KUIBYSHEV AIRFIELDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Kuibyshev Oblast
25X1 SUBJECT Kuibyshev Airfields
DATE DISTR. 12 Feb. 1952
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1. The airfield east of Kuibyshev (50079 f/53?11+ N)
Kuibyshev Cblast, along the road to Ufa (56?0, F/
54044' TT) was about three times ;r,s large as the
Hamburg . i hlsbuettel airfield. ! n aircraft
plant was west of the field. There were three
asphalt runways, each estimated at 50 meters by
more than 2 k-m. The field was unusually strictly
,.;card ed .
2. ;;even large hangars and a five-story barracks
building; v::ith two partially destroyed and
occupied by pilot students, were at the Field.
3. the :Field was occupied by riore than 1csc fighters.
soviet wards said that jet aircraft were constructed
is the aircraft plaant. irer f t were totw.ed from
thm factory to the runways.
4. f] he e were take-offs and land.in. c of three or
four mail planes every day ?:nd practice flights
with 1C to 20 fighters. Test flints with jet
aircraft were wade at irre;;,ular intervals.
5. The airfield, about 1x2 kin, was south of the rail-
road line to Chelyabinsk (61?25' /55?9, II), east
of Malin Plant where jet fi?hters sere constructed
% runway was about 1.2 km
6. Jet fighters were seen at the field. They were short
and slim with nose wheel, nozzle under ~'usel.:e and
fusel:a._:;c stcn at tail, "lor rod" at front section
of nose.
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7- 1 factory airfield was in Vuibyshev-Uesymnyanka,
south of the railroad line to chely?abinsk, ad-
jacent to the easterh section of the 5ta.lin
;aircraft Plant. Four lar3e hangars were
soon occupied by aircraft. icceptanee test
flights were made daily.
i cor:mercial airport occupied by Douglas
plane: was east of the factory ?.irfield.
9. The huibyshev radio transmittin_; station was
west of a road running from the fed Square to
the northeast, and south of an iron works a The
installation had several small buildings, a
transnittin ; tower 41i to 54 motors high, and
four small towers (steel frame) interconnected
by antennas.
in airfield, about l,oC xi,5Oo meters, was south.
of Yuibyshev, east of hryazh (5c?6' ~;/53~71m).
110 The field was occupied by fighters. There was
day and night flying.
120 A bombing range with an adjacent &., firing range
was south of the field
13. The airfield was about 2 km from 0 Camp A 7234/6,
adjacent to .Malin Aircraft klant.: It was occu-
pied by about 5c new, single-en:; irbe fighters,
.painted Gray-green, which were test-flown drily.
140 Lnother airfield ,',gas on the eastern perimeter of
the town, 2 km west of the roof in. felt factory
and. ?",' Camp to 7234/3 The :followairi., flyin:!~ was
observed: Trainin,, fli :hts with biplanes, indi-
vidual parachute jumps, cargo Gliders towed by
biplanes, take-offs and landinja of single-engine
fighters.
15. ..:ostly small courier planes nod z four-engine
trvnspo:.?t were seen at the airfield adjacent to
the aircraft plant between January 1946 and Sep-
tei;ioer 1947. The latter wade an intermediate
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landinca at the field twice each May. Only indi-
vidual jet aircraft took off and landed at the
field between '.,arc1i and late .:ay 1949.
16a about 5C new fighters, painted rE,.y-green and
covered with tarpaulins, were stationed at the
airfield adjacent to ,talin Hant between June
1946 and June 1948. r elloll;-V_.ds said that
airframes rand jet fig;nters were constructed in
the jtal in Plant.
17 Another airfield was west of Lenin Plant.
Biplanes, individual parachute jumps, cargo gli-
ders and sin:rle_engine fighters were seen over
the airfield almoet every day between June 1948
and day 1949.
16. Three jet fighters with swept-back wir s and a
paint shining brightly like aluminum, were often
seen in Lpril and :.'lay 1949.
19. The airfield east of .4uibyshev, south of the road
to : uguruslan (52026' x,/53039 0 N) extended about
2 lea alone the road in an / direction. There
were at least three lar(c vaulted han ars and a
high buildin;; with a. rectangular tower..
2C. On the last ride past the field in October 1949
it was observed that Five jet aircraft, tail
slantin.: upward to the rear and aide rudder as-
se..bly, took of f f ror , the field.
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