CIVILIAN PILOT TRAINING SCHOOL AT BOBRUYSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013100260004-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
t . FORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Belorussian, SSR)
SUBJECT Civilian Pilot Training School at Bobruysk
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Until. July 1941 a training school for civilian pilots was located in a
village (name unknown) about four kilometers from Bobruysk (53-09N, 29-114),
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Belorussian SSR? a summer school with about 200
students enrolled in four classes.' The school was known as the Dzerzhinskiy
Grazhdanskiy Vozdushn y Plot (sic),
20 The school consisted of four barracks, fire or six school buildings, two work-
shops9 a'large hangar, ten or fifteen automobile garages, and a fair sized
airfield. Training equipment included several airplane models (mock-ups).,
about eight gliders, and two or three school planes.
The students more civilian clothes. The instructor in political education at
the school was Katzenelson (fnu)D a lieutenant who wore an army uniform. All
other instructors, specialists in aviation, were civilians and did not wear
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class of 60 students, 17 were expelled.
In July 1941 the advance of the German. Army caused the evacuation of the school.
School property was loaded on trucks and, with the students follows on foot
via Smolensk, the school was shifted somewhere in the area of Vazmy probably
Vyazma, 55-14N, 34-18E, Smolensk Oblast). Here the achbol was set up in
tents and functioned until October or November 1941, The number of students was
greatly decreased after the move from Bobruysk, many students preferring to
remain in their own villages despite German occupation. The students who did
transfer to Vazmy were so poorly fed that they had to seek bread from the
civilian population nearby.
25X1 Comment: The fact that the Soviets felt it advisable to transfer the
school during the war and to set it up elsewhere under the conditions described
would belie its description as a summer school for civilian pilots and it is
possible that the school may have been reopened in Bobruysk after the war.
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