1. VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN MINSK 2. ANNOTATED OVERLAY TO MAP OF PINSK

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• Publication Date: August 22, 1962
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person Is p bated by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Belorussian SSR)
SUBJECT 1.
Various Institutions in Minsk DATE DISTR.
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August 1962
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Annotated Overlay to Map of Pinsk
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Attachment 1: Construction design institutions
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industrial installations,
the Industrial Plants
Design Institution employed about 300 people. Since 1955, the insti-
tution had designed the following: Reinforced Concrete Products Plant,
Silicate Brick and Building Block Factory, Printing Combine, and a sports
stadium.
Attachment 2: An annotated overlay to a map of Pinsk.l
Included are various government, military, civic, and
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COUNTRY : USSR (Belorussian SSR)
: Construction Design Institutions, Industrial
Installations, and Other Institutions in Minsk
Construction Design Institutions
1. Construction design institutions in Minsk in mid-1958 included the
following:
a. A residential and public buildings design institution (Bel. Gos.
Proyekt), located at the corner of Leninskaya and Karla Marksa
Streets.
b. A design institution for power and transformer stations, high-
tension lines, etc. (from. Energo Proyekt) which, in 1958, was
transferred from Karla Marksa Street to PL. Svobody (number
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c. An institution for designing buildings and installations for
s vkhoz and kolkhozy (Bel. Sel. Proyekt).
d, A military installation design institution (Bel. Voyen. Proyekt),
located on Pervomayskaya Street.
e. An industrial plant (particularly building materials plants)
design institution (Bel. Prom. Proyekt), located at the corner
of Leninskaya and Kirova Streets. 50X1-HUM
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G. "ilne inaustriaL pants aesign insutution empwyeu aaouL )UV peupLe,
consisting of geologists, geodesians, technologists, mechanics, ani
construction, electrical, water. and sewerage, central heating and
air-conditioning engineers. Since 1955, the institution had designed the
following:
a. Reinforced Concrete Products Plant (Zavod Zhezobetonniky Izdeliy),
one of the largest projects ever undertaken by the institution. Con-
struction of the plant was planned to be carried out in three stages,
only the first of which was completed in 1957. It was being constructed
at a place called Krasnoye Urochischche, which was believed to be lo-
cated about six kilometers from the southwestern outskirts of
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b. Silicate Brick and Building Block Factory (Zavod Silikatnogo
Kirpicha i Blokov), designed during 1956-1958, whose construction
was begun in 1957. The factory was located in the same vicinity
as the Reinforced Concrete Products Plant, but about two kilometers
from it. 50X1-HUM
c. Printing Combine (Poligraficheskiy Kombinta), a large combine
which was designed by the institution and was completed in 1957.
It was located on Pl. Yanka Kupala in Minsk and included a large
four-story building which housed a printing works for books, a
colored photographs printing works, and a boiler room. The combine
also included a building for storing paper (no details).
d. A sports stadium with a 50, 000-seating capacity, which was designed
by the institution and was opened in 1958 on Kirova Street, near
the town center.
Other Industry and Institutions In Minsk
3. The Minsk Oxygen Plant (Minskiy Kislorodniy Zavod) was located between
the town and the Minsk Motor Plant (Minskiy Avotmobilniy Zavod). The
oxygen plant was rumored to have supplied the oxygen for the first Soviet
space satellite, in 1957. 50X1-HUM
4. A small construction components plant (zavod stroy detaley) was located
on the ,southwestern outskirts of the town (exact location unknown). The
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located on Moskovskaya Street. The plant employed about 100 workers
in four small, single-story buildings, which housed a sawmill with
three frames, a reinforced concrete products department, a metal
construction department, and a carpentry shop, which produced doors
and windows and their frames.
5. Other industrial enterprises in Minsk included the Minsk tractor Plant
(Minskiy Traktorniy Zavod) and the Minsk Boiler and Radiator Plant 50X1-HUM
(Minskiy Kotloradyatorniy Zavod.)
6. The only military establishment in or near Minskl Iwas
the Military Engineers Academy (Voyenna Inzhenernaya Akademiya), 50X1-HUM
located in Kolodishchi on the Minsk/Moscow road. Engineers were said
to be trained in radar at the academy.
7. The Minsk television station was located on Kruglaya Ploshchad, in the 50X1-HUM
town center. 4 radio jamming station was said to be located in the same
area.
8. The MVD headquarters of the Belorussian SSR was housed in a huge, five-
story building at the corner of Uritskogo Street and Prospekt Stalina. The
building was constructed in 1946-1947 by German prisoners-of-war.
9. Government House (Dom Pravitelstva), a huge 10- story building occupying
the entire P1. Lenina, housed the central institutions of the
Belorussian SSR, including the Supreme Soviet, the Council of Ministers,
the Sovnarkhoz, and all the ministries
10. The oblast Party (Obkompartii) and executive committees (Oblispolkom)
occupied a four-or five-story building on Kirova Street.
11. The Central State Bank of the Belorussian SSR was located at the corner of
Lenina and Stalin Streets.
12. The town co cil was located on Karla Marksa Street (no details)., 50X1-HUM
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COUNTRY
USSR (Belorussian SSR)
Annotated Overlay to Map of Pinsk
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Attached is an overlay to a map of Pinsk /-N52-07, E26-07/. Scale 1:5000,
with legend as follows:
1. Main post office (glav pochta), a three-story building on ulitsa Pochtovaya,
the site of the prewar post office.. The first floor contained the sorting
and censorship departments, the second floor the telephone exchange, and
third floor the directorate's offices. Since 1958, the post office director
had been Kidzelidze (fnu) 50X1-HUM
2. City Party committee, a three-story building on ulitsa Komunalna which
served as barracks during the Polich regime.
3. City KGB and MVD offices, a two-story building on ulitsa Kirovskaya which
also served as barracks during the Polish regime.
4. Financial vocational technicum (fin. Kreditnoe tekhnikum), on ulitsa
Pochtovaya.
5. Teachers institute (ped institut), on ulitsa Lenina.
6. School for k1elkhoz cadres (shkola podgotovki kolkhozxiikh kadrov), on ulitsa
Lenina. "
7. City hospital, on ulitsa Sovetskaya. ~...
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8, Tuberculosis clinic TfWeFk6lozny dispanser), on ulitsa Zavalnaya.
9. Maternity hospital (rod. dom), on ulitsa Zavalnaya.
10. City law court (gor. sud).
11. City water works.
12. Rodina movie theater.
13. Plywood (formerly the Tobal) factory, on ulitsa Vodoprovodnaya.
14. Match factory, on ulitsa Brestkaya.
15. Old power station.
16. New power station, whose first generator was activated in 1958. The
station burned peat.
17. Metal bridge over the Pina River, with wooden wear-layer.
18. Former site of the communications technicum (tekhnikum sviazi). The
technicum had been moved to Baranovichi.
19. Ulitsa Naberezhnaya.
20. Ulitsa Lenina.
21. Ulitsa Cher nyakhovskogo.
22. Ulitsa Pochtovaya.
23. Ulitsa Kirova.
24. Ulitsa K. Marksa.
25. Ploshchad Lenina.
26. Ulitsa Pervomayskaya.
27. Ulitsa Brestkaya.
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29. Ulitsa Zheldorozhnaya.
30. Ulitsa Komunalnaya.
31. Ulitsa Vodoprovodnaya.
32. Ulitsa Poleskaya.
33. Ulitsa Suvorova.
34. Ulitsa Sovetskaya.
35. Ulitsa Pyonerskaya.
36. Ulitsa Portovaya.
37. Ulitsa Zavalnaya.
38. Ulitsa Stalina.
39. Ulitsa Komsomolskaya.
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401 An Air Force divisional headquarters, on ulitsa Lenina, at the intersection
of Ploshchad Lenina. The three-story building of the headquarters was
a hotel before the war. In 1958, two air force officers with the rank of
general major had their offices on the third floor of the building. The
airfield used by this division was located near the village of Zhabchitsi, about
seven kilometers from Pinsk in the direction of Brest. Also located
near Zhabchitsi was a military camp which housed an air force regiment and
an airfield services unit (baza aerodromnogo obsluzhivaniya) that served
the regiment. This regiment shared the same airfield as the air force
division from Pinsk.
41. Quarters for married officers of the above air force division, two four-
story buildings on ulitsa Brestkaya. Each building contained 46 three-
room apartments.
42. Naval hospital, in four two-story buildings. The hospital also served
the members of the ;above air force division. ,
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44. City komendatura, a one-story building on ulitsa Zavalnaya.
45.
City military commissariat, a one-story building on ulitsa Komsomolskaya
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46.
Naval training unit, in a former Catholic monastery on Ploshchad Lenina.
Graduates of the unit were assigned to various naval formations.
47. Camp of the above naval training unit.
48. Synthetic leather plant (Zavod Iskustvenoy Kozhi), under construction
in 1958 on ulitsa Brestkaya.
49. Krasniy Metalist Plant, on ulitsa Brestkaya. The plant employed several
hundred workers in the production of metal beds, locks, nails, and other
hardward.
49 a. Part of the Krasniy Metalist Plant, the former site of a POL dump
(nefte baza). The dump was moved in 1958 to the village of Pinkevichi,
about two kilometers from Pinsk in the direction of Luninets.
50. Zagot Zerno grain stores.
51. Garrison officers club.
52. Dinamo sports stadium.
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