BARANOVICHI AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007300290010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENT AL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSE (Belorussian SSR)
SUBJECT liaranovichi Airfields
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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REPORT NO.
CD NO.
10444-325X1 A
DATE DISTR. 14 Feb. 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
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NO. OF ENCLS. 1-
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The military airfield, about 3 km square, was east of
stacle lights (see Annex).
Baranovichi (26C3tE/5308+ ), "White Russian SSR. It had at
railroad spur track, a. rolled runway, and boundary and
following buildings were available:
ee hangars with vaulted corrugated"6heet metal roofs,.
ides at the front fifth, and four stabilizing fins.
here. The bombs.,, painted blue, were paeked 'in crates indi-
jdua.Each bomb, about 2 meters long, had a red ring, 10 cm
A three-story flight control station with antenna masts.
Sixteen two-story cantonment buildings, each 20 x 10 meters,
frata structures, billets.
fuel dump of about 20 underground tanks and a bomb dump,
out 200 x 150 meters, extended along the railroad spur track.
January 1949, eight bomb piles, each 4x2x2 meters, wens
4, The fij d was occupied by:
a. About 45 single-engine low-wing monoplanes,
b, About five biplanes.
co Two four-engine aircraft (seen since !,lay 10-48): Radial
engine , about 40 meters long, span 30 meters, single rudder
assembly, double-tired landing gear, nose wheel, stern tip
projecting, straight leading and trailing edges of wings which
then became .Ellipsoidal..
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Flying activity: Local flights. with the single-
engine aircraft, parachute jumps from the li-
planes. One of the two four-engine planes took
off in October 19L8 and returned the following
day.
CO of the field was Col Zashko, Hero of the Soviet
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A civilian airfield, about 1,.500 meters square, was
immediately south of the military airfield and sepa-
rated from it only by a road..
(For details see Anne
There were no buildings at the. field in June 1915.
The landing field was graded in l946 and a flight
control station, from vich two rubber cables led to
the billets of the military airfield, was built,,.
Since the Spring of 1947 individual and stunt flying
has been. done with two biplanes and two low-wing
monoplans with in-line engine.
10. The fiihd was occupied by a woman pilot and five to
six civilians wearing blue suits and service caps,
"similar to the German Lufthansa pilots".
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a. The report virtually confirms previous information'
according to which the field is occupied by mostly
single-engine low-wing monoplanes. According to previous
reports, the low-wing monoplane type wis believed to be
a fighter of the Yak-9 model, The observed bomb piles
indicate that the fighter units are also trained for
ype is
cornmitrnent as'fighter bombers. Thus this new t,
assigned, missions formerly retained for the Il-10 type?
which is apparently no longer manufactured,
-b. The two- four-engine aircraft day be 31-18
carnrae.rcial planes, according to the sketch which is
coflsidered unsuitable for transmission. They are
reported for the first timeo
c. This is the first inforrriation on the civilian
a&rfield.
3 Annex; Baranovichi Airfields (sketch on ditto),
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