1. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON LVOV 2. BUS FACTORY IN LVOV (DESCRIPTION; MANPOWER; SECURITY)

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• Publication Date: August 12, 1959
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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 laws, Title
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COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SUBJECT 1. Miscellaneous Information on Lvov DATE DISTR. A o to St 19 /
2. .is Factory in Lvov L, Lt v:~- k
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two reports on enterprises in the city of Lvov (N 1+9-50.
Attachment 1: A seven-page report entitled "Miscellaneous Information on
Lvov." The report discusses various sociological phenomena (minorities
in the population, church attendance, living conditions), and goes on to
comment on the municipal power supply, migration into Lvov (which is
prohibited), and vehicle check points. The report also locates four
military installations, including the Smersh ' office and the military
intelligence branch of the Carpathian Military District. Finally, it lists
Attachment 2: A four-page report on the bus factory at Stryyskaya ulitsa 14.5,
Lvov, plus a sketch map of the plant and legend for same. The factory began
to produce busses in February 1957. Prior to that time it manufactured only
spare parts for tractors and winches for trucks. The report describes the
plant's component shops and the output of its 3,500 employees, and lists six
executives on the plant staff.
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1. The city of Lvov has almost one million inhabitants.
About half the population are Russians, who are from all parts
of the Soviet Union; 30-35 percent are Ukrainians; and the
remainder are Poles, Armenians, and others. The various ethnic
groups are not concentrated in specific quarters, but ar(
scattered throughout the city. The Russian language is used
in about 60 percent of the schools. In 1957 there existed
altogether two Polish-language secondary schools, an indication
of the extent to which the Polish minority has diminished. For
years the Polish inhabitants had remained in Lvov, hopeful of
a political change in the area, and only recently have they
left to became repatriated.
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2. The Pravoslav and Catholic clergy are very influential,
and on Sundays large crowds can be seen streaming into the
churches. (The Greek-Catholic Church was liquidated and united
with the Pravoslav Church.) The congregations consist mainly
of the original population, Ukrainians and Poles. The Polish
population has remained faithful to the /zaat 7 Catholic Church
which has consistently identified itself with Polish nationalism
in the area. Since Stalin's death even Party members and import-
ant officials dare to be seen in church and to celebrate Easter,
Christmas, and other religious holidays.
3. The standard of living of the Lvov population is one of
the highest in the Soviet Union and compares favorably with the
Moscow area. The inhabitants continue to be influenced by the
West in matters of dress, and they, in turn, exert an influence
on new settlers from the eastern regions of the USSR. The
villagers in the environs of Lvov also dress well and have a
high standard of living.
lt. Because of the postwar population increases, a severe
housing shortage exists in Lvov, so that the city is now about
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as overcrowded as Moscow. The building of residential houses is
concentrated mainly along Striyskaya Road, which leads to Stryy
(N 49-15, K 23-52), the buildings being destined as housing for
workers emcployed in plants in this neighborhood. (No change has
occurred in the prewar numbering of houses; the numbers are
consecutive with odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the
other.) While brick is still the main building material in use,
experiments have been made during recent years with hollow build-
ing blocks, but this method has not yet been accepted and is still
in the experimental stage. The weak point in the new apartment
houses being constructed is the wooden flooring, which is not dried
or properly prepared before installation.
5. South of the Persenkovka suburb, there is a new construc-
tion area called "Noviy Lvov", containing a power station and
brick kilns. Connection between this area and the center of town
is by means of a trolley bus line; in addition, there is the
No. 14 trolley, going from the town center as far as the railroad
workers' technicul which is near the new area.
6. Gas is supplied to the town from the natural gas deppsits
in Dashava (N 149-15, E 21}-01), which also supply Kiev, Moscow., and
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other localities. Gas lighting in the streets was abolished some
years ago and the gas works (Gas Zavod) has stopped operating.
Recently the municipal gas mains were replaced by larger pipes,
for both domestic consumers and industrial plants prefer gas to
electricity for all purposes except lighting. Electric current
canes from the town's only power station in Persenkovka and, in
genera, except for a number of months during the winter, there
is no shortage of electricity for lighting purposes.
7. The following changes in street names have been effected
in Lvov:
Former Name New Name
Radianskaya (Ukrainian) Sovetskaya (Russian)
Akademicheskaya (former],y Bulvar Shevchenko (since
Akademicka) 1956)
Chorazczyzi Lysenko
8. Urban transportation consists of trolleys, trolley buses,
and taxis, and is generally adequate. The trolleys are mostly
prewar Vehicles, but during recent years trolleys of East German
make have appeared in the town. The trolleys ran from 5:00 a.m.
until 1:00 a.m., while workers' trains leave several times a day
for the suburbs.
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9. Migration into Ljyov for purposes of permanent residence
is prohibited. The registration offices attached to the regional
police stations do not register inhabitants for permanent residence
in the town, and without this registration and an appropriate
sta,ping of the identity card, no person may stay in the town for
more than 24 hours.
10. Every male citizen holds the following three documents:
a. Identity card, whore contents and appearance has
remained unchanged during the years.
b. Soldier's book (Voenniy Billet) or military discharge
certificate.
c. &ployment certificate (Udostoverenie K Mesta Raboti).
In general, the police do not check identity cards except in cases
of suspicious behavior.
11. Check points for all vehicles entering the town are
situated in the suburbs of Lvov, on the main roads leading into
the town, such as Lenina Street (formerly Lyczakowska) and
Khmelfitskovo Street (formerly Zolkiewska). Checking is carried
out by the vehicle inspection authority affiliated with the MVD
(Gosavtoinspektsia), which examines driving licensee and freight
papers.
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12. The following military objectives in Lvov are reported:
a. The military intelligence branch of the Carpathian
Military District is situated on Dragomanova (formerly
Mochnackiego) Street.
b. The Smersh office is situated on Gvardeyskaya (formerly
Kadecka) Street.
c. The frontier guards headquarters is located on the
former Jagielonska Street.
d. A school for infantry officers is located on the
corner of Kadecka and Striyakaya Streets.
13. The following individuals are reported:
a. Bogdanov (fnu) is head of the oblast KGB directorate
in Lvov.
b. Fiodr Koval was Secretary of the city Party committee
in Lvov until the end of 1958, when he became Secretary of the
oblast Party committee, in charge of agitprop in the oblast.
Before assuming his duties in Lvov he acted as secretary of
the city Party committee in Stalin.
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c. Piotr Ivanovich Kozlaniuk has been chairman of the
oblast executive committee since 1955. A Ukrainian author,
d. Col. Fiodr Ivanovich Panov, an engineer, is second-
in-charge of the transport directorate at the Carpathian
Military District Headquarters.
e. Maj. Gen. Petrovskiy (fnu) is conananding officer of
the transport directorate at the Carpathian Military District
Headquarters. A "Hero of the Soviet Union"
f. Slusarenko (fun), an electrical engineer, has been
secretary of the oblast Party committee,, in charge of
industrial affairs, since 1955.
g. Semion Stefanek is deputy chairman of the oblast
executive committee in Lvov, in charge of cultural affairs.
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1. Until early 1957 the bus factory (avtobusniy zavod) at 45.,
Stryyskaya ulitsa, Lvov (N 49-50, E 21-00) produced only
spare parts for tractors, and winches to be mounted on three
to five-ton ZIS-1 or GAZ-3 trucks. The winches, which had
been produced since 1953, were used in industrial and agri-
cultural enterprises throughout the USSR. The production of
winches declined after the trial run of a bus to Moscow and
the introduction of bus manufacture in February 1957. Lviv,
the latest production model, was a luxury, 50-passenger bus
with comfortable seats, toilet facilities, and luggage storage
space under the floor.
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2. The plant had the following shops:
as An armature shop (armaturniy tsekh), which produced all
of the parts required by the various sections. It was
equipped with 80 to 90 lathes of Soviet.. German, and
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chines; four or five small automatic machines for small
part production; two polishing machines; six drilling
machines; and six punch presses.
b. An instruments shop (instrumentalnyy tsekh), which manu-
factured all required precision parts. The shop which
had between 120 and 150 employees, was equipped with
modern Soviet lathes, milling, planing, and polishing
machines.
c. A galvanizing shop (galvanicheskiy tsekh), which had 10
galvanizing and nickel-plating tubs for small components.
The shop employed 25 workers.
d. A mechanical shop (mekhanicheskiy tsekh) which made cer-
tain parts for the production process, and consisted of
a large fitting shop and a mechanical section equipped
with lathes and modern metalworking machinery.
e. A hardening shop (zaklochniy tsekh), which was equipped
with 10 electric furnaces for hardening components.
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f. An assembly shop (sborochniy tsekh), which assembled
winches and mounted them on vehicles.
3. Generally, the plant, which had a labor force of 3,500 operated
in two shifts, with the exception of the assembly shop which
worked in three shifts. The plant produced about 300 units
a month. The plant had a technical control department (otdel
tekhnicheskogo kontrola) with a staff of thout 120 inspectors.
Despite their supervision, the reject rate had in the past
been as high as 60 percent; however, the quality of the output
had recently improved.
14. Finished products were shipped by rail via a spur line which
connected with the main line near the Podzamcze railroad station.
5. The plant was protected by a 29-man militarized guard
(voyennizirovannaya okhrana), and a special permit issued by
the guard commander was required for entrance into the plant.
A whitewashed brick wall 2.5 meters high surrounded the plant
compound. As an added precaution the wall had been reinforced
with barbed wire to prevent the thefts, particularly of tires,
which had been occurring.
6. The following persons are known:
a. Bondar (fnu) was the head of the personnel section of the
light bulb plant (elektrolampoviy zavod) in Lvov.
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b. Grigoriev (fnu) was the head of the mechanical workshop
in the bus factory.
c. Grigorieva (fnu) a chemical engineer, had headed the
galvanization shop at the aforementioned plant since
1955.
d. Kashkadamov (fnu), a mechanical engineer, had been the
director of the bus factory since its establishment.
e. Kudlay (fnu), an electrical engineer, was the director
of the light bulb plant.
f. Rilski (fnu), the head of the armature section of the
bus plant, had been removed as head of the personnel
section at the recommendation of the Party cell in
1957.
7. Attached for your information is a sketch, with legend, of
the layout of the bus factory in Lvov.
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Legend to Sketch
1. Stryyskaya ulitsa.
2. Brick wall.
3. Vehicle entrance gate to the factory.
Lt. Guard room and permit office.
5. Pedestrian entrance.
6. Entrance to personnel section.
7. Building of personnel section.
8. Fire station.
9. Instrument shop.
10. Assembly shop.
11. Warehouse for tires and spare parts.
12. Factory offices.
13. Mechanical workshop.
14. Armature shop.
15. Galvanization shop.
16. Railroad spur.
17. Entrance for pedestrians.
18. Railroad gate.
19. Parking lot, also used for winch assembly.
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