NEW ROUTES ON SUMMER SCHEDULE FOR SOVIET CIVIL AIR FLEET

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 614
• Publication Date: August 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD N.).
COUNTRY USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION
SUBJECT
Transportation - Air
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 17 - 21 May 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
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NEW ROUTER ON SUMMER SCHEDULE
FOR SOVIET CIVIL AIR FLEET
The USSR Civil Air Fleet Started its summer schedule on 15 May. On many
lines the number of flights increased co'siderabiy over the 1951 - 1952 winter
schedule and new lines were opened. Passenger air express service was started
on the Moscow-Khaborovsk line with etope at Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk,
and Tygda. The trip to Khaborovak will take 28 hours, which is 7 hours shorter
than pre'' )usly.
Daily flights are being started on lines connecting Moscow with Vladivostok,
Alma-Ata, Ust'-Kamenogorsk, and Stai_nabad. and express flights will be opened
between Moscow and Ashkhabad. The latter trip will take 12 hours, 20 minutes,
instead of the 16 hours called for in the winter schedule. An express plane will
make the trip to Tbilisi at night. For the first time, air communications be-
tween Moscow and Chkalov and also between Tbilisi, Baku, Ashkhabad, and Tashkent
/ill be opened. Air routes from Moscow to the health resorts of Adler and Mineral-
'nyye Vody are also in operation.
Air service to the great construction projects is also increased. Twelve
airplanes are now operating between Moscow and Kuybyshev, anu the latter city
also has direct connections with Chelyabinsk, Kar'kov, Voronezh, Rostov, Stalin-
grad, and Tashkent. The number of flights between Moscow and Stalingrad and
between Rostov and Nukus is being increased, and a new line between Ashkhabad
and Nukus is now open.
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 21 May 52
With the start of the new qurmer passenger air schedules, planes will fly
three times daily from Moscow to Simferopol'. Air communications will be re-
svaed between the health resorts of the Crimea and Caucasus vith Leningrad,
Minsk, Alma-Ata, Kiev) Tashkent, Kishinev, Kharkov, Sverdlovsk, am other cities,
and a new line will be opened between Kishinev and Adler. In addition, the
health centers of Simferopol', Adler, and Mineral'nyye Vody will be connected by
air.
DATE DIST. I/Aug 1952
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Zarya Vostoka, 20 May 52
Since 15 May 1952, passenger planes of the Georgian Administration of Civil
Air Pleat have been flying according to the new summ er schedule. Three air-
plazas leave Tbilisi daily at 0455, 0605, and 0730 hours for Moscow and other
cities of tb' t SR. Fight flights have also been opened on the Tbilisi-Moscow
Line. These flights leave Tbilisi on odd days at 1815. Passengers are delivered
to the airport by bus.
Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistan, 17 May 52
Flights from Stalinabad Airport to Moscow, Kulyab, Khorog, and other cities
vent on the new summer schedule on 15 May. On 17 May, a line from Stalinabad
to Mineral'nyye Vody will be opened and on 1 June, a line from Leninabad to
Moscow.
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