CONSTRUCTION OF THE HAIKAL-AMUR RAILROAD LINE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010600300001-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Siberia)
SUBJECT. Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railroad Line
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1, The bridge across the Angara River about 3 kr.. south of Bratsk is on the
newly constructed Taishet -ratsk railroad line. It is 900 to 1,000 meters
long and has six concrete piers which are protected against floating ice
by stone faci.* extending 5 meters above the water level, he bridge piers
are 140 meters apart. Double T-girders 35 cm high support a 2 metor high
steel truss superstructure. The usable width of the bridge is 4 meters. The
roadway is 11 meters atrv9 the stream at r..an water and 7 meters at high
water. The river banks are of natural rock. The banks slope 600 at the
bridge and for a distance of 200 meters on either side of the bridge. In
mid-April 1950, the abutments and six piers of the bridge were cor.mleted.
The steel construction was about half finished. The completion date for the
bridge was September 1950. (1)
2. From Komzomolsk a railroad line runs along the western bank of the Amur
River southwest to Khabarovsk. Another line on the eastern bank of the Amur
river runs northeast to ilikolayevsk. (2) A third line, running to the vest,
joined the Trans--Siberian railroad line at a point between Irkutsk and
Krasnoyarsk. According to Soviet convicts, the latter line was built only
recently. (3) About 180 km zoraolsk. a line branches off to the
south from this third lire. this 25X1
branch line, stated that Ural was 0 to .5O km from Kornzorno sk, via this
railroad line, and that Isviskove (sic) was 200 km beyond Ual. (14)
Isviskove, which is a large r::arshalling yard with 16 tracks, is connected
with Khabarovsk by a railroad line 150 km long- 25X1
3. According; to :soviets, work on the railroad line
was already started in 1936. Construction work was allegedly interrupted
during the war and was not resunod until 19148. In February 1950, the line
was nearing, completion. '..ork in the U,al section, was supervised by a Rumanian
engineer vito had boon in the U.S.S.R. since 1933. About 20,000 rlen were
employed on 4U. construction of the single-track Soviet-gauge line which
had a broken stone ballast and wooden ties.
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1m that it was planned to build
a tunnel under the Amur Tiver tires o Mha arovsk in order to in.-urn a
the 3'aviet-Chinese border in case of wary 25X1
(1)
(2)
(3)
(14)
appear to be erroneously estimated.
he ray. road line between Isviskove and Khabarovsk is the last stretch
of the double-track Trans-Siberian railroad line. For sketch of the railroad
line in this area, see Annex.
rx co over the Angara River near ^ratsk is in the ,,1tern sec!:Lon
_ of the new I1a: ,:al- our railroad line. The stater.ient con3.,.rms previ -,.as
information. ito,,wsv or , one
only 200 meters long
The railroad line from Konzor!olsk to :;habarovsk, w lab aches to
the northeast from the Trans-Siberian railroad line nea oloc1niy V a
west of Khabarovsk, ~ is a single-track 0xviet,-.gau;e line ;a3 ch tea en
in operation for a long time. According, to previous pl :: the r,-*,,-,.-; =-oad
line from Komzomolsk to Iikolo revsk was to follow the _; tarn of the
Amur River'. In this case, however, the line would have 4;= cross 1 _ e
swamps and it therefore appears probable that the line to be bu .t
alone the eastern barer. of the river,, particularly since ti:e hitsV - to
T,iikoWevsk follows the same course. Information as to w, ether th? .ins
is already completed is not available.
The third railroad line is the so-called Baikal-