SOVIET CONSULATE GENERAL IN HARBIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005100080010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Gh i na/ui Sa CO N F I D E I V W 0 A L DATE D STR.. 22 7N 50
SUBJECT Soviet Gonsul,rto General i' Atbin NO. OF PAGES z
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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The Soviet Consulate General in Harbin occupies the same compound it has
always had there, but since 1946 the area has been enlarged by the addi-
tion of part of the park surrounding the Railway Club, now Dort Kultur?y
Zheleznodoroshnikove on Bolshoi Prospelzt. The new property includes a
former Japanese military radio station in a three story building, now
providing radio service for the consulate. It has transmitting and saver-
.9.1 receiving antennae on the roof. . During the Soviet occupat.i on, the sltua-
t.lon broadcast musical programs with frequent interruptions by announcers
stating "This is Harbin, this is Harbin," repeated several times. Soviet
personnel informed the curious who asked that the station was used as e.
radio beacon for Soviet aircraft. The building is reported to be occupied
by the TASS office also and is A u.mor?ed to house the Harbin MG-B headquarters.
2. The other addition includes new dependent housing on the opposite side of the
consulate building from the radio station, where there are serf-Japanese
style houses originally built for railway workers a The concret:; and brick
fence which surrounded the old compound has been extended to include the new
areas; the new fence is the same hci.h.t, as the older section but is made of
wood, Entrance to the compound. is through a central ;ate for motor traffic,
with a separate corridor- for pedestrians. Both the corridor and, through a
mirror arrangement, the main gate are controlled by a sentry box manned by
to guards twenty-dour hours -; day. .
Approximately one hundred fifty persons are employed in the Consulate General,
of whom about fifty are female employees or dependents, The size of the TASS
staff in the consulate compound was not stated. Before and during World War
11, the consul general was Paa?lyshev5?r; fan, the vice consul. Loginov, fnu,
and the chief of the passport section 7yukin, frasr, one of the fe-w still re-
maining in the office. Another vice-consul, Zhilin, fnu, 1 ft Phrbin just
before the end of the wary saying he was returning to Moscow, but reappeared
in the uniform of an PaKVD colonel when the Soviet army occupied the citsr,
He. remained behind when the occupation forces withdrew..
In 1946 when the Soviets announced. that they could not recognize the Communist
government of Harbin, Pavlyehev was recalled and Loglnov became charge d eaf-
faires . Although. the Consulate General was officially closed, it continued
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This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 front the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United' States.
Next Rev' 'w Date: 2003
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5. Other personnel known to be or to have been in the consulate are;
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to carry out its functions for Soviet citisens; it had no overt relations
with Chinese Communists. Loginov was replaced in 1947 by Lyskov,* fru,
and is rumored to be now with the Soviet embassy in Prague. At the end of
1948, Chuprov, fnu, became charge d'affaires in place of Lyskov., who be-
came vice-consul. Upon the recognition of the Chinese People's Republic by
the USSR, Malinin** was appointed charge d''ef fairer, and the Consulate
General was formally re--opened with a flag--raising ceremony, reception, and
announcements.
a. Save henko a vice consul who left in early 1947.
b,, Lepekhin, fnu, secretary of the Consulate General,,
c.. Rakhm.anin, fnu, chief of the Section for ^,R; ss Cultural Activities
(Kult-Massovy Otdel).
d. Borisov.** fnu. chief of the Culture and Education Section (Otdel
Kultprosvet Raboty), which is responsible for overall supervision
of cultural activity in Harbin.
The consulate operates approximately ten passenger cars
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-.1 r, L Provlcas oviet consulate e neral e'p F.n or
E. Borisov Wa.s second secretary of t'.ie S
in 1946 and 1947: he returnpiI. to the USSR in 1947 withhisfamily.~ Sha~1.,h~i
LyslMv: P'.? F- Lyskoy also sDeltecl Liskov, Was been carried In records
since Larch 19':" i.s a vice-consul of the Harbin consulate. It is not
clear whether the ind.iv1 ual renortprl as first consul 25X1
general, then correctet? to of pa.4,nnno?
Covent. P"rsonnel -oreviously identified include the fo1lotilings
Borisov: .'m person variously re-norterl 1 P t P
Malinin: Previously rP',ortej
With Koslov ns vice--consul.
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P^vl'yshPv: Ite,)orted as G. I. Pavlichev, Soviet Se Sconsu general in R rbin9
25X1 inf'or;av>.tion of 3eutenber 1947, when, aceordin;; to this re act
av ys ev hn.ci been recalled. to the USSR,
aFLroln in xuf;uet
but - 1-j ve ber n error.
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