RUSSIAN ORDER OF BATTLE IN PRENSLAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300620008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 8, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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a captain arrived in Prenzlau. This staff is attached to the Comermdatura
and is to make enquiries into Red Army desertions.
The following g is are quartered in the Artillery P3arracks at Prenzlanr
Anti-tank unit equipped with twelve 45 m guns
b. AA unit equipped with twelve 88o n g=uns
c.. Artillery unit equipped with eighteen 150mm guns
d. Stalin Crsg?.in unit(only eight guns observed)
e Tank unit ogipped with twelve T-34 tanks
f, Construction unit
g Signals unit,
h. Transport unit
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18 February 1947
1. on 26 Ik a'amber 1.946 two troop trains carrying Red Navy paraour l arrived in
Frenslau from Kutno and proceeded on A December 1946 to Stettin.
2. On 3 December 1946 a Russian staff of twelve officers tinder tb care of
Close eo .b -t training and grenade throwing has taken place in the bs-racks
area.
5. The former Wekwmacht a unniticn dump in Prenzj au was re;-stocked with am wai-
tion on 4 December 1946.
6. on 7 December 1946 a mortar unit arrived at the Prenv. au Goods S tion with
thirty-two trucks. These trucks were numbered r 2 74 25 and upwards and carried
the tactical sign of crossed gun-barrels In white oz a block rectangle edged
in red.
7. Soviet Air Force units, previously stationed in Prenslau, were transferred to
Schwerin between 29 November and /l December 1046.
8. Seven thousand Russian troops suffering from VD are billeted in Frenslau
Air Force Barracks. They are to be transported. to the USSR in the coming weeks.
According to a Red Army officer, all Russian troops suffering from VD are to be
removed from the *4uasian Zone by 1 January 194?* ,Ten thousand Russian troops
remain in Prenalau, excluding the VD cases.
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