INDUSTRIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON SAMARKAND

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• Publication Date: June 17, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (Uzbek SSR )
SUBJECT Industrial and MisceJ ,,aneous
information on Samarkand
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. Samarkand N 39-40, E 66-57, second largest city in the Uzbek SSR after
Tashkent, had a population of 200,000, of whom about one-third were Uzbeks,
one-third Russians, and one-third national minorities, such as Tadzhiks,
Armenians, and Tatars.
2. The following industrial plants were located in Samarkand:
a. A raisin factory, located near the railroad station, which processed
the surplus of the grape crop in the Samarkand Oblast.
b. A preserves factory (Konservnyy Zavod), which processed surplus fruit
and vegetables, and recently started production of fish and meat
preserves as well.
c. A cotton mill (Khlopkovyy Zavod), located near the railroad station.
Large lots near the plant serve for storage of cotton bales.
d. The Lenin Factory (formerly Krasnyy Dvigatel), a numbered, military
plant. It was the largest industrial enterprise in Samarkand,
employing about 2,000 workers. It produced tank motors and components,
according to rumor.
e. A silk weaving mill (Shelko-Motalr.aya Fabrika), located on Shaumyana
Street.
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f. A superphosphate factory (Superfosfatnyy Zavod), located near Charki.n
J 39-411 E 66-48 railroad station., between the Samarkand and Dzhuma
N 39-42, E 66-47 railroad station.. This plant was constructed by
prisoners over a three or four year period. A workers housing project
was erected nearby, and a railroad stop on the Samarkand-Katta-Kurgan
line, called Superfosfatnyy, was established. According to workers of
the plant, it was a chemical factory serving the armed forces; the only
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fertilizers manufactured there were from waste materials of the
main product (no details). The factory was put into operation
in 1955 and during the first year, the inhabitants of its vicinity
were greatly annoyed by its smoke and gases, which affected both
people and plants within a radius of two to three kilometers.
Thereupon, a special commission was sent from Moscow in 1956
to investigate the situation. It recommended the establishment
of special installations to absorb the gases which were
contaminating the area. The plant, which was directly subordinate
to Moscow and not under the competence of the local Sovnarkhoz,
employed local inhabitants, but people were unwilling to work
there because it affected their health. Workers complained that,
after having been employed there for two or three years, their
teeth started to decay, among other bad effects. According to
rumor, the plant 'a function similar to that of the chemical
factory in Chirchik LN 4+1-29, E 69-352, and the area was to become
."another Chirchik" /sic; probably the Chirchik Elektrokhim Zavo7.
3. The economy of the Samarkand Oblast and town was based mainly on cotton
crops. In return for the cotton produced there - and in the entire Uzbek
SSR - the population was adequately supplied with other goods and
enjoyed priority of industrial products, such as clothes and shoes.
Sugar beet cultivation and sugar production, which had been encouraged
in then during the war, have been replaced by cotton growing.
In summer, during the cotton harvest, school childgen as well as workers
in plants and institutions were recruited to help the_kolkhozel- in
cotton picking. "'
1.. The following are details on public utilities in Samarkand:
a. Samarkand had two power stations, one located near the railroad
station and the second on the corner of Frunze and Engels Streets.
Additional power was supplied the town by the hydroelectric power
station (GES)-xLear Khirshav (7) sic; probably Khisharskaya GE7
in the Samarkand Oblast. In spite of this there was still a
shortage of electric power in the town and cuts in electricity
for lighting were frequent, particularly in winter.
b. Water was supplied by a network of ditches, fed by a main
car ginating in the mountains. In order to ensure an adequate
supply during the summer, the inhabitants would fill up the wells
which existed in almost all yards.
c. The laying of a gas line from the vicinity of Bukhara?;N 39-4+8, E 64-257
to Samarkand was completed in 1958, after which construction of a
central gas supply system was begun.
d. Public transportation was by buses, trolley buses, and one
trolley line, running from the railroad station to the market
in the old city via Oktyabr and 1 1 NIFxx Streets.
e. Interurban transportation in the Samarkand Oblast was by buses
from the town to those districts which had suitable roads.
Samarkand had the following academic institutions:
a. A medical institute (Meditsinskiy Institut).
b. The Uzbek State University (Uzbekskiy Gosudarstvennyy Universitet; UzGU).
c. Two teachers institutes.
d. An agricultural institute (Selskokhozyaystvennyy Institut).
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6. Samarkand had the following hospitals:
a. The Republican Hospital (Respublikanskaya Bolnitsa), located
on Chernaya Doroga, the street connecting the railroad station
with the old city. The hospital had all the usual wards, each
housed in a separate building, and a total of about 1,000 beds.
Most of its medical staff members also served as lecturers
at the medical institute.
b. The City Hospital (Gorodskaya Bolnitsa), located on
Karl Marx Street.
c. Two hospitals for contagious diseases, one situated near the
railroad station and the other in the old city.
d. An ontological hospital (Onkologicheskaya Bolnitsa), located
on Engels Street.
e. A railroad workers hospital.
f. The 396th Military Hospital, located in pre-revolutionary buildings
at the end of Uzbekistan Street. The hospital, which had about 200
beds in 1949-1950, served the Samarkand garrison units stationed
in the town and its vicinity.
7. Construction of residential buildings was under way in Samarkand,
financed by the municipal council and destined for workers of
institutions and industrial plants. The buildings were made of
brick and were not more than two or three stories because the earth-
quakes which occasionally rocked the town area would endanger higher
structures.
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8. The following units were subordinate to the garrison headquarters
located in a two-story building on Communist Street:
a. A military camp, accommodating tank and infantry units,
located on Karl Nix Street, near-,its intersection with.
Oktyabr Street.
b. The largest military camp in Samarkand and its vicinity called
"lager", located six to eight kilometers from the town, on the
extension of Krasnogvardeyskaya leading to Katta-Kurgan LN 39-55,
E 66-157. The camp accommodated an armored corps unit equipped
with tanks and artillery (no details). During the war the
camp had contained an armored corps school.
c. The old fortress, located in the center of the town, on the
boundary between the old and the new city. According to rumor,
it was used by' the armed forces for the storage of artillery
ammunition. Trees were recently planted around the fortress area.
9. Numbered food stores, maintained by a military unit and commonly called
"VovenrLv_v Obyekt", were located to the right of the railroad tracks and
about one kilometer from Dzhuma railroad station,'going to Katta-Kurgan.
The stores were subordinate to the Directorate of Military Stocks
(Upravleniye Voyennogo Zapasa) in Moscow and were administered by a
director specially sent from Moscow. The stores were served by a
railroad spur off the Samarkand-Katta-Kurgan line, and the area was
fenced in and guarded by military personnel. The buildings were tall (?),
made of bricks, and covered by sheet-iron roofs. According to rumor, the
stores stocked mainly sugar and tungsten. The sugar arrived by train
from distant locations (?) and the4;ungsten_arrived in bars from a plant
in Lyangar, near Bukhara, according to rumor. No other foodstuffs except
sugar were known to have been stored in the warehouses.
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10. The airfield for Samarkand was located north of the town, near the
railroad line to Tashkent. It was both a civilian and military field.
About 20 canvas-covered aircraft, guarded by a small air force unit
stationed at the field, were observed parked on subsidiary unsurfaced
runways in 1958.
11. In early 1959, a TU-104 aircraft on a scheduled Moscow-Tashkent
flight could not land at Tashkent airfield because of heavy fog and
had to be diverted to the military airfield in Karshy fN 38-53,
E 65-4W. This was a large field with long, concrete runways, with
numerous jet aircraft parked there. According to rumor, Tashkent and
Karshy were the only airfields in the whole of Central Asia suitable
for TU-104 aircraft. The passengers of the aforementioned flight
were not allowed to remain at the Karshy airfield and were taken to
a hotel in town.
12. Chakirov (fnu) had been chairman of the Samarkand municipal council
since 1956.
13. Dzhurayev (fnu) was director of the Samarkand city l nance department
rfinotdel).
14. Kamdamov (fnu) had been chairman of the Samarkand municipal council
until 1956, when he became director of the propaganda department at
the Samarkand Oblast Party committee.
15. Colonel Nesterov (fnu) was commanding officer of the Samarkand city
military commissariat.
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in Samarkand;
a. Colonel Akimov (fnu), deputy commander of the hospital
b. Bukarova (fnu), female, was secretary of the hospital and one o
its veteran employees,
c. Col. Moskovskiy (fnu), was director of the internal diseases ward
at the 396th military hospital in 1950.
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d. Major Oster (fnu), specialist for internal diseases at the
hospital
e. Lt. Col. Rasokhin (fnu) had been commanding officer of the
396th military hospital until 1951-1952, when he was transferred
to Saratov. where he served in the same capacity.
f." Capt. Tverskiy (fnu) had been director of the dental ward of the
hospital until 1951, when he was assigned to Frunze.
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17. Available in CIA Library, from where copies may be obtained, is a
sketch map of Samarkand indicating the points covered in the ~.~_.
legend:
Legend to Sketch Map of Samarkand
1. Tashkent Street
2. Gorkiy Street
3. Hospital Street
1. 396th Military Hospital
5. Uzbekistan Street
6. Engels Street
7. Frunze Street
8. Lenin Street
9. Communist Street
10. Karl Marx Street
11. Oktyabr Street
12. Cotton gin
13. Samarkand railroad station
14. Railroad police station
15. Military stores area and military unloading ramp.
16. Chernaya Doroga, road connecting the railroad station with the city
17. Brick factory
18. Republican hospital
19. Nekrasov Street
20 Lenin Plant (formerly Krasnyy Dvigatel)
21. Oblast Party committee
22. Central post office
23. Telephone exchange
2~. Music academy
25. Republican Militia Directorate
26. Medical Institute
27. City hospital
28. Bulvar Pobedy (formerly Abramskiy Bulvar) /si.7
29. State university
30. Hotel
31. Prison
32. Military commissariat
33. Oblast prosecution office
34. Bakery
35. Military camp (armor, infantry)
36. Tea packing plant
37. Garrison headquarters
38. Oncological hospital
39. Party club and library (Pattkabinet)
40. Party lecturers club
41. Municipal council
42. Oblast council
1+3. Commercial Institute
44. CI3 fortress, used by the armed forces
45. Sports stadium
46. Military stores
47. Skalyanskaya Street
48. KGB,offices and prison in the yard
49. Agricultural institute
50. Michurin agricultural experimental station
51. Power station
52. Power station
53. Wine factory No. 2
54. Omitted on sketch
55. Teachers college
56. Contagious diseases hospital
57. Railroad workers hospital
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