THE RUSE-GIURGIU BRIDGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002600090003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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Bulgaria/Armenia
The Rusejliurgiu Bridge
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13 October 1953
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25X1 1. Construction of the Ruse-Giurgiu bridges knowa aa Project 889s is headed by Longa
(fnu)s a Rumanian engineer. His assistant is Dikov (fnu)s formerly head i.t the
Bulgarian Commercial Fleet. Offices of the project are in the former commercial
exchange on Red Square in Ruse.
2. Terms of the agreement between Bulgaria and Rumania specified that Bulgaria would
build' the .,sections in Bulgaria and over the rivers and that Rumania would build the
remAnder'. Work was to bfigin simultaneously in the tva cemntriess and the bridge
is to be completed in 1955, or possibly even in 19f4. loNlek on the Bulgarian side
was begun in May 1952.
3. The bridge will be 10 kilometers long--one and one-half kilometers in Bulgarian
territory's three kilometers across the river. ed the river islands: and five and
one-half kilometers in Rumanian territory. It will have two levelos the lower for
rail traffic and the Upper for other vehicles. Ona section will be a drawbridge*
4. The bridge will coned t of a single row of large pillars of reinforced concrete
With an elliptical cross-section. Pillars will in some places go down to a depth
of 35 meters to reach bedrock. A height of 10 meters above wI ter-level was agreed up
0* for the bridges but this is not believed to be final*
5. In January /9530 all pillars on the Bulgarian shore had been completeds and
several had been completed in the river. Tgo of the river pillars were later
wash d away.
6. Three thousand to 30500 workers are e ployed on the Bulgarian side of theses
20000 are Trudovaks. They are assisted by 250 Soviet specialists such as
draftsmen s engineers s and clerks. A afar larger a number of workers is employed
on the Rumanian side.
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7. Heavy industrial equipment in use on the project includes the following:
a. Fiii-io 10 Hungarian bulldozers with shovel capacities of one-half to one
meter;
b. One hundred andtwenty Skoda trucks with capacities of five and 10 tons;
c. Ten Czech trucks with vertical forklifts; and
d. Two Czech trucks with lateral forklifts and tipping equipments which arrived
in 1953.
6. On the Bulgarian side, a worker earns 20 leva per day, and an engineer earns 50
leva per day. A Soviet engineer receives free housing and 300 to 500 leva per
day.
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