MISCELLANEOUS MILITARY AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
FIDENTIAL
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. In September 1952 two men from the 1924 and 1925 classes from the village of
Dona Studena (N 3-329 E 25-41) Byala Okoliya, were called up for temporary
training consisting of a 30-40 day course. They were sent to barracks in Gorna
Oryakhovitsa for that purpose. The men were trained with new weapons sent
from the.USSR. as soon as one group was released, another
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2. A Border Guard unit is located at the railroad station of Podkova (N.41-25,
E 25-24)., Kurdzhali Okoliya, ' and consists of 150 soldiers and 10 officers.
Fuel Dumps Near 'Ruse
A fuel dump is located on the bank of the Danube near Ruse, about 500 meters
from the transformer for the electric power from Rumania and 300 meters from
the sugar factory. The dump consists of five or six cylindrical tanks about
five meters high and four meters in diameter. The tanks contain gasoline and
other fuels brought from Rumania. A separate branch of the railroad line to
'Ruse runs to the fuel dump. Tank cars filled with gasoline and other fuels
travel. on this line to the interior of Bulgaria. The dump is guarded by a
Militia poste
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STATE I ARMY
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Miscellaneous Military and Economic DATE DISTR. 1 June 1954
Information
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Electric Power from Rumania
A transformer, which receives electric power from Rumania, is located about
500 meters upstream from the fuel dump. Three rows of cables run to the.
transformer, which is an iron cube, the sides of which measure 1.5 meters.
The transformer is placed on wooden girders, which are 12 meters high.
Three rows of wires take the electricity from the transformer to Ruse. The
area around the transformer is fenced in with barbed wire, but it is not
guarded.
New Highway from Ruse
During June or July 1952, a new highway was begun in Ruse. 25X1
it will be an international 25X1
ogress as far as Polski
Trumbe'sh (N L3-22, E 25.38), Turnovo Okoliya. From Byala to Ruse, the road
runs near to and parallel with the old Byala-Ruse highway. It will go through
the northeast section of Byala near the town slaughterhouse, where a bridge
will be built over the Yantra River. Construction of the bridge has not yet
started, although construction materials are now being brought to the area.
At the present time, the work on the highway has been limited to surveying,
digging and leveling the roadbed. the road will 25X1
make a turn at Polski Trumbesh in the direction of Tirnovo. The road is to
be very wide and paved.
6. Construction of the road has been speeded up and new workers have constantly
been sought for its construction. About 300 civilian workers and 50-60
.trucks are working near B ala. There were Sovittia';among.those,:supervising the con-
struction there ar' and Gorna Manas
tiritsa (N - s
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New Gasoline and Petroleum Storage Tanks near Lom
In 190, sic, cy]indrical, iron, surface storage :tanks were constructed about
200-3 0 meter.' Qm the eastern outskirts of Lam) near the Lom River. These
tanks have concrete bases, are 7-8 meters,high and 5-6 meters in diameter, and
are guarded by militiamen.
k= Podeleni_e 62-lflp Sandaneki Okol__ iya
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construction is now in pr
Army Podelenie 62-30 is stationed at Pirin railroad
s a ion. is an inf~antry regiment of about 800 troops armed with Soviet
infantry weapons (rifles, machine pistols, and light and heavy machine guns).
The regiment was stationed in a camp near Petrich on the Strum.eshnitsa River
during the summer 'of 1952. An unidentified lieutenant colonel is the CO of
is the supply officer.
Mobilization
9. During the summer of 1952, troops from almost all branches of the armed forces
li
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v
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n Lom ~.nd Lom Okoliya were mobilized for a 70-day period. They were
trained in the use of new types of Soviet weapons which have been introduced
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chits. (N 43-48., E 23-21), om Okoliya were mobilized.,
a. Lieutenant Gulobin Tasev,
in Ruse,
b. Junior Sergeant Liko 3lsirilov,
fleet in Ruse,
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Into the Bulgarian Army. the followin
persons from Kova-
assigned to the river fleet
'assigned to the river
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c. Sergeant Rangel Garchov Zhabin,
fleet in Ruse;
d. Seaman Rafail Aleksandrov
in Ruse;
e. Seaman Gulobin Rangelov{
Ruse;
assigned to the 'river
assigned to the river fleet
assigned to the river fleet in
The following soldiers were assigned to an infantry unit in Ruse:
a. Private Stefan Elehkov Tomov
b. Private Ivan Kirkov Garcho
c. Private Metodi Georgiev
d. Private Pukov Putskov Ninin
Junior Sergeant Dacho Danailov Petrov was asst ned to an
it in Ruse; Lieutenant Tos kov ospodinov
served in a military unit in Plovdiv; and Senior Lieutenant Spas
Arsenov Chugarilov serves in the Border.Guards
in Kyustendil.
Airfield near Gabrovnitsa, Lom 0koliy
10. During the spring of 1951, construction of a new airfield near the village of
Gabrovnitsa,.Lom Okoliya, was begun. it is'located about one kilometer north-
west of the Gabrovnitsa railroad station. It is 2,500 - 3,000 meters long,
runs in an east-west direction, and is about'1,000 meters wide. In 1951, con-
struction was begun on a 200-meter wide landing strip made of granite blocks.
It was rumored that the landing strip was to be finished during the fall of
1952 and that the field was intended for heavy aircraft (bombers).
Border Guards
Komandatura 62-32 in Breznitsa (N 4i-L0, E 23-140), Sandanski Okoliya
11. The komandatura is located on the western outskirts of the village of Breznitsa.
This new zastava is located in the t'Trite groba""
(Three Graves) section, 10-15 meters north of the highway leading from Brez-
nitsa to Yugoslavia, and is about 500 meters from the border.
12. The zastava building is a one-story building in the shape of the number 'III."
The two wings of the building are 21 meters long and 9 meters wide and the
main section is 32 meters long and 9 meters wide (or 800 square meters for
the entire building). The building has three corridors and 14 rooms, including
one guard-room, three offices, one Dimitrov room for cultural activity, three
dormitories, one dining room, one kitchen, one storeroom, one bakery, and one
laundry room)
13. The troops of the zastava are quartered in the old frontier post located about
50 meters from the new zastava building. The tastava consists of 80 soldiers
and four officers armed with the following Soviet light infantry weapons:
a. "Vintovka"" rifles;
b. Machine pistols;
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c. Light machine guns; and
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d. One 1207 mm. DSHK (Degtyarev-Shpagin) M 1938 AA machine guns, which is
mounted outside the building ready for firing.
14. The commanding officer of the zastava w
or anon nu in the zastava.
Komandatura 43-30 (S) in Kolarovo, Petrich Okoliya
15. The komandatura is located on the outskirts of.Kolarovo (N 41-22, E 2-3-06). 25X1
the newly constructed 18-A zastava building in the "Lopovom
section is 500 meters from the border between the GS (Gorsko stopanstvo,
Forest Management) and the border. The newly constructed building has the same
shape and dimensions as the 16-A zastava building in Breznitsa, Sandanski Okoliya.
The troops from the 18-A zastava are quartered in barracks in Kolarovo during
the winter days and are sent out on sentry duty in pairs along the border. They
returned to Kolarovo at about 5 p.m. each day.
Correcting and Paving the Highway fran Sofia to Kyustendil'
g way between Dim rovo and a anovtsi, Many, repairs were made, sharp curves
in the road were removed, reinforced concrete gutters were constructed and the
road was widened to six meters. The paving of the road also began at that time.
The "Molotov" TKZS in Kovachitsa, Lom Okoliya
17. The TKZS (Trudovo Kooperativno Zemedelsko Stopanstvo; Labor Cooperative Agrarian
Farm) in Kovachitsa was formed in the Bering of 1945 and was disbanded in the
fall of the same year. It was again formed in the fall of 1946 and by 1948 it
included 50 households, During the fall of 1948) most of the households in the
village joined the TKZS. By the end of the year, the TKZS' included 700 house-
holds. During 1952, the TKZS included 850 households or about 3,000 individual
members.
18. The TKZS has about 35,000 decares 'of agricultural land, which is used primarily
for grain crops. The TKZS has the following machinery acid livestock: two
tractors, two threshers, two trucks, one large three-blade plow (trior) eight
small three-blade plows, six diesel engines with mobile pumps, 100 grain drills,
70 reapers and binders, 250 oxen, 150 horses, 70 milk cows, 50 calves, and 2,500
sheep,
19. In 1952, the members received one lev, 105 kilogram of wheat, 0,6 kilogram of
corn, 8 grams of wool, 20 grams of cheese, or three grams of oil per work day.
The average TKZS~member can work from 200 to 250 work days per year. The
member may buy other necessities from the TKZS store.
The "Vibrobeton" Enterprise in Sofia
20, The enterprise produces the following cement products., concrete electric power
poles (50 per day), concrete canal pipes and supports, sidewalk blocks, and "Tsokh"
bricks for inside wall construction. It is located near the Voenna T
Ramp) in' Sofia, 25X1
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