SOVIET RAILROAD LINES AND HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 31, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains informationaffecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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the Kamenolomni (N 47-40, E 40-13) freight station about
four kilometers south of Shakhty. The station is a large classification yard
on the Rostov - Shakhty line. From it railroad lines radiate to the coal
mines at Ayuta, Nesdanya, and Krasin (sic) in the area south of Shakhty.3 On
the night of 26 September 1953, F_ I a large number of new railroad
cars which had presumably come from East Germany and were being forwarded to
the USSR after their wheels had been replaced. These cars included two-axle
boxcars, gondola cars, and four-axle depressed-center flat cars. Travelling
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1, A rail and road bridge was completed in the summer of 1949 over the Tom river,. 25X1
The bridge has an overall length of 1,500 meters, is a steel structure, and
rests upon 14 piers. The railroad track is in the middle of the bridge, while
the space on both sides is used for vehicular traffic,1
through Poland, heavy eastbound traffic.
cars loaded with wooden crates, crane equipment, and iron constructions.
3, I uin 1951 and 19521 a high- 25X1
way was under construction from Novocherkassk to the northwest through Shakhty.
The road was to be extended to Moscow. The Novocherkassk -? Shakhty section
was completed by the spring of 1952. The highway is six meters wide and has
an asphalt surface 20cm thick. It was built with modern construction machinery
by Soviet engineer troops, who were quartered in tent camps. There was heavy
truck traffic on the road after its completion.
4. A new highway was completed between Rostov and Shakhty by late 1952. This
highway joins the newly built Shakhty - Novoshakhtinsk road west of Shakhty.
It is eight meters wide and is in parts steeply graded. It was built by
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Soviet engineer troops, who were quartered in temporary buildings and tent
*nps. There was heavy truck traffic on it after its completion.
5.
from 1950 to late 1953, ob-
served a Soviet construction battalion working on the construction of a new
road from Rostov to Kharkov. The road was completed by late 1953?
The railroad
line between Pervomaika and Moscow is single-track, and from Moscow to Brest
via Minsk it is double-track. Railroad lines are generally in good condition.
There are adequate nubers of passing sidings and block stations. Signal
installations along the entire line are modern and electrified.
7.
The Sverdlovsk - Minsk line is single-track, the Minsk - Brest
line double-track.5 Tracks are in good conditior-
8.
road construction near Gryazovets (N 58-53, E 40-14) in
1946 and 1947. The preparatory work for the construction of this road was
done by German PWs and Soviet women without the help of machinery. The road
extends from Vologda via Gryazovets to the south and is allegedly to con-
tinue as far as Moscow.
Ge menta
1. The bridge mentioned is probably on the singll-track Yurga - Topki - Kemerovo
line which crosses the Tom river at Kemerovo.
2. This is probably either Vlasovo-Ayuta (N 47-46, E 40-08) or Nizhne-Ayutiskiye
(N 47-38, E 40-02).
3i This is probably Nezhdanovka (N 47-42, E 40-09)-
4"-This is probably Pervomayskoye (N 56-49, E 59-32), which has no railroad sta-
tion of its qvi,,but is only about two kilometers from Khrompik (N 56-53,
E 59-58), the railroad station for Pervouralsk.
5. Comment''' According to information available to this office, the Mos-
cow Minsk railroad line is double track.
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