HEALTH CONDITIONS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IN THE OSTASHKOV AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
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Seliger occupied an area of 260 sq. km and was about 90 km
long. Approximately 700 people lived on Gorodomlya Island.
1?nis number included Germans and Soviets who were employed at
Branch No. 1 and their families.
2. Gorodomlya Island was irregular in form and had several finger-
like -4-no 1 T
p u a
h
what I believe was Rzhev. The 1' ' zougYi
fare to Leningrad or Moscoww
was 60 rubles.
s.
e central part, on which Branch No. 1
and the employees, homes were situated, was about three kilometers
long and two kilometers wide. An artificial lake had been
dug out of a swamp section of the inhabited section of the
island. larger island near Gorodomlya was uninhabited4as
were all other islands in Lake Seliger.
Communication with nearby Ostashkov on the mainland was by
small boat. There were two railroad lines from 0atashkov -
thp Leningrad-Moscow and the Brest Litovsk which led tl -
Since the inhabitants of Gorodomlya had been selectively re-
cruited for work at Branch No. 1 on the basis of their technical
training, the population did not constitute a typical aovibt
community. My impressions of health conditions in the :'Qui
t
e
Union might be different had I lived in a less artificial
assvmblago, or had I had an opportunity to observe Ustashkov
in detail. Ostashkov, with a population cif approximrctely
16,000 inhabitants, was probably a typicul -iovist city of miner
industrial importance,
Tho only serious disease epidemic on Gorodomlya Island sue the
outbreak of malaria which occurred in 1V47 and oorrtirruurl t>,rrtil,
1 ,940,, Wovio t physicians conducted blood smear tarts tci dar4,