RAILROADS, ROADS, & BRIDGES IN WESTERN USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 6, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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- CENTRAL, IN' ELUGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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Moscow., V azma, Uvarovkkaa Dubnat In 1945 'a rt.nglo -track railway was built
was to servo the Veroya steel works.
20 Vitebsk., Zur.ash,, Yunovichi: In 1946 a singly-track branch line was laid
running north srom"?`Vitobok through Yeno?'.tchiand Zurash in order to
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3o Brest..Litovoks Soviet broad gauge track ends at Brest-Litovsk0 A.1.1 Soviet
tanspoo -coming from Berlin via Frankfurt/0 er and Poland to Kiev use
German cars and locomotives as far as Brest?T,'_tovsk, where there is a custow
oontrolo The Soviets 'are then transferred tc Soviet railroad oarriager and
proceed within tho USSR without further intoruptione It was previously reported*
that German electric locomotives w,1hich,had tea concentrated soar Brost-Litovsk
for some time were destined for the electrifled railways in the ?lag .togorsk
area, and ?thea the traaki in this area had r of been converted to Europen
gauge. but were all Soviet gauged
the electric locomotives were not convected to Soviet gauge bcauso of
the cost of the extremely complicated work required0
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4. Uzh orddr. A lGrge underground depot has bean built on the southern side of
Uz ??;ore (48?38'N, 220167E). T -b is lots+oc) so th of the railroad line an
Gast of the main Uzhgorod.Cop (48?25'N, 22-'i11E) road?
ag veto on the main I !oseow-V'yazm& 15. w with Dubnao Its main purpose
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SUBJECT Railroads, Roads, & Bridges in b1entorn USER
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5o go,,le:s-Vorleutsa Rsailw Lint, t This
r'as sai 6 Kor&i. SSR thst the line would be doubled and that
preparations for thin ? ork voro duo to start in the spring, of l9480
Kotlas-Kirov Railway Line z in December 1947 this line was single- traeks
However., was e` .e chu c a double track had been laid in certain
unspecified partso The work of laying a double track for the full length
of the.lino was expected to start in the spring of l9480
7o Gorki"-Kirov Railway Liner This limo was double breck in December 947,,
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80 tdosco sk-Konoto Pri.?c. . herkassy-Vosneaensk Odessa Railway Line:
TUB vies c+t, ou"S~e 3nc ax'~oi e~ r. u in December oae? e rravk
was in use. No repair work on the second 'track was observod0
9o Kotoreb-Pervomaisk Railway Line.- In September 1948 thiis, was a single-track
ea o prepare, one or ayixag a second track were observzeds
10 Ukraine: The Soviets have converted o. road in the Carpathian foothillrc
Vorokhta (48?1?3113, 24c33sE)-Kozmie; uchek (sic: KozM1scnk?)-_Kowerla.-
Tizabogdan-Raho-G rtyanliget (sic)-Nagy Bocsko into a highway. There
are now trio nain roads running parai lol in the Tisza Valley districts
11. Issshukonskoy kino Road.- An unsurfaced road runs from Ieshukonskoye
~, ' q"` ~^^J ~zrrs, passing through the following villages:
Tsengory (640441NO, 46?577E)
Koynas (64?36'N, 47?37?E)
Voshgory (64?35?1Ls: 48?251E)
Razgort (63?33?N, 48?51?E)
Yarorsge, (62.?467N, 49?344E)
l20 Leehukonske~yie .Rai ;ax?t Road: Another unaurfaced road runs along the Vase
n~vejr xrora ,vsnuseons"' ko to Razgorco This road passes through the following
villages:
Olema (64?284N, 46?071E)
Vazhgort (640041No 47?23+E)
Vendonge (63o27%, 47?569E)
130 Rasgort--Glotovo Roads There in an earth road from Razgort to Glouoao
T63033% ?4gJ~E~`via Ros'!an (63?32=N, 49005SE)o
14o Aikino-Turya- rzhpogoct-Glotovo Road: An unsurfacod road roans along
e "yra Fi g?r rom ao to nova nits Turya** and linyrazhpogost, This
road passes through swamps and is in bad condition.,
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l5,, Zaporozhe: -Jork was begun on two stool-girder bridges over the Dnepr River
a aporosh., sho~i-tly after the war. Each was designed to stand a load of
up to 300 tons ' and to carry a double-track railway linen They have replaced
.the four old single-track bridgesso
260 Rail Bridge over the Dozy River at Rostov Deco ber 1948: This is a
ou~@ br go are on masonry sz u n s an an cuunspecified number
of masonry pierso- It carries a double traok0 The girdera of the superstructure
are of an L -shape oonstructione From the train the river could be seen through
the carriage woyu The train crosses the bridge at an estimated speed of
16-20 kpho This bridge is 600-800 maters longs Its height above normaL ester
level is 20_?.,25 netersso No eznorgeno r bridgework sections were observed on
either banks
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IS, Road d R.ai? wa'l }3rior t;a r River Kre non hu (Doeoniber 1946
0 over epr R. er as cam y~..'? ompo rv B50X1-HUM
wooden br idgp F
.3, a I esa hali'-;o ap1eted bridge a observed about a O kiic11.et3r
a in December 3,0-4,
r3st of they ;:e: ~a ors. y br~i dg o This n idee will double nteried; road trafi ?.
will be on a road abovo the tr it c;oustructic. had
'ova stax+,ei from iota end abu?~ ntsa The abutra zat.s and- piors appeared to be
asonry aoustrtitotims, wUlo to superatructuro seemed to bo a motal gl-rdcr
GQnstruct .aaa,~ 13y )ecoraber 1943, rail track aud a r to . ed road ht d been laid
to either end o7' ho bridge.
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