RAILROAD DEVELOPMENTS IN VARIOUS AREAS OF THE USSR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100100005-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION G0I FIDIWTJAL
SECUR17 INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
O FATK REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY utSSiR
;t. I3JECT Railroad Oevelopme&s in Various Areas of the USSR
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O THT UNITED STATES. VOTLIA THE T1EANl!G OF TITLE I6. 'TECTIOt:5 799
AIM, 794. OF T"AF U. 5, CO75. AS AVERDEA. TTS TRANSMISSION 09 MEL-
AMOII OF ;T5 CO%TTENTA 1,0 ON REC37PT ET AN UNAUTHORIZED PER3O''F
7.._.1?117^0 II7 LAV r12 TiEP117ODUCTlON O.'? TOtS FORS 15 P11CH:87':EO.
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DATE DISTR. 30 Mark 1953
NO. OF PACES 2
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
in 190, rails we being laid between `olyanka and, Chuburriki on a new railroad
line parailelint the Vol - a' Jon Cana? about 150 meters north of it.
the line was try: extend from the Volga
to the Don liver and that a seconc line was to be built on the out.h side of the
canal, Between the railroad line and the canal there was a highway, which was to
connec c Brest with be Crimea via Moscow and :"talinf!rad.
in early 1Qh0 R, work cu the construction of the Folyanka freight station was
si artc--d. in the fall of 1?1.P freight trains coming from Stalingrad could operate
t rourh the station, which Sias nrovided with eight tracks and three storare sheds,
each 50 x 2D meters and equipped with a loa9inr ramp, l
The Kiev-Foerrio-Kove1 railroad line is double-track Q 2 A large railroad 25X1
bridge was under construction near ko~;e1.,3 The Kov?el-Brest line is
oi ngle?etrack>
The Ta:shken ?Al;na Ata-Ili railroad line is operated single-track0 Three railroad
stations are in operation in Alma Ata? 1,e,, a shunting station with 5 tracks Out
without loading facilities or ramps; passenger station II; and station 1, which
has 10 to 15 tracks and is on the line to Ili, The latter station is mainly used
as a Ir.eight stations
fit. I vestkcvy} on the Tra ?s-Fiberian trunk line, a single-track railroad
]in.e branches off to ":1st Tyr ma and Lrral via Kuldur , throuVh the valley
of the Tyma River, Passing sidings were available every 8 to 10 km. Another new
ro.ilro:.id line extending from Urgal to the northwest was nearin; completion, A
1~ rVw ' ilroad uunal was under een..truction about 11 km northwest of Urgal0 :ork
or the line from Urgal to the nortlnaest was done by 20 datails of convicts, eacrL
detail numbering about 600 rien.. In January 1950, the line was completed to about
70 km n r 1hwert of Ur ;al its construction was difficult. There are 7a nv steep
l'vades on the route W mart viaducts, bridge., and nir-h embankments had to be
built:. The ballast required was obtained from quarries on both sides of the line.
h`~? ante ra is placed on cr--ec:=ated wo.x en ties were used, mother line section 30 kmC"'..
ICA.WN C F DE AL
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lorar g at the end of which war a lonr tuna 1, tiaa unc?er constructior3., It
ecnircd three yearn to cor7r'letc the con: raze tion of the 70-In r tr0ch,
.hich rci lec t4 the dif iculties cause' h the ter; ain, and ;0o o .refOctc
s hortanp of technical equinr7cnt,nnd inehicien.t labor- 6
Co1umi 7t: olyanka and Ch burni''i err an the ra1iroa a line ]:ror1 : t"1in:'rad
n-nijT7 t , 9,; 1', rc +h of
Chubur?nildi is
..i entic al with Ch;:curni`i, The informatian Dssibly re.f.'ers; to the elimination
of war Ham :,"c ' or the coaetructi on of a ' rcond track, beaus the line sector
mcntionel is Part of We I;talln rid-,.` , ask-Yrasnodar railroad line, which has
been in cxistcnce for a lon;- tirle, The f oi,; _cn1'n reilrond : tation coals' not
be foun4 in the e ovict ra'ilro :'; ruide, an! thus nay be a ', ew construction
project, The rf .: fit rtat:i.on nention& wav no ib ' built in conae t:Lon with
the Vol: --Ion Canal,
Coiia ento The clout?le-trac't' rtatue Of this line war known nreviou:?1y
orlraent.> .i'robably a brid, c over the. Tura Liver.,
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An eVter ioa of this lint a3 far as Ust
imnrZ wolal WHOM .in?" between the Iran'- ih rian. railroad linc and
ti e Bay 3.~, ",1? r railronH liner which . ,ull ,iaeer Con' Auction,
; 1rent., Avestkovyy it on the Trnnr-j iberiaai railroad .line, a nizt 250 ii
Khel? 3ro\e k.
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