PORT OF KEM

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 31, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Sepionage Laws, Title 18, V.S.Q. Seca. 788
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Arctic)
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straight across to the west until it cleared Solovetski Island - -sd).
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close to the buoys at Pervyy Troitskiy Shoal (N 65-13, E 36-04) and from the25X1
ship was en route to Kem (N 64-59) E 34-48), in June 1954, it sailed
2. Both Anzerskiy Island (N 65-08, E 36-12) and Solovetskiy Island were wooded. 25X1
On Golgotha gill on Anzerskiy Island there was a house with a tower built on
it. On Solovetakiy Island there was a group of houses at Sosnovaya. There
was also a high factory chimney visible at this point.
F-it was part of a fish cannery.
which was a rd boat. It had one stack
a group of houses at Dolgaya Bay (N 65-05, E 35-48)
and a large settlement 6,t Solovetakiy.
4. Northwest of Severnyy Kemskiy Bank (N 65-10, E 35-16) there was a small vessel
The islets around Rombak were bare. On the island group
south of Rombak there was some brush.
6. The ship moored at the quay north of No. 6 on the German city plan. The southern
part of the quay had completely collapsed and could not be used. It was said
that the damage had been caused by ice. At the loading quay there was just
enough room for one ship. ship loaded down to a depth of 18 feet
and it touched bottom on the shore side at low tide; just off the quay-side it was
deep enough to float the ship when loaded. The continuation of the quay beyond
the sawmill area toward the north was called the harbormaster quay.
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a 3,000-ton barge completely loaded with uncut timber at the quay.
Another barge of the same type moored at the quay when the first barge
departed. Both barges were towed by large tugboats.
The quay at No. 5 on the map was in a state of collapse from a point about
three-quarters of the way out from shore. The undamaged part of the quay
was used by small harbor vessels.
8. At No. 18 on the city plan there was a large number of buoys on shore.
In the bay at No. 6 there was a small repair slip. The winches looked as though
they were manually operated. Several small barges were on shore above the slip.
No work was being done on them. On the north side of the bay at No. 7 there
was a small pier which was used by small boats The
bay at No. 17 was used as a holding place for uncut timber. There were three
or four places for small lumber there. Inside the bay there was a small quay
at square S4 on the city plan. The small lumber towboats often moored there.
9. Yak Island (N 64-59, E 34-49 was
completely wooded.. -I-Jae Day just
across from the loading quay was use as a a ng ana-s-1 g area. The
swimmers went over there from the quayside.
10. The sawmill was at No. 1 and the sawmill's offices were in the vicinity of No.
10. There were two gates to the sawmill area. One led to the harbormaster
quay. This was the to that the ship's crew had to use when they left the
area. The other gate was just behind
the sawmill offices. At this point there was an armed female guard. None of
the ship's crew could through that gate except in the company of a Soviet.
the reason for this 'procedure was the danger of fire, and
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When they wanted to go into town they went through the gate at the,
harbormaster quay, along the railroad line, and around the entire sawmill
area. The road to town was on the west side of the lumber yards. 25X1
armed male guards on that road.
11. The railroad station was on the north side of the railroad line a short distance
up from the quay. It was a three-stor building. persons 25X1
waitin at the station and passenger trains departed from 25X1
there On the track from the station
down to the quay there were tank cars
A new tank car arrived every other day. The care carried 25X1
that was the only - water. supply for the area. 25X1
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lumber was sent by rail from Kern to Leningrad.
12. The settlement west and southwest of the sawmill consisted only of residential
buildings. The Seamen's 'Club was in the vicinity of No. 12. There was no
entertainment at the club
in the settlement had either plank or
there was a road leading west to Kern.
13. Twice) lin Kern a small passenger vessel came in to the "harbor-
master" quay. The vessel was very much like the old Norwegian fjord boats,
such as the OSTER in Bergen. There were both civilian and military personnel
aboard the boats. the servicemen were on leave.
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14. At quay No. 5 on the German city plan there were two small ships at night. The ships
were always out in the daytime, andthoV were manned by naval personnel. One day one
of these boats went out and took soundings a short distance out from the lumber
loading pier.
15. On the return trip from Kern, ship met a large Soviet icebreaker 25X1
west of Vardd. This vessel had two yellow stacks with a blue band around them
and black tops. It was towing a floating crane with the crane arms in a lower-
ed position. It was being towed to the east, from Leningrad to Murmansk
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