TRANSPORTATION - RAIL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 685
• Publication Date: April 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELL GENCY REPORT
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
SUB,IE, pcrtatica - Rail
HOW DATE DIST. JgApr 1949
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHE' NO. OF PAGES 3
DATE
PUBLISHED 17. Feb - 22 Mar 1949
SUPPLEMENT TO
LANGUAGE Russian REPORT NO.
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GEORGIAN RAILROAD SECTION EI3 TRIFIED -- Zarya Vostoka, No 34, 19 Feb 49
The Saatrediya-Poti railroad section, Georgian SSR, has been completely
electrified.
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AAUGAVPIIS BRIL S 1:E5TORED -- Sovctckaya Iatviya, No 42, 20 Feb 49
The Daugavpils railroad bridge in the Iatviaa 88R, has been restored and
was opened to train traffic on 19 'February 1949.
SAZAEE SSR RAIIROADB..MW -- Sasathatanskeya Pravda, No 36, 22 Feb 49
since 1940, thr_ total length of railroads in Sazakh SSR has increased from
6,000 to about 9,000 kilaspters. During this pert 4 t+y Akrolinsk-QDCtr ~neA
b05 liloseterb long, vas put into operation, and the Oreir--Uadagsab,- Dz
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Much work has been done to iapro-9 the existing facilities. In army places,
heavier rails and firmer roadbeds have been put in. Between 1940 and 1947, 200
million rubles weru opent to improve Turksib Installations. The management of
the baraganda seotion has added five new locomotive and oar depots, e'.ght power
plants, 31 puepin? stations, and acre than 30 separate 'mks and ahope. During
the War a railroad oar ie it plant was built at Alga-Ata to provide capital
repairs and capital renovation for passenger oa:s. A large electrical engineer-
S.V plant to furnish complex apparatus for trLaeport oosenmioation was also put
into operation.
Between 1940 and 1948 the Alma-Ata Railroad Teihnioal School graduated 690
ra'tlrotl trueport technicians. A second technical school was set up in 1945.
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Nriong tut ahn.?tcomings of the Kazakh SSP railroads are insufficient
organ- handling at night. s_"ormeea of cur turnover, an, neffioient
=. + of loading and unloading.
_ch ;a?pr 'ncludea completion of a railroad line between Pavlodar and
At :nsk enc cc.apaetion of inei:allatione on tha Mointy-Chu, Akmolinsk-Pavlodar,
F: ^:Zipalatlr,k-Malinovoye Laxe lines.
v,. = Rk=I.P0AD INCREASES TRACKAGE -- Sovetskaya Kirgiziye, no 27, 11 Feb 49
rp e of railroads running throi.gh Kirgiz territory showed an increase of
' ii ,9138 over 1940 The new Kant-Rybech'ye Line had also been
built i:uc^ing t}-= i- i.
Turnover of freight care is still far too slow an(' does not come up to the
prewar level.
LENINC3 BUILDS SUBWAY -- Leningradakeya Pravia, No 44, 23 Feb 49
About 2 months ago, the first shield started operations on the site of
the fature Kirovskiy Zavod station on the Lcningrad subway. There is to be a
one-kiloweter tunnel between the Kirovekiy Zavod and Avtovo stations. one
hunos?ad meters of the tunnel have been excavated.
MANX ENTERPRISES WORK ON MOSCOW SUBWAY -- Bakinekiy Rabochiy, No 36,?22 Feb 49
More than 1,000 enterprises are participating in the construction of the
Mos;;ow subway. Plante in Leningrad, Kiar?'kov, Dnepropetrovsk, Chelyabinsk,
Ufar and other cities are supplying materials. Magneto alternators (magnitnaya
?stantsiya) for escalators came from the Chebokeery Apparatus Plant. A con-
signment of heavy motors for the subway's pumps and ventilators came from Tallis.
Machine builders of Ufa have sent equipment for electric hauling and step-dorm
substations. Mercury are rectifiers are sent from Saranek. "Pushtulin" and
"Kayauklinakiy" marble 'omee from Altay and the Urals. granite comes from the
qaa :ies of the Ukraine.
MOLDAVIAjq *OT 0PMATES ECONOMICALLY -- Scnetekada Moldaviya, No 57, 22 Mar 49
It 1948 the `andery locomotive depot, Moldavian SSR, saved 13.2,000 rubles of
State funds. In Februax-* 1949 it. 'auled about 7,500 tole of freight ubore the
plan an!'. saved mora than 105 tone of coal. Efforts are being made to reduce
ope.??ating expenses. The run from Bendery to Razdel'naya norr lly poet 1,184
rubles 36 kopeks. Bender; railroad workers now allot 137 rubles to washing and
overhauling, 173 rubles to maintenance of locomotive crave, )21 rubles for
firing the locomotive, and 105 rubles for lubricantb, thus saving 248 rubles
36 kopeks per run. The run from Bentiery to bess&raoekeye normally costs 2,544
rubles 45 kopeks. At preael.t, 293 rubles are allotte,' to washing az.d over-
hauling, 348 rubles to maintenance of crave, 879 rubles to firing, and 11 rubles
to lubricants, thus scviag 1013 rubles 45 kopeks per run.
IN STATION ELCEEDB QUOTAS -- Tikhookennakaya :vesda, No 48; 2, Feb 49
Workers of the locomotive depot at In Sratlon on the Far Eaete-?u Rail 3ed
System hLd pledged to haul more than 300 heavily-loaded trains"ir the first
quarter 1949 and to run lucc otivne for 75,000 kilometers between overhauls.
The depotle engineers have already hauled nearly 300 heavily-loaded trains at
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a rate exceeding the norm for the average speed excluding stops and have dated
r.~arly 400,000 rubles.
FAR EASTERfi RAILROAD 7DLFROVES -- Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda, No 43, 22 Feb 49
Railroad workers of the Far Eastern Railroad System have recently made
ncteble improvements in their work, with particular improvement in high-sped
henul'_ng of trains. Almost 20 percent of the total number of trains carried
b;: :h: came in the first half of February wore handled by high-speed methods.
it r Lug this period, locomotive engineers of depots at Obluchtye, In, Bikin
Kcm8cmoltak, 'Litovko, Ma1I, and Rbabarovsk No 2 stations hauled more than 300
heavil,f-;Loaded trains, whose weight exceeded the quota considerably.
TURESIS ERCEMS JANUARY PIA1 -- Ma?.:akhetansIcaya Pravda, No 37, 23 Feb 49
Transport workers of the Tarkeeta.!-Siberian Railroad System achieved the
Tiet'resnltein th^ January competition of ruiiroad wcrkvre of the Central Asia
Railroad.Okrag. The January plan for freight loading and locomotive repairs
%me aurpaased.
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