner connected
with the work being carried out in the plant. These buildings were not
guarded or protected from passers-by. They were.l.ocat.ed approximately
350 m northwest of the plant, and about 4,00 meters southeast of the rail-
road line (Point 2). The entire building area was constructed in the
center of a thin evergreen forest.
Point 1.9. Railroad Station. A small, single-track station called Stroitel
consisted of one small. frim -?building, and a small wooden station ,platform.
It was located on the railroad line (Point 2) and approximately 400 m north-
west of the group of buildings (Point 18) and about two km northeast of the
railroad station (Point 16)
Point 20. Water Tanks. Large, round tanks, about five m in diameter, and
covered with cone-shaped, corrugated iron sheets,, were placed exactly over
the middle of the canal (Point 12) These tanks probably stored the
plant and the Podlipki water supply? The southeastern tank was about ten m
northwest of the highway (Point 1). The northwestern tank was located
about 15 m southeast of the railroad line (Point 2). The tanks were ap-
proximately 750 m apart, and each was constantly guarded by a dark-blue-
uniformed policewoman armed with a, pistol..
Qe:rier ,l Description of Podlipki
Transportation
2. The city of Podlipki9 although a fairly modern little city, did not have
any modern means of city transportation. '.There were no streetcars nor
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in or near this city,, was the railroad system. Generally speaking, the t
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very nicely. All trains, however, were extremely overcrowded and dirty
25X1 was always refuse strewn a ou in trie cars, e
toilets were almost always inoperative, and the general sanitary condition
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of schedules indicated t',ka,a? the tracks in this vicinity were in good
working order, as there were no stops for repair or maintenance of the
road bed.
Population
3. The population in the city of Podlipki, as in all parts of the Soviet Union,
are generally friendly, 'kind people, but violently afraid of foreigners and
strangers. It was qu to simple to start a, casual street conversation, but
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the person or persons with whom this conversation had been started, would
never continue his newly acquired.frIendship. Prices in Podlipki were ex-
tremely hih,, and Only persona who had an earning capacity of 1500 tp
2000 rubles monthly; could pp rchase the necessary food and clothing articles.
This sittzajion did not have much effect on the working Soviet, because he
was satisfied with-what he had and happy that he was alive. Because of this
attitude, It was very difficult to distinguish the unhappy from the generally
dissatisfied.
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Livi Ntioo:ns
4. The general living conditions in the city of Podlipki were very low in com-
parison to Western f3ta:nda.r.de. :''There were no working-class families that
had an apartment for themselves. The a.pertments.they occupied were always
shared with four and sometimes with six other families. Most apartments
consisted of two small rooms, with a toilet in the hall which was used by
five or six other apartments. Bathing facilities were nil and the popu-
lation was forced to use the public baths. here was only
one such institution in 'odlipki, located near the III plant.
lack of garbage disposal. The
housewives would merely t0 ow their garbage out of the back window of
their apartments, and it would lie there until the "sanitary commandos"
cleared it away. The latter operation took place very seldom, and the
rotting garbage would lie around as long as two to three months before it
would be cleared. A thorough caning of the city, would. take place twice
a years on 1 $'ay and October Revolution ray.
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5. The area of Podlip;k.i was slightly hilly and heavily forested with ever:-
green. trees and shrubbery.
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little ar, Q = fertilization, The climate was mild in the summer and
extremely cold and Al in the winter. T/'lben snows came, in the latter
part of October, everything was inmobilired and.out of order-until the
maintenance crews began to work. The summers tere fairly dry, with few
thunderstorms, but, there was generally sufficient rainfall for crops to
grow and flourish r plendidly. The spring months, however, were very wet and
all roads and. highways were flowing; rivers of mud.
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Sketch of Pod3.1p1 L Are a
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