1. SOFIA-BURGAS RAIL LINE 2. DANUBE BRIDGE AND TUNNELS 3. INLAND NAVIGATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013700300004-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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c, Bailee The rails have not yet been laida
Dube &?i es and Tunnels
5~ Tn the near future, construction is to begin on a bx?idge over the Danube,
between Ruse s.nd Giurgiu9 R~nania, The scheme is still .secret and has not
laeen made kndwn to the public, The work will be carried out by a.newly-
formed Bulgs4rian-Rumanian construction firm with the ~s~istance of Soviet
specialists, The technical ffianager representing Bulgaria wi11 be Engineer
Kiril Ivanov, formerly director of a building concern: operated by the Sofia
city council9 Ivan resided in the USSR and returned to Bulgari?
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a plan to construct three tunnels under the Danube,
the scheme would gresent very great technical difficulties and
would be extremely costlyo
Navigable Canals
ground through which the canal would have to pass is very uneven and several
locks would be required,
$e 'here was some talk oP making the Maritsa River below Rlovdiv suitable for
~avxgationo The scheme was abandoned with the death of Enginees~ Mavrov who
wa.s responsible for the idea,
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such a project would be impossible because the
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