ECONOMIC - RAILROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600140126-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 126
• Publication Date: January 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Before discussing the present situation of the Soviet railroads, it is
necessary to emphasize a complete unknown fact: during World War II the
Soviets dismantledlmany railroad lines distant from the theaters of operations
and transferred the installations of these lines to the areas of militltry
operations. Soviet postwar data and maps are, therefore, often exaggerated
because many railroads indicated in such publications may not exist at all.
The following 13 railroad lines were planned by the Fourth Five-Year Plan
and are either under construction or have already been completed:
1. South Siberian Railroad
a, Akmolinsk-Pavlodar section. More than 200 kilometers had been
laid on this 4147-kilometer line by the end of 1948.
b. Barnaul-Stalinsk section. In April 1949, rails were laid up to
the Smaznevo station, located 100 kilometers from Barnaul, and
blasting was started in the Altai Mountains.
c. Dzhambul-- Chulak-Tau branch. This branch had not been begun in
1948. *
2. Kagnitogorsk-Sterlitamak line. Construction. began in December- 1947 and
was completed in March 1949.
3. Ishimbay-Termoleyevo line. Construction began in January 1948. By
September 1948 it advanced 93 kilometers. Operations were started in
February 19149.
4: Chardzhou-Kund line (A-W kilometers long). In November 1948, err th-
work was completed up to Novo-Urgen (400 kilometers). Construction of
the Chardzbou-Kilcm-eter 80 section was completed in March 1949. In March
1949, it was decided to continue the line to Aarganata (210 kilometers
from Chardzhou).
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Mointy-Chu line (443 kilometers long). Construction was started in
March 1948. By duly 1948, about 40 kilometers were finished. In
completed in September 1950.
1946.
8, Semipalatinsk-I4alinovoye Ozero (152 kilometers long). To be continued
7. Kars-Tau--Taldy-Kurgan line. This line was finished by the end of 1947.
further.
Besides this list, the following lines were planned:
12. Uruscu-Narychevo line.
13. Shuya-Yuzba-Il'ino line.
Nauchki-Ular. Bator line (350 kilometers long). Connects the Siberian line
from Kyakhta with the Mongolian capital and has been in operation since August
1949.
An 85-kilometer railroad line is planned up to Yardinskaya Lesnaya Dache
(in Kara Kumy, Turkmen SSR), but construction has not yet begun.
A part of the Transsiberian railroad line, from Novokuznetsk via Omsk and
Chelyabinsk to the station of Dema, a distance of 2,350 kilometers, is being
electrified.
Two lines, toward Targagatay and toward Zasianek are to be finished in 1951.
The most important repair and reconstruction projects in 1946-48 were as
follows:
1. Double-tracking of the Moscow-Leningrad, Moscow-Kharkov, Rostov-
Prokhladnaya, and Karaganda-Akmolinsk lines.
2. Reconstruction of the railroad centers in the Donets and Krivoy Rog
basins.
3. Reconstruction and restoration of the bridges over the Dnepr, Don,
Nenan, Svi.r', northern Donets, and Irtysh rivers.
4. Reconstruction and restoration or var ous station buildings.
During 1946-47 these construction projects progressed very aloaly because
of a lack of rails and bridge installations. Rail production increased slowly
(production in 1947 was only 25 percent above tb9t of 1946) and the Ministry
of Transportation was obliged to import rails: In 1946-47, only one million
tons of raids were supplied to the railroads, while the roads could have used at
least four timea that much.
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Sae following table of verified data abovs 1945.47 results,
1946 M4
Rails for construction, repair at least 850 km a~ 1,226 ka
Rails for construction of
second t;aoks 200 1,265
Rails for sidings 800
?btal It b 2,050 km 3,291 km
Electrification
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2,259 km 1,640 km
least 85 464
995-1000 1,744
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Capital investments About 5 billion rubles About 6 billion rubles
Including the Eos?ve-Alaapayevsk and Dzhm ul-4hulak Tau lines.
Doubtful whether completed.
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