1. INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION FROM THE VARNA AREA 2. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF MILK PRODUCTS IN THE VARNA AREA

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• Publication Date: May 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is pr.:-hibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT le Industrial Information from the
Varna Area
2. Production and Distribution of
Milk Products in the Varna Area
DATE OF INFO.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
6 May 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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Z. The Vasil. Kolar rv P1 ant, which produces mainly lathes and boilers, is located
"not far" from Kora?lovag, It employs approximately 600 workers.
3;). The I May Cotton Textiles Mill., located in the Galata Quarters employs about
39000 workers,
Industrial Information from the Varna Area
Koralovag, - a joint So 3.et-Bulgar a,n enterprise, has yards building ships up to
1,500 tons., repair docks, a railroad" car construetirin departments and locomotive
repair shops. It is located on the canal which joins Lake Varna with the Black
Sea and employs nearly 59000 workers in three shifts.
done in three shift per day. The mill has its own Dower plant. In 190. the
The Khristo Botev Cotton'MIII, opposite the Koralova,g shipyards employs approxi-
mately 2,000 workers now, as compared to about 1,500 workers in 1950. Work is
The Chervena Zvezda Plant, which produces mainly cotton fabrics and tent cloths
is located adjacent to Koralovage It employs approximately 800 workers.
6. The metal works, located adjacent to'the Chervena Zvezda Plant, employs 600 men
and produces mainly pipes and stoves.
7. A large caustic soda plant is being constructed at Devnya village (approximately
15 kilometers from Varna)., where the largest flour mills in Bulgaria are also
located.
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8. There are two power plants in the Varna area., Onei about five. years old, is
located near the'Kora16vik shipyard: and the`otlery"muoh'older,'is located near
the Khristo Botev Factory. This latter plant is not identical with the one
mentioned in paragraph 4 aboveo
~? in 1952a oil was discoveredo~ar Kavarna (N-43-26,'E 2'8-20), approximately 20
kilometers from Varna. A et team of geologists has'been studying the site?
and several thousand workers are ' 4riployed sinking wells. 'Drilling equipment
was brought ' from' the USSR'.. The wages of workers are high, averaging 25 leva per
day (new currency).
10. New hangars have been built for the seaplane landing harbor near Penardzhik
village by the Lake Varna-Black Sea canal,
U. Jet planes use the airfield near Dobrich (N 43-34, E 27-50, now Tolbukhin).
Production and Distribution of Milk Products in the Varna Area
12. The Mlekokoop (Milk Cooperative) department of the'Tsentralen Kooperativen Suyuz
(Central Cooperative Union), which has been'i ministry'since"1948 and has branches
in the main cities, deals 'with the collectIoi Arid distribution of milk products
such as ' cheese, butter and' bream. 11ekkiop at Varna is responsible for 12
branches in the t'.okr which collect and process milk and send the products to
the Varna center.
13. There are two cold storage plants and four depots at Varna, as follows:
a.
A large cold storage plant for foodstuffs, including milk products, at the port;
b.
A special cold
plant for'buttero located-in the Galata Quarter, approxi-
s from the portt and
c.
Depots for milk`proeess>ing and the storage'Of the products at No. 52 Stem-
buliyska Street, Genoa Street, the I May Market, and at the port.
14. The annual rod-action of milk
14? p products 3n the Varna c,bkftga is 3y000 tons 'of
cream cheese$ 1,000 tons of other cheese,'arid'4o0-t6ns of butter. A large pro-
portion of this is kept in storage as a reserve$.according to'inatruotionsre-
ceived from the Supply Ministry. From January to September 1952, approximately
500 tons of cheese and 200 tons of butter were stored, for stockpiling only, in
the cold storage plants at the port-and in the Galata Quarter. Part of the
output is exported through the Ministry of Foreign Trade (for instance, 100 tons
of cheese was sent to Egypt on a barter deal) and the remainder is distributed
in Bulgaria through the EDRO (sic) wholesale marketing organization.
15. The following pries are paid by Mlekokoop to the producers:
a. Cream cheese, 6.5 lava per kilogram;
b. Other cheese, 9.0 leva per kilogram; and
c. Butter, 10 leva per kilogram.
16. The price to consumers is as followst
a. Cream cheese, 13.6 lava per kilogram.;
b. Other cheese, 20 leva per kilogramt and
co Butter, 27 leva per kilogram.
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3.7. There are four State farms iri the Stalin 6411W - t
villages of Balchik N hree. of 'Which are in the
(N 43-3.o., F. 28-20), Sept
(sic). emvriche (sic), and Vasil Kolarov
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18. Kolkhozesl have been established in each village of the Varnaokrug. These
farms InhludW approximately 70 percent of the rural population.
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19. I identified th
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owin
g personailtie s r
a. Albert Chasid administrative mane er.of the Varna branch of the Cooperativ-
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b. Kr.stev (fnu), newly appointed general manager of the Varna branch of the
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0. Denin Manol.ov, chief accountant of the Varna MlekokoopJ
d. Mircho Mikhayloy, manager of the Varna M1elokoop;~
chief'aocountarit of the Varna Cooperative Union
Comment: "Kol.khoti"is a'Soviet tem .which ,prabab1y.refers; to the
gar? "an collective farm known as TICZS (Trudovo
Bul.
Stopanstv Kooperat~.vno Zemedelstvo
a.
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