PORT OF NOVOROSSIISK

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• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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~NTRAL. NTELUGENCE AGENCY REPORT
F"M 4/~ k` ` it CO NO.
S .J 3J S LCI Fort; of N+ovoro
N ). OF PACES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Pori, of Novorossii:3k is situated in a deep natural bay created by the
Tsente;s Liver. The bay is protected from the northeast by Point .Uoc'b (Doobski
Lys,. and from the southwest by ,>undzhuk reninsula (oundzhukskays. aosa); it is
protected against winds from all directions except from the southeast, south,
rest partly southwvesto xis protection against these winds, at the end of the
19t:,i, century (1891--93) the east and vest breakwaters, closing in the port,
were., built inside the bay..
The east breakwater is about 75(;-8(,C meters Iona The Novorossiisk entrance
sigh is on its outer enu. On the outer side, the breaks ater is 4-4,,5 meters
high) and on the inner siae about 4,,-2,,5 meters.
3? The west breakwater is about 1,,2CC meters long;. tit its outer end there is a
red si ;nag ii ,ht, about 10.-12 meters above sea level, which with the entrance
light for-as a gateway to the port of Novorossiisk o Both breakwaters have,
above the water, a width of up to 4 metiers (a 3-.meter platform on the inside
and a parapet one meter thick by t.o meters hi? h) o They are equipped with
nmoor-piles alon, their entire lent. th on the inside, out do not have wooden
moorin,i feeders. k'..lon, the entire length of moth breakwaters are steps down
to the level of the water; these steps are evenly spaced at a distance of
25G-d`?C ,r to :r s from each other? .
4 U Thu,-;, the port of Niovorossiisk is protected from all sea winds which might
cre;.W.~.e waves within the bay and :interfere with normal harbor activities,
" e only wind that might endanger vessels within the harbor would b, one
gals.;?: 'nag not from. the sea but from the mountains (out of the mountain passes
of the eior:hotsrci t.enge (i.;.orithotcki khrebet), on the northeast side of the
bay. The wind b:i_o'rs from the northeast and is called 1lnordostll (northeaster)
or 1 born" The 'lnoniostll attains, especially during the v,inter, a great
velocity (l balloons /sic/ at a ,peeo.o of more than 4C meters per second) and
sae s !.eriod.?CB.i.Z.iT 1, 3, 6, 9, lam'., and. 15 days, In winter_ :,ile periods are
more fre: uent (from one to 3 tinges a month) and of long or duration. During
a 1'rn-c'_1?dost", only the eastern part of t fie port can operate, and the anchoring
of v tinsels in either the inner or outer roadsteads is out of the question;
usuaLly all vessels in the roads either tie up at a safe mooring or leave
Tsem-:s Barr (Tserne5-,2 tons which is used to unload coal and
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t~.:'~e~Thr I iM,.LI9S3an9Cj.i d&i i C.k
far.., ; ce zeri nt T y sea to the. cement plan`M. The car. go unloaded by the crane
3 put into the si.l o , from Lvhich it is carried by the cableway (in the
return cars) to the plant area, The cable cars are unloaded automatically
by iaelanc :)nl~r in cases of ueelay, in the delivexy of railroad cars,
22.. `'.he second cable,dair can handle l,2GCJ .l, jGC) tons of cement per day and works
at fail capacity, a :,pro.c?- nately cC percent of all the output is shipped in
soft packaging, (5G kg burlap and paper bags and 77 kg burlap bags), and the
rest In 180 kgg barrels.
23a TheProl..etarii Cement Plant has about 8,000 workers and the C'ktyabr Cement
Plant has about 3,5(,0 v,or.,orso The Proletaril Plant produces about 800,000
tons of cement per year,, and the Oktyrabr Plant produces about 300,000 tone
per rear The rximoer of load i% workers of the port serving cement and coal
opera:+tia:ns ranges between 250 and 4`0 persons,
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?4.. To the west of the cement pier is located the so-called import pier (of solid.
construction, not on piles).. The import pier has five berths: the 7th and
8th located on the left side, the 9th at the head, and the lCth and 11th on
the right sid :, The 7th and 11th berths can handle ships with drafts of less
than 1&-2C feet, and the other berths can handle ships with drafts of up to
36-14() feet
The name "import pier." comes from the fact that this particular pier was
deli ?natod for the en:iowdi.n of imported or entering cargoes; which were
almost exclusively nech ne tools for plants and fa.ctories, machines for the
heavy meta.=working industry, motors, otc., all, of this was heavy curmber.
some freight; to unload it, the ieport pier was according ly e uippea with
u riloc.d ?_n S ,ain: nern~ro
On the right and left, sides of the pier are two overhead travellinE, cranes
with a capacity of 15 tons each; these cranes are capaule of moving along
the e:xsfi;arc pier and carrying freight to any point on their respective sides
of i.e pier. in ;additiors4, three; ?jib cranes, saving a capacity of 7,5 tons
each and set on railroad cars, are located along each side of the pier;
t;he.se cranes are. e.jclipped with electromagnetic devices for li.fting, -loads
up to X3,5 tons in weight? [..long with these cranes the import pier has two
nors- ;lfr?opelled railroad. cranes with a capacity of 1G tons in the length-
wise position and 6,,5 tons in thy. crosswise position. For unlaa.din
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esp?:cial.ly heavy loads the port has three floating cranes: Plavkran
tJoa 1, Flavkraan ho, 2, and Plavkran iNo0 3, with capacities of 50, 35,
and. 6C., tons, respecti?rely. These cranes are placed at the disposal
of the import pier when they are needed,
27. The import pier has an extensive networjr, of railroad sidings, with
throe tracks on each side of the pier. The head berth of the import pier
was : uioped recently for un:l_oaclir ore arrivirii' by sea from Poti for
oxrmird. si4pi,.ent oy rail. This berth does not have railroad sidings.
Thu,3, ore is loaded only into rail cars delivered onto a dead-end of the
sid:+.n s 4;long the sides of the pier.
28. The dimensions of the import pier are: width at base, 8C 9C .nesters; width
at head, 651-7C meters; length, 150-160 meters. The import pier has a
one--story stone building on the left side of the base of the pier,
serving as a waiting room for workers, and two ;Large, warehouse buildings
loce~ted at the center of the pier. One of the latter is fitted for the
of."_ce and various storage places for materials and spare parts necessary for
the e:.otLnfi,a :a ,, at a height, of _;O:-4O mpte.: s above sea level
c., 15th ki.loaneter - k'ena3r ].ij tit, : Coast, guns on heavy concrete founda-50X1-HUM
tions are located 16'--15C =_iet, w south of Pe:nayr light, at the foot of
the Morkhotsc:i_ Raa,;eq between the sharply rising seashore and the
r :? endzhi.iz~llrvrarok siisrr hi heap , a strip of mixed woods adjacent to
the concrete building of the Penay mater reservoir, 15-2C, art:ters above
sea level,: This battery is connected with the city only by the highway.,
Approach from the sea is im, ossilale because of the steep shore and rocky
shoals,. The numicer guns was not determined,
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d, 1Joob UCj t L_j No batteries are located in the immediate vicinity of
the li,-'r?t, on both sides of the l ehta The number of guns has not been
determined,, These batteries are screened by a mIxed mood and are about
5C meters above sea level?
Adjacent to the western outskirts
of the city of Nov srossiisk is -_ military eir?fiein for fighter aircraft?
The field was built during the va
79. In the region of the village of lys-hhalco L___]theere is an airfield also
built during the wa r aria placed under the administration of the civil air
fleet after the end', of the warn The, city radio station, which has two
tobaer of -,ir'er--type construction which can serve: as good recognition fea.-
Mures from the air,; is adjacent to the territory of the ai rf:e ict r both of
these airfields arc: surrounded by anti-aircraft batteries on the hills
adjacent to the ai.7-fieid.s,
80. In Geiendzhik Bay, on Tonki fags ~ there is a large military airfield 50X1-HUM
.suitable for landing heavy planf:-s.
8L, In the northern part of Ge lendzh,ikk Bay~there is a militar=y seaplane 50X1-HUM
base 0 There are ?e ferroconcrete hangars housing up to 1(X) tier motor
wall. ones on the adjacent sloping shore
82. The entrance to T's(:.nes gay is protected from the east by the Doob light and
from the west by t.e"biinkerrr, ;. light showing the shoal (otmel) of 6undzhuk
Peninsula. Further inside the bay is the t'enayr :Light, ,which protects ships
from the craggy shoals of the northeastern shore of the bay, In additions
inside the 'bay there is a green blinker which shows ships the lccation of
-the roadstead anchorage? The entrance to the port is s'hoonn k)y the entrance
light on the end of the east breakwater.
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83. Durin, the last ware the riinefields of Tsemcs ay were traversed epith the
aid of the lights mentioned above in the folio?,miia r manner
a=;pprcaachinn and en erir thex cart: na course is made to the Penay light,
through the center of the line between Uoob light and the red blinker of
und2,huxi Peninsula; this course is hold unt.i..1. the merging, of the lights
of the ;preen roadstead blinker wi h the light of the entrance light; the
eo,urse further follows the line of the mer ,ing lights into the port?
h. Leav , the port: The merging lights of the entrance lights and green
blinker are kept in the wake until the intersection with the line be-
t, reen Boob light and the red blinker of ;::undzhuk Peninsula; then a turn
made to the right until the position of the Peenay light is strictly
;,.-tern
-, and this course is hold out into the sea,,
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,;hen tie configuration of the rniriefields is changed; the location of the
greer, roadstead bli-niker i:i changed, but the directions for entering and
ieavinr the port ui, -e not changed:,
35.. During the var., the cutter "Gosstrakh" v.u.s stationod at the "boundda y net'',,
by which the tt ateE' of the port of Novorossiisk was cLLoscu The is the unprotected stretch Letvteen the east and west, br"eak.waters,
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