REPORTS ON NALCHIK, KABARDINSKAYA ASSR; ORDZHONIKIDZE, SEVERE-OSETINSKAYA ASSR; AND GEORGIYEVSK, STAVROPOL KRAY, RSFSR

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• Publication Date: February 8, 1960
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Secs. 793 and 794, the L asmission orTreve on of which in Summeaner to an unthe authorlaed of rohtbtied by law.
This materW
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REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
8 February 1960
SUBJECT Reports on Nalchik, Kabardinskaya ASSR; DATE DISTR.
Ordzhonikidze, `error,-0setinskaya SR NO. PAGES 2
and Gecrgiyevsk, Stavropol Kray, AS
REFERENCES RD
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and airfields (one civilian and one mi Y ,
Attachm nt 1: City of Nalchik, Kabardinskaya ASSR. This six-page report
the population, construction, power, and transportation of NNaechik. cations also
gives some city plan information and lists, giving pp lo,
industrial, government, military and security, and educational installations
in the town. Attachment 2: Machine Building Works No. 4~ in Nalchik. This two-page report
includes a brief, one-page description of the plant and a sketch showing its,.
general location and layout.
Attachment 3: City of Ordzhonikidze, Severo-Osttinskaya ASSR. Thisntwo-page
report contains very brief city plan information and a listing of
installations, hotels, educational institutions, entertainment houses, hospitals,
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Aaachment 4: City of Georgiyevsk, Stavropol Kray, RSFSR. This 24-page report is 25X1
tion of the city. It includes information on streets,places
a comprehensive descrip
of interest, medical facilities, hotels and accommodations, restaurants, stores,
markets, schools, churches, utilities, communications, transportation, military
installations, industrial installations, controls and security, criminal activity
and the German occupation in World War II. There is also a sketch of the layout of
principle streets in Georgiyevsk and a sketch, with Legend, of part of O)rt7b-brbk.7a
{elites.
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City of Nal'chik, Kabardins-Balkarian ASSR
mosques in the town and only one Greek-Orthodox church on Pyatigorskaya Street.
When the Balkarians were deported from the Caucasus for their loyalty to
the Germans, the Moslim Kabardinian population of Chernorechenskiy (?) Rayon
(10-15 km, from Nal'chik) was also deported to Siberia along with the Balkarians.
2, The city conducts an extensive construction of new 4-5 story high apartment
and state establishment buildings. Construction is being executed on
Baksanskoye Shosse and other outskirts of the town. In recent years, a new
settlement called Aleksandrovskiy has been established in the western part
of Nal'chik, on the road to Nartan. Especially extensive construction has
been underway at Prokhladnenskoye Shosse, there are 25X1
plans to merge Nal'chik to another big industrial, center o a ardine-Balkarian
ASSR, Dokshukino, which is located on the same highway 20-25 km, from Nalichik.
Construction and re-construction of Nal'chik is being conducted by Trest
Kabardinstroy (Karbardinian Construction Trust), offices of which are located
on Pochtovaya Street. Director of the trust was Aleksandr POPOV, about 1i5 years
old. The trust was subdivided into two departments ( ravlen e), numbered
#1 and #2 accordingly, First department employed some 500-600 workers. It
was sub-divided into sections (uchastok) each headed by a superintendent
(nachal'nik uchastka). UchastoTincluded several construction objects (obyekt)
wi a specia er assigned tto each object. The object was supervised b
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1. The majority of Naltchikts population consists of Kabordinians who have been
divided into two religious groups - Greek-Orthodox and Moslims. The second
largest group are Russians, followed by Armenians, then Jews. The latter
were housed predominantly in the so-called "Jewish Colony" (Yevreyskaya
Kolo a), a large old settlement in the south of the city, There are no
The object crew consisted of one bricklayer
brigade a men),, one plasterer (shtukatury) brigade (20 men), and one
supporting brigade (25-30 workers) of unskilled helpers, some of them females.
After completion of the fire station, this crew constructed a 5 story
school building in A;gkanr3rnyakiv lok,
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3. Street names of Nal'chik recalled (in alphabetical order):
Kabardinskaya
Malaya Kabardinskaya
Pochtovaya
Prospect Lenina
Main streets of the business district of town:
Baksanskoye Shosse
Chegemskaya
Devyatogo Yanvarya
Dolinskaya
Gospital'naya
Krylova
Konditerskoy Fabriki (?)
Oktyabr'skaya
Pionerskaya
Prokhladnenskoye Shosse
Vokzal'naya
Zatishya
Only Kabardinskaya, Baksanskoye Shosse and Pochtovaya Streets are asphalted.
Squares:
Teatral'naya Ploshchad'
Vokzal'naya Ploshchad'
The names of the streets were indicated on plates mounted on respective
corner houses. The houses on one side of the street were numbered even and
on the other side uneven.
The city streets are well illuminated; the main streets by a system of
ferroconcrete posts located along the pavement, each post having two lamps
on a cross-bar; the secondary streets are illuminated by a system of steel
posts each having one light at the top.
Lt. The southern part of the city is occupied by a large Park of Culture and Rest,
referred to by everyone as "Dolinskiy Park". Located here are numerous rest
homes and sanatoriums of Nal'chik - popular as a resort center of the Soviet
Union. The park has summer movie and theater houses, four swimming pools,
and a dancing stage. Also located on the park proper is the sole hotel of
Nal'chik, a four-story building with a restaurant on the first floor. The
Nal'chik River, 5-6 meters wide, flows thru the park and the city.
5. Electric power in Nal'chik is provided by Baksan GES located about I10 km, north
of the city. The sub-station is located in the vicinity of the state farm
"Plodoyagodnaya Stantsiya". Each city block has its on transformer booth.
Irregularity in power supply arises occasionally in the winter months.
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6. Water is adequately supplied to all private and state-owned houses. There
so are public taps in almost every city block with no charge for water here.
Consumers of water delivered to the house pay monthly fees to the city. The
water pumping (vodokachka) and purification plant is located in the northern
part of the city, near "Plodoyagodnaya Stantsia".
7. Sanitation. All state-owned and new apartment houses have modern sewerage
systems. The majority of private houses still use pump and tank trucks which
dispose of their contents at the city dumps near Aleksandrovskiy Poselok. In
the same dumps, garbage which is collected by city-owned trucks from garbage
bins located in each courtyard is disposed.
8. Post, telegraph and telephone building is located on Prospect Lenina.
Radio station, with two or three towers, is located near Voyenkomat on
Pochtovaya Street.
The newspaper "Kabardinskaya Pravda" is printed in Russian.
9. Trans ortation. The city of Nal'chik has no streetcars or trolleybuses. There
are or 5 city bus lines. The bus fare from Chegemskaya to Dolinskaya Street
(north to south thru the whole town) is 1.30 Rubles.
The out-of-town bus service station is located at Vokzal'naya Ploshchad' at
the railroad terminal. Out-of-town buses leave for and arrive from Ordzhonikidze
twice a day. The fare one way was approximately 25 Rubles. The bus schedule
to Pyatigorsk called for four buses a day between 0600 and 1800 hours. The
fare was 19 Rubles one way.
It is also possible to hire a taxi to Ordzhonikidze for 45 Rubles and to
Pyatigorsk for 42-43 Rubles. The main taxi stand also is located at the
railroad terminal square. Taxi cabs are equipped with meters. The approximate
fare (1 Ruble per kilometer) is about triple of the bus fare.
Nal'chik had one non-electric track connection to the Prokhladnyy railroad
junction. Passenger trains from there arrived in Nal'chik twice a day - at
0600 and 1630 hours, and left for the return trip after a brief stop. This
train stopped in Dokshukino - Mayskiy - Kotlyarevskogo - Prokhladnyy. One-way
ticket from Nal'chik to Prokhladnyy is 9 Rubles. The Nal'chik railroad
terminal is a small one-story building, usually locked up at 2400 hours daily.
10. Roads. The best out-of-town road is undoubtedly the Military-Georgian Highway
which runs as follows: Pyatigorsk - Nal'chik - Nartan - Stanitsa - Cherek -
Stanitsa Lesken - Stanitsa Urikh - Elkhotovo - Ordzhonikidze. This is a
two-lane, asphalted highway. The only other out-of-town road
is the two-lane unpaved highway to Prokhladnyy.
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U. Industrial installations:
At Baksanskoye Shosse:
a. Machine-Building Works #4 (see special report of the same title by same
Source).,
b. Confectionary Factory (Konditerskaya Fabrika). Majority of employees
are female, working in three shifts. Produces candy and bakery goods.
c. Oil extracting plant (maslozavod). Employs 300-400 workers in three
shifts.
d. Meat packing plant (Z rasokombinat) .
e, Tyrny-Auzskiy Non-Ferrous Combine.
f. Flour Mill (Melkombinat).
NOTE: All above mentioned enterprises have railroad siding from the
railroad freight yard Nal'chik.
g. Autobaza, located near "a" above.
NOTE: For approximate location of a, b, c, e, and f, above, see sketch
attached to report on installation a., titled Machine-Building
Works #4
At Pochtovaya Street:
h. KPP (Construction Material Shop).
i.
Prombaza (Pro shlennaya Baza - Storage of Construction Materiels for
Industrial Use)
At Kabardinskaya Street:
J, Garment Factory (Shv Fabrika). Employs 300-400 workers, majority
of them females, In three sh ts.
Unidentified location:
J. Dairy Plant (Maslozavod).
12. Governmental installations:
a. Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Council of Ministers
and the Presidium of Suprem Soviet of Kabard, ASSR are located in
the so-called Dom Sovetov, a four story construction on Prospect Lenina.
b. Gosbank (State Bank), also on Prospect Lenina.
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13. Security and Military installations:
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a. MVD - on the corner of Pochtovaya and Zatishya Streets.
b. Militia Administration Building (Upravleniye) on Malaya Kabardinskaya St.
c. First militia precinct on Oktyabr'skaya Street, close to "b", above.
d. Second militia precinct on Pyatigorskaya Street.
e. City jail on Pochtovaya Street.
f. Voyenkomat on Pochtovaya Street.
g. MVD Officer School - at the beginning of Baksanskoye Shosse.
h, Large military reservation on the city line on Prokhladnenskoye Shosse.
i. Underground military warehouse occupying the area of about 1/2 hectare,
1/2 meter above the ground, the top of the storage was camouflaged with
vegetation (grass, shrubbery). Surrounded by a barbed wire fence and
protected by military guards. No railroad siding to the warehouse.
Located in the vicinity of "Plodoyagodnaya Stantsiya" in the northern
part of the city.
114. Educational institutions:
a. Kabardinian University.
b. Pedagogical Institute.
c. Medical Institute (location not identified).
d. Pedagogical Technicum.
e. Medical Technicum in Dolinskiy Park.
f. Agricultural Technicum.
g. Technicum for Physical Culture (location not identified).
NOTE: All above mentioned institutions, except where otherwise
indicated, are located on or in the vicinity of Zatishya Street.
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15. Cultural and Entertainments
a. Moviehouse "Udarnikit on Pyatigorskaya Street,
b. Moviehouse IlKabardaa on Kabardinskaya Street.
c. Theater of Drama (Dramteatr) on Kabardinskaya Street.
d. Theater of Musical Comedy (Muzkomediya) on Kabardinskaya Street.
16. Medical institutions:
Hospital on Gospital'naya Street in the area of Prospect Lenina. Complex
of two or three 2 to 3 story buildings.
17. Controls.
itia stopped only suspects for document
control. There were no a ra-ordinary local regulations regarding
registration (propiska) in Nal'chik.
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Machine-Building Works No, 4 in Nal'chik, Kabardinian ASSR
1. Machine-Building Works No, 4 (Mashinostroitel' Zavod nomer chest e)
under the Machine-Construction Industry of the USSR was located in the
northern part of the city of Nal'chik, on Baksanskoye Shosse, in the
vicinity of the Nal'chik railroad terminal. It produced pumps and valves
(zadvizhki) of various sizes for petroleum industry needs, for Soviet as
well as for foreign customers, Rumania was identified by Source as one
of the foreign customers. During World War II the plant produced some
military equipment,
2.
supervised the casting (formovociu -y) shop. The plant employed 3A0 to 400
workers in three shifts at following shops and departments:
a. Foundry
b. Mechanical
c, Casting
d, Assembly and Packing
e, Construction repair
f. Shipping department, supervisor - Hassan AYUBOV
and foreman - fnu YUSUFOV
deputy director, fnu GADIROV,
3. The plant had its own sub-station receiving power from Baksan GES, about
40 km. north of Nal'chik. The sub-station also supplied power to a neigh-
boring oil extracting plant located also on Baksanskoye Shosse.
4. The plant proper was surrounded by a high brick and steel fence combination
(about 12 meters brickwall and 2 meters wrought iron fence on the top). The
plant was protected by military guards and the entrance to the plant was by
special pass thru the control gate.
5, The finished products were packed in wooden boxes and shipped via a two-track
rail connection from the loading platform of the plant to the Nal'chik rail-
road station.
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layout of the plant.
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General Location and Rough Layout of Machine Building Plant ffiQ. 4 in Nalfchik
" a PYA-r1r c sic
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Tyrny-Auzskiy
Combine and Offices
of Nizhne-Baksan
Mines
Confection
Factory
Workers
Sii}tlement
Baksanskoye Shosse
Flour
Milling
l Combine
Melkombinat
Oil
Extracting
Plant
IV To N A tom' CH I IC
/No scale/'
Plant No. 4
Key:
1. Control gate
2. Auto-traffic gate
3. Administration bldg.
4. Power sub-station
5. Mechaniscal shop
61 Casting shop
7. Assembly shop
8. Foundry
9. W4rehouses
10. Loading platform
11. Office of loading brigade
250 - 300 M. 12. Two tracks RR
to RR station 13. Gate for RR traffic
1a1' chik
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City of Ordzhonikidze, Severo-Osetinskaya ASSR.
1. Ordzhonikidze is divided into three city rayons: Promyshlennyy (Industrial),
Zaterekskiy and Leninskiy. Zvetmet (non-ferrous metals) 25X1
settlement and the following streets in romyshlennyy Rayon: Vostmogo
Marta, Michurina, Makhcheyskay "A", Makhcheyskaya "B", Chapayeva, and
Kurskiy Lane.
In Zaterekskiy Rayon
2.
Nalchikskaya.
the following streets: Tbilisskaya and
In Leninskiy Rayon ~the following streets: Kemalova, Tamayeva,
Kirova, Pochtovaya, Prospekt Staling (the main street of the city), Lenina
Square, Svobody Square (around which are concentrated most government
installations).
a. Elektrotsink Works on Tamayeva Street
b. Pobedit Works on Tamayeva Street
c. Electrical Equipment Plant
d. Stocking (Chulochnaya) Factory
e. Garment Factory
f. Two alcohol distilleries
g; Two brickyards
h, OZT, "big classified (vow) plant's (tractor equipment) on
Tbilisskaya Street
i. Auto-repair plant on Chapayeva Street
3. Glass (ste kol tr yy) factory
k. Railroad car repair works
1. Pipe-producing (trubo-stroiteltnyy) plant
in. Bread baking plant
n. Leather goods (kozhevennyy) factory
o. Starch factory
p. Meat-packing plant
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the following construction enterprises:
a. Kavkazfinstroy
b. KPP
c. Prombaza
3. Hotels:
a. ttTerek" on Prospekt Stalina
b. ttInturisttt
4. Momuments:
a. Stalin on Railroad Square
b. Lenin on Lenina Square
c. Khetagurov on Lenina Square
Learning Institutions:
a. University
b. Agricultural Institute
c. Construction Technical School (Stroiteltnyy Tekhnikum)
d. Oil Tekhnikum
e. Railroad Tekhnikum
f. Military Auto-Technical School on Kemalova Street
g. Militia School
h. 1st Suvorov School (Suvozovskoye Uchilishche) on Tbilisskaya Street
near OZT Works
6. Entertainment
a. Park imeni Kosta Khetagurova
b. Construction Workers Club
c. Movie House ttDekabrist"
d. Movie House "Putovskiy"
e. Movie House "Komsomol"
7. Hospitals
a. Railroad Hospital (Zheleznodorozhnaya)
b. City Hospital (Goro skaya
c, Central
d. Near Park Khetagurova
e. On city line on the road to Village Takir
8. Airfields:
a. Passenger airport located on Leninskiye Vody
b, Between mountains Kazbek and Lysaya is located a military airfield.
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City of Georgiyevsk, Stavropol' Kray, RSFSR
INDEX
1.
General
2.
Streets
3.
Places of Interest
4.
Bathhouses
6.
Hotels and Accommodations
7.
Restaurants, Stores, Markets
7
8.
Schools
9
9.
Churches
9
10.
,Nater Supply
9
11.
Sewerage System
9
12.
Power Supply
10
13.
Communications
11
14.
Transportation
12
15.
Military Installations
15
16.
Preparations for Future jar
16
17.
Industrial Installations
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18.
Controls and Security
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19.
Criminal Activity
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20.
German Occupation
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22.
Attachments
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City of Georgiyevsk, Stavropol' Kray, RSFSR
General:
1. The city of Georgiyevsk is situated at the beginning of the plain on the
northern outskirts of the Caucasian Mountains, the
city's population before the war was
doubled since
i on to the Russians (so-called Cossacs) who
made up the majority of the population, representations of several
caucasian nations lived there
2, Most of the city buildings are made of I'saman", a kind of brick made of
clay, straw and animal manure. Some buildings are plastered on the
outside with one layer of the regular burned bricks. The roofs are made
of cherepitsa (tile) or, on more recently constructed houses, shifer
(roofing slate), There are also some but not too many wooden pre-fabricated
houses (finskiye doma), Most of the 2 or 3 story buildings presently
occupied by governmental institutions are of pre-revolutionary construction,
stories high,
there was not a single house in Georgiyevsk over four
3. The new house construction is performed predominantly around the city
f
actories and plants which erect two and three story apartment houses
and settlements for their employees. Among those industrial installations
are the canning factory, the tile and brick factory, the fittings works
(armaturnyy zavod), Thru continuous expansion, the city will merge in
industrialized suburbs: Nezlobnaya village
orglyevs , a se ement consisting of oil storage, flour mills, tile
aid brick factories, new military barracks; and Krasnaya Kumka villa
e
g
on the road to Budennovsk, 6 km, out of Georgiyevsk, consisting of a
brickyard, silk spinning factory, meat-packing plant, and old military
barracks,
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4. East of the city flows a tributary of the Kuma River, name unidentified
This tributary provides the water supply for Georgiyevsk and
is also used for swimming by the populace since there are no swimming
pools in town.
Streets:
5.
the following names of the streets in Georgiyevsk
(given in alphebetical order):
Arsenal tnaya
Chkalova (new street)
Delegatskaya
Indzhiyevskaya (the road to the railroad terminal)
Kalinina (the road to Pyatigorsk)
Kominterna Lane
Komsomoltskaya
Krasnaya (beginning of the route to Krasnaya.Kumka)
Krasnoarmeyskaya (the road to Prokhladnyy)
Lenina (formerly Prodoltnaya St,)
Leningradskaya
Lermontova
Lineynaya (lst, 2nd, 3rd, lath and 5th)
Lysogorskaya
Malo-Podkumskaya
Moskovskaya (formerly Molotova)
Nezlobinskaya
Novaya
Oktyabrtskaya (the main street)
Ordzhonikidze
Pionerskaya
Poselyanskiy Lane
Pushkinskaya
Pyatigorskaya
Shaumyana
Soldatskiy Lane(near Krasnoarmeyskaya St,)
Stalina
Svobody
Tolstogo Lane (between Oktyabrtskaya and Pushkinskaya Streets)
Ultyanovskaya
Voroshilova
Vygonnaya
Yessentukskaya
Zakavkazskaya
6. The streets of Georgiyevsk are very wide and most of them are lined on
both sides with trees. The main street of town is Oktyabitskaya Street
and the intersection of Oktyabrtskaya and Krasnaya Streets is considered
downtown (tsentr og roda). Oktyabrtskaya Street is a boulevard divided by
a vegetated strip in two one-way lanes. Trucks and buses are prohibited
on this street.
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7.
All principal streets, such as Oktyabrtskaya, Lermontova, Lenina,
Pushkinskaya, Kalinina, Krasnoarmeyskaya, Lineynaya, and many others are 25X1
well illuminated. Oktyabrtskaya and Lermontova have dual-round lamps
on steel posts, and the rest of the streets have single lamps on wooden
poles. There are no traffic lights, and neither are there traffic regulating
militiamen in Georgiyevsk.
8. Street names are inscribed in white lettering on blue steel plates 10-12 x
50-60 cm? mounted on the corner houses of respective streets. The inscrip-
tion is in Russian and calls for an 11U1," (abbreviation of Ulitsa - street)
and the n~.ime of the street in full, e.g.:
UL. KL9.ASNAYA
50-60 cm,
10-12 cm,
House numbers are also inscribed in white on blue steel shields 15 x 15 cm.
mounted over gates or entrance doors of respective houses, e.g.:
15 cm,
25A
15 cm,
Even numbered houses are on one side of the street and odd numbers are
on the other,
9. The city Park of Culture and Rest with a summer movie, dancing stage,
amusement and refreshment sections on the grounds, is located on Krasnaya
Street in the vicinity of Maslozavod, The Stalin monument is also in
this park. The Lenin monumen on Oktyabrtskaya Street near its
intersection with Lenina Street. The above mentioned monuments are
over 20 years old. They were demolished by the Germans in 1942 but
were restored after the end of WW II. In front of Raykom on the corner
of Tolstogo Lane and Oktyabr'skaya Street are located two other monuments
of the city: an obelisk commemorating the heroes of the Civil War and
a monument to the memory of 7 Soviet functionaries of the town executed
by Germans in 1942.
Places of Interest:
10. Ispolko~. Located in a three-story building on Lermontova Street between
Lenina and Voroshilova Streets, next to the secondary (srednyay a) school #3.
Former chairman fnu POLYAKOV was arrested as "people's eneiirt1; the name
of the new chairman is not known The first floor of this 25X1
building is occupied by Raysovet.
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R lom Communist Warty. Located in a two-story building on the corner
o T~ olstogo Lane and Oktyabrtskaya Street, opposite of Gosbank and the
"Udarnik" movie house. Raykom of KSM is also in this same building.
NOTE: All the above mentioned governmental institutions (Ispolkom, Raysovet,
Raykoms of CP and KSM) are to be transferred in the near future to
"Dom Sovetov" (House of the Soviets), the foundation for which was
laid on the corner of Oktyabr'skaya and Voroshilova Streets, opposite
the printing house on the former site of the demolished Greek-Orthodox
Cathedral.
Prison. This occupies the whole block between Krasnaya and Pionerskaya, and
Delegatsk aya and Nezlobinskaya Streets. This very old establishment was
recently converted into a prison for delinquent youths. The prison for
adults is at present in Pyatigorsk.
Corrective Camps;
a. So-called "6th Colony" (Shestaya Koloniya) consisting of wooden barracks
occupying an area of several square kilometers in the suburb of
Georgiyevsk, Krasnaya Kumka.
b. In Aleksandriyevka (or Aleksandriyskaya), 12 km. from Georgiyevsk, on
the highway to Mineral'nyye Vody. The arrestants work at the brickyard
located next to their barracks.
No additional information on the above camps available.
Voyenkomat. Located on Pushkinskaya Street between Lenina and Lysogorskaya
Streets, opposite the wine distillery offices.
ZAGS. Located in the same block as Voyenkomat, above.
Dom Kultury (House of Culture) near Raykom on Oktyabr'skaya Street. It had
its own orchestra, dancing stage, game rooms, concert hall where the vuest
company performed.
City Library. Near Oktyabr'skayaand Lysogorskaya intersection, on Oktyabr'skaya
Street.
Newspaper Editing Office. On Oktyabr'skaya Street near the corner of
Oktyabr'sk a and Lenina Streets
The newspaper printing
house is on the corner of Oktyabr'skaya and Voroshilova Streets.
City Stadium. On Krasnaya Street near the city hospital. The stadium was
built on the site of the former cemetery.
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Address and Passport Desks. Located on Pyatigorskaya Street, separately
from militia offices.
Meteorological Station. Near the market, on Kalinina Street. One house
surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, one cage-like box and a weather-cock on
a mast inside the yard.
State Bank on Oktyabr'skaya Street opposite the Raykom building.
Bathhouses (Bani) :
U. There are two bathhouses in Georgiyevsk: one city bath (gorodskaya) on
Ordzhonikidze Street and one factory (zavodskaya) bath on Chkalova Street.
The city bath is open every day from 0 00 to 2200 hours except Monday. It
has five private rooms (nomera), one hall for men and two halls for women.
The charge for private rooms is 3 Rubles, and they may be shared by both
males and females without identification ind tin; the relationship between
them. The zavodskaya bath was constructed by~rick and tile factory and
was originally intended to be used by factory workers. But at the present
time it is open four days a week (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
from 0800 to 2200 hours, and the city populace is also admitted to it.
There are no private rooms at the zavodskaya bath. The charge to both
bathhouses is 1,10 Rubles per person; children up to 8 years of age are
admitted free.
Medical Facilities:
12. The city hospital is located on Krasnaya Street, near the city park and
the stadium. Across the street from the hospital, next to the Voyentorg 25X1
(Military Trade Organization) store (open to everyone) is situated a small
maternity ho ital.
ere was no charge or
a on or ugs, ere is also a free polyclinic on the corner of
Pushkinskaya and Lenina Streets for city and rayon patients. In the past,
callers were registered at the clinic upon presentation of a passport. At
the present time this formality has been abolished. The hours for working
patients were before noon and the afternoons were for the unemployed, includ-
ing housewives and children. However, there was a very long waiting line
at the polyclinic so many people preferred to go to private doctors paying
as much as 25 Rubles for a single visit. The charge for drugs bought at
pharmacy by prescription of either polyclinic or private doctors was the
same. Two first aid (skoraya pomoshch') automobiles, one sedan and one
delivery truck, are usually stationed at the polyclinic yard.
Hotels and Accommodations:
13. The town's only hotel is located in a three-story building on the corner 25X1
of Lenina and Oktyabr'skaya Streets. The first floor of this building is
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The citizens of Pyatigorsk are not permitted to stay in the local hotel -
it is for out-of-town guests only. In order to register at the hotel, one
has to produce a passport; in the case of collective farmers who do not
possess passports, they had to present a certificate issued by their
respective collective farm. The passport had to be submitted at the hotel
desk and was returned to the owner at the time of the latter's check-out.
No receipts or other kind of security papers were issued to the owners of
submitted passports, the militia checked the passports 25X1
(the registration) at the hotel desk upon notification by hotel administration
of the new arrivals,
15.
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a room which accommodated 8-9 persons. The room was equipped
with a very primitive kind of furniture having military type cots (koyki)
for beds. The charge for a bed was 5 Rubles per night paid when checking
out. In case the hotel had no vacancy,which occurred very often, it was an
easy task to assure accommodations in some private home.
The house was
ownea oy er a y w no rented two rooms furnished with 6 beds which
she rented to guests for 5 Rubles per night, per bed. The beds were also
the same kind of military koyka as used by the hotel. The owner of the
guest house did not ask[' for any identification papers
in the same circumstances it is also an easy
task to get overnight accommodation in Georgiyevsk. One only has to drop
in at any private home and inquire where he can obtain a room for an over-
night stay and he will be directed to a hgme,
16. In order to find an apartment or room, one had to go to an establishment
on Lenina Street which, according to the description given could 25X1
be sort of an information bureau. Next to this bureau, on the wall beside
the door, there is a bulletin board where house owners place adds about
apartments and rooms for rent, there were always 25X1
many vacancies in town. Another way o ge ing a room was thru direct
inquiry of owners of private homes,
17. After an accommodation was found, the registration (propiska) procedure
would be as follows: the illiterate, or the people not familiar with routine
processing, went to the office described in Paragraph 16. Here the clerk,
for a charge of 1 Ruble, filled out an application form (blank) and made
an entry into domoyaya kniga (house log). Then it was necessary to go to
the State Bank which was open every day, except Sunday, until 1200 o'clock,
and buy a 3 Ruble stamp, After this, one had to take the stamp, house log
and application forms to the passport desk of the militia on Pyatigorskaya
Street, Both the Soviet and foreign citizens were registered in the house
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log. Soviet citizens were required to submit only one application and
to purchase the 3-Ruble stamp from the State Bank, which was glued into
the house to cnd sealed with the militia seal. However, foreigners were
required. to submit three special forms which were marked by a bright colored
strip across the page from corner to corner diagonally. The stamp for
foreigners was placed on one copy of the application form, not in the log
as for Soviet citizens, and sealed with the militia seal.
18. It is possible to reside at a private house for a period of several weeks
without any registration whatsoever at a charge of 50 Rubles a month
per koyka. This may be done if a boarder does not arouse the landlord's
suspicions as to his identity and if he can adequately support his reasons
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19. It is very difficult to obtain dwellings at state-owned apartment houses
(ZHAKT) due to the fact that they are more comfortable and much cheaper
than ie private houses. The rent was charged by the number of square meters
occupied rice of which was not known but one
family paid 31 Rubles per month for two medium sized rooms. For
the same dwelling in a private house the charge would be 200-250 Rubles
and 150 Rubles per month for one room. In both cases, utilities are paid
in addition to the rent by the tenant.
20. a two-room house in Geor iyevsk had to pay 520 Rubles
land tax (za zemyu), 90 Rubles property tax (nalog) and 18 Rubles insurance
(strakhovkaj annually.
Restaurants, Stores, Markets:
21. There were many snackbars and stands in Georgiyevsk, but only one restaurant
of Gortorg (City Sales) located in the first floor of the hotel buildin
This-restaurant was open daily from 0700 to 2200 hours-
AT, one time a ban played at the res aurae but lately it has not been
there. Wines and liqu v'rs were sold by bottles only (no servings by the
glass or by gram). Beer was sold in steins (kruzhka), 2.60 Rubles a stein.
22. In addition to a number of grocery and manufactured goods stores, the city
had one department store (univermag) located next to the restaurant described
in Paragraph 21. The stores in Georgiyevsk were open daily from 0900 to
2000 hours with a lunch break from 1200 to 1400 hours. Clothing, footwear,
furniture and appliances were in sufficient supply, except for television
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and footwear were of foreign origin; the clothing was imported from China
and the footwear from Czechoslovakia. Some food stuffs such as butter and
sugar were hard to obtain, and this caused queues in front of the respective
stores. Sometimes, local people were forced to go food shopping in
Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk, which, as so-called