SOVIET TROOPS IN THE TAURIC MD

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i946 to May
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construa-
tion work in
haA)cr
area
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I, Barracks
(sight briok
buildings)
1. Military ;4,-
torr, kfive-story
byick building ith
one wing, about -
400x130 feet)
Barracks (several
buildings including
the hespital)
1. Barracks (four-
story limestcno
bu:t2dings each
about 500x65 feet,
drill ground, 7-fo(Jt
high double-barbed-wire
fence)
Sast of the South Core
between the railroad
tunnel and the dlip-
yaz:d
NortlIrn ond cf tho
oity area, between
the South Cove and the
Artillery Cove
of Kilen Cove-
Sast of the South Cove
couth of a shipyard
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Very young naval per-
sonnel, undergoing
training for a high-
er. naval grade
Naval hcadluartcr:.;
building a 'mammoth'
building l. Heavy traf-
fic of naval officers ,
Barred to Pas.
Hospital and naval
quarters including one
building occupied by naval
-oar-4
Naval schoo/- with personnel
obsorved in infantry train-
ing and practicing with
semaphore flags and
other signal devices.
About 50 men were repeated-
ly observed marching to the
harbor and being ferried to
ships. An admiral (wearing
one wide and two or three
medium braids on his sleeve
and broad red stripes alcng
his trousers) had his apart-
ment near a church:?
Another Pa con-
firmad te; intert'cgate-r
(B) a nemal ,school at
the same placv; im Janu-
ary 1949.
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SEVASTOPOL
(ceit'd)
1946 te;
May 19t18
194,5
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b, eoustrue-
tion work
?4.13P6.14.1at
2,, AA gun emplace-
ments (improved
earthemplace-
ie
nt2)
Military quarter.:
(fivo-story barrack
buildings, SO-foot
high steel tc9er)
barracks 0!ive
lare three-story
buildings, each about
.655 feet)
A& guli emplacement
artillery emplace-
ment with oven bun-
Ott 'L. AA gun emplace-
marenes ti; ment (earth emplace-
his work manta)
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a.c men ? j.
North of the entranoe
to the Severnaya Coves
about a,3o0 feet north-
east of the prominent
southern tip of the
Elevated area about
1 mile NNE of the IN-
K-GRAN (4435' N/33c
73.' El railroad sta-
,,ion
the slopv) ease of
the eastern tip of
Severnaya Cove
AbouL 2,en iet
of the railroad tunnel,
5,000 feet north of the
eastern and of the Seve-
rnaya 0c,:o id 3D eget
W of the seaplane base
Eastern tip f the Se-
irernaya Cove, abc;At 100
feet from the shore
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stimated at four
batteries totaling 16 guns
of 88 to :05 mm ealiber, Laying
practices and firing practices
;It towed sleeve targets were
Completed in April 1947 Construetion work had been supervised by
naval oeficers, Searchlights wore
in operation at the quarters in te
Spring of 1948t,
ljare brick work and some of the in-
terior work was completod in May 1948,
The design was that of a Ger.man bar-
racks,
C to 8 70 15-mm At guns,
to searchlights, one
so,..!.ni locator and crow
bunkers
12 AA guns of 47 or 50 mm
caliber
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Anotho2r IT 1111 con,
firmed to 11.ft-erre:gator
C) that one emplacement
for light Al guns, one
for heavy AlguLu we-re at
the st.lAi Once in Arril
1948, The 4:6 added that
a battery t four heavy
All puns was emplaced tenth-
east of Nilen Cove (eser-
vea iien :1r.r.g a =a
sleeve targets)
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BUDOLOKOWSIU(sic)February 94('
(about 305 miles
SE of SEVASTOPOL,
on the SEVASTOPOL-
-BALAKLAVA reiiroad
lime)
RALAKLAVA (44- I946 to Septeme
"30g N/53?361 E) bar 1949
a. S
Pe work
in the harbor
a, B
te, construe,
tion
raoke
F
130 construe-
tion of bar-
racks
a, B
b. Fe2
AA gun em-
placement
i.levated area about
4,000 feet SE of the
Kilen Cove
Barracks (16 About 1 mile east of
three-story the eastern tip of the
limestone and Severnaya Cove, west of
concrete buil- the large bend of the
dines with red- IN(ERMAN-SIMFEROPOL
,
tiled roofs, 1$0x (4455 N/34'05E)
40 and 200x40 feet) railroad line
Barracks (four- On a rugged elevated
story brick build- plain near the
ings, each about railroad line
155x65 feet)
ic Military quare
ters (former PR'
Camp No 7299/16,
rectangular two-story
brick building) -
2, A5.1itary quar-
ters (two brick
buildings)
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Several improved emplacements,
Frequent firing practices were
observed.
Not occupied by troops in Oc-
tober 1947. Still under con='
etruction with more bend-
ings planned. Occupied by
Ms and civilian construc-
tion workers. Supervisien
by a navel construction staff.
Construction work etarted in
June 1945, not furnished or
oceupied in February 1946, To
be ?coupled by a navw1 unit,
according to civilians. A
sanatorium was also under
construction near the town
On the northern tip of Naval unit (blue uniform with
the bay near BALARLAVA yellow-black cap-ribbons)
of unidentified strength
On the western side
of the bay
Naval personnel, believed to
be crews of ships
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Another 14 (1111 con-
firmed to interrogator
fn) tha , nftval bar-
racks of 20 thres-story
building (130x35 feet)
was under construction
east of the Severnaya
Cove in September 1947.
Sixteen bui1dint4s were
completed by ht time
and eight three-story
barracks buildings were
under construction sow
hundred feet to the NN.
The latter buildings were
also to he u,oupied by
naval pereonnol.,
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work
the 119.-rbor
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1) F-2 work
in the harbor
area
10 Barrac%s Northeastern tip
(one four-story of the bay, east
brick building, of the rail-
atcnt 260x330 feat) road station
2. Barracks (one-
new four-otory
brick building,
about 260x80
feet, and one old
four-story brick
buidatr:abeut-
280:c80 foot)
Barracks (with
athletic field)
Ailitery quarters
q)rominent, four
otory brick buil-
ding
Military .qu
tero
So nn hundred feet
south of the men-.
tioned barracks
on the eastern
shore of the bay
On the slope along the ?
eastern edge of the bay
Eastern town exit
near the upper edge
ef the bluff
on the western town
perimeter
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Attachment 1
Occupied i;o capacity
by unidentified per-
sonnel
Occupied to capacity (the
ziew building sir.e April.
i947) Naval personnel,
armed with rifles, machine guns
and submachine guns, were ob-
served marching up the hill
east of the bay. Civilians
said that a naval school for
naval recruits to racolve
basic infantry training
was in BALAKLAVA.
Naval schooJ, diers under-
went basic infantry training in
front of the barracks and in the
neighboring area. School perewq-
ne,1jc3 diving practices in the -
harbor. Very young seamen(17 to
18 years of age) were seen in
February 1940 and Aarch 1940.
Infantry unit of two companies
assigned tr, the .1.:iniatry of the
Interior, armed with small arms,
light and heavy machine guns,
assigned to guard duty Armored
vehicles were never seen in
YALTAc
Infantry unit or three compa,
nies, assigned to the Ministry
of the Interior, wearing red,,,
,borderad blue epaulets and red-
bordered blue, caps, armed with
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Another PW 11.
confirmed to in-
terroator F) that
a naval schol with
a personnel of about
450 was at the same
pinc
Diving lart,;Je;i
light divers suits were
held, Crew members of a
cruiser stationed in the
harbor were also quartered
in thia ac6741 6chc.1_
No coastal fortifications
or AA gun emplacements were
dbserved
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SIMFEROPOL
(46?55g IV
34 0.1 E)
August te
November 1948
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a. F
b. cone-true-
tion military
inetallations
1. Barracks
(.ahreeestory
brick building)
2. Military
quarters (can-
tonment)
About 1?000 feet SE of
the railroad station, on
the Sel side of Pushkina-
kaya Street (large street
with trees leading from
the Pailroad station
towards OE)
About 20600 feet 3SK of
the railroad station cast
of the railroad line to
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5, Barracks SM city sector, about
(modern instal- 5,000 feet south of the
lations, large railroad station
brick buildings
40 Tank gara- South of the tank school
gas (three woo-
den buildings:
four semi-under-
ground fuel tanks)
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Attachment 1
small arms, light and
heavy machine guns and three
to six motorized light AT
guns, equipped with 20 to 25
Studebaker and ZIS trucks and 8
to /0 jaeps, assigned to guard
duty, also in the LIVADIA Cast-
le. where STALIN stayed in 1948.
Tonk unit of one battalion
Unit amounting to one batta-
lion of three compsnies of 100
to 120 leen each, equipped with
small arma, light and heavy ma-
chine guns, includi-ng numerous
Maksim machine guns. The unit
was believed to be a talk unit.
Tank achool;about 150 instruction
personnel and more than 1,000
trainees fell in on the ocaa-
sion of a military celebration.
Officers wore tpnk insignia.
15 to 20 T34 tanks, inciuding
five or six with guns of about
100 mm caliber with mule brake;
10 to 15 JS tanks with AA ma-
chine guns and rod antenna in
the rear; 15 to 20 sr guns of
122 and 150 mm caliber
Soldiers stated that
the units were the I and
II Bias of the 272d Tank
Regt/elst Tank Div which
had been in gungary up
to the end or 1946. The
division aloe included
another tank regiment
which Was not located in
SILIFEROPOL Offcers of the
units wore tank insignia,
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Another IV =) tole in-
terrogator (F) that he ob-
served 18 to 20 tanks of
difTerent types in an old
long shed rof the last time
in June 1949 (the shed ARS
near a military quarters,
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Naroh 1948
a, C
5. Ordnance park
for the storage'
of guns (1,30x
650afoot area with
board fences two
Wooden sheds)(?).
Barracks (several
long briok buil-
dings)
About 650 feet SSff of
the railroad etation
In the town areae about
50300 feet west or the
harbor
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with muzzle brake,8 to 10
tank chassis, The tanks ap-
peared to be well maintained,
Some rore used fOr praotice
runs by the tank school. Trai-
nees were repeatedly obeerved
on the tank chassis. Ono or
two oompanies from other querto were daily observed to
leave on 10 to 12 tanks for a
training area sa of the rail-
road station
15 to 20 canvas -covered rocket
launcher 0 to 15 76,2 mm
gW1 s, Heavy guard.
Infantry unit of one battalion
of three or four companies, armed
with riflea, eubmaohine guns
light machine guns and light mor-
tare The troops, who wore no
nuMbers on their epaulets? were
observed on a practice march,
called tank bar-
racke), No repair ahop
was near the shed_
Observed troops
wore tank insignia)
moat ware war dot&
tim Durtg tho
or May Pard o in 1947
the Pif obeervod a mo-
torized artillery unit
with five guile of about
150 mm caliber,towed
by email caterpillar
tractors. Th a unit waa
followed by a motor
transport unit with old
trucks,. Fellow Pas said
that the flatillery Bar-
racks were ma a road
leading NE_
About one company of very
young coldiers (cadetc?),
wearing black trousers with
two broad, red stripeve wee
also obterved,,
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Another PTMt told the ?
same interrogator that in 1948
he observed firing prac-
tices with mortars and ?
artillery pieces near the
town e A dotail of PKe was
asaigned to the construe-
of barraaksioii
three-story brick buildings)
near the barber, Infantry
and artillery units were
stationed in the town,