SOVIET RAILWAY SYSTEM

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• Publication Date: March 3, 1954
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INFORMATION REPORT 25X1A
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Railway System
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The total '.m.pnt lenzth of the railway system of the Soviet Union is
123,000 km. Of this, 33,000 km (268 percent) are double tracked.;
22,000 km (16 percent) are provideoLwith automatic. block signal systems;
45,000 km (36.5 percent) are new style heavy construction. About 40 per-
cent of the total mileage is of light construction (rails under 38 kg per
meter, without specially prepared roadbed or else not replaced for a long
time).
c The track gauge is 1.524 meters, in contrast to the standard European
1.436 meters.
3. The rails are preponderantly old and worn out. The maintenance of the
tracks and rolling stock varies and in part is inadequate.
4. The distances between stations vary between 8 and 30 km.
), The main lines connecting the Soviet Union with other European countries
and those connecting the large industrial centers have modurn equipment
(block and signal systems). Changes in the direction of modernization
have been planned and are under way on the lines connecting the larger
Siberian industrial centers. The ordinary lines 3,the Asiatic USSR,
especially Turkestan, Central Siberia and the Far East:, are not yet very
efficient,
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6. The preValende of generally level country makes possible the use of
locomotives of limited capacity for long and heavy trains, Since the
light roadbed construction permits. only low speeds (average 19 km per
hour), the attempt is made to offset this disadvantage by the use of
heavier trains (up to 2,000 tons).
. The electrification of the railways is pushed ahead lately, especially
in the Moscow and Leningrad areal and the moot 1.mportant industrial dis-
tricts (Donbas, Ural, Ausbas- 1.22)andAn the mountainous regions Lof. the
Caueasus.
II. Administrative Organization
1. The Ministry of Transportation is responsible for,,,the operation, maintenance
and development of the railway lines. TY.,10rSti4:ort Equipment Construction
Ministry Is responsible for construoWn'and maintenance of the rolling stock.
The railway system is dividedf.raoknistratively into ten railway zones, and
the zones are subdWAA into numerous administrative districts.
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a- Northea0a2tne, headquarters Leningrad) comprises trn districts ofaKirov-
Murmansk, Archangel, Pechora (Kotlas-Vorkuta), Leningrad, Ottobre
(Leningrad-Moscow line) Kalinin, Estonia, Litau.
b. East Zone (headquarters Minsk). Districts: Lithuania, Kalingrad (ex-
Kbnigsberg), White Pussia, Brest-Litovsk.
c. Southeast Zone (headquarters Kiev, Districts: Kiev, Vinnitza, Koval,
Lvov, Odessa, Kishinev., .
d, Ceti?pre MO.sowlDi. ries Yaroslav, Gorki, Moson-
Ryazan Mc nowKUrsk,.MoaCoWaDenbas valuiki), Moscow-Kiev, Moscow (Outer
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e Donets Zone (headquarters KnarkoV)0 DistriciS:Doriets North, Donets South,
Kharkov,,Voroneth,likhaya, Stalingrad, lower Dnieper and Crimea (Stalino).
T. Caucasus Zone (headquarters Kraan4ar),?' DiS!tricts: North.Caucasus,
Ordzonikidze, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasia.
g, ..Voiga,Zone-(headquarters Kazax) ''Aistriats: Kazan, Kuibyshev, Orenburg,
Ryazan-Ural (Saratov).
h. Ural-Siberian Zonejheadquarters Svrdlovsk). Districts,: Perm-Molotov,
SVerdlovsk, Chelyabinsk-South Ural Tomsk, Karaganda.
i. Middle East Zone (headquarters Tashkent). Districts: Turkestan-Siberia,
Tashkent, Ashkhabad. '
j. Far East Zone (headquarters Krasnoyarsk). Districts: Krasnoyarsk, Fast
Siberia, Tranabalkal-Chita, Amur, Far East-Khabarovsk, Primorsk-
Vladivostok, Sakhalin.
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Main-Re.liway Lines
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B'ymain lines-doUble-track lines are signified; They have a tdtal
length of .33 ,OO km They.'are.divided into main lines running from
Moscow, and mainlines connecting other centers.with_each other. ..
Main lines running'frOmMoscewt
- nd n the mountainous reaoris of thQ.
Mdatow-Ledintrad 1'651 kra}: This-line has the heaViest'traftic in'the
entire Soviet Union, with an average of about 80 pairs of trains daily.
The following branch lines run from the Moscppeningrad line:
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At ChudoVe, a line to Posadnikovo and Volkonstriye on the Leningrad-
Murmansk line., A second branch to Novgorod._
At. Okalovka,
At Bologoye
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branCh to Neb.4.64:010
_on 5he ??flgrdrn1tQv line,
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i'll4wii0106Ya.;oslav and 6ne.lo Pskolt.,
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At 14k4o1a14.0 a. branch to Veliki Luki?m the.Mpscow-R149,101. ,
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The Leningracl7MOScow main line is provided-lath a'signal Systeit-Eina. is of
heavy ConstruttIon. A'larte part of the line wts'ne:41y built after 1945.
The most vulnerable places on.the4ine..are,three:e.,Volga 10,41dge. at,
.1a11n1n the rOdi junction at acilot*,,,aCilthe Volkhe bridte at-Ciluadvo.
2. Moscow7R1ga main _line (92? km) nasAbe folloyng.branches: .
At NovoSOkolniki;-a btaneh to Dno-Batstakaya (sie)-Leningrad, and
anothe]q to Nevel-Polotsk and Vitebsk. ,
Atjiqz0kne,'a'branch to Pskov and'anothr to -Daugavpils.
At Krustpils,a branch to Daugavpils and another to Jelgaya,-Tukumsr
VentSPils (on the 10*0.
Atf1ay1nas,,a.10c41 11.ne_t,019t:Kupuna7Gulbens-Ape.
At'Riga,- a, recently e1eetrif1ed21369 km long to Tallinn.
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The entire MospowRiga 'heavy dnetrudtion'and'hatK?OnAelpletely
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rebuilt since 1945. It has about 60 pairs of through trains daily. The
sensitive points ,on this line are the railway junction at Novosokolnlki;,
the crossing (Duna b:ridt4,at.KrUstpiN", and the railway Junction at Riga.
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Mainline Moscow-Minsk-Kaliningrad andflinsk-Brest.Litovsk. The MoscoW- ,
Minsk line is 747m long It fOrkstt4Minsk into the Minsk-Vilna-Koliningread
line, 522' km long, and the Minsk-Brest line, 349 km long.
a ; The Mosdow-Minsk-line has the'foildwing:CranCheil
At Vyazma, three branches: to Rzhev on the Moscow-filga line; to
Tula, on the Moscow-Kharkov line, and to Bryansk on the Moscow
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Kiev line.
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At Smolensk, threa..branches: to Vitebsk; to Roslavl and.. Bryansk;
and to Sukhinki on the Moscow-Kiev line.
At Orsha, four branch lines: to Vitebak, to Lepel, to Mohliev, and
to Crioiev (Kritshev). .
C, The Mnsk-Kaliningrad (K6n1.gsberg) line has the following branch lines:
At Molodeohno, a branch to Polotsk and Vellki Loki, and a branch
.to.Lida.-Mosty-Volkovyskldouble. traked) ? .?
-At Vilna, three branches; to Grodno.;2to Lida and Baranoviphi, and
to Pabrade (sic) and Daugavpils.
At Kaunas, a branch line to Radvillskis.
AtCerniakevsk'(Insterburg)
double track; to.Goldap, and
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The Minsk-Brest Litovsk line
tIlrolebraChes: to Korsze (Korschen),
to Soviezsk (Tilsit) and Klaipeda Memel).
has the following branches:
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At Baranovici, four: to Lido. and Vilna; to Volkovyak ana Bialystok
.(double track). and to Luminetz, ,
This line has been.complately rebuilt since the war, double-tracked and of
heavy-canstruction? The daily capacity is about 70 pair of trains,- :There
Is a special transfer yard at Brest for trains from the Soviet union to
- Poland and vise versa. The line gauges,are different.
4, Mossow-KieV4Lvoy-Batovo 414 main line coionects Moscow with southeastern
Poland,.0isebolovakia and Hungary -.:?:.,1t. has a length of 1,600 km 'with the
? following branah
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At Tikhonov-Pustaya, a branch to Vyazma and another to Tula.
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.At-Sukhinici (sio),. three branches: to Smolensk; to Falansovaya-
Roslavl; to Gordssevo (sic) on the Moscow-Kharkov line.
,At'Bryansk,rfour branches: to Orel (double-track); to Gomel and
Kalinkovishi .(doublo-.track); to Smolensk; and to Vyazma.
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,an_ iMportant double,-track, branch to Lgov ? and ,Kharkov-,
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This line was. improved in 194941950.
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. .At Konotopi: a i
.,lne to Kursk. :1'rh,i.s: iine, is double-tracked and was
rebuilt with heavier construction after the war and provided with
an automatic, signal system. Itscapacity is about 60 pairs of,
,.rains daily.
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At Bachmach, a line to Gomel, and another' to RoModan and Kremenchug.
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At Kiev, same branches of second-rate importance.
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Atlieghin, a branch to Chernigov and Gomel, and another to-pTiluki
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andprebenka.
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YgryiMPPrtant, dPUblerack line 415 km long to
Platikatki (sic). It was built completely new, but in light
constructicnAy? ?
At Kazatin, an important double-track line 415 km long through
Derdi.040:,-R,oviWandjciyer0i_isi01-WBre
At, Kalinoyka: and. VA11401gEtc *WIttlAP944-4114,1k JAI
At Shmerinka (sic), two single-track but important branches; one
throughlrapnyark4.14104 Rudniteai 4oltpdkali'KotioVak,:apkftAdglVaa
(sio)?to Odeseathe other:,toOknitsa (sic), Chenovskiy, Beltsi,
Unseni, Kishinev, Benderi, Bessarabskiy, Pru, Reni and Ismail.
At Grechany, a local line to Kamenets-Podolsk.
liTarea
At.Tarnspol, neshtY,- Delisten '(s1.0..): 3,114 13011411: (
on the Rumanian border.
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At Lvov, the main line from Moscow divides into two important lines. One
goes to PrZeM70.W and the other, to atoVo eipp and,U7hg9r94
slovakiaWbPrd The,Mospow-KmotoP section of this line was double-tracked
in 1946 to 1950. The rest of the line was relaid with heavier construction
aTter."thP war.' ,This line carries.'7erY,hPavY-tPaffic. Itssdaly-capaoity is
004,79 Pairs,of,trains,: The .111W 1,s cf-gre,at strateg10 iVIPPrtanoe because
Jt-Connects:Moscow.yith 411 southeeltern,5urspe# .Ttbasmany'vulnerable points,
suqh4e,tbe,cro.s4inge of the.greafq7,T$Verske th.a.:Pnieper and the Dniester.
Main line toscow,TularOrel4lharX0v4,9.zova.74.r7E:04t0V connects_Mcscow witn.the
soutbern,UUraine and CriMPa4' it 14:3511cm1ong and: has the folloWing_branch
gneal _
at a deub,le-Arack Iimei to Uz ovaya-,. and
T11404Ova (sic) on the Moscow-Kiev line.
At_ Orel) a double-track linenef, 549 4111,,,Orel-T,
Kursk ,-a double,track lineit;i1UrskzLgolior
pairs of tr/ins :daily. -
At Sarayevok and,Belgotodcalbrancn..1h1?...
At Kharkov, a branch to Gotnya-Lgov-Navlya, double-track with about
70 pairs of trains da1171 another?double-track bran0r350 km .long to
.Yama-Nikitovka,.Debalzevo.
At. Lozovaya, a double-track line 179 km long to Zaporozhe, and from
there a single-track line to the Crimea through Fedorovka-Melitopol-
Dshankoy-Simferopol-Sevastepo
Veesond-11,ne to Kaluga-
ransk4kme1-Kalinkovichi.
ghda-?J'conotpl, with Go
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At Konstantimovkai an important doubletrack- ilne 170 km long to
Yasinovataya-Stalino-Volnovakha-Marlupol; newly rebuilt, but of light
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At Nikitovka,,,an importantAunction point from which various
lineeTun to south RUssia.
At Gorlovka, an electrified double-track line to Debalzevo.
At Taganrog, an Important connection to the Black Sea.
At Rostov,, lines to twppic,,y:,.1
The Moscow-Rostov main line was heavily,danaged,,durini World War II. It was
completely rebuilt withheaVy,construction andllap:automatio,sifsaai,systs,??
Its daily Capapit.it about 70 &Ireof trains.
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6. Min line Moseoii-Ozherele-Valuyki-Ktipyarisi-Debdlzevo Iftetwi);
a. This fine is 966 km long with the foilowving it.portant junction points:
OsherelyeUzlovaya (4oub1e-tpaokloranch taTula)k Vo1ovo;,E101: Verlyetts);
KastOrnaya) KupSransk '(pranchesto Kharkov and
Belgorod); Popasnaya; Debalzevo. At Valuyki a branch line goes off to
1,104-NY(TARC-W.4.0pv-Rtishonevo-PeS?syzranl 1,100okMH4ong and ouple-
,frickeri
)kt. 14ortant 40.kt branchfliria"tOWnOiataYa4Dayepropetrovsk-
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Platikhatki-:bolinteevo-Krivoi.Rog.
04 ,Mbet of ihe,Moicow.=bebalievO 1ia was bAili after thetar:::1:taisheOiTY,.
'conetruOted with autOmetic.sighasystetiLand has,a daily'eapatiyW?abOUt?'
70 ImiirS of traine.-
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Main line Mosaak,y,-Ryazan-Liski"-MillerO,Vb-Abstov4rthOir",13a,kli., 2,550 km "long.,
Xts Main juric:tion' pOints -ard aS "
KoiOtilap junction point of tJ1,4 eleotrified line from Moscow,
Rybi.e.n,'whreLthe"3;1318 kt.tica.n-Siberian line to Inzasisban (sic)-
XlitybyebevOnelyabinsk-Omsk-ovosibirsk-Stalinak begins.
Ry (sic), line.tp Vernadovka and Penza.
Michurinsk, line'to'Tambov, Rtisonevo and Saratov.
Gryazi
Otroshka (sid)"
Liekl, junction point for the line Valuiki-Syzran.
Millerovo, line to Kondrasheveaya and Voroshilovgrad.
Likhaya, line to Stalingrad.
Zverevo, line to Debalzevo.
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Batsissk (sic),
KuShchevskaya
Sosika (1c)
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Tikhoretsk, lines to Kuberie-Stalingrid and KTAnTily;110.mproApisk.
Armavir, branching-off point of the South Caucasus line to Tuspec-
, Sukhumi-potl-Samtradia,(Batum-ShorapaniTqcashuri-Stallnir4if14,
where another brach goes,off:to Leninakan-Erivan.pzhullaA,Mindzhiyan-
Ospanli-Noviesaliani fsic),-Astara,on_the Caspian Sea.
,NoVinomyaskayk-, ,
MineralnyyeVodi)departurpo)1*AR,
Byg,tiprOc ftri.4 431,0Ygois.r,41,:: '?
GO(41;f7; , VH1'
two e1eCtrifisabranahes.,,v.4
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,PpOdnaya, branches to Nalchik and Astrakhan
WS K000 (sla)
Beslai (sic)
GrOnzi (sic) ,617r9=4:7
Gudermes
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Shamkhal
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Baladzari (sicl.?., line: to SaNski. (sic):
Baku Baku
This line. if of heavy construction from Moscow to Prokhladnaya and is double-
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tracked with automatic signal Syse ir.ep,Teen Oudermos' and ,Makhachkala. The
daily capacity is about 70 pairs of trains. The rest of the line is single
track but,strongly built. Here the daily capacity is about 30 pairs of trains.
8. Main line Mosecw-Ryazan-Inza-Syzranalibyshev-Vladivostok. This line is
9,283 km long. The main junction points are:
Ryazan
Kustarevka
Russyevska (sic)
Inza
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14rangh line to Stalingrad-Likhays,
Kuibyeliev
Kinel, ?'branch line to Chekalov and Orsk
t ka ( s )', - Ain? t on p o int f ;two lb rage h.
struction: one to Surgut and Agriz, the other to Sterlitamak.
ront thu
Chishai (sic)
,Uta
Vyatovaya'
.Berdyish,brandh iinesAo:.BakaLAtedl,Deuzhinoc(siC).
Politayevo (sic)
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Chelyabinsk, branch line to Turkestan through Kartaly, Orsk,-
.Nahaagae:leib).; Aralsk-i Tadhkeht; SamarkandiAlukhara, Stalinabad
near the Afghan border.
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Kurgan, branch line to Sverdlovsk
Petropavlovsk, branch line to Akmolinsk and Karaganda, whence local
.21.nee run to Lake Balkash.
!Omsk junction point with the other line from Moscow via Kazan-
STerollovok-Tyumen.
yurga,:beginning of the line to Alma Ata near the Chinese (Sinkiang)
,Vordetk. '
Taiga branehline to,Tomak)_C:
fehinsk, branch line to Abakan
,'Kra3n6Yara1-
Taythet.
Irkutsk
Ulan-Ude-
Chita
hKaganovich
Skovoredino
SViobodny
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:DtZhnevkabilanch'.1.1ne to.:..KOMsoMelsk and Sovetskaya Gavan opposite
the island of Sakhalin,
Khabarovsk
KII-J-11v3he1,,
'Man
Vladivostok
This lire; ba recently been improved and the European section heavily rebuilt
to a daily capacity of 80 pairs of trains. The Asiatic section is in very
poor condition. Parts of the line have been electrified, viz., the section
Ufa-Chelyabinsk-Kurgan, and the section Novosibirsk-Birsk-Novo-Kuznetsk
(Stalinsk),- 449 km. (Parallel to the m in line.)
9. Main iina-Mpeoow-Goxkl-Kirov,Sverdlovk aMenAbiski.2453?ikm. This line
was opened to traffic in 1950, relieving the European section of the Trans-
Siberian,line, ,It h: pe following principal Junction points:
Or4oyto..Suy9vopH14,
NpvaitybrOmoh) line. to' Ivanovo
Vladimir, connecting line to Ryazan
Gorki, branch line to Arzamas-Russayevska
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Kiltelnioni,line to BUye-Nologda
Kirov, line to Kotlas .L.
Tar .(8,i0), line to Verkhnya Komsols
Pilp,00,s4r (sic), line to Agriz (sic).
dikOVAaYa.f61-0-
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Molotov,i alectrifiedline.tokSolikamsk and Chusovskaya (sic)
Kuzinoljineto Berdyansk
Sverdlovsk, electrified line to Goroblago-Darskakaverkh (sic)-
Otrurie-Bogoslavsk (sic) and lines to Kurgan and Chelyabinsk.
Boganovich, line to Egorshino (sic), Alapai (sic), Evsk (sic),
Osvaserov,(sic) and Polumuchinichy (sic).
Tyumen
Omsk -
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This line is of heavy construction with an automatic signal system and has
a capacity of 60 pairs of trains daily. The Sverdlovsk-Kurgan section will
be double-trackedfi which will considerably shorten. the Journey to Omsk.
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10. Main linpfMesCOW-Arkhangel., This 1 ne Is-I,092-kM long. Its prine
branch lines are at the folloWing points:
ZagOrak-
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Aleksandrov
Yarosiav
branCh line' to t41rKirev"-614-
KeAosha-Velogda.:starting-point
the PeObera basin, via, Kotlas
Vorkuta. This line Is1,563 kni
in 1950. and 1951.
Oboterkaya (.00',(Ma4ye-f*erk1) line. to Onega.
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Ishkogorko (sic)
This line 184OubletraCked fat'a; Obozerkaya, with heavy construction and
an automatip.signal system. The daily capacity is about 60 pairs of trains.
The line branching off at Konosha is electrified as far as Vorkuta. The rest
of the stretch from Konosha to.Koshva will be electrified. The Moscow-
Pleksandrov'sectien-has also been electrified; and the section from Pleksandrov
to Yaroslav is being converted for electric service.
.v. Regional Railway Networks
1. Karelo-Finnish Network, ,Center at Leningrad with the following lines:
Leningradi-Murmansk, 1,450 km.
Leningrad-Viborg(vipuri), 150 km, double-tracked.
Len1ngrad-Eskov,..276 km doubleTtracked.
Leningrad-Senkovo-Moscow, single track.
Network. 0enter at Riga, with the. following lines, all single
RigaTallinn;-electrified''' ' ' - ' ?
of thb?line Connecting'MOSeoy:y.th
Mezhog; UlchtA,-Kethva (sic) Ahd
long and-was completely overhauled
2. Baltic
PIP; -Pskov.-Tieningrad
P ? ? ?? ??? 7.11:1C. .
R1-$a'....4unas
1040 -Kaliningrad (K6n1gsberg).
3. Arainian Network, Center at Kiev, witlitha following single-track lines:
track:
Kiev4orosten-KalinkoviChi
Kiev-Fastov-Zhitomir
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Kiev-Kazatin-Berdychev
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Kiev,4kstov-Tsvetkovo
IleV.;-Nethin-Chernikov
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4. Odessa Nawork4- Center Odessamith.the,tollowing lines:
Odessa!,qsmail . , ,
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94601411BWkneret.Csic11. thislinesplits:lnto thrWbranches4c.R4ni,
to.trUt`and to_Ungheni on the Rumanian border.
OdeisaKotoVakis14):
OdeisaoKblo4oVka (on the. Ukrainian Bug)
5. 1,6461,7:Dos SetOork:-? *enter; Khatkowi'iwitththb:ItlloWint?
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Kharkov-Zaporozhye Apostolovo-Nikolayov and Kherson
Khapkov-aporoshye4411toP61-Simferopol-Sevastopol
. .2'
6, Caucasian Nwork. Centeray_Rogtov., with the following lines:
Rb
Ros v-KUOhevskaya-Eiik (tic)
ataisk-Sasktgio)"
Rostov-TichoretSk-Krasnedar-Novorossisk
Rostov-Armavir-Batum
7, Volga Network. This is more of a transit system for the lines from Orel,
Turkestan'and:the CaspianSeafte Moscow, the lower Don and the Caucasus.
It has three important junction points: Stalingrad, Saratov and Syzran.
8, The Ural Network. This network serves principally the Ural industrial
district.. ItA.s. connected with the Western Zones by the following independent
lines:
Sverdlovsk-Molotov-Kirov-Bui (sic), a single-track line connecting
?ulth theAtonasha-MosCoW-Iine,atArolcgda and Dan.114T0: .
SVerdlovsk-Kazan4.Kanash,,Miron-Kurovskaya (sic)-Moscow; single track
except the section Kurovskaya-Moscow which is double-tracked.
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,Cheiyabiask Kuibyshev-Syzran; double-tracked and electrified as
far as Dioma (sic). This line continues to Moscow via Syzran-
illussyevka?-Ryazan-MoscoW, (partly.double-track), and to Donbas via
Syzran-Penza-Povorino-Liskl-Valuyki-Kupyansk-Debalzevo (double-
. track-)..:.
,KafndShaskja14-Lietsk(sic)-Saratov: single-track. This line con-
tinues from Saratov by a single-track line to Tambov-Michurinsk-
sanr,:and a single-track line Saratov-Stalingrad-Salsk-Tikhoretsk
? ? tO the Caucasus.
. .?
Orsk-Chichayev (sic)-Kinel: a single-track line connecting Kinel
with. the Chelyabins? Kuibyshev Une.
9, Turkestahletwork.. This net serves-the zone south of the 'A1. Sea Lake, .
BalkashicWAWn the Caspian. Sea and the.AltaiAliountains. It is connected
with the Ural network through. the single-track line Aralsk-Kandagach-Lietsk (sic)
and withthe-West Siberian. network through the single-track line Chiu(sic)-
Mointy-Zharin-Karaganda (newly built in its southern part), and the Turksib line:
Alma Ata-.Sem1pa4tnskrB9rnau4,'
? .?.
lO. Weat 3.11aexlAt.Nretwork.- This network,servesthezene..between.the Urals and
Lake Baikal., particularly the Karaganda mining region and the industrial
districtot..Kfttznetsk;;? It is connected with the Ural system by three lines:
-Taythet.-Novosibirsk-Om1k-Chelyabinsk.; double track.
-011mle-Tyumen-SverdlOyskl sg1e, track..H
:Abatan (sicl-NovokUznetskl.BarnaUlAulthdaf.PaVlodar-Akmolinsk-Kartaly-
Magnitogorsk: single-track line, still partly under construction.
11. Far East Network. Consists of the double-track main line Tayshet-Irkutsk-
Chita-Skovbrodino-KhabaroVsk-Vladivostok, with the following branch lines:
..,AtUlantUdel-aIngle.-tradkaine to Ulan-Bator (Urga) in Outer Mongolia.
l'At-Chita4, a singletrackline:to Blagoveshevka (Manchuria)
'AtDezhavka-(Sic),.a single-track line to Komsomolsk
At- VoroShiloV, a singletrackline. to Manchuria ?Korea,,:-
?
IVnew line will be added to the FarBastliietwork by 19604 Its prospective
route is:
- ' Tayshet-Bratek-Chula IsicIRlbskino? (sid)-BodayboMarOuka-(aic)-
-Ustinieksha (sic)-TyndinskiT4otekhino-Chekunda-Komsamolsk. There
will be two branch lines: one at Chula to Vitim and Yakutsk, and
one at Tyndinskiy to Gorelyy.
V. Present State of Railway Construction
1. The Konodha?-kotIas-VOrkuta:lAne iS 1,536 kM, single-track;abd. a:afreadf:
In normal operation.
2. The line along the Volga-novilya (sic)-aratov-Syzran-Kindisk (sic)-Kova
(sic)- Zeleny Dol- is 1,021 km long, singlegstrack. It was completed in
2950 and is in regular operation..:
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3. The Adler.SukhumiBiackSea'line.islI5-k6,ioni, Single?tracked, electrified,
and in regular-OperaVion.'
4. The Caspian. Sea line, Astrakhan-eherviennaya-Uzlovaya (s1t.)4, is t2 long,
single-trackedi and handling regular traffic.
5. The LakelgalkaSh line1 Mointi-Berktil (sic), Is 450*004604i4.4ra4ed.;
and not yet in regular operation...
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6. The Amu-Darya line,Dhardzhou-Kungrad, is 650 km long, singlefttracked, is in
normal traffic
:
7. Kusbas line 'is under construction: It.branches off from the Kinel-Ufa line
to Styrlitamak-Tukan.
8, The Tukan-Byeloretsk line; 120 km longi,,Singlc=tracked, was recently -CoM171ete3
and Is in regular operation:
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9. The ByeloretSk-Magnitogorsk-line is about'100km.long and Is Under-aonsrution
10. The Magnitogorsk-Kartaly line, 141 km long, double-tracked, has been in service
since 19454 It iS being electrified 'at the present time ? "
? ?
11. The.Kartaly4ktiitlinskline,.805 km long, -single=traCked has been in eervivi
since 1945. It is being double-tracked and-electrified at the present time.
12. The Akmolinsk-Paviodar line, 138 km long, single-tracked, is not yet fully in
service.
13. The Pavlodar=Kulunda line, 138 kmjcht, Singie=tracked': is in regular operatiOn.
14. The Kulunda-Barnaul line, 420 km long single-tracked, is not yet in.full.ser-
7 vide; ?' t,... ,
15. The Barnaul-Altaisk (Altayskoye) line, 15 km long
regular seve.v' -
16. The Altaisk-OUrYevsk lihe, about' 200 km long,
regular service.
single-tracked,_
ie tracked.; is not yet in
17. The Guryevsk=Byelovo line, 28 km longt single-tracked
Is in service.
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18. The Byelovo-Novokuznetsk line, 114 km long, double-tracked and electrified,
Is in fti1serv1ce
19. The NovokUznetsk=Abakanline Is 260Act"long It is not.certainWhether. it has
been completed, but it is not yet In regular service.
20. The Abakan-erayshet-line, 650 kM long is under construction,
21. The Issyk-Ku1-Frunzell1bacie481.01ine,'136-km long,binglettracked, is in
service.
22. The Semipalatinsk-Malinovoye-Ozero (sic) line, 110 km long, 1s under con-
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23. Whether, the,ArsAak-Be-y!,conur, (zie) aine?.330 1,cm long, has beep completed.
is not/ certain, but itje-not In Scifice: '
24. ,The ?3psva-Alapayevsk 11ne,.150km.:long,s1ngle-trecked, is' 1.nservice,
25. The Karakum line, Urgenu (sic)-Takhta,' 122 km long, was apparently built
o facilitate work. .on tte.TurlTen,canal, , ? ,
26. The line to the 'imiliansk dam,-Kuberle-Morozov-Skaya (sic), is under
9Pr,IPtru.-ct1orl.
224Iy*avily Built or Re9ent4IMEEpved Lines,
1, The Moscow Outer Belt, about 300 km long.
2., Kono5ha--Xot1as-Vorkuta;1,53
. r;3erov,-Sosva.7Alapp,ievAlc (E114)425? )434,
4, 44kpayR-atalingged-4arOmp-Syzran-Kazan; 1,512 kffik
5. AstiakhaP.Chevolennaya-Uslcivay6;;-45i
K8rt1ykm6i1n6k;'805:km..
7, Akmolinskargonda-Mointy.; 577. km.
84: Mointy-Berkul (sic); 450 km.
9. Akmdlinsk-:Palaodar-BarnaUl-Efrlolto;
10." NOVokuznetzk-Abakan;. 26dkM.--
11. Frunze-Ribache WO.; 136 km,
12. Ziereiro-Deb (sic).
13 Leningrad-MurManSk; 1,5O km
14. Moscow-Yaroplav; _275 km,
15. Magnitogorsk-Kartaly-Chelyabinsk 415 km.
16. d'hardzhcu4Lenin614-Kungrad; 650 km.
17 -tikhiYi-Stplingr6d-Sairatov7Syzran-Kb.z 1,512 km,
18. Zaporozhye-Apostoyo-Doghitzevo (sic); about 182 km..
19. Goroblagodatskaya7Sverdlovsk; 195 km.
20. Lvoli-Ohop; 269 km.
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I29N
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529N
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755.211
2I24
755.211
637N
755.211
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755.211
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937N
755.2ii
321N
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755.211
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755.211
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755.211
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755,211
39N
755,211
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755.211
037N
755.211
324N
755.211
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755.62
39N
755.213
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755213
2I7N
755.213
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755.213
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755.213
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755.213
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755.52
23N
755.213
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155.213
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755.213
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755.214
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755.52
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755.52
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755.213
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129N
755.52
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755.213
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324N
755.52
324N
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755.213
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755.2(3
523N
755,213
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75552
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