RESTRICTED AREAS POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH THE SOVIET ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRAM

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 15, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
USSR
Restricted Areas Possibly Connected with the
Soviet Atomic Energy Program
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. Among the restricted areas in the USSR which might be serving as sites
for experimental stations and factories of the Soviet nuclear energy
program is an area located near Borovsk (59043eN, 58040/E), a town near
the railway line between Nisei (590041N, 57?3814) and Molotov in the
Boravsk itself is connected with the main line by a stretch of
single track. The restricted installations in question lie in thick
forests near the town. Ostensibly, the restricted area is used for
experimentation with various sorts of explosives. In the nearby town
of Sakamsk* there is a factory which produces special explosives.
2. The circle formed by the towns of Buguruslan (530401N, 520271E)?
Chkalav, Mednogorsk, Magnitogorek? Asha, and Ufa encloses a restricted
area bearing the name of Sterlitamak. The area is 450 kilometers long
and 380 kilometers wide. It is not known whether or not the Sterlitamak
region is served by the Southern Vial-ma-SF-station which has been
erected 100 kilometers south of Orsk.
It is not certain that the area between Biisk (520031N, 850121E) and
Ablaketka (sic) in the northwestern foothills of the Altai Mountains
is actually a restricted area, since foreigners entitled to repatri-
ation were employed in the construction of the nearby (sic) Ust-
Kamenogorsk (500N0 820351E) power plant.
4. The approaches to Lake Baikal are strict/7 guarded and extraordinary
precautions are being taken to prevent unauthorized persons from ob-
serving activities there. Forced labor and PW trains passing between
the Yurga I (55057tN, 84047?E) railway otation and Irkutsk must halt
daring daylight at certain specified sidings and may pass through the
restricted areas only under cover of darkness.
5. Activities related to the Soviet atomic energy program are rumored to
be going on in the following places:
zetty_ak: This Ural town is reported to contain an installation
for the processing of uranium ore.
. Lies on the Siberian-Mongolian border and is said to
have been developed into a new center of the chemical industry;
e plants are equip with German machines.**
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c. Ir04011 (sic); In the, Urals; uranium ore is said to be processed
here.
kgalatna: Approximately 400 km east of Chelyabinsk- possibly
identical with the town of Ishlam(56006% 69025E5.***
Raab*. (sic): Lies east of Sverdlovsk; a quadruplo-track rail-
way line has been built from Sverdlovsk to Kusbek to serve some
underground installations there.
f. An unconfirmed report states that a mine has been
made available here for atomic research activities.
Nizhnilialla Uranium ore dumps are said to be accumulating
here.
. Awn-Alma: In Soviet Armenia; underground installations
are to be erected here as soon as an underground power plant
has boon completed.****
6. The scientists Alikhanov and Alikhaayan are operating a cosmic ray
laboratory on Mount Alagez in Soviet Armenia.
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*Sakamak ate reported in as being a town of 50 )00 population
located 15 km NW of Molotov. No such town is shown on available maps.
The location of Borovak reinforces the probability that Sakemak Should
read So k (59?38% 56046?E). Borovsk is at the end of the Molotov-
Eizel-Solikamak railway0
for a previous report of the establishment of a chemicel
works at Binyug and the installing of I.G0 Farben equipment0
likely gYelitYn (550420N, 60033,E)v NW of Chelyabinsk and previously
reported as a possible atomic site.
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pares. 1-3, as it is believed to be based on the same original data.
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