PHOTOGRAPHS OF MINSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R001900050007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 21, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs, 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY USSR (Belorussian SSR REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Photographs of Minsk DATE DISTR.
21 November 1955
NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE OF INFO.
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
Attached are 10 photograph of various places in Minsk.
a. Photograph No. 1: Source Stated that the name of the street in this
picture was prospekt imeni Stalinai it had previously been named
Sovetskaya ulitsa.1 He thought that thbuilding in the left fore-
ground of the photograph was the MVD headquarters of the Belorussian
SSR.
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b. Photograph No. 2: Prospekt tmeni Stalina. The MVD headquarters of the
Belorussian SSR was located in the building with the tower, in the right
center of the photograph.
c. Photograph No. 3: A Russian Orthodox church on Sovetskaya ulitsa, which
Was located a short distance west of the Government House firOm pravitel-
stva7 of the Republic.
d. Photograph No. 4: The large building with the tower was used to quarter
railroad workers. Various shops, stores, and restaurants were located
on the ground floor), and apartments were located on the other floors.
e. Photograph No, 5: The building under construction is the new Profsoyuz
building. With the exception of finishing work on the outside, this
building was practically completed, but unoccupied
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Photograph No. 6: In this photograph, the building with the towers
is a former Catholic church. The towers had been removed, and, in
several stories were being added to the building.
Photograph No. 7: The building covered by trees on the left of the
photograph was once called Dom Krasnoy armii LRed. Army Clug but
is now called Dom ofitserov Lpfficersi Club/ Lsee sketch7.
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(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
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h. Photograph No. 8: Buildings on prospekt imeni Stalina. The building
at the far end of the street ( the building marked with an X on the
photograph) was the new location of the Profsoyuz fiee sketch7.
i. Photograph No. 9: This is a statue of Stalin, located across the street
from Yanka Kupala Square fs-ee sketch7.
Photograph No. 10: This is the same statue of Stalin as the one in
photograph No. 9.
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Comment: It cannot be determined from the original material
wnether source meant that all of Sovetskaya ulitsa had been renamed prospekt
imeni Stalina or whether only a part of it had been so renamed.
Distribution of Attachments:
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Graphics Register: Retention
Sketch of a Section in Minsk
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Prospekt imeni Stalina
Yanka
Kupala
Square
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1. statue of Stalin erected in the middle of an asphalted city black.
2. Profsoyuz building under construction
3. Officers' Club.
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