POWER PLANT AT BARANOVICHI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010200170001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT ~ower lane, at Baranovichj.
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`fit the northwestern town border )f Barano ichl (26c'021'/
53003`10, 17hite Russian 56R, opposite a locomotive re-
pair plant, in an .an le formed by the r`2ilroad lines to
:arer,,t and Vllnyus on the road to Rol nitskiye.~. tog location
See Annex l"
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he Plant area., =.ar-r?oximate7 y 400 x 300 meters is sr
rounded by a wooden fenced. The plant cons truct1on, part
Df the 5-Year Plane, started in the SF ring of 1940, and
as scheduled to be completed in 1.950. One source stated
that, presumably for the lacy. of labor force, this work
as discontinued in Apra 1949. Three turbines were
?lannedw Two turbines allegedly from a dismantled pcwwer
plant in Rostock, arrived before November 19460 and cat ,?e
Stored in the plant area The approximate dimensions of
;he turbine house were 40 x 40 is 16 met:~rs., The attac.aed
administration section was 13 met,~rs high., Next to th+.v
turbine house was a building 15 x 15 meters, supported
by concrete pillars,, All buildin js were brick struct:ures?
(For side view see, Annex 2. For plant layout see annex 3)
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Three Annexes: 1o Location of the Power Plant in Baranovichi,
2, Side View of the Dower Plant in 1aranovichi,
3d Plant Layout of the Power slant in Baranovichi,
*(51 o2w, 32.39E)
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Work 'Force
One hundred Pars, 40 Soviets including 10 for rmen and women,
working one shift,
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Annex 31;:1
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1 Ent.'ance and guard house
2 Storage of construction materials
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on.s truction office wooden bui l {: r.L
4 ,mater tower under cons tr action,. oo cavations 4? me-
tors deep., 20 meters in la.m~,ter; concreting did not
start
Coal bunker under constr. Diction., ccncx ote' structure,
04x12x3meters
6 Conveyer belt to con eyLn, tint' er under construction.
Conveying to%,,,er, 1.0 x 1Q x 12 meters, ferro-concrete
bare structure completed
Projected conveyer bolt bet;-reen convoying tower and
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