CITY OF LENINGRAD

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• Publication Date: January 30, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
SUBJECT City of Leningrad
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
30 January 1959
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1. Forestry engineers school. The building was surrounded by a small forest.
(Approximate location.) Kirov Academy of Forestry and Timber Trdustr.
2. Recreation park called Kirov Islands. 'Located in the park were an.open air
--theater and all types of sports facilities.
3o Approximate location.of the Stalin Plant which constructed jet motors or
planes.
4., Prison for common criminals.
5. An.old vie,'-1p--t which spanned a railroad line going from Len:i tigrad to Finland.
(This viaduct does not appear on.the general maps.)
6. Optical plant for military use. ~zerzhi.nskiy Optical.Plait]
7. Streetcar line used by streetcar No. 3 and others.
8. Lenin Park.
9. Artillery museum.
10. An unnamed park.
11. Pokrovskiy.Pedagogical Institute.
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12. Tartar mosque, still under construction.
13. Engineerrig.institute for naval,. military, and civil engineers.
111. Sergey Kirov Biographical. Museum. (This was an.old palace:which.had.formerly
belonged to'Kshchezhinskaya,the dancer.).
15. Preparatory school.for naval academy candidates. The school-was exclusively
for wax orphans and, more particularly, the children.of deceased navy men...
16. Peter and. Paul -Fortress. At the time of the report, this was'a museum-prison
commemorating the repression against the pre-1917 revolutionaries...
17-.-N,Streetcar line used by streetcar No..3.and others.
18. . The cruiser Aurora, which at time of report was a )historical.museum and
national monument.
19. Kirov Military Medical Academy.
20. Tank-officers' academy.
.21. Finland Railroad Station.
23. A re.gtricted':: traffic route closed to truck traffic On..days ;when. the
'Lengor.ispolkom.(city committee) or the,_'. molnyy'met,traffic was restricts
to official cars.
.2L A chemical. combine;(approximate lo-cation)..
25 ;shipyards where merchant ships were repaired and small.river tugboats
,constructed.
.26. A park.-.belonging to the-Smolnyy. The park. was opened to the public in.1956.
27. The. Smoln~~;7 building housing the city and oblast Communist Party organization.
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.28. A: hydroelectric'works institute.. Formerly it had been.achurch..
29. A.cathedral -used as a warehouse.
30. Institute;.of.FOre:ign;Languages (approximate. ocation).
31. rFark,c.Taur ct eakiy S d
32. A high'.-, school.
33. MUD. headq.uar`ters for the
city of Leningrad and Leningrad Oblast..
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34. An artillery officers' school.
35. -Peter the Great Recreation Park fSummer Garden. In the park was the Peter
the Great Palace Museum.
36. Mars Park.
37. Former French Consulate. It was abandoned as of, Sebtember -1956 0..
38. Infantry quarters.
39. Streetcar line used by streetcar No. 31 and others.
40. USSR Academy of Sciences.
41. University.
42. Repin Institute of Painting.
43. Frunze Academy for naval.offic:ers.
44. Building subordinate to the military commissariat of the Kalininskiy rayon.
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45. Leisgafti-. Institute of Physical Culture and stadium.
i6. Naval.headquarters. The headquarters. occupied a two-story building.
47. Labor building and central offices of the city and oblast trade. unions.
.48. Infantry barracks.
49. .timskiy-Korsakov Conservatory. Adjacent to the building were.two monuments;
the one to the south was a monument to Glinka.
50. QzthedfaJ (Nikolakiy`Sobor (open to warship).
51. Main post.office.
52. The municipal archives.
53. Monument to Peter the Great.
54. State Institute of Commercial.Builaing.Projects.
55. A'military acadeir..* w`or naval engineers. The building ,was known as the Admiralty.
56. Park.
57. Parking 'lot for taxis.
58. Former German. Consulate. It was abandoned as, af).(September
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~9. Lengorisuolkom (Leningrad City Executive Committee).
60. Hotel- Astoria.
61. Hotel. Y.evro,peyskaya.
62. Isaakiyevskiy Sobor.
repair.
. The cathedral, the largest in Leningrad,,was under
63. Kirov.'Textile Institute.
64. Institute of Finance.
65. Gertsen Pedagogical Institute.
.66. An. electrotechnical engineering institute.
67. Kazanskiy Sob:or,.:::''...It was used as a religious.historical.museum. Its aim
was to discredit religion.
68. Main.telegraph offices and telephone exchange.
69, 70. :General staff of the garrison and oblast.
71. Administrative office of the traffic police.
72. An Orthodox church used as a food storehouse. It was,called the Church of
Blood in memory of the tsar for whom it was erected. He was wounded on-this
site when an attempt was made upon his life.
73. A museum of contemporary art.
74. Pushkin Theater, a small-opera house.
175. ?-'he..1.f6rmer British Consulate. 'In. September.,. 95.,6, this building housed the
institute for subway-planning.
76. Manual training school.. It. was formerly a..Catholic.church called.the
Polish., Temple;.
.77. teningrad Red.Cross.
.78. Stomatologieheskiy Institut..
79. Passazh Department Store which sold clothing and-a1l.types of merchandise
except food.
80. Museum.of Soviet Art. It had formerly been a tsar's palace.
81. State Museum of Ethnography.
82. Mikhaylovskiy Gardens.
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83. -School for military officers belonging to the corps of engineers. It was
called the Castle of the Engineers, and was in an. old, building formerly'-known
as.the .Mikhaylovskiy pastle.
84. A monument to Peter the First. This equestrian statue was located in front
of.the Castle of the Engineers.
85. Circus.
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86. An Army,officers' school.
87. A covered sports stadium.
88. A residence for reserve generals and their dependents.
89. DOSAAY 6rgahizatiOh of the Kuybyshevskiy rayon.
90. Leningrad Armed.Forces Stadium.
91. An.Orthodox Church (not open).
92. Institute of Fine and Applied Arts. It was also an architectural. institute.
93. An infantry, barracks .
94. Agricultural Institute.
95, A 11.igh school.
96. A children's theater.
97. Ophthalmological Institute, complete with surgical. equipment.
98. A theatrical school.
99. An,electric power planning institute. It was housed in a reconstructed
Orthodox Church.
100. A.)building somewhat similar to a ministerial department; it was subordinate
to the Navy.
102. An . Orthodox. Church, open to worship.
103. State.Planning Lr?-.`=tute of the Aluminum. Industry. It was subordinate to the
fa-bolisheg Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy.
104. Streetcar:l.line used by streetcar No. 28 and others.
105. A physical. culture institute.
106. A Catholic church, open to worship.
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107. Executive Committee of the Kuybys.evskiy rayon, subordinate to the Lengorispolkom.
108. Streets closed to heavy truck traffic.
109. Institute.of City Planning (included planning-,6f shelters.)
110. .Streetcar-line,used by streetcars. numbered 3, 9, 15, 28, and others.
ill. Hotel_Baltiyskaya..
112. Streetcar line used by streetcars numbered 9, 28,.and.others.
113. Ismailovskiy Orthodox Church. It was closed and undergoing restoration.
114. L.I.S.I. Institute Leningrad Institute of Industrial Engineers. The
institute offered courses on construction of roads, bridges, and other industrial
installations; it also had a section for military construction engineers.
115. Tekhnologicheskiy subway station and managing offices of the Leningrad Subway.
116. An Orthodox Church, closed to worship.
117. Naval Military Medical Academy.
118. A hospital for naval and civilian personnel. Medical students attending the
above-mentioned academy were trained in this hospital.
119.. . Maxine barracks.
120. Streetcar line used by streetcar No..9 and others.
121. ;Kuznechnaya subway station 5ossibly Vladimirskaya statio~.
122. Kuznechskiy Market.
123. An Orthodox Church, closed to worship.
124+. A two-story building b.ousin.g the Laika Restaurant on the first floor and a
hotel (name unknown) on the second floor. possibly the Moskovskaya Hoteg.
125. Ploshchad Vosstaniya subway station.
126. . Moscow Railroad Station.
127. Hotel.Moskovskaya Lpossibly the OktyabrskayJ.
128. Executive Committer of the Oktyabrakiy rayon which was subordinate to the
Lengorispolkom.
129. Streetcar line used by streetcar No. 10 and others.
130. A civilian hospital. From 1937 to 1940,it was used as Children's Home No. 9
.for Spanish children; thereafter, until 1942, when.the siege of Leningrad
ended, it was used as a home for Spanish youths.
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131. Aleksandro-Nevskaya Lavra Orthodox. Church. In it were the tombs of famous
people, including the prince whose name it bore. At the time of?the report,
it was a historical. museum.
132. An Orthodox seminary.
133. Location.of an important flour combine (factory and storehouse).
134. Streetcar line used by streetcars numbered-7,-.l2,.,..-and others...:
135.
An area populated in recent years..,::Various factories wer.e.located. here
136. An.Orthodox Church, closed.to worship.
137. A gas and coke plant.
138. Dairy No. 1 which produced powdered milk and other dairy products.
139:- Streetcar line used by streetcars number 3, 15, and.others.
140. A hospital.
141. An.electric lamp factory.
142. A combine for preparing powdered concentrated-.food products. It was also
a storehouse.
l13.. Fire station.af the Moskovskiy rayon.
144. A carbarn.
115. Executive Committee of the Moskovskiy rayon, subordinate to the Lengorispolkom.
146. Military commissariat, telegraph offices, telephone exchange, and post office
of the Moskovskiy rayon.
117. A viaduct which had been constructed.to replace an.old one. A double track
railroad_line crossed the viaduct.
148. The Elektrosila Plant which produced motors and.turbines for power plants
and electrical apparatus for general industrial and military use.
14+9. A lumber mill and storehouse.
150. Leningrad branch c?.' the State Transport Planning Institute.
151. A residence housing German technicians and their families and also some Soviet
families.
152. A kclkhoz market--;
153. A parking lot for heavy-duty trucks.
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154. A general. medical clinic.
155. Victory Park.
156. Approximate location.of the Kirov Tractor and-Heavy Machinery
Plant which, it was rumored, employed about 20,000 workers. :During
World War II this plant constructed tanks.
Supplementary Information
City Planning
1. Number 135 on the overlay indicates the approximate-area-which.had been
populated during the latter half of the 1947.to 1956:;period;"'.:.FrbAi ,Victory
Park (No. 155 on sketch) there was a ten-kilometer extension to Moskovskoye,
shosse leading directly south to the Pulkovo ,..observatory. The last
Buildings along this extension were some seven kilometers north of the
observatory; however, plans called for the construction of 'housing in.the
southerly direction (i. e.., toward.the observatory).
2...During the period 1947 to 1956,.the,following changes in street names
had occurred:
a. .Since 1953 .T95g, prospekt.Stalina had.been.called Moskovskcye.. shosse..
b. Nevskiy prospekt; which extended from:'ploshch:adVosstaniya to Aleksandro
Nevskaya ploshchad, was known as Staro-Nevskiy prospekt.
Aleksandro Nevskaya ploshchad was known asKrasnaya.ploshchad.
d'. :PTo'sh'chad piktatury was known as ploshchad. _Smol< io'go?.
Civil Defense
Anti-atomic and anti-gas shelters had been. constructed in the basements of
all new and old :buildings and plans were in the making to build*.underground
shelters in parks,. gardens, squares, and also in.the fields near villages and
towns which. did .not have buildings with . basements. Since the subway was new,
it was . equipped. with civil defense facilities, i.e., passageways alongside
the tunnels connecting the different stations. The entrances to the passage-
ways could .be seen :from .the. subway stations, and.because they had no connection
with the :subway system proper, source concluded that they were shelters.
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154. A general. medical clinic.
155. Victory Park.
156. Approximate location.of the Kirov Tractor and-Heavy Machinery
Plant which, it was rumored, employed about 20,000 workers. :During
World War II this plant constructed tanks.
Supplementary Information
City Planning
1. Number 135 on the overlay indicates the approximate-area-which.had been
populated during the latter half of the 1947.to 1956:;period;"'.:.FrbAi ,Victory
Park (No. 155 on sketch) there was a ten-kilometer extension to Moskovskoye,
shosse leading directly south to the Pulkovo ,..observatory. The last
Buildings along this extension were some seven kilometers north of the
observatory; however, plans called for the construction of 'housing in.the
southerly direction (i. e.., toward.the observatory).
2...During the period 1947 to 1956,.the,following changes in street names
had occurred:
a. .Since 1953 .T95g, prospekt.Stalina had.been.called Moskovskcye.. shosse..
b. Nevskiy prospekt; which extended from:'ploshch:adVosstaniya to Aleksandro
Nevskaya ploshchad, was known as Staro-Nevskiy prospekt.
Aleksandro Nevskaya ploshchad was known asKrasnaya.ploshchad.
d'. :PTo'sh'chad piktatury was known as ploshchad. _Smol< io'go?.
Civil Defense
Anti-atomic and anti-gas shelters had been. constructed in the basements of
all new and old :buildings and plans were in the making to build*.underground
shelters in parks,. gardens, squares, and also in.the fields near villages and
towns which. did .not have buildings with . basements. Since the subway was new,
it was . equipped. with civil defense facilities, i.e., passageways alongside
the tunnels connecting the different stations. The entrances to the passage-
ways could .be seen :from .the. subway stations, and.because they had no connection
with the :subway system proper, source concluded that they were shelters.
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