VILNIUS AND VICINITY: INSTITUTIONS, RAILROADS, MILITARY, AND INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION

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• Publication Date: June 16, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY
USSR (Lithuanian SSR)
REPORT
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Vilnius and Vicinity: Institutions,
Railroads, Military, and Industrial
DATE Dim.
16 June 1958
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Institutions
1. The Council of Ministers was located on Gorki? gatve in the former Bank
Polski building.
2. The Communist Party center occupied the building of the former Lux Cinema
on Staliho prospekt.
Railroads
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3. There was a new, three-story passenger railroad station on its prewar site.
The new edifice had special waiting rooms for members of the armed forces,
and women and children. The station had 27 railrOad lines.
4. The freight station, which was three kilometers north of the passenger
station, had 40 railroad lines.
Military Installations in and Around Vilnius
5. An MVD unit occupied former Polish barracks on Kosciuskos gatve.
6. New military barracks, called Voyennyy Gorodok, were located at the end of
DzerzinskiO,gatve (formerly Kalvariju). They included armored and
artillery units, as well as large repair shops for military vehicles which
employed hundreds of civilian workers.
7. A radar unit was stationed in Voyennyy Gorodok, near the power station.
8. An MVD unit occupied a large building near the Green Bridge (,Zelenyy Most).,
not far from a church (possibly the Rafat Church). Another MVD unit
occupied a large building at the corner of Bolshaya (formerly Wielka) and
Bakshta Streets, near the Pravoslav Church.2
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9. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MV])) of the
a block of buildings at the Romer of:7amkowa
Streets on Cathedral Square..3
10. A tank unit, formerly in Podbrod, had been in
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Lithuanian SSR occupied
add aolewska Liow Pioneryg
Vilnius since 1954.4
11. An artillery officers' school had occupied a former school building on
Zavalnaya Street since 1948.5
12. In 1949 a military airfield was constructed three kilometers south of the
old civilian airfield in Porubnok.? It was the only military airfield
near Vilnius. The field had a number of concrete runways, where twin-
engined bombers were observed. Barracks for pilots were near the air-
field. A military airfield, six kilometers west of Smorgon ZYT 54-30,
E 26-2270 construction of which had been undertaken in 1954, was still
unfinished in early 1957.7 Zelenoye village was evacuated and its
Inhabitants transferred to neighboring villages because of the airfield
construction, the field occupied an area
of 36 square kilometers 200 meters south of the road to Vilnius. In early
1957 a railroad siding was laid between the nearby station of Soly, the
first station after Smorgon on the Vilnius line, and the airfield. After
construction of the airfield was initiated no new inhabitants were
permitted to settle in Smorgon.
13. A large airfield was located west of the Dvina River on the road to
Vitevsk (sic).8
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Industry
The Zhalgeris Machinery Factory was about two kilometers southeast of
the Noyaya Vikeyka (sic) railroad station, parallel to the railroad
tracks.9 rj!The factory produced lathes) drilling machines, milling machines,
dies, and cutting machines. It had its own foundry, and 2,000 employees
working in two or three shifts. Some of its production was exported to
China, and Rumania, and other countries.
15. A paint compressor plant (zavod krasochnikh aparatov), which had 800
employees, was also located near the Novaya Vlleyka railroad station.
16. There was :an electrical meter plant in Vilnius.,
17. A repair shop for diesel locomotives (dieselnoye depo) was near the
railroad station,: Htngarian Ganz engines and Czech Skoda engines were
repaired at the workshops. The only other similar Soviet enterprise was
in Leningrad. However, another workshop was under construction near the
Vilnius railroad station in early 1957, and was expected to begin
operations soon thereafter.
18. Construction of the Vilnius Drill Plant (Vilenskiy Sverdlennyy Zavod)
was undertaken on Naugardukoiatve in'1955,;andAhe'
plant was expected to start production in 1957.11 It was subordinate
to the Ministry of Machitory, (sic).
19. The Elfa Electrical Motor Factory, constructed in 1948, had been in
operation since 1949. 14 its initial year the plant produced five to
ten-kilowatt motors, but since difficulties were encountered in the
prodes6;.output7wad limited by,1950 to4lotors-for phonOgraphd)..
and painting corssiEs, which were produced' byplan ixi..
Novaya Vileyka. sig. ..,..lhaplarithad also been prodUOingelectrical
phonographs since 1950, Ind phonographs coiibi?ed ijith magnetophones
since 1953. :The. factory'also begarvtO repair. foreign magnetoPhOnes..
brought in the country by Soviet serVicemenposted'abroadln early 1957
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motors for magnetophones constituted the principal item of production at
the Elfa Factory, and motors for compressors, washing machines, and
phonographs were also produced. The plant, which employed 1,500
workers in two shifts in early 1957, was being expanded to accelerate
magnetophone production.
20. Plant No. 555 (Zavod
Ministry of Aviation
prewar radio factory.
following items:
No. 555), which was subordinate to the gormej
rIndustry, occupied the former site of Elektrft 55.:7
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Its production, which was secret, included the
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a. Components for radar detection instruments.
b. Voltmeters and electronic cathode voltmeters.
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Meters: for both direct and alternating current, as well as for high
frequencies.
d. Oscillographs of all sizes. The plant was the principal Soviet
producer of this item'.
e. Electronic supersonic measuring instruments (ultra zvukovoy datehik)
which are used to test the quality of metal casts.
f.
Instruments for measuring aircraft radio tubes.
21. A television instrument factory was located outside Vilnius on the
road to Kaunas.
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2. Wielka Street is now known as Gorki? gatve, and Bakshta Street is
known as Hoksto datve.
3. Zamkowa Street was known as Piles Street and,is no.called Gorki? g5atve.
Krolewska Street is now called Pioneryu gatve. Cathedral Square or
Plac Katedralny is now known as Gedimino Aikshte.
4. Podbrod is probably Padrade, a village NE of Vilnius.
5. Zavalmaya Street is now known as KoMjaunino gatve.
6. Porubanok is cRiled Kirtimai.
7. Probably the Smorgon Military Airfield 2.5 miles north of Smorgon,
a World War II Airfield which has undergone development.
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8. Vitevsk is probably Vitebsk LITT 55-12, E 30-1.7. This airfield
is probably either Vitebsk Airfield, located just SSE of Vitebsk or
Vitebsk Northeast, located about 3.4 miles NE of Vitebsk, 1 mile
SE of the West Dvina River. There is no airfield in this vicinity west
of the Dvina River.
9. Nora ya Vileyka, nown as Novo Milejka (Polish), Naujoji Vilnia
(Lithuanian), and Novo Vilinya (Russian), is located about ten
km east of Vilnius.
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11. Naugarduko gatve is now called Partizanu gatve.
12. The Elfa Factory is located at Svidrigalos Street in Vilnius.
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