RAILROAD EFFICIENCY AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW RAIL LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100050022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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e of the tncreRee of freight hauling i matnly o~ pstro~.eum
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and petrotsum prodwet$, in the VA1 $ region, the Oouncil of Ministere
USSR decidd to eaptrats the Ufa division from the Kuybyeher Railroad
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gyetem and to p 1e it under an independent a*nagment, etarttng on 1
met 1949. The na'ftu SY- btem will ine1wie the eRatore of Ufa, Bugu1'4nA.
Ul k, Abdultno aad Stsrlttctnsak and Will hive the followtf
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boundaries
with the Kt,ybYrev SYetetas , etetit'ne of Pokhvistnevo, Belyy Klyuoh
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and In (U the etattone gnat being tnoluded in the new eyet*.
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the Ka2can' System irtt the etatton of Sel'd (not include
~ the South Ural System Wtthe station of KroPacheVO not
Lout J.oukhtJ on the Murmansk line.
information ie et present available on these dif-
The following
f'erent lines.
1. Line (a)
I now under constriictton. It eta'rte about 400 meters west
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of 5a1lan1oki and rune arallAl to Vie, $a1,1 KAmijarvi ],ins for about
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minietration of the Ufa System will be Iodated in Of*.
The ad
Moreover, the B*~ul?k sector of the Orenburg system, located
ne of Kinl' and povoeer~;iyeYekaya irncluetVI, will
11AtWAAn the et~tio
be attached to the I{tiybyahev System.
~'inland and northern 1{are1ia the f ollowis railroad
In ea stern
under construction or in project (see maps
lines are now
e from Salla to Petsamo, therefore paral iel to the
?) Alin
Murmanek railroad;
rat tra nsVereal line jotning the two preceding linen,
b) A fi
stp,rting from Pike Ozero j.tnozerW on the Murmansk line and
ending on the Peta mo line in the region of Komdoro. /J(ovdoJ
nev'raal line etartinfrom iCiolla 4$olft/
c) A second tra
on the t~r'mansk railroad;
An extension towards the west of the line etartts4 at
d)
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km, at a dtetanoe of 2.' km approxtmately from thte lattertnA; it
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then rune off northward. The total 1en~th of the ltne will be approxt-
/ 200 kilomAter$. It will pass through the iron mines of KOVdor
mateY
and Leivovil, FAee near the ntckel mtnes of lasjaki and fully' end
near the Arctic Oeean on to port of Litn*har L,t .
kt present the ltn" reaohA the region of Siikaeelkae went of
9a1ia but is not pro,ressirl towards the north.
QuesttnnAd on the speed of oonetruotion of such R 1tne, an offtcer
of the Ruesian sennomic servtoe, who wAS in 194O ohte~ of D17
for the Salk railroad conetru~otion works, and who probably will be to
oharge of a similar job in the new projAot raids
~ .~ R~~ohin~Se-11a
The oonetruatton of the /.ch't Karel lktye ~ull~
line started in December 1939, with forced labor m*npower. During its
but nertode the undertaktn had 110,000 prtsonere and the work was
carried out on dif Brent eeotore etmi~ltaneouely. By the end of June
br
the first tr tna were already running. 'therefore, in winter, i'2
hack were letd in a little more then 4 monthe. Thirty thousand
of
rteofAre died during this time, but thie was untmpo?tant.
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2. Ltne (b)
This line le now almost completed. Information on present
acttvtty tG still lacking
3. Line (c)
Thie line is in operation ae far ae Pistikentta eetikentJ
and cen be easily extended to the line (a)?
that
A reliable source has etated rer,ently/the Aueeians have
tecl the construction of a line joining uo11a jjCo1J to
apparently star
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Liinhamari.
4. Line (d)
The Buesiane hate apparently started to build the exteneian of the
railroad from Lukhi oukht/ Murmansk line to Kteetinki J{eeten'g/
nning *eetward from this etarttng point towards the Finnish border,
Ru
the line now apparently ende at Sohjama.
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A1thouh thte tnroxantton iA stt11 to be Pertfted, it seems
quite plausible if we ooneider that the program of !'tnntah railroad
eonetruotton provtdea in the near future for th~xtenston of the Kontt?
mAk1-Hyryn8a1m1 towrd? Tatralkosk1, farther north. When somed*Y the
railheads of these two lines are connected, the junction of a 1ttnnish
line with the *irmansk ttnw wtU be sodompliehed.
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