VOZNESENKA AND VICINITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400160007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 25, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL (,1 v
-CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Kazakhstan Republic., USSR
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
'Vomesenka and Vicinity
DATE
ACQUIRED BY
DATE DISTR. ~.$ Feb 1954
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS,
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. Thu Voznesenka kolkhoz village was located on the Ishim River approximately vO
kilometers west of Makinsk. The village was esp 1ed to service the
twelve kolkhozea located in the vicinity. During (1940-Nov 1941) 50X1
Voznyesenka had approximately 2,000 inhabitants. 50X1
2. The following sketches were drawn free hand( and are not to scale.
L_._.I machinery
fl ^ -6-wor): ers homes
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CONffMENTIAL
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Legend to preceding sketch:
1.
School
2.
Headquarters
of Rayon authorities
3.
Club house,
once an orthodox church
4.
Regional war
ehouses and rayon retail stores
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Headquarters
of kolkhoz administration
6.
Post Office
7.
Rayon Milita
ry Headquarters
8.
Militia and
jail
9.
NKVD (MVD) H
eadquarters. Head of the NKVD was (fnu) Zagrebielny
10.
Hospital
11.
Drug store.
3.
Note: The Rayon grain eleatttors were located in M&k$nsk., each kolkhoz possessed
two or three '=&" automobiles.
Chelyabinsk -Transsiberian Railroad ,.Petropavlovsk'
Sketch #2
Makinsk. Radon.,
Akmolinsk Oblast,
Kazakhstan Republic, USSR
Voznpsenka
Sz+czucze-
3orewoye
Sanatorium
The inhabitants of the Rayon center were mainly Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, and
Latvians who had been forcibly temoved to that area after the Russian revolution.
The few Kirghiz lived at only two of the kolkhoaes.
4. Most of the houses were built of clay mixed with straw. The area contained very
little wood for heating purposes and the inhabitants were forced to use dried cattle
manure. What little wood was in the area or brought in, was used by the rayon
authorities. This further angered the populus.
6.
with the regime and the local authorities.
Each kolkhoz had tractors, seeders, combines, and other agricultural equipment. The
number of farm. machinery depended upon the amount of inhabitants in each kolkiioz.
Despite the very :fertile soil in the area, the majority of the people were near
starvation. At the time they were all very dissatisfied.
USRAnY U*!3,= T I'
CODES
722.101 3N
621.43 3N
852.1 3N
111.2 3N
single--track
railroad
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