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Reports on miscellaneous Soviet economic and civil activity: including references...
Catalogue reference: HW 75/175
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This record is about the Reports on miscellaneous Soviet economic and civil activity: including references... dating from 1948 Feb 20 - 1948 Mar 18 in the series Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HW 75/175
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948 Feb 20 - 1948 Mar 18
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports on miscellaneous Soviet economic and civil activity: including references to the supply of radio valves and vacuum instruments, dispatch of metallic manganese to a shipbuilding factory at Molotovsk, visit of a scientist to shale distilling factory at Syzran', cost of penicillin treatment, the First Chief Directorate attached to the Council of Ministers, disorganisation in section constructing fuel enterprises at Krasnoyarsk, general information about Combine No. 8 and Mining Directorate No. 8 at Bystrovka in Kirgiz SSR
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- S/ARU-E/T191-T200
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2010
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11538976/
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HW 75
Government Communications Headquarters and predecessor: Soviet Bloc reports
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Reports on miscellaneous Soviet economic and civil activity: including references...
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