RAIL FACILITIES VERKHOTURYE, USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300090025-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: December 16, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

Approved For Release 2001/080 CtAfD Z 04751 A000300090025-7
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE CENTER
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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.8.0, Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any. manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-CIA.
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SUBJECT : Rail Facilities NO : PIC/JB-1025/60
LOCATION: Verkhoturye, USSR DATE: 16 December 1960
COORD : 58-53N 60-43E 25X1D
MAPS OR CHARTS
ACIC. US A.ir Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0156-8A., 2d ed,
Oct 59, 1:200, 000 (S)
DOCUMENT
CIA. CR 5A., USSR Railroad Stations and Route Information, May 59 (C)
Verkhoturye (58-53N 60-43E) is 145 miles north of Sverdlovsk on the
single-track railroad (Route 454)* leading from Nizhniy Tagil north to Serov.
As shown on the accompanying line drawing, the relatively minor rail
facilities include the. following: rail yard six to eight tracks wide, 3,400 feet
long; locomotive or car repair shop, 210 by 100 feet, containing four or five
stalls; turning wye, effective length,. 400 feet; water tank, 20-25 feet in dia-
meter; and a coal-storage yard, 1,000 by 290 feet.
The principal industries in Verkhoturye are related to wood processing.
These industries are served by a:.narrow-gauge logging railroad, with total
trackage of approximately 125 kilometers, which leads to extensive logging
operations east and northeast of Verkhoturye.
*Route number is taken from the document cited above.
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DOUBLE-FENCED, HEAVILY SECURED, ADMINISTRATIVE AREA (POSSIBLY
RELATED TO PRISON LABOR USED IN EXTENSIVE LOGGING OPERATIONS)
SAWMILL AND
LUMBER YARD
LOCOMOTIVE OR
CAR REPAIR SHOP
WATER
TANK
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STATION
RAIL YARD
6.8 TRACKS WIDE
SAWMILL AND
LUMBER YARD
CHEMICAL
COMBINE