SOVIET AMMUNITION DEPOTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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space of 80 to 100 square meter and a height of 2.5 meters. The bunkers
were square structures and scattered in the woods in the depot area
in accordance with safety regulations to prevent an explosion in one
bunker from affecting other bunkers. Utility buildings and the filling
installations were located in the southern section of the depot area0 Two
stock record cards found at the deport area o 1950 were made
out for 7.62-rn model 19 8 carbines nufactur in Izhevsk in 1943v '
and Lieutenant Ea ov fun) on 1950. (1) 25X1C
nd examined b Gds rajor ratveyev (fnu)
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Uohenleipisch.
25X1C 3? In the afternoon of 1950, a unit of about 150 sc:diers under
the command of a ma tk practicing in the terrain near the
25X1C ammunition depot of Nohenleipisch (N 52A 03).
in the training area. Upon completion of the training the soldiers
marched to their quarters in the ammunition depot. (2)
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40 On 1950s nine ferroconcrete bunkorss each with a floor space
of mo re and a heinht of 10 meters.; and 11 earth bunkers each
with a floor space of 8 x 15 meters and a hnight of 6 to 8 raters, were
observed in the depot area. The unit which was eesn practicing on
1950s was Observed to be quartered in a settlement between .
Hohenleipisch and the ammunition depot. According to civilian
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workers g the buildings adjoining the settlement on the north housed the
headquarters and administration of the ammunition depot, garages for motor
and horse-drawn eehiclea, aralofficersi mess, a kitchen, and a dispensary.
The depot area was strictly guarded by double sentries and guards on
watchtowers.
On . 9501 it was learned that the depot employed 500 to 600 German
laborers wrie ailed fixed ammunition, mortar shells, ?and, recently, also
aircraft bombs. The ammunition filled at the depot allegedly included 20-mm
and 76.2-mm high-explosive AA shells, 76.2.mm high-explosive and armer.
piercing tank shells, and 122-mm mortar shells. The shells were said to be ?
of German and Soviet oriein.
An informant stated that three boxcars were loaded with
shells at a rate of 20 tons per boxcar on the morning of
Another boxcar was loaded with 7602emm AT shells on
ammunition had been filled and prepared at the depot. The consignees could
not be determined.
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25X1 C 8. On 9500 items learned that Major Lavrenski (fnu:! was commandant
of tue ammunition depot, and Captain Zavalnikcv (rnn) his deputy.
Toeechin.
25X1 C 9,, Fro f 1950, one of the work crews employed in the
annum: on po a oepdhin N 53/Z 91) cleaned and packed 2,400 cartridges
and shells of about 70omm.'Each box containing one projectile and one
cartridge case welshed5 kg. The cartridge cases were about 70 cm
25X1 C loog. Between 1950, fixed amrunition of about 30-mm was
cleaned at the depot and peered in boxes, adth each box containing from 25
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to 30 shells. The cartridge cases were about 25 cm lo and the projectiles
extended beyond the cartridge cases about 7 cm On
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cars were loaded with artillery ammunition packed in boxes, with each box
containing three shells and weighing 91 kg. The shells were 70 to 75 cm long
and of 100-ma to 120 ii caliber. Each projectile had a bakelite cover with
a blunt head. The shipment was consigned to Frankfurt/oder.
25X1 C 10, Frn 1950, all work crews were employed in loading work.
25X1 C On four boxcars were loaded with boxes of fixed ammunition, each
box containing from 2 t f about 30-mm c e An 4 'Iki which
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25X1 C On 19509 emmun cion 00XES weighing about 4 kg each were un1950. 25X1C
loadea. 3 All outgoing shipments were consigned to, and all incoming
dhipments arrived from Frankfurt/Oder. In addition to the loading work done
by German work crews, it was observed that Soviet personnel also did
loading work at night.
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25X1Cil, On 1950, only 4 of 20 a licantsware found suitable for work
at the depot and were hired. Lieutenant Colonel Goluchov (fnu) was
identified as belonging to a unit with the cover name rarinka.
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Lattervielde (N 53A 92) railroad station aboard a.tra n of 7 flatcars and -2
boxcare. The train had been dispatched by
The unit left by road toward Totpchin. (2
in the afternoon of 1950, the same train was boarded by an AAA
unit Which, according to its own soldiers, had been relieved from emplace-
ments near Toepohin. The train departed for FUerstenwalde, having shipment-
record No 75733oOn the afternoon of 1950, a similar AAA 25X1C
unit was loaded in Toepchln for shipment to Fuerstenmalde.
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No 86/62310
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Frankfurt/Oder for in Toepchin. (3) 25X1C
another slaipment of 2S boxcars with ammunitions,
309 arrived from Frlokfurt/Oder? also coneigned to
Er incoming shipments of ammunition. were
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The following shiomonts of ammunition were dispatched
Toepchin between
Date Number of Boxcars
enipmeno-record No
9 boxcars
9 boxcars 62/6733
6 boxcars 62/6739
10 boxcars 62/6731
2 boxcars 62/6737
12 boxcars 62/6732
8 boxcars 62/6758
8 boxcars 62/6740
17 boxcars 62/6734
1 boxcar 62/6741
11 boxcars 62/6742
16 boxcars 62/6735
16 boxcars 62/6736
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Altenhain
Chemnitz, main
railroad station
Altenhain
Rathenow (4)
The loading of ammunition has been done almost exclusively by Soviet soldiers
since Etv6mber 1950, whereas German workmen had been previously assigned to
this work, The ammunition was cleaned by a large number of German =men.
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25X1C 16? On 1950, a shipment of 40 boxcars carrying a total of 600 tons
of tamt. .-?771man1tion, manufacLaoci in 1949, arrived at the ammunition depot
at Viilnorsdorf N V 2 'rom Frankfurt/bder-border. The shipment was
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Shipments of ammunition which were hauled off from Wilmorsdorf by two
25X1C *octal locomotives on 1950 included 12 boxcars tith 160 tons
of artillery ammilnition for Juetorbog, shipment-recore No 62/6749; /8
boxcars with 270 tons of tank ammunttion for Finow, shipment-1:ecord No
62/6750; and 20 boxcars with 300 tons of artillery ammunition for
aathenow? shipment-record No 62/6751. Several boxcars for the shipment
of high-explosive shells to Altencrabaw and Frankfurt/Oder were requested.
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tl) The information conf-vms the large Eighth Gds Arny ammunition depot. See
* .The two stock record cards contain reports on the
conr _on of carbines of (Mq 57 Gds Mtz Rifle Div)?
They possibly belonged to the depoi. guard. The names of the two officers
are known from previous records. See
(3) Probably the ammunition train with shipmcnt,record No 86/6231 which was
previou/' re'orted t* M - ''s T AA
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(5) Shipment-record No 75733, of the series for troop Ihipments? is reported
for the first time,
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1950, coming from Brest Litovsk, See 25X1C
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depot at Lamitsch or Pfaffendorf. See 25X1A
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