URBAN INFORMATION AND TOWN MAP OF TIMISOARA

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• Publication Date: September 6, 1960
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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.Q. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SUBJECT Urban Information and Town Hap of DATE DISTR. 6 September 1960
Timisoara
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INFO.
PLACE &
Strada Baritiu
Strada 13 Decembrie
Strada 7 Noembrie
Piata I'iaresalul Tolbuckin
Bulevardul 6 Martie
Piata Maria
Piata Nicolae Balcescu
Strada Bonaz
Splaiul Nicolae Titulescu
Strada Treboniu Laurean
Strada Grivita Rosie
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1. Timisoara, a provincial capital (Resedinta De Regiune), has a popula-
tion of about 146,000. The population in 1940 was 110,000. This
increase in population resulted from local industrial development, the
growth of public institutions and the trend towards urbanization on
the part of the rural population. The inhabitants are mostly of four
ethnic groups: Rumanians, Swabian Germans, Hungarians, and Serbs.
2. The following street names have been changed (partial listing):
Old name
Strada Baritiu)
Strada Sturza )
Strada Ion Bratianu
Strada Boncz
Piata General Dragalina
Bulevardul iegele Carol
Piata Sf. !,.,aria
Piata Lahovari
Strada Xatian
Splaiul Guttenberg
Strada I?iitropolitul Metianu
Strada Domnita Balasa
ailevardul I. Duca (later called
Bulevardul Regele Nihai)
Bulevardul Regele Ferdinand
Strada Paulescu
Bulevardul Carmen Sylva
Bulevardul Diaconovici Loga
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Bulevardul Republicii
Bulevardul 30 Decembrie
Strada Adolf Vertes
Bulevardul V. I. Lenin
Bulevardul Nicos Beloianis
Parcul De Cultura Si
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Parcul Eminescu
Parcul Skudier
Strada Milano
Strada Galati
Strada Eugen De Savoia
Strada Lonovici
Bulevardul cegina 1l'iaria
Parcul Regina i:aria
Bulevardul Nicolae Titulescu)
Strada 3 August
Piata Badea Cirtan
Strada Garii (Fabrica)
Alea Octavian Goga
Bulevardul General Berthelot
Piata Coronini
3. Public institutions are located as follows:
Parcul Pionierilor
Parcul Stalin
Strada Is Cavaleriei
Strada Ilie Pintilie
Strada Ghiorghi Dimitrov
Strada Voltaire
Bulevardul 23 August'-
Parcul Poporului
Strada 3 August
Piata De Fin
Calea C.F.R.
Alea Ateriele C.F.R.
Bulevardul Idanov
Piata Roosevelt
a:.. The provincial Council` is located in a five-story building on the left
side of Bulevardul 23 August , coming from the center of town. The
construction of this building was begun during the war years but was
not completed until after the war. It was originally intended to house
the Prefectura, and it houses, at present, the central loudspeaker
station.
b. The Municipal Council is located in the former Victor Babes secondary
school on Bulevardul Nicos Beloianis, opposite the Maxim Gorky Cinema.
c. The Provincial Militia is located in two former private dwellings on
Splaiul Tudor Vladimirescu at the corner of Strada Iosif Gall. These
were formerly three-story buildings, but half a story was added to each.
d. The City Militia is located on the left side of Strada Rozalia as one
walks from Bulevardul Mihai Viteazul to Strada Romulus.
e. The Provincial Securitate is located in a number of former private
houses on the left side of Bulevardul Nicos Beloianis as one comes from
the Maxim Gorky Cinema. It is surrounded by a high concrete fence.
f. An unidentified building is located in the area bounded by Strada Cluj,
Bulevardul Eroilor, Strada Nistrului and Strada Siretului. This one-
story building, about 15 by 20 meters, has a number of underground floors.
It is generally believed that this building is used for the storage of
top-secret documents or as an air raid shelter.
g. The Telephone Exchange is located in the building on Bulevardul Lenin.
The city has automatic telephone equipment and maintains wireless contact
with Bucharest. Telephone numbers consist of four digits.
h. The Central Post and Telegraph Office is located on Bulevardul 23 August
at the corner of Bulevardul Lenin. The same building also houses a
technical secondary school for wireless-telegraphists.
i. The regional, provincial and city law-courts, the prosecutor's offices and
the notary public's offices are located on Strada Ghiorghi Dimitrov at
the corner of Strada Popasapca. This building, popularly known as
Palatul Dicasteria, is L-shaped, four stories high, and has three
entrances. It also houses the income-tax offices of the First, the Second,
and the Fifth Wards.
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j. The prison is located at the end of Strada Popasapca on the left side
of the street when coming from downtown. A military prison was formerly
located there.
k. Provincial and city Party Committees are located on Strada Marasesti
opposite the Rumanian Opera House, in an eight-story building, 20 by
30 meters, which formerly housed the German Bank and the "Central"
boarding house.
1. The Provincial and City UTM Committees are located on Bulevardul 23
August opposite the Provincial Council.
in. The Pioneers House is located next to the UTM Committees.
n. District Party and UTM Committees are located in the former "Madosz"
building between the mental and ear, nose and throat hospitals.
o. Provincial Trade Union Offices are located in the former Crucea Alba
private hospital on Strada Ilie Pintilie.
p. The Third Ward Income-Tax Office is located in the former Ardeleana
bank.
q. Fourth Ward Income-Tax Offices are located on the left side of Bulevardul
Jdanov when coming from Bulevardul Maresalul Tolbuchin.
!4. Banks are located as follows:
a. State Bank: One building is located in the former National Bank building
on Bulevardul 23 August at the corner of Strada Popasapca. Almost direct-
ly opposite, on the other side of Bulevardul 23 August, is the other
building of the State Bank.
b. The Investment Bank is located on Strada Eminescu.
c. The Agricultural Bank is located on Piata Libertatii.
d. The Savings Bank is located next to the Agricultural Bank.
5. Military and Para-I41ilitary installations are as follows:
a. Fire Brigade: One barracks is located on the right side of Bulevardul
6 Martie, when coming from Piata Kutl, past Strada Vacarescu. Another
is located at the end and on the left side of Strada Marasesti when coming
from Bulevardul 30 Decembrie. A third is located on Strada Kunz opposite
the thermal power station..
b. The Provincial District and City military commissariats are located
on Bulevardul 30 Decembrie at the corner of Bulevardul V. I. Lenin and
Bulevardul Nicos Beloianis.
c. A number of barracks are located on both sides of Calea Aradului near
the city limits. They are used by units of the infantry and the artillery
and apparently also house the Second iiilitary District Headquarters.
The barracks area and part of Calea Aradului are closed to civilian
traffic.
d. The Frontier Guards' barracks are located in the area south of the ceme-
tery on Calea Aradului, west of the provincial broadcasting station
and east of the a/m infantry and artillery barracks.
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e. The barracks of the signals unit of the Engineers Corps and the
officers' club are located downtown on Strada Solderer at the corner of
Piata Libertatii.
f. The Garrison Headquarters and a lock-up for military personnel are
located near the signals unit and club.
g. The former Transilvania Barracks are used for a mechanized infantry
unit's quarters, a home for the aged, and various warehouses.
h. The firing ranges are in Padurea Verde.
i. Officers' quarters have been erected on the left side of Calea Sagului
when coming from downtown. They consist of a number of new four-story
buildings.
6. Public buildings and services are as follows:
a. The old thermal power station is located behind the Catholic church
on Piata Poosevelt.
b. The hydro-power station is located near the Strand.
c. Timisoara is connected to the national electrical grid. One connecting
station is located north of the railway tracks near Padurea Verde.
Another station is adjacent to the sugar refinery in Fraidorf. The
city uses current for illumination at three different voltages: 110 v.
AC in the 2irst and Fifth Wards, 188 v. AC in the Third :lard, and 220 v.
AC in the Second and Fourth Wards. There is no noticeabl; shortage of
electricity in the city.
d. The slaughter house has, within its same compound, an ice factory and a
water tower.
7. Industrial plants are as follows:
a. The Nicos Peloianis (formerly Prima Banat; formerly Dermata) shoe factory
is located next to the Roman Catholic cemetery at the corner of No. 1
Decembrie and Stefan Cel Mare Streets. It produces various types of
footwear and employs 500 to 600 workers.
b. The Bela Drainer plastics factory is located in front of the above shoe
factory and on the right side of Bulevardul Eroilor when coming from
downtown. This is a new plant, built by prisoners, which employs
approximately 100 workers. One of its products is shoes for export.
c. A shoe-polish factory is located on Bulevardul Eroilor at the corner of
Strad-a.='istrului. This is a new plant.
d. The LIP (Incustria Jetalurgica Banateana) metal ware plant is located
on Calea C.l'.P. at the corner of Strada Dimitrie Bolintineanu. This
plant occupies a large area stretching to Strada 13 Decembrie and employs
re than 1,000 workers. The plant's foundry for non-ferrous metals
is located on Strada Ciprian Porumbescu and its iron foundry on Strada
Telergrafulul.
P. A factory for stockings that was formerly called the Standard factory
is located opposite the above iron foundry.
f. 'TheIndikstria Linei wool spinning mill is located at its pre-war site
on Piata De Fin.
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g. A factory for the manufacture of lacquers is located on the left bank
of the Bega Canal and behind Piata De Fin when coming from downtown.
h. A soap factory is adjacent to the above lacquer factory.
i. The former Florida plant for tricot goods is located between the
lacquer plant and Piata De Fin.
j. The Stefan Plavat (formerly Flit) shoe factory is located on Calea
Dorobantilor at the corner of Calea Lipovei.
k. The Incustria Textila Banateana (formerly Romitex) textile plant is
located in the northern end of the city on the right side of Calea
Aradului.
1. The Flectro-iotorul plant is located at the foot and on the right side
of Bulevardul Republicei when coming from the big railway station*
in. A tobacco factory is located on Strada Baritiu.
n. A match factory is located on Splaiul Nicolae Titulescu.
o. A brick factory is located on the right side and at the end of Calea
Sagului when coming from downtown.
p. A factory for the manufacture of upholstery fabrics (formerly owned
by Peter Herzog) is located on Strada Glad at the corner of Calea Sagului.
q. A su{-ar refinery is located in Fraidorf.
r. A nla t for the production of prefabricated building components is locat-
ed north of the railway tracks just before Calea Aradului turns northward.
s. A noodle factory that was formerly a military bakery is located immediate-
ly after the above building components plant when coming from the railway
station.
t. Large railway repair shops, erected after World War II, are located north
of the railway tracks and the freight railway station in the Second Ward.
The old railway repair shops behind the big railway station in the Iose-
fin .'ard carry out only minor repairs now.
8. Railway information is as follows:
a. The big railway station, which was badly damaged by bombing during World
:ar II, was renovated and enlarged after the war.
b. The railway station in the Second lard is used mainly for loading and
unloading freight.
c. The provincial railway directorate is located on Splaiul Tudor Vladimir-
escu at the corner of Strada 6 Martie.
d. The provincial directorate for railway commerce and freight is on Piata
Kutl near the vocational secondary school for Railway workers.
e. The railway workers' restaurant and club are on Strada 13 Decembrie at
the corner of Splaiul Tudor Vladimirescu.
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1) To Arad, at approximately the following times: 0700, 0830 (an
express; goes to Cluj and Oradea), 1200, 1500, 1630, 1800, 2000,
2300 and 0100-0200 hours.
2) To Oradea, four to five passenger trains daily.
3) To Bucharest: Two regular passenger trains daily (at approximately
07100 and 1800 hours) and two to three express trains daily - one
before 1000 hours via Pitesti and one before 2200 hours via Rosiorii
De Vede; sometimes there is a third train in the afternoon.
9. The provincial broadcasting station is located on the right side of Calea
Aradului next to the Frontier Guards' barracks. Its studios and the jamming
station are located on Strada Cluj at the corner of Strada Arlesul.
10. Timisoara's water source is located about 20 kilometers outside the city in
the direction of Ghiroda. In the summer the city suffers from a severe
shortage of water, felt particularly by those living in flats above the
second story. A number of water towers are located on the left side of
Strada Gelu when coming from the railway station. Another water tower is
located within the area of the slaughter house and ice-factory.
11. Theaters, cinemas, etc., are as follows:
a. The State Theater and the Rumanian Opera House are still located on
Strada iarasesti at the corner of Strada Alba Iulia. Performances are
held every evening and alternate between operas and plays.
b. The Stefan Plavat State Theater for both the Hungarian and German
languages is on Strada Alba Iulia.
c. There is an auditorium for the presentation of films and plays in the
railwatr workers' club on Strada Adolf Vertes. The building was built
by the Germans during World War II for use as a cultural center for the
German Rumanians' Fascist Party.
d. The Maxim Gorky (formerly the Capitol) cinema is located on Bulevardul
Nicoseloianis and can accommodate about 1,200 people. During the
summer performances are held in the cinema's garden.
e. The Tineretului (formerly Thalla, formerly Scala), cinema is located
on 3trada Adolf Vertes at Bulevardul 30 Decembrie and can accommodate
about 4100 persons.
f. The Alexandru Sahia (formerly the Apollo) cinema is located on Strada
3 August at the corner of Strada Kuunz and contains about 400 seats.
g. The Victoria cinema is located on Piata Nicolae Balcescu and has 200-
300 seats.
h. Another cinema (name unknown) is located opposite the Third Clinic on
Strada Vacarescu and can accommodate 400 to 500 persons. It was recently
renovated and enlarged.
i. There is a cinema in the Fifth Ward; exact location unknown.
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j. The summer cinema for railway workers is located near the railway station.
k. The Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (formerly the Corso) cinema is located on
Strada 13 Decembrie and has about 200 seats.
1. All cinemas hold performances at 1500, 1700, 1900 and 2100 hours daily.
12. Medical institutions are as follows:
a. A large childrens' hospital and clinic is located on Bulevardul Re-
publicei at the corner of Strada Is Cavaleriei. Opposite it is the
Childrens' Home which cares for and educates orphans and abandoned
children up to school-age.
c. The surgical department of the childrens' hospital is located on
Strada Ilie Pintilie at the corner of Strada Is Cavaleriei in the
former PAPC private Hospital.
d. The former Freund Hospital on Bulevardul 23 August, at the corner of
Bulevardul Nicos Beloianis, is now a neurological hospital.
e. The ear, nose and throat diseases hospital is located on Bulevardul
23 August before the neurological hospital, when coming from downtown.
f. The former Sick Fund building on Bulevardul 23 August now contains the
First Dispensary, a small hospital for mouth and scalp diseases, a
clinic for students and the city's dental clinic.
There is a state hospital on the left side of Strada Marasesti, when
coming from the State Theater.
h. The First Clinic is located in the former officers' hospital on Calea
Aradului. It consists of two large buildings, four to five stories
high, which were renovated and enlarged, and is equipped with modern
equipment imported from both East and West Germany.
i. The Second Clinic and the Second Dispensary are located in the former
Bega Hospital on Bulevardul Victor Babes.
j. The Third Clinic is on Strada Vacarescu. Adjacent to it is the Third
Dispensary.
k. The TB hospital is in the vicinity of Padurea Verde.
1. The hospital for contagious diseases is near the TB hospital.
m. The TB clinic for the observation of TB suspects is located on the
right side of Bulevardul Nicos Beloianis, when coming from the Maxim
Gorky cinema. It contains 15 to 20 beds.
n. The railway workers' Hospital is located on Strada 13 Decembrie opposite
the railway station.
o. The Railway workers' clinic is on Splaiul Tudor Vladimirescu near
Bulevardul 6 Martie.
p. An orthopedic hospital is located in the building that formerly housed
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Dr. Galetaru's dental hospital on Bulevardul Mihai Viteazul at the
corner of Strada Rozalia, near the city militia.
q. Gynaecological and maternity hospital is located on Bulevardul 6
Martie at the corner of Strada Ion Ghica. The building was built by
the Joint Distribution Committee after World War II, but immediately
after its completion, was nationalized and equipped for its new purposes
r. There is a gynaecological hospital in Strada Odobescu opposite the above
institution on Bulevardul 6 Martie.
s. The military hospital is located at its old site on Strada Marasesti,
past the State Hospital which is on the same street, when coming from the
State Theater. Until the evacuation of Soviet troops from Timisoara,
half the hospital was set aside for their use; it has since returned to
the full control of the Rumanian army.
t. The provincial epidemiological directorate is opposite the institute
for the treatment of children suffering from poliomyelitis.
13. Institutions of Higher education are as follows:
a. The Upper School of Agriculture includes the Agro-Technical and Zoo-
Technical Institutes, and is located in a former elementary school on
Splaiul Tudor Vladimirescu, opposite the railway workers' clinic. Its
laboratories are in the former police building on Piata Unirii.
b. The former Loyd building on Bulevardul 30 Decembrie, at the corner of
Bulevardul Republicei, now houses the faculty of industrial chemistry
(second and third stories) and the rectorate (fourth story) of the
Polytechnical Institute. This faculty has its laboratories on Strada
Telbis.
c. The Polytechnical Institute's library, the electro-technical faculty and
the faculty of civil and industrial construction are located on Bule-
vardul Politee.nicei.
d. The Faculty of Mechanics and some of the electronics laboratories are
located on the left side of Bulevardul Nlihai Viteazul when coming from
the Bega Canal.
e. Other laboratories of the Institute are located near the Stadionul
Tineretului and are bounded by Bulevardul Victor Babes, Bulevardul
Nihai Viteazul and Strada Traian Lalescu.
f. The Institute of ?Iedicine and Pharmacy is located near the provincial
council.
g. The Peadogogical Institute for training secondary school teachers is
located on Strada Traian Lalescu and contains the following departments:
Mathematics, physics, Russian, Rumanian and, possibly, German.
14. Students' quarters, etc., are as follows:
a. Quarters for 7irls studying at the Polytechnical Institute are located.
in the former 7eutsches Haus on Bulevardul Politecnicei.
b. Quarters for male students studying at the Polytechnical Institute are
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c. Students' quarters are located on Bulevardul Mihai Viteazul at the
corner of Strada Traian Lalescu, between the canteen and the quarters
of the teaching staff.
d. i?iore students' quarters are located on Piata Sfintu Gheorghe at the
corner of Strada Voltaire.
e. A students' dormitory is located on Strada Ungureanu, opposite the
community center.
f. Quarters for girl students at the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy
are located near the Institute and behind the provincial council.
g. Quarters for students at the Upper School of Agriculture are located on
Strada 13 Decembrie.
15. Secondary schools are as follows:
a. The former Diaconovici Loga secondary school for boys is now nailed after
i:Icos Eeloianis and is located on the street of the same name, opposite
the provincial Securitate.
b. Secondary school No. 1 for girls is located in the former Carmen Sylva
secondary school.
c. Secondary School No. 2 for boys is the former Victor Babes school on
Strada Telbis.
d. The co-educational classical secondary school is housed in the former
Notre Dame College on Bulevardul Jdanov.
e. A co-educational merman-language secondary school is located on Strada
Ion Uhica behind the classical secondary school.
f. A technical secondary school for forestry is located in Padurea Verde.
g. The central post office houses a technical secondary school for training
radio-telegraphists.
h. A technical secondary school for the textile industry is located in
the former dormitory of the Carmen Sylva secondary school on Bulevardul
V. I. Lenin.
i. A technical secondary school for the training of physical training
instructors is located on Bulevardul V. I. Lenin. The dormitories are
in the same building.
j. A technical secondary school for electro-technics is located opposite
the school for physical training instructors in the former vocational
school.
k. A vocational school for the deaf, dumb and blind is located on Bule-
vardul Nicos Beloianis in the former Ort vocational school which was
established after `~-Iorld War II.
1. A school for sanitation technicians is located on Strada Solderer in the
former i?otre Dame secondary school.
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in. The school for railway technicians is on Piata Kutl.
n. The technical secondary school for civil construction is on Bulevardul
Jdanov, at the corner of Strada Brincoveanu.
16. Public transportation is as follows: There are ten tram and trolley-bus
lines in Ti,,i_soara. The vehicles are kept in garages situated on both sides
of Bulevardul Tache Ionescu near the Piata De Fin. Route details are as
follows:
a. Tram line c. 1: From the Strand to the bridge at Calea Dorobantilor
and return via the same route.
b. Tram line No. 2: The Iosefin railway station - Strada 13 Decembrie -
3 levardul Jdanov - Piata Kutl - Bulevardul 6 I4artie - Piata :aria -
a3ulevar dul 6 artie (divided by the Piata Maria) - Traian bridge -
L'ulevardul 30 Eecembrie - Strada Alba Iulia - Piata Libertatii - Piata
Dfintu.l (aheorghe - Bulevardul 23 August - Strada 3 August - Piata Traian
Strada 1aresal Jofres - Calea Dorabantilor - TB hospital, and return
via the same route.
c. Tram line No. 3: Strada Preyer - Bulevardul i'Miaresalul Tolbuchin
along Line 1o. 2 to Piata Traian - Strada Dacilor - Piata De Fin
railway freight station - Bulevardul huncii - Padurea Verde, and
return via the same route.
d. Tarr, line No. L : Piata Libertatii - Strada Brediceanu - Piata Avram
Lancu in the .ehala Ward, and return via the same route.
e. Tra. line No. 5: Piata Kutl - Bulevardul 6 Martie .... to the Roman
Catholic church on Fratelia - turns - Strada Coroana De Otel - Piata
Nicolae alcescu, and return via the same route.
f. Tram line No. 6: Follows a circular route, with trams traveling in both
directions. route is: Piata Maria - Piata Traian - along lines Nos. 2
and 3 - Strada Stefan Cel Mare - the Roman Catholic cemetery - Strada 1
Decembrie - Piata Crucii - Strada Wilhelm Muhle - Piata Nicolae Balcescu
Strada :iheorghe Doja - Piata Maria.
Troller-bus line No. 7: Piata Nicolae Dalcescu - Bulevardul Mihai
Niteazul - past the Municipal Council to Strada Solderer - Piata Libertaii
14.
Strada Sllinescu - Piata Unirii - Calea Aradului - the provincial broad-
casting st"lion - Calea Lipovei to about one kilometer past a cemetery
and return via the same route.
h. TTraiu line No. F: This line was built by volunteers in the framework of
"patriotic labor projects." The bed was very poorly laid and the tram
rocks so violently that the line is referred to as the "train on waves."
route is: Piata Liberatii - along line No. L to the end of Strada Bredi-
ceanu - Salea Sogdanesti - the suburb of Ronat - the Iosefin railway
station - the junction of the railway lines to Arad, Resita and Salacaz,
and ret,:.rn via the same route.
i. Tram line o. 9: Strada Preyer - sugar refinery in Fratelia and return.
J.
Trolley-bus line No. 10: Piata Nicolae Bacescu - Bulevardul Mihai Viteazul -
past the Greek Orthodox cathedral - Bulevardul_30 Decembrie - Bulevardul
Politehnicei - Bulevardul Republicei - the Iosefin railway station - to
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the end of Strada Garii, and return via the same route.
17. An oversized layout of Timisoara, which plots the locations of the various
installations in the city
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Legend to Town Plan of Timisoara
1. Strada Nicolae Balcescu
2. Strada Gelu
3. Strada Bartiu
4. Strada Pop De Basesti
5. Strada Dimitrie Bolintineanu
6. Strada 13 Decembrie
71. Strada Ion Ghica
8. Strada Gojdu
9. Strada 7 Noembrie
10. Strada Lancu Vacarescu
11. Pasaj
12. Piata Ilaresalul Tolbuchin
13. Strada Froebl
14. Strada Preyer
15. Strada Cameliei
16. Strada Budau Deleanu
17. Bulevardul 6 Atartie
18. Calea Sagului
19. Piata Kutl
20. Piata,l?Iaria
21. Piata Plevnei
22. Strada Gheorghe Doja
23. Plata'-Nicolae Balcescu
24. Strada Timotei Cipariu
25. Strada Bonaz
26. Strada Iosif Gall
27. Splaiul Tudor Jladimirescu
28. Splaiul Nicolae Titulescu
29. Traian Bridge
30. Strada Remus
31. Strada General osoiu
32. Strada Treboniu Laurean
33. Strada Grivita Rosie
34. Strada Rozalia
36. Strada Odobescu
37. Strada Onitiu
38. Bulevardul Mihai 'Viteazul
39. Parcul Tineretului
40. Strada Ciprian Porumbescu
41. Strada '~lilhelm Muhle
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
Plata Axente Sever
Strada Feldioara
Piata Crucii
Strada Leningrad
Strada Iiemorandului
Strada 1 Lecembrie
Formerly Piata Sfintul Dimitriu (present
name unknown)
49. Strada Cluj
50. Bulevardul 'Victor Babes
51. Bulevardul Eroilor
52. Strada Ghirocului
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
59,.
59.
Formerly Strada Coroana De Otel (present
name unknown)
Strada Rusu Sirianu
Strada Ion Vasi
Strada Clad
Strada Diaconul Coresi
Strada Eneas
Strada Constantin Brincoveanu
60. Bulevardul Buzdugan
61. Strada Nistrului
62. Strada Putna
63. Strada Oltului
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65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
711.
75.
76.
Strada Ariesul
Strada Severin
Strada Siretului
Strada Tirnava
Strada Iiana
Strada i-edea
Strada Constanta
Bulevardul Republicii
Bulevardul 30 Decembrie
Bulevardul Politehnicei
Strada Ady
Strada Adolf Vertes
Bulevardul V. I. Lenin
97. Strada voltaire
98. Strada :,:erci
99. Strada Popa Sapca
100. Bulevardul 23 August
101. Parcul Poporului
102. Strada 3 August
103. Piata Traian
1011. Bulevardul Tache Ions cu
105. Strada Stefan 'el Mare
106. Calea Buziasului
107. Strada Dacilor
108. Piata De Fin
109.. Strada Traian Lalescu
77.. Bulevardul Nicos Ueloianis
110. Strada Scipio
78.
Strada Venetiei
111. Calea C. F. R.
79.
Strada Petre Carp
112. Alea Atelierele C. F. R.
80.
Parcul De Cultura Si Odih
na
113. Strada Simion Baranutiu
81.
Parcul Pionierilor
1111. Strada Telegrafului
82.
Parcul Stalin
115. Calea Dorobantilor
83.
Strada 18 Cavaleriei
116. Strada :atasarilor
84.
Strada Toma
117. Bulevardul Jdanov
85.
Strada Paris
118. Piata Roosevelt
86.
Strada Turin
119. Strada Kunz
87.
Strada Ilie Pintilie
120. Strada Pestalozzi
88.
Strada Earasesti
121. Strada Ion Luca Caragiale
89.
Strada Alba Iulia
122. Strada Cosma
90.
Plata Libertatii'
123. Strada Industria Linei
91.
Strada Solderer
1211. Calea Aradului
92.
Strada Ungureanu
125. District Securitate Headquarters
93.
Strada Eminescu
126. Underground building whose nature is
911.
Piata Unirii
unknown. Apparentl;,r used for storing
secret documents or as an air raid
95.
Strada Ghiorghi Dimitrov
shelter.
96.
Sfintu Gheorghe
127. Fire Brigade tuarters.
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128. Tire Brigade quarters
129. City provincial and district
military comriissariats
130. '_`unicipal council
131. Infantry and artillery units'
barracks
132. Frontier Guards' barracks
133. Engineers Corps' signals unit &
officers' club
1314. Garrison H and lock-up
135. Prison
136. Mechanized infantry unit
137. Firing range
138. New railway repair shops
139.. Officers' quarters
140.
Provincial iIilitia
141.
City Militia
142.
Provincial Broadcasting station
143.
Radio studios and jamming station
144.
Provincial council and amplifier station
145.
Telephone exchange
146.
Central post & telegraph office & technical
secondary school for training radio-tele-
graphists
147?
Old thermal power station
148.
Connecting station with the national grid
149.
As above & a sugar refinery
150.
Fire brigade barracks
151.
Hydro-power station
152.
Alcohol factory
153.
Large granary
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155.
Slaughter house, ice factory water tower
156.
Livestock market
157.
Swamps
158.
Nicos feloianis shoe factory
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159. ': arehouses of the Beloianis factory
160. Lela Drainer plastic materials plant
161. Shoe polish factory
162. Provincial, district & city law courts, offices of the prosecutor &
notary public and income tax offices of the First, Second and Fifth vvvards
163. Rumanian Opera House & the State Theater
164. City and provincial Party committees
165. City and provincial UTM committees
166. Pioneers House
167. Provincial trade union offices
16R. Children's hospital and clinic
169. Home for orphaned and abandoned children
170. First aid station
171. Surgical department of the children's hospital
172. State bank
173. State bank
174. Neurological hospital
175. Iar, nose and throat diseases hospital
176. District Party and UT?1 committees
First Dispensary, students' clinic, dental clinic and small hospital for
scalp and mouth diseases
178. State hospital
179. First Clinic
180. Third Dispensary
181. Third Clinic
182. Second Clinic and `-,econd Dispensary
183. Field of the Electrica soccer team
184. Club house of the Electrica soccer team
185. TB hospital
186. Hospital for infectious diseases
187. TD clinic
188. ~-Lailway workers' clinic
189. itailway workers' hospital
190. Big railway station
191. rilitary hospital
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192. Orthopedic hospital
193. Gynaecological and maternity hospital
Gynaecological hospital
Higher School of Agriculture (including the Agro-Technical and the Zoo-
Technical Institutes)
196. The above Institutes' laboratories
197.
Library, electro-technical faculty and faculty of civil and industrial
construction of the Polytechnical Institute
198. Female students' quarters
199. aectorate and faculty of industrial chemistry of the Polytechnical Institute
200. Laboratories of faculty of industrial chemistry
201. Strada Telbis
202. Faculty of mechanics and part of the laboratories of t'la electronics faculty
of the Polytechnical Institute
203. Students' quarters
201. Students' restaurant
205. Students' quarters
206. quarters of Polytechnical Institute's teaching staff
207. Stadionul Tineretului
208. Laboratories of the Polytechnical Institute
209. Students' quarters
210. Community center
211. Students' quarters
212. Provincial epidemological directorate
213. Poliomyelitis Institute
214. Institute of :Medicine and Pharmacy
215. Female students' quarters of above Institute
216. quarters for students of the Upper School of Agriculture
217. Pedagogical Institute
218. Technical secondary school for forestry
219. Secondary school for boys
220. Secondary school for girls
221. Technical secondary school for the textile industry
222. Technical secondary school for physical training instructors and the dormitory
of the school
223. 3econdar^., school for ele ctro -technics
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221. Vocational school for the deaf, dumb and blind
225. Secondary school No. 2 for boys
226. Secondar-,r school for sanitation technicians
227. Secondary school for railway technicians
229. Co-educational classical secondary school
229. German-language secondary school
230. Technical secondary school for civil construction
231. Stefan Plavat Hungarian and German theater
232. Loes not appear on town-plan
233. Cultural center and cinema for railway workers
2311. I'Iaxim Gorky cinema
235. Orthodox cathedral
236. Tineretului cinema
237. Alexandru. Sahia cinema
238. Victoria cinema
239. Cinema - name unknown
2b0. 7ailway workers' summer cinema
2L1. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej cinema
2112. Provincial forestr~,r trust
243. I. 1,1. B. plant
214. Above plant's foundry for non-ferrous metals
215. Above plant's iron foundry
2116. Stocking factory
2).7. Wool spinning mill
218. Above plant's soccer field
2119. Tram and trolley-bus garages
250. Tram and trolley-bu.s garages
2511 Lacquor factory
252. Soap factory
253. Tricot goods factory
254. Stefan Plavat shoe factory
255. Calea Lipovei
256. Industria Textila CCanateanu plant
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257. Electro-Motorul plant
258. Tobacco factory
259. hatch factory
260. Brick factory
261. Upholstery fabrics factory
262. Provincial directorate of railway commerce and freight
263. Provincial railway directorate
264. aailway wdhrkers' club and restaurant
265. Old railway workshops
266. Railway freight station
267. Noodle factory
268. Plant for prefabricated building components
269. The Strand
270. Income tax offices of the Third Ward
271. Income tax offices of the Fourth Ward
272. Investment bank
273. Agricultural bank
27L.. Savings bank (C.E.C)
275. Streets that were destroyed and no longer exist.
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