BORDER GUARD KOMANDATURA AND ZASTAVAS IN SVILENGRAD OKOLIYA

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: May 31, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sees. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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Border Guard Kc*andatura and DATE DISTR.
31 May 1955
Zastavas in Svilengrad Okoliya
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MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
Border Guard Komandatura at Raykova Mogila (N 4150 E 2619). Svilenjtrad Okoliva
1. On the northern edge of the village of Raykova Mogila, and on the western side of
the highway to the village of Nastrak (N 4152 E 2619) there are Border Guard
barracks which were built in 1948. These barracks are two-story, whitewashed
buildings, about 20 by 10 meters in size with red tile roofs. There is one smaller
building near the barracks where the families of the Border Guard officers are
quartered. The entire area is surrounded by a barbed wire fence.
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100 soldiers and 10 to 15 officers quartered in thpae barrackA
r ar oman ura because o its s C.
Border Guard Zastava in the Village of Shtit (N 4349 ffi 2622). 9r"arad gcoliva
3. There is a Border Guard Zastava in the village of Shtit .which is located on the
western edge of the village between the village and the vll3Ap graveyard, on the
southern side of the Raykova Mogila-Shtit highway. The Zaotkiaconsists of an
old, one-story, whitewashed building covered with
Zastava is surrounded
4. Naryads (patrols) are constantly posted (N 1150 E 262,3) road- F_
Border Guard Zastava in the Gebranskata Quarter of the Town of enarad
5. There is a Bo
of Svilengrad
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Village of Mustrak (N 4152 E 2619). Svilengrad 0kol&U
1. The village of Mustrak is subject to the control of the amtralmayorehip of the
village Nova Lefka,(N 4154 N 2617)., Svilengrad Okoliya. Also subject to the control
of this central mayorship are the following villages: Stara Lerkn'(N 4151 E 2616),
Ravna Gora (N,4152 E 2621) and Lisovo (N 4757 E 2619).
2. The village Mustrak is in the second border zone, and the paesporte of all the in-
habitants are stamped with the second border zone stamp which carries the letter
"g"
The village has about 150 houses and an entirely Hetlgarian
600 popula ion of approxi-
matel
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The fields surrounding the village are not fertile and yie1d'very little. The vil-
lagers are required to turn over to the ove
tons of cotton yearly. One of the g ~O tons of foodstuffs and 60
population s test p r o b l e m ' ia the growing
of the required food, tobacco and cotton in the tiatertile soil, and it is practi,-
cally impossible for them to meet the government demands.
5. Another grave problem is the imposition of different fines upon the people. Indi-
viduals are fined for the unlawful cutting of wood .;(up to 1,5Ofl laft for cutting a
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if cattle are found grazing in forbidden a;
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0 0 200 leva per year). In additiof, pet 'ments on the government
forced loan "Vtora Petiletka - 1954" must be met.
6. The village Mustrak has neither electricity nor irrigation. The houses have no
running water. Drinking water comes from a single 'well in the village.
7. The village has a branch of the large cooperative in Nova Lefka. The manager for
the branch i a f;on,+..,4 D- --' v ? _"- M.
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8. There is a Christian church
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priest although the Nova Lefka priest, Pop Khristo (LNU), comes occasiona:
general
church attend
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ance is poor.
9. There is no TKZS in Mustrak.
10, The villa has one school whi e1, anon +^ +,?e 'fi... -, _ -- -
ZHELEV, and Ivan IVANOV------------------- "?~"??~` as "yur Lvanov Ma[VW, MAyn Kanelov
11. There is an inactive BCP organization of i
which is Dimitur Neshov STOYEV
12. The village _has a DSNM
KOZHIIKHAROV
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the village also has DOSO (nobr. von.
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un tar Organization for Cooperati in Defense )S OF (Otechestven
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Return of Interned Families to Mnstrak
1. In 1948 six families from Mustrak village, Svileng+ad Okoli a, in ' the 2nd Border
Zon~were exiled to northern Bulgaria in the area arcad ahtov
2.
returning families were furnished with s ecial doc=ents tr 3otie which entitled
them to make the trip.
general order applicable -throughout
the country.
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