1. FRONTIER TROOPS AND ZONES IN THE WESTERN UKRAINE 2. SOVIET ARMY SUMMER MANEUVER AREA OF THE CARPATHIAN MD

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• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Lawb. Title
18, V.B.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the tranesieelon or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR) REPORT L
SUBJECT 1., Frontier Troopa.c ?.and:. ZZone.. in-the DATE DISTR.
Weetern..Ukraine
AUG 8 1955
2. Soviet Am Sumer Maneuver Area NO. OF PAGES 3
DATE OF INFO.
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USSR (Ukraine)
Military, Political
Frontier Troops and Zones
Lvov - Headquarters of the Frontier Troops in the Carpathian Military District
(PrikarpatBkiy Voyennyy 0krug) was located on ulitsa Gorkogo. In the
headquarters there were about 50 officers and 30 enlisted men, and a
guard platoon (okhrana shtaba) of about 30 men.
Lutsk - ~omraxtd..?;; (upravleniye) and a detachment (otryad) of troops,
consisting of about 200 officers and enlisted men.
Chernovtsy - T..Cud..-, and a detachment of about 200 officers and
enlisted men.
Stanislav - Detachment of about 150 officers and enlisted men.
Sambor - Detachment of about 150 officers and enlisted men.
Drogobych - Detachment of about 150 officers and enlisted men.
Rava-Russkaya - Detachment of about 150 officers and enlisted men.
Velikiye Mosty - Detachment of about 150 officers and enlisted men.
Sokal - Detachment of about 150 officers and enlisted men.
2. The detachments in Stanislav, Sambor,and Drogobych were subordinate to the
command_ ,,: in Chernovtsy. Those in Rawa Russkaya, Velikiye Mosty,and Sokal
were subordinate to the co nd , in Lutsk. The commahda in
Chernovtsy and Lutak were in turn subordinate to the headquarters of the
Frontier Troops f the Carpathian Military District in Lvov. Each de
merit controlled three front er posts (zastavy)
Frontier posts consisted of nn+
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3. Frontier Troops wore normal khaki-green Army uniforms, peaked caps with
green crowns, and lighter green cap bands; they had green piping on their
shoulder-boards. They usually gave the impression of being smarter and
better dressed than other troops. They were responsible solely for the
defense of the Soviet frontiers and the frontier zones. They did not
deal with subversive activities or resistance to the re ime which e
the responsibility of the MVD troops (voyska MVD), the 25X1
Fronlyier.-.Tboops had.-been controlled, for. ml ny;years by a ;. and still ate;
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zapre zone along the Soviet-Ukrainian frontiers w4 +t,
but was nowhere re than 20 - -Z-- -?~ +, "~' = to p'-ace,
meters deeppeer. bu x .s reduceloseode me. s3`te~r~theoaeeatn" o 8tre1 ~lo-
and l~r lifter the- arrest of Eeriya- in .Fug--ef - that year. 0 lin in 10
the relaxation in frontier zone restrictions was ass a in
tne minds of the lne% 1 population more with the downfall of Beriya.
the tendency of Soviet propaganda to disparage the
mVJJ a er Stalin's death was directed chiefly against Beriya, and that
the change in frontier zones provided additional a==ition for this
campaign by showing that many of the restrictions on so-resent had been
caused by Beriya rather than Stalin.
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Before the reduction in the depth of the frontier zones in the Western
Ukraine, the towns of Drogobych, Stanislav,, and Chernovtay had been
within the zone, and Lvov had been very close to it. Since the reduction,
these towns have all been outside the zone, Lvov being sctveral kilometers
from it, and restrictions on travel to and from them have been removed.
~?~ u~ulaiug sLi11 bears the same inscription at Lt e
Inside limits of the frontier zone: _ -GO VG11` uA.rstine remained just
Ustilug in Volynskaya Oblast; Sokal and Rava-Russkaya in Lvovskaya
Oblast; Mostiska and Dobrowil in Drogobychskaya Oblast; Uzhgorod
Mukachevo,and Razkharin Zakarpatskaya Oblast; and Gertsa in
Chernovitskaya Oblast.
In the southeast part of Chernovitskaya Oblast
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7? Before the merger of the M? and the MVD, the Map Directorate (Upravleniye
MGB) was located in a buildin
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the MVD building is al8o on ulitsa Gorkogo.
8. Near Yavorov ih Lvovskaya Oblast, there was an area ab
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square, which was used annually between about May and October for summer
training and maneuvers of the Soviet Army of the Carpathian Military
District (Prikarpatskiy Voyennyy Okrug). The area was flat, forested
country with little or no habitation. It was not fenced off t
there were warning signs in many places, _
authorized persons were not allowed within ve kilometers of the
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military area. Up to about one division of troops, mostly infantry,
mechanized and tank units, was stationed there each summer. There
was also an airfield in the vicinity.
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