RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS IN LITHUANIAN SSR AND BELORUSSIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003500700008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
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Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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The Russian wide gauge railway has been introduced in Lithuanian .11
of th=7 T n`,rt t?, >iavt/,Io~tat?ackodo
observed that lines ran from Kaunas to Vilna*? and to
Baranovichi and Brest Litovsk,, In Brest Litovsk a change was made to
standard European gauge, which continued to ,,arsavr-Poson and Frankfurt/
Oder, **
As of November 1948, bridges over the Nemunas River at Kaunas had not
been reconstructed.; old German pontoon bridges were still being utilized.
The railway bridge, however, wits repaired and was to be opened to traffic
in the sumnor of 1949 ***
CoTlienttr The Vilna-Kaunas line is already double-tracked.
orrevor, is possible that only one track has boon converted to
broad gauge0
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i.n addition to Soviet gaugo, there was one
:1twidard European gauge line used by the Soviets for captured Germ railway
equipment.
***"Co nrwntr The Lithuanian prows announced in March 1949 that the
bri gooaa~"Pa-ne e, a suburb of Kaunas, had boon reopened for traffic.
The Vilna-saunas highway was completed in 1947; it is 10-12 motors wide
at all points.
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