INFORMATION ON PARTS OF THE SOVIET RAILROAD AND ROAD SYSTEMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005301000011-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT Information on Parts of the Sovi'- t
Railroad and Road Systems
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18. B.S.O. Sees. 793
and 794, the trannnledon or revelation of which In
any manner to an unauthorinsd person Is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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1. In July 1953,I I Karaganda freight statioxwas
equipped with about tracks. The main railroad line from Karaganda to
Kurgan via Akmolinsk was double-track, between Kurgan and Chelyabinsk single-
track, and from Chelyabinsk to Moscow double-track.
west of. Karaganda, to Aktasty. The branch line was mainly used for the hauling
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a single-track branch line extended from Dolinskoye, 40 kri so '.th-
Revda was served by the passenger station at KPrpalovo. All railroad lines
observed in the Revda area were single-track. In September 1953, the
Sverdlovsk-Kazan railroad line was single-track. The railroad bridge over
the Kama River on this line was being enlarged for a second track. Con-
struction work on this bridge was nearing completion. On both sides of the
bridge the second track ixtended as far as the block station about one km
distant from the bridge.
4. Work on the electrification of the Sverdlovsk.-Molotov railroad line was --der
way. The overhead line for double-track operation had been completed as far
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as a point about 40 km t-Mst of Sverdlovsk. Equipment for t;e electrification
of the line was seen piled up at all stations on this line.'
-2 5. I;o railroad bridges over the Volga River were in existence in the Stalingrad
area. A railroad ferry operated north of Stalingrad. The ferryboat, which
had an over-all length of about 150 meters, was fitted with four tracks, each
of which could accommodate four large or six small freight cars. ' On the west
side of the river, there was a hump from which the cars rolled down to the
ferryboat; on the east side of the river this operation was performed by means
of a cable pull. Q locomotives were ferried, nor were passenger cars observed
on the ferryboat. the nearest railroad bridge over the
Volga River was at Saratov, north of talingrad. The railroad line, which is
double-track as far as the northern perimeter of the city, branched out into
eight to ten tracks until it reached the site of tho ferr7r. warther ;o he
north, the line again continued double-track, which ended four kilometers north
of the ferry. The shunting installation,which consisted of several -cracia was
1,200 to 1,500 meters long. On the northern perimeter of Stalingrad,! a double-
track line which came from the northwest joined the line leading tto-the ferry.
On the east side of the river, a single-track line extended to the north and
double-track line to the southeast. Another railroad line was reportedly under
construction on the eastern bank of the Volga River.
6, In October 1946, work on the construction of a road bridge over the Tuslov
River was started on the northern perimeter of Novocherkassk. The bridge
was about 450 meters west of the railroad bridge which was used by the couble-
track Rostov-Novocherkassk-Shakhty railroad line. For the bridge an embankrseiitt,
300 meters long and rising from north to south, was built. The bridge proper
had an overall length of about 250 meters. The bridge piers were completed
in October 1948. An old stone bridge was in operation by the side of the new
bridge under construction.
-2 7. A road bridge about 50 meters long crossed the Kuban River on the southern peri-
meter of Krasnodar. The bridge was a wooden structure resting on four pile
bents. Close to the south side of the bridge, a double-track railroad bridge
about 80 meters long crossed the river. The railroad line crossing the bridge
led to the freight station in the northeast section of Krasnodar. The freight
station was about 500 meters long and was equipped with eight to ten tracks.
Timber was the main freight handled at the station. The passenger station
adjoining the freight station to the southwest had four to six tracks.
8. There was a road bridge over the Isetskiy River in Sverdlovsk. The bridge was
crossed by the Sverdlovsk-Uktus-Nizhne/Isetskiy road. The bridge was also
used by a trolley bus line. The concrete structure had an over-all length of
72 meters, a width of 15 meters, and a load capacity of 80 tons. It rested
on two river piers and two piers erected on land. FWs said that the bridge
was nearing completion in 1953.
1. Sections of the Kazan-Sverdlovsk line have already been double-tracked.
2. Another source, , did not
observe any preparations for the electrification of the line.
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