1. VILLAGE OF ZDOLBUNOV 2. PWS EXPECTED FROM KOREA, INCLUDING AMERICANS 3. MASS GRAVES NEAR ZDOLBUNOV

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SUBJECT 16 Village df, ZZdolbunov
2. PWs Expected from Korea, including Americans
36 Mass Graves near Zdolbunov
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1. Zdolbunov (50-31N, 26-16E) is the railroad junction for the Zdolbunov Rayon.
The railroad station is about 60 meters wide with about 12 tracks leading
to it, German PWs rebuilt this station-,and according to source it ie one
of the most beautiful stations he has seen. The station was completed on
1 May 1948. Most lines to Zdolbunov are double tracks. The single track
which leads to Dubno was formerly a doe track, but one line was destroyed
during the war and has,not yet been repaired. Source is not familiar with
the railroad toward Shepe#ovka but knows that the line is good as far as
Ivachkovo, 11 km from Zdolbunov.
2. Small woods line both sides of a highway which goes from Zdolbunov to
Rovno and Kievan.
There are a.number of large railroad repair shops and metal works close
to the railroad station.and_freight depot-. Many of the village people are
employed by the railroad. The village has a large brick factory and a
tractor engine repair shop called Kapitalnyy Remont. A new plant for the
cement industry has been under construction since fall 1950.
>-I-.. Wheat, rye, and barley are raised in this area. There are also many cherry,
apple, and pear orchards. There is. some forestry, activity, and trees that
are. cut down are not replaced.
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5. The population of Zdolbunov consists mainly of old and new-Ukrainian emigres
from Poland and.Czechs who emigrated in 1917 from Prague and Pilsen. .
6. A concentration camp which formerly housed German .Ps is in Zdolbunov. The
camp is located about 1 bunov railroad station. Whits source?s
family, emigrated to the they saw these prisoners near the
railroad station. They, were being marched to the cement factory to dig
gravel. Natives in town claim that at that time there were more than 1,000
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prisoners at the camp. In April. 1951, Kuchineki (fnu), a former major-at
the Voyenkomat in Zdolbunov, Ws from Korea were to be
brought to the prison.camp which formerly housed the German PWs, and that
these prisoners were to include. Americans. A.large cAmetery located close
to the cement factory was investigated by UPAA en,who'reported that there
.were over 1,000 graves with.as many as ten bodies in each grave.. This,
cemetery.has been completely neglectedyandsoon no.tr.ce will remain of it.
7. The chief of the Rayspolkom, Buri (fnu), disppeared in November 1949'and
was replaced by a Ukrainian woman. The militia chief in the Zdolbunov
Rayon is Muranov (fnu), a.captain. He is about 50 years old, tall, slim,
:with dark eyes and dark hair turning gray and combed straight back. He
is a Russian and wears a.dark blue uniform with straight-type jacket and
white epaulets with light blue trim. His office is located in the.MVD
Building on Tsementna Street. There is.only one small wooden building,in
the same block with this MVD building. Krasno Pohaniki anti-UPA troopg
frequently travel about the village in armored cars... There are also regular
.olice uni~s'iii. Zdolbunov.
8. Noy
ye Zhitya is a newspaper published in Zdolbunov.
Attachment, Layout sketch.of Zdolbunov
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.Key. to Sketch:
1. Stream.
2. Ukrainian_Orthodox Church
3. Railroad Station
4. Freight depot
5. Railroad lines (source says there are many lines. here but did not
draw them in because he could not recall exact.. numbers or locations )
6. Cement industry
.7 Cemetery
8. Store, called Ra na1,
9. $ospital
10. MVD Office of Zdolbunov Rayon
11. Voyenkomat
12. Rayon.financial_office
.13. Catholic ehur'14'
14. Polyclinic
15. .Ukrainian...Orthodox Church
16. Zdolbunov-High School
17. Rayspolkom
18. MTM (Tractor repair shgp)
19. Flour mill
20. Former PW camp
.21a Elementary,school
22. Granaries
23. Bazaar
21 Cemetery
25. Hospital
26. Brick factory.. Thisis located approximately 25 meters from the road
.leading to Rovno and 150 meters from the stream.
27. New.. cement factory
.28. Cable. car. This car operates. between the cement industry (#6 on map)
and StaromilskVillage. Chalk from Staromilsk is hauled to the,cemnnt
factory, by the cable car, which is approximately 45 feet above the ground.
Nets are strung above the. railroad, highway, stream, and houses as a
safety. precaution..
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29. Cemetery. German.PWs_are.buried here. It. is located 1 kilometer from
the road_and.l00meters from the railroad line-to Dubno.
30.. Park and stadium.
31. Granary. It is about 5C meters long, 12.meters wide, and is set off
by a wooden fence. The entrance is guarded by an armed guard.
32. Bolshevik Movie:Theater..
33.,,_ Bank. This is a.two-storied building set 3 to ).meters away from the
street, It is surrounded by a wooden.fence. An.armed MVD.manis on
guard. at the entrance.
. National Court. This is a two-storied white stone building.
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border area and t ha. language commonly heard is luzngarian., Slovak,
Ukrain a..*.~, .and Folist a ,e also hear.'d.
The z a ority of people., in the village are SloT/ ;,z s from t:b:e :turtgarian
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The "-Tillage of S,,xalya.;va 1+8-33N, 22-59E), which is 21+ kilometers from
Muka.chevo, has three enterprises - a sawmill, wood-c!:.emi ca.l industry
(Leso-fb`.; .._cheskly Za:vod and a, state-owned wood refinery.
All three are connected with the main railrosd line, and with each other
by single tra.c.k rail linesAll are fenced in by high wooden, fences
with an armed guard stationed at each entrance.. Acetone is one of the
products of the 311EM
Social life consists of visits by a few trussed friends or neighbors.
A few people have radios, and foreign broadcasts are listened to in great
secrecy. When source lived in Sv;alyatia, he saw friends listening to
foreign broadcasts by placing the radio under the feather cover on the
bed. They would. .i.sten to Hungarian broadcasts coming from the VOA
aahd Western Europe. :i-t is not a, risk to have a; re.dio,but to be caught
listening to a. foreign broadcast is extremely dangerous,
1+a All buildings in the village have red tile roofs, except the one housing
the La>hZ company store and the building across the street from the store
All employees of the wood-chemical industry are housed in buildings located
on Ehrushchova. Street. ; Bachelor employees are housed in one building of
about 90 rooms w rich has a cafeteria, Men are billeted on the ground
floor, several men in one room,, and "the women occupy the rooms or. the
second floor. This building is known as Obs:h.cheye Zhitelst o #1 (common
'building)., she building is managed by a female doctor named t ashkina (fnu,
She is about 21 years old, Uk:raini_an, average height, with dark eyes and
brown: hair. -Her husband is director of the chorus formed of workers at
the wood-chemical industry, and he 1s also secretary of the Komsomol group
at te firm. -arr,ilies are assigned w,o--room apartments which are usually
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occupied by more than one family. Each apartment has one electric outlet
besides the ceiling light.
To insure getting a job, it is possible to bribe the director of the L hZ
by, giving him food. New employees must prepare an autobiography, and the
director checks all personal documprits, including propusk, driver's
license, passport, and trudoknishka,. The trudoknishka, is retained by the
personnel office as long as the person remains employed. When released,
an entry of release is made in.this.book, and it is returned to the in-
dividuala
6e Meals at the likhZ cafeteria cost from 301 to 4 rubles for dinner and 2
'to 3050 rubles for breakfast. There is only one menu for each meal.
Portions are small. A dinner consists consists usually of hamburger or breaded
cutlets, potatoes, bread, and soup. The cafeteria is used mostly by
.Komsomol members. Workers come only after pay day, once a month, when
they feel like splurging. There are never more than twenty people for
one meal.
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le I jComment, A S!alyva Wood Alcohol Plant was previously reported.
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1. LIthZ.company. store yzavodskaya magazi! )a This is a general store in
a building 45 meters long, one story high, painted r1hiteo
l.a To-room apartment
2. Dwelling
3? Dwelling for, bachelor employees of L Z
3 -alb LKbZ; office buildings u One is the billeting,office.
3ac Cafeteria,o
4. Police registration office.
5. Sawmill.
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7-13. Buildings,, Uses unknown.
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1. By April 1950 all individual farming was done away with and every
villager was signed up to work for the kolkhoz, The kolkhoz:ofPodta'urkovc
has been merged with five other kolkhozy into Kolkhoz Stalina, employing
approximately 3,000 people. Kolkhoz workers are paid in produce, in
Podtsurkovo principally grain. One year the workers earned as little as
22 kg of-grain per day. With this the worker bad to.clothe,and feed
his family. Villagers make liquor out of sugar beets in order-to earn
money from its sale. Each family is permitted to keep one cow but must
give the government a certain amount of milk each year.
There are approximately sixty homes in the village, including a few
homes located some distance from the center. Two or -three families live
in each house. The population consists mostly of 1?ples,, Ukrainian
emigres from Poland, a few Russians, and the Slovak emigres from
Czechoslovakia. There are no Jews in the village. The village admini-
stration is headed by Vasil Yarchuk, secretary of the village council.
.Yarchuk is a Polish emigre intensely disliked by the villagers. One
night he was badly beaten by two unknown assailants. The authorities
arrested and sentenced a Ukrainian villager whom they. suspected as being-
anti-Soviet. After the beating, Yarchuk was less vicious. The president
of the Selso~ret is Stepan Protaz, a Ukrainian emigre from Poland. 'P.rotaz
is.about 52 years old, 516" tall, long face, dark eyes. He is married
and has two grown children, a boy Mieha who married in 1948, and a -daughter
Nastya Parasiuk, a widow with one daughter.
3. The train schedule from R.ovno includes the following run-
Depart Rovno 6:30 p.m. (local train)
Arrive Zdolbunov 7105 p.m.
Depart Zdox.: unoir 8;57 p..m.. for Radzivilov (local train)
Arrive Ulbarov Station (1 km from Podtsur?kovo) 900 p.m.
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attempted attack or de8tr?uction Men who are forced to ta:e this duty
are those who have been charged with some., offense and face a: prison sentence
if they refuse.. Only one of the e~gh ;; mem, in this group was a volunteer.
In addition to L1.s04o the group consists of the following men a .
?olodimir ;C shparg a Czechoslovak w:ho .was considered a kula,k and nc6ae
estate was con abated by the Soviets in 1949. His residence
is 100 meters from the railroad station.
of eight men. Similar police units have been. set up in every `il:.lage for
the purpose of prr tectting the .villagers and government, property from any
f 19,50 M'tsenko.orga;rzized a special police unit (istrebite:1naya, gruppa
isms I've a special rate for studentsa
The village has its own milit;ia., headed by i.iserfko (fnu) In the, a;utum,n
Yuri otra,di. :born in 1932. In ;1949 he was accused of operating a, still
and of destroying the truck used to show movies in the 'vi.llages
Mail Bobko about 43 years .old; faced a prison term for nua,king liquor.
'`urt:Petriskod about 51 years old, who faced a prison term for selling
liquor and for failing to register possession of two cows.,
Eaph family is permitted to have one cow and having more than
one subjects, the owner to heavy taxation, but. money and milk.
Yuri ,Oprbal-. about 50 years old; was. charged with having operat'ed a still.
V4 hail i:l l ashpare a' Slovak about 50 years old, in whose home the police
found a pie:tol
Vasil Yarchuke born in 1930 and the only volunteer for this work,
While KraK no Pohaniki, anti.-i1PA troops, are not attached. t? this locality,
they i'x?equent y, police the village. 'The IJPA was.very active in this area
from 1947 , until early 19500
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1. Industries in Vygoda (48-55N, 23-56E) include the wood-chemical industry
(Leso-Khimicheskiy Zavod),which produces acetone, tar, wood, coke, etc..,
and a sawmill,which was partially destroyed by fire in March 1951 and has
not been completely repaired. The sawmill (Lesopilnyy Zavod),under the
Lvov Trust, has only one truck in operation. Both plants are fenced off
by wooden fences and have guards at the entrances. Director of the wood-
chemical industry is Mazimovich (fnu); the bookkeeper is a Russian about
32 years old named Goroshko (fnu); and the supply chief is Nikolay Yevseyev.
2. All roads in the area around Vygoda are in extremely bad condition. They
are narrow in spots and have deep ruts. This is particularly true of the.
road from Vygoda to Stryy, reconstruction of which was begun in April 1950.
Only five kilometers near Stryy had been repaired by May 1951. The con-
dition of the roads makes it difficult to recruit drivers for the logging
trucks. Rail communications consist of freight trains from Dolina.
3. About one kilometer from the wpld-chemical industry, there are about 15
houses known as Krasni Domi because of their red tile roofs. These
houses were built when. Vygoda was part of Poland and presently house
employees of the sawmill. They are one-story wooden buildings, each
with four apartments having one room and a kitchen. Most of these apart-
ments are shared by more than one family, and, in many cases, three
families share the two rooms. Apartments are heated by a central gas heating
system. The wood-chemical industry has a housing prq-ect located near the
plant. All buildings-on Khrushchova Street have been taken over by the
wood-chemical industry for their employees.
+. The Vygoda MVD office is located on the left hand side of the road leading
from Dolina to Vygoda. This is Vygoda's main street. The MVD.office is
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Attachments One Layout Sketch of Vygoda
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1. Z (Leso-Kh,ch6skiy Zavo..),
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11 - Lesopilnyy Zavod (LPZ;
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irowi.ng project i'or. Z etpI oyees
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24-0.-1..ur; is located about, six kilometers fr.^om. 'Jygoda..
..hr- two I owns are connected by a. two-lane,', stone-su faced highway which
is in poor cond.tion. The town of .:Iolina has a salt mine and salt
tridust:ry, both loc ;,red about kilometer south of the Orthodox Church,
he 4)oJ tha. E;v=aTigel:i.cal. Church is located about 100 meters beyond the
Fz ';yorxom.:t building, on. the opposite side of the street.,
!A 19'=0 source saw approximately ten newly-drilled oil wells in this
area.. An informan told source that one of the wells was 1, 800 meters
deep, Source saw the wells from Zagorshe, a bill in Dolina. He esti-
mates that the first; well Is approximately 300 meters beyond the Dolina
railroad station and the second. about 500 meters from the first.: well,,
or=hers appear t o be closer to one a.no`ther, Source .le,arned, from an
infor-.man+t, *bat, the la;tt,er? had'seen..plans for the drilling of hundred
o i.l we x.l s 'in * h.:.s area and these ter). were part of this plan. The
d. t:.lling of the well.s was begun in 1950.
3 Kra ,-,no Po"niki. yanti.-JTPA troops-) are a ;.t,ached to this village, in
i8 the bodie3 of three or four, c,PA''men were placed against
=a bufld.i_ng directly across from. the ]=ayo:rlkomat: building on the main
s* peex in town:.., These men had. been killed by a fire bomb thrown into
Bunke:r. 7e bodies we:r?e displayed for several weeks, The faces
were b93 a` ed beyond recogni t.. i on,
brie Sll