1. SOCIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS 2. PRICES IN LENINGRAD

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 26, 1956
• 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.
COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
SUBJECT 1. Sociological Conditions in the
Karelian Isthmitts.
2. Prices in Leningrad.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 26 November 1956
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
report concerning sociological conditions in the
Karelian thnizs- and commodity prices in Leningrad (N 59-55, E 30-15)
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2. The three-page report speaks of an acute housing shortage in the 11.sthmug-Jwhich '
has been thoroughly Russianized, states that a-complete absence of any organized
farming was observed.,and lists the prices of 32 commodities sold in Leningrad in
July 1956,
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General conditions in Karelian Isthmius
1. Housing etc she entire population of the Karelian
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(Nbo-1j)
Isthmus is now Russian. At TERI$OKIAthere is only one former
Finnish national. The dwellings and way of life are equally
Russian in character.
2. There is ar acute housing shortage, and any building at
all suitable for living purposes has been pressed into service.
Most of the new construction has taken place in the coastal area,
,-hough a considerable concentration of building construction was
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noted at TERItOKI and R14V0T a few brick buildings having been
put up in the former, Some of the villas on the coast have been
repaired, but most of then are in a very bad state.
Outbuildings, such as old cowsheds and barns, have been put
into some kind of condition, and are being used as dwellings.
3. During the summer, there would ap-_pear to be about 20,000
inhabitants in the church village of TERI$OKI, whereas earlier
there were only some 5,000.
4. In TERIOOKI there are only 5 shops and 2 restaurants, one
being at the MERIKYLPYLA (Marine Hydro), and the other at the'
railway station. The place is now a busy summer resort, visited
(N61-;S,E30-lc)
by workers from LENINGRAD4 and elsewhere, who live in rest-homes
and dwelling centres.
5. At RA'VOLA, there is a wide area devoted to a youth camp
along the shore of RAYVOLA River, near the KIVENNAPA road.
Several buildings have been put up here expressly for the youth
car,.p.
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6. Thera; are very few habitations between RAIVOLA and VIIPUFI(NW'`13i
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no passenger traffic was observed at any of the_ stations. Most
of the "through" passenger traffic is to and from LENINGRAD, and
this increases very considerably d1iring the susmner.
7. Communications
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seen on the roads to LENINGRAD, INOKO IST00and. VIIPURI(VyboR9)
Private cars are seldom in evidence, but are often
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8. Agriculture
Observations made along the railway between VIIPURI and
LENINGRAD showed that there is a complete absence of any,
organised farming. The fields are merely full of wild
and the ditches overgrown with clumps of willow, et'c . At
PUHTOLA, some potato fields and other root crops were soon.
There is a SOVHOZ at LINTULA, whore there are about 100 cows.
Goats are in evidence in the country districts.
9. Cultivation of grain-fields in the area is entirely non-,
existent.
Commodity prices in LENINGRAD (12.7.56)
Rbls.
70 () eL~s
Rye bread, 400 gr..
1
35
White bread, 400 gr.
1
59
Butter:, 1 kg.
27
50
Butter,-better quality
28
50
Eggs, per each
1
20
Margar ine, 100 gr.
1
48
Beef, (stewing) 1 Kg.
12
50
Pork, 1 Kg:. .
1.8
50
Baltic herrings, salted, 1Kg,.
3
90
Buckwheat, 1 kg.
4
90
Rice, 1 kg.
7
90
Macaroni,lkg
3
.90 to 5:50
Milk, per litre
2
35
Sugar, 1 kg.
9
40
Now potatoes, 1 kg.
7
Cabbage, 1 kg.
4
Apples, 1 kg
20
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Cherries, 1 kg.
10
Citruua, each
2
75
Tomatoes, 1 kg.
25
Coffee, 200 gr. (best)
7
Potato flour, 1 kg.
15
Children's shoes, pair
(from)
26
70
Women's shoes, pair
52
Women's galoshes,, pair
14
Women's wellingtons, rubber
87
50
, leather
121
65
Silver articles, per gr. of silver
1
95
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Rbls
210 0
Electric razor
Vacuum cleaner (small)
495
180 to 210:
Record player
171 to 950:
Radio set
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