CITY OF UFA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004400200013-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRf USSR (Jashkir KSSR)
SUBJECT City
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25X1 l; . Ufa (54'43x~, 56E), capital of the Bashkir x-SSR, was built hundreds of years ago..
The oldest ,,art of the city is the northern section, The city is surrounded on
three sides by the E3ela,ya River,,
2, The cz.t..' is laid out very regularly in a cl .kerboard pattern. The streets are
strati ht um!, wide, lighted by electricity, and marked by rectangular iron plates
hung cat th ; street reads. On main street.s, the street signs' are electrically
ligrhted. The principal streets are Lenin, Stalin, and t=ushkin, all asphalted,
Parades are h 'ld on Pushkin Street and on Lenin Street -
I I some residential buildings for 23-30 families were under
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the Ufa Restaurant,, which is in a seven-storied building. also on this street
are a government building and a six-storied building in which the families of
engineers and professors live,,
construction. but. there ryas no significant building act( vit;; , The buildings of
Ufa are principally of stone or brick _ The overnment buildings are of stone
and tainted yellow (sic; of yellow-colored stone?):. Residential buildings are
mostly one-storied and of either stone or brick, There are also sae buildings
of wood but none of concrete. :ost of tha buildings in town are two or three
stories high, painted red, and roofed with sheet .iron,,
there are no significant buildings and no memorial. There are only three small
parks, One on Lenin Street contains Lenin?s bust, in Yakutov Park are Lenin's
ana italin" s busts, There are cinemas in all three parks, On Lenin Street is
5 The population of Ufa consists of abo t 70 percent Tatars, 25 percent Russians,
:,na five percent others (Armenians and Georgians) There is no apparent discord
between nationalities, although the Russians do not. 1 ok favorably on the other
peoples,, There is no important number of foreigners in the city, and those who
come do not stay,, The male population declined as a result of the war?
bn The native Tatars are i osleras; the Russians and other nationals are Chr ist.ians.
Only the elderly people are interested in religion :,rd perform the requirements.
There are two churches and one z:rosque,, ?lderly then and women attend regularly,
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7. The only railway station, called Ufa Station, is in the southern part of
the city. It is a whitewashed one-storied building., The freight depot is
in a separate building, about 200 meters Yiest of the station. There are
about 20 lines trough this station, ~ihich is connected with the Tr ancsibm
erian line to the east and the Woscow, line to the vest. Ufa is connected
oy rail with Chelyabinsk, Ulyanovsk (Lenin's birthplace), and Kuibyshev.
The lines running in all these three directions are 'ride anf; double-track-
ed,, about 4-5 passenger trains pass doily through Ufa, Lore freight trains
than passenger trains pass , perhaps one freight train every hour.; 'P'ains
to all directions are run by steam.
8. There is a public aerodrome 3 kri easL of Ufa, from which flights are made to
...oscov;, 8akir (sic; Baku?), Kiev, Kharkov, and Tbilisi. The field has hangars
but source does not know how many, Source cannot describe the run,.ay but
states that there are no under7round installaations. Three or four planes a
uaywere ooserved arriving and departing. There is also a training airfield
at Ufa.
9 The river port is located at the end of Lenin Street, There is also an in-
stallation for the repair of ships, The port is guarded by the militia but
is not separated from the rest of the city by any barrier. The city is linked
by river with Kazan, Gorki, and ,Moscow.. It is possible to go against the
current. of the river with small ships out there is no traffic of any importance
in this direction. The principal traffic consists of grain sent out of the
ctt_- of Ufa Anu tii;ver brought in from the Urals.
10 'fracas, buses, and automobiles provide local transportation. There are no
horse carriages. The rails for trains are double and t.ra; s move in two direc-
tions, These two directions are designated as 1 and 20 These numbers ani the
name of the destination are written on tt sides of the trans. The buses are
of different colors. The fare from the center of the city to the station is
one ruble. The train fare is 33 kopeks even to the last stop. There are con-
ductors both in the buses and in the trams who collect the fare. By regulation,
everybody is supposed to pay the same amount, but soldiers do not comply with
the regulations. Taxis cannot b3 distinruisihea as they do not have ant- m.3rkinng
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Doctors use the ospi a; vehicles., Sorr high officials have
sutornooiles but their number is very few,,
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11. The Supreme Soviet of the Bashkir aSSR is located in the goverriment building. -
The President, Uraz,,bsyev, is in his early forties; h althy looking, and is inarr ied,
The secretary of the Party is `Jagaapov, This building also houses the City 'oviet
and, source believes, other munie pa:l offices. Source states that there are ZttK:i,
tax collectors, anu welfare offices in Ufa but he does not know their locaa.tions0.
For draft r urposes, the city i3 4ividad into four raions, each of which contains
a military registration office.:,
12. The :VD heacquarters is at the corner of Stalin and Gogol Streets. Sourc~:z does
not know the location of militia offices? There are two prisons, The mi'_itary
and civil courts are housed in the same building. There are both P.1 and forced
labor cams in the vicinity of Ufa, but source does not knob: their location,
13,: The militiamen usually stay singly or in teams of two at the street corners while
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on duty, They are more nLrlerous in the center of the city than in the outskirts.
a er dark everyone can move about freely. }io.vever
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special certificates can be obtained on application from the security
officers. It is riots clear fro:,, his staterient ,visether such documents are required
or optional. X"Alitia p