SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, AND MISCELLANEOUS INSTALLATIONS IN SOFIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400400010-2
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
Bulgaria REPORT
Scientific, Cultural, Educational, DATE DISTR.
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Religious, and Miscellaneous
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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUE]ECT Scientific, Cultural, Educational,
Religious, Miscellaneous Installations
in Sofia
DATE OF INFORMATION
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. See page 4
which) (pinpointed the following:
1. Volko Chervenkov Medical Academy, a complex of 15 to 20 multf25X1
story brick-stuccoed buildings with baked tile roofs. The
enrollment of this academy was 1,000 student?doctors.
2. Bacteriological Institute which consisted of many three and
four-story, white-stone buildings with tile roofs. This in-
stitute was located on Pencho Siaveykov Street. -The buildings
had been constructed from three to five years ago.
3. Bulgarian RedoCrots hospital with approximately 10 one to four-
storied brick-stuccoed buildings located on Boulevard Totleben.
St. Georgiy Church,a, old building; of typical orthodox archi-
tecture, located in . park.
5. The Maychin Dom (Mothers Home) fospital within a park. The
hospital build :pg, )wa.s::approximately 100 x. 15 x, 8:.m, two-rst?ried,
and built of stucco. The hospital and park were located on
Boulevard Khristobotev.
6. St. Nedelya Orthodox Church.
7. The National Bank, a three-story., white stone building which was
built 15 years ago.
8. The Bulgarian Communist Party School and Museum, formerly the
castle of King Boris; this building was located on Boulevard
Russkiy.
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9. A fire station, a complex of three or four stuccoed, one and
two-storied buildings which housed 10 or moremod-ern fire trucks.
This was the central fire station in Sofia and was located on
Rakovskiy Street, other fire stations were
located on the outskirts of Sofia but believed that there were
only three or four of these stations for the city.
10. The new opera building was located on Rakovskiy Street. This
building was schedu:ed to be completed before the beginning of
1955. Its dimensions were approximately 160 x 40 x 20 m and it
was built of white stone.
11.. The Physico-Mathematical, Faculty of the State Universi aint
Kliment of Ohrid The
faculty consisted or a complex of two or three, stuccoed, three-
story, old buildings with tile roofs.
12. The Institute for Specialization in Medical Science was a four-
story, old building which was constructed of white stone.
13. The Light Opera House, located on Stalingrad Street, had been
reconstructed after having been damaged in World War II.
14. The. Pharmaceutical-Bacteriological Institute, 60 x 70 x 15 constructed of white stone
The institute produced various medicaments and experimented with
animals. It was located on Boulevard General Zaimov.
15.. The Levskiy Memorial.
16. The Vasil Kolarov State Library,..now under construction, was ap-
proximately 60 x 80 x 15 m and constructed of white stone; it
was located on Boulevard Tolbukhin.
17. The State University Saint Kliment of Ohrid, an L-shaped struc-
ture, 250 x 30 x 20 m, located on Boulevard Russkiy. Prof.
Georgiy Nadzhakov was dean of this university.
18. The Park of Freedom, formerly known as the Boris Gardens.
19. The Agronomical Faculty of the State University Saint Kliment of
Ohrid. This building was approximately 100 x 30 x 15 m and was
a three or four-story red brick structure.
20. Radio Sofia, a white stone, three or four-story building, 20 x
40 x 15 m.
21. The Stalin State Polytechnic University consisted of two stuccoed
four-story buildings.
22. Memorial to the Soviet Army.
23. Memorial to King Aleksander I.
4. The Academy .of Science a building approximately m;
40 x 10 x 10 rig,
this building was a'two-story stuccoed structure located'on Boule-
vard Russkiy. The president of the academy wad Todor Pavlov;
Prof. Georgiy Nadzhakov served as vice-president.
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27. Aleksander Nevskiy Orthodox Church.
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28. The People's Theater on Levskiy Street.
29. An Orthodox Church called Russka Tserkov (Russian Church).
30. The 'Mausoleum of Georgiy Dimitrov.
31. Sedmo Chislanitsi Orthodox Church.
32. The Biological University, 30 x 40 x 10 m, a stuccoed two or
three-storied building. The dean was formerly Prof. Metody
Popov who died in summer.1954. Popov was the brother of Kiril
Popov, a faculty member at the Physico-Mathematical Faculty, of
the: State, U' iVersity of Saint Kliment of Obrid.
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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