THE BUKOVTSI-MIKHAYLOVGRAD ROAD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2010
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• Publication Date: June 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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
INFORMATION REPORT 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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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT The Bukovtsi-Mikhaylovgrad Road
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14 June 1954
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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On the whole this is, by Balkan standards, a very passable road varying in width
between five and six meters, including one meter earth shoulders on either side,
suitable for all types of traffic. The surface is of the usual earthbound gravel
type and, as everywhere else in Bulgaria, reasonably good stretches alternate with
stretches that are full of holes necessitating reduction in the speed of private
oars to 20 kilometers per hour. It is free from steep climbs and difficult turns.
After Gloshene, the 65 kilometer road runs along the western side of the Ogoeta
River and from it a good view is gained across the country to the east. Low hills
rise to the west of the road.
`s Bukovtsi (N 43-41, E 23-51)jOryakhovo Okoliya Glozhene (N 43-41, E 23-49),
Oryakhovo Okoliya - Butan (N 43-39, E 23-45);Oryakhovo Okoliya
Kriva Bara (N 43-38, E 23-43),Oryakhovo Okoliya - Khayredin (N 43-369
E 23-43),Oryakhovo Okoliya - Vaeilovgrad (N 43-35, E 23-37),Oryakhovo
Okoliya - Mikhailovo (formerly Dolna Gnoynitea N 43-34) E 23-34 Oryakhovo
Okoliya - Lekhchevo (N 43-32, E 23-32),Mikhaylovgrad Okoliya - Gromahin
(N 43-32, E 23-30), Mikhaylovgrad Okoliya - Kobilyak (N 43-32, E 23-27),
Mikhaylovgrad, Okoliya - Vladimirovo (formerly Lyuta N 43 32 E 23-240
ad Okoli a - Murchevo (N 43-32p ~ y E 23-22 )IMikhaylovgrad Okoliya -
Erden (N 43-29, E 23-17))Mikhaylovgrad Okoliya - junction with main road
Lom/Mikhaylovgrad - Mikhaylovgrad,
Surface: Except for stretches of between two and three kilometers each in the
villages of Butan, Khayredin and Viadimirovo where the road is paved
with stone blocks, the surface is, as stated above, made up from gravel
and earth. The final two kilometers from the junction with the Lom
road into Mikhaylovgrad are also paved with blocks.
Br_idges: (a) At Bukovtsi, there is a minor concrete bridge about 30 meters long
across the Skit; one masonry pier and masonry abutments; width
approximately five meters; height above water 3evel estimated at
maximum three meters;
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(b) A major bridge across the Ogosta to the east of Glozhene; of massive
concrete construction (built 1932), it has four concrete arches resting
on masonry abutments and three masonry piers; length 100 meters, width
four meters, height of deck above water level three meters; at the tops
of the arches, there are concrete "roof struts."
Landslides and Subsidences:
(a) Two kilometers southwest of Vladimirovo where the road runs closely
alongside the river, there is a tendency for the road to subside into the
river; the western side of the road is flanked by a cliff which is clearly
a constant source of trouble through landslides.
(b) Near Erden, where the Mikhaylovgrad - Vidin railway line crosses the river,
there is a stretch of some two hundred meters threatened by landslides
from an adjacent cliff; Trudovaks were working on the cliff side in
April 1954 with the apparent object of improving conditions.
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