CITY PLAN OF BRAILA, RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A063200120001-6
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 11, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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City Plan of Braila, Rumania
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11 June 1962
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la town plan of Braila, Rumania.
The plan is accompanied by a legend showing the location of
industrial enterprises, government buildings, and military
installations in Braila.
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Legend for the attached sketch of the city of Braila
1 - Stand of Canadian polars for the use of the Filaret match factory
and for the match department of the forthcoming factory of the
PAL of Braila.
la- Earthen dike from Braila to the bridge over the Siret River. The
dike was built in 1944-46.
2 - Piggery
3 - Brick kiln
4 - City sewer - oval pipes 1.5 m. wide and 2.5 m. high; near its
terminal point it is uncovered.
5 - Embarkation point for animals and vehicles to be ferried over to
Smirdanu Nou (formerly Ghecet) in Dobruja.
6 - Slaughterhouse
7 - Part of the Baligosi Quarter where the Lipoveni gypsies live.
8 - Fuel depot (formerly the Concordia fuel depot) for refueling ships.
12 - Small thermic electric control point for the dockyard o tines.
13 - Port militia and customs caserne
14 - Anchorage for the motor vessels of the port militia
14a- Large crane and gantry crane on rails.
15 - Dock administration offices
16 - Dockyard warehouse - formerly the Frassine warehouse.
17 - Dockyard warehouse - formerly the Lloyd Triestino warehouse.
Whirlpool in mid-Danube;
Beacon.
Dock basin
Grain silos
meters deep and a navigation hazard.
types of merchandise.
18 - Fishmarket
19 - Entrance to docks
20 - Barbed wire fence around dock zone
21 - Former caserne of the 8th Cavalry; now empty.
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22 - Prison
23 - Harbor border gua
24 - Flour mill
25 - Headquarters of the People::~Militia, civil and penal courts;
formerly a navy caserne.
26 - Public park
27 - About 20 former gain storehouses; now contains various city-owned
itmes; administered by the "Gospodaria Locala."
28 - Gara Port- Ml t. railroad station for merchandise only.
29 - Cookie factory
30 - Quarantine station
31 - Wharf, 600 meters long
3la- Anchorage for ships awaiting their turn to come alongside the
Wharf.
31b - Braila Island; in summer, vegetables and animals are raised on it;
in the winter it is flooded.
31c - Summertime bathing facility for Braila.
32 - Boarding dock for passengers going direct o Macin
33 - Boarding dock for passengers on the Danube lines
34 - NAVROM shipping line
35 - NAVROM warehouse
36 = Sailors' monument, made of stone and dedicated in 1959
37 - Port captain's office
38 - The Hotel Frances, formerly occupied by the Russians, now a natural
history museum.
38a- Headquarters of the ASIT (Scientific Association of Engineers and
Technicians.
39 - "11 June" movie theatre.
40 - Normal school (formerly the Casa d'Italia)
41 - Catholic Church
42 - Monument to the Emperor Vulpius Traianus
43 - Church of Saint Archangel - Orthodox (Catholic)
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44 - Clock tower
45 - State theatre, formerly the community theatre.
46 - Casa Partitului - The Party building, headquarters of the Braila
section of the Rumanian Workers' Party.
47 - State bank
48 - Coeducational high school
48a = Air-raid shelter (including nuclear attack) built by the Soviets
in 1953.
49 - Pediatric polyclinic
50 - Main post office
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51 - Telephone center
52 - Radioficare Braila - Braila Radio Station
53 - Building housing Party offices; an old building formerly the
Greek school; one story.
54 -- Hall, now the Courthouse
55 - Flour mill, formerly the Violatus flour mill
56 - Anchorage for maritime vessels
57 - Formerly SDGP, a small Soviet naval repair shop for only Soviet
vessels. It was completely dismantled and in its place was
constructed a swimming pool shaped like a ship and which makes
use of the Danube waters.
58 - Transformer sub-station of the municipal electric works
59 - Transformer shed
60 - Subterranean high-tension electrical center for the city
61 - Girls' high school
62 - Headquarters of the naval border police
63 - Anchorage for naval border police vessels
64 - Maritime cooperative for vessel repair
65 - City firewood depot
66 - Central municipal hospital
67 - NAVROM rescue materials storage point
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68 - Storage for various city-owned materials
69 - Sand, gravel, and stone stores
70 - Santier Naval Viitorul - formerly the Danube Naval Shipyard.
71 - Office of the municipal waterworks.
72 - Collection point for Danube waters used by the municipal waterworks
72a- Main waterworks reservoir for supplying water to the city. The
tower is 25 meters high.
73 - Municipal thermal electric center
74 - Motor vehicle repair station; city-owned
75 - Streetcar depot
76 - Streetcar repair shops
77 - Rumanian rise plant
78 - P.A.L. Factory
79 - Stanca cement plant; formerly the Cantacuzino cement plant.
80 - Rock and earth dump belonging to the cement plant.
81 - Unloading dock for the cement plant.
82 - 1 Mai Naval Shipyard; formerly the Stefanescu naval shipyard.
It is also an arsenal for the Rumanian Navy.
83 - Formerly a caserne for bridge engineers, now empty.
84 - "Place de Stuf" Fa ctory.
85 - "Sarmei" Factory
86 - Former caserne of the 38th Infantry Regiment, now empty.
87 - Caserne built during World War II, now empty.
88 - Military fuel depot formerly used by the Germans and Soviets; now
being dismantled.
89 - Normal school boarding house
90 - Orphanage
91 - New houses for the workers and employees of the P.A.L.; three-story
buildings.
92 - Forest Inspector's headquarters.
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93 - Unidentified school f --
94 - People's Militia substation for the Clony Quatter
95 - Living quarters for the workers of P.A.L. (old buildings)
96 - Tobacco shop (government-owned)
97 - New Church of St. Paraschiva (Orthodox)
98 - Old Church of St. Paraschiva.
99 - German Protestant Church
100 - Orthodox Church of St. Spiridone
101 - Caq$ Agricolturei (Agriculture Building), a five014,tory building;
formerly the headquarters of the Soviet garrison in Braila.
102 - The Anchor Ready-made Clothing Factory.
103 - Old oxygen manufacturing plant, now being dismantled.
104 - Municipal bus garage
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106 - Suburban bus transport terminal.
107 - Former residence which became the Hristo Botev Museum.
108 - Bronze bust of Hristo Botev in Omonima Square. The bust was
removed to the Museum (No. 107).
109 - Municipal bakery (only one in Braila)
120 - Tannery which is supplied by the municipal slaughterhouse.
111 - Obor market for produce supplied by cooperative farmers.
112 - Lira Theatre, formerly used by Soviet forces. Re-opened for the
public in 1959.
113 - Headquarters of the Securitate, formerly the Daniel Building.
114 - Military District Headquarters
115 - Sp~agogue
116 - Synagogue
117 - Main office of an agricultural enterprise; formerly the head-
quarters of a Russian military tribunal.
118 - The Nicolai Balcescu High School, the oldest high school in
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120 - Main market for fruits, vege a es
the market has refrigerators. -6-
121 - Security warehouse for the I.M.D. Factory.
122 = I.M.D. Factory.
123 OI4 Works, formerly the Sezanov Oil Works.
124 - Town Hall for the Nedelcu Chercea Quarter
125 - Normal school of the Nedelcu Chercea Quarter
126 - Orthodox Church for the Nedelcu Chercea Quarter
127 - Railroad equipment storehouse
128 - Locomotive roundhouse with turntable
129 - Railroad station offices of various types.
130 - Foot bridge connecting with the Nedelcu Chercea Quarter.
131 - Gara Braila - Braila railroad station for passengers and freight.
It has eight tracks.
132 - Freight platform and warehouse
133 - Miscellaneous RR services and living quarters for the personnel.
134 - Block tower; the switches are hand-operated.
135 - Civilian fuel depot
135a - Classification yard.
136 = Area in which a new classification yard will be laid out.
137 - Agricultural school center. Converted from an old caserne which
has not been modernized in any way. It has been in operation for
about two years.
138 - Zimbru Oil Works, formerly the Verona Brothers.
139 - Municipal plant nursery
140 - Secondary foodstuff market.
141 - Park with monument to Catherine Teodoroiu, a World Ptr II heroine.
142 - Pump station for drinking water going from the municipal
aqueduct to the Progresul enterprise.
143 - New houses for personnel of Progresul; these are bungalows.
144 - Progresul Metallurgical Enterprise.
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145 - Smardanul Nou Shipyards (formerly the Ghecet Shipyards)
146 - Former Soviet military hospital, now empty and guarded by the
Rumanian Navy.
147 - Dynamo Mechanical Workshop.
Note: Nos. 106, 107, and 108 were razed in 1960 and blocks of buildings,
about 20 to a block and five stories high, were built.
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