COMMUNICATIONS IN ASIATIC RUSSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300430004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 1, 1946
• Content Type: IR

0\10'
V-3
Ape)
1
r Release 2 6:115.6:i2e? f-04
MI6 CL'7-7I7,-.7.-,`: ne:ero..y recyaaeo to
wt the
PNN:C?
USSR
Arch:?vic, States.
Next P.ovicvi 2008
? CENTRAL INTELUGENCE GROUP
NTELLIGENCE REPORT
3LI8EcT Communications in Asiatic Russia
aNIGIN
r,
25X1A
25X1A
9,043004-
25X1A
DATE:
ii4FCL November 1946
Din 13 March 1947
PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT
25X1X
examieation of the railways at prevent in use? under construction, or being
altered from siegle to doable track ehows how Russia is striving to exploit
vast areae whit ave mineral deposite and heavy indretrioe. The five-year
plans heve Izon deeigned to maka the tniatic Republics economically eutonomous
aed the fourth five-year plan aloe provides for an expansion of industries
In Asia, in prootic n to the bettereeet of communicatione, particularly
ra.fileays The teedeuer to make the Aeetic Republics economically and in,-
Anotria'lle automolous is of military iuportanceq for, in the wait of conflict
in Enrope, Of,beeia would be able to supply an army in the Weet, no matter what
happened,. In the eve at or conflict ea both /rents or only on the Asiatic
front, the reiatiee proxiaity of centene of production to the army in the Eaet?
made even more evident by the railways that are being built? would favor the
eaeloymeet of fornse which previously could hover have been vsede
The following lines appear to warrant attention;
a" A live under construction which will link Central Siberia and Kazakhstan
eith European Ruscia, It begins at Abakansk (joined to the Trans-Siberian
eailway by the Achinsk-Abakausk line) and passes through Kuznetsk-Barnaul-
Favloder-Akmolinek (Kazakhstan) - Nustanai-Magnitogorsk (Urals) and rejoins
the Trano-Siberian railway Lesediately east of Samara (Kuybishev).? It
uses thc: 'notion already existing 4etween Slavgorod-Favlodar-Ekibad-tua und
AkmolinekeKuutenai-Troltsk-Magnitogorsko It will be a single track lino
exoept for the Akaolinsk-Kustanai-troitsk sector, where a second line is
being bualt, it will be joined to the Trane-Siberian railway by single
track lineal between: Abakansk-Aohinsk; KuznotakeTurga; Barnaul-Novosibirsk;
:ilavgorod-Tatarskeya; Akmolinsk-Berovoe-Petropavlovsk; Troitak-Chelyabinsk.
b. The present line in Kazakhstan from Orenburg (Chkalov)-Alma Ata-Novesiblirsk,
on the Trone-Siberian railway, will be joined by the following single track
lines: Olavgorod-Sewipalatinsk (under construction); Akmolinsk-Karaganda
(double traok and in use)-Bertis (3alkhash)(in use)-Chu (under oonetruotion);
Kareganda-Aralskee More (Aral Sea) (under construction); Troitsk-Orsk
(second track under construotion)-Kandagach Station on the Orenburg-Tash-
kent lime (under construction)0 This sector is important because the line
for eurev on the Caspian Sea begins at Kandagach Stationo
CONFIDENTIAL
AssIn CATION SWIFT
C
25X1A
Approved For Release 2000/06/26 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000
CENTRAL IffELLIGPNCE GROUP
-2-
This new railway network will mke KaIakhatan more important, as oil and
coals as wall as heavy industriess are in the Alcolizask-Karar:anda aroa.
Prom the military point of views it will increase the possibility of
supplying and moving the Eastern army which has nhe task of dnfending the
industries of the Urals and,Westorn Uberis from attacks from the soutla-
east and southwest.
The following sectors or the central and western Trans-Siberian railway
will be eleotrified% The Urals, from Chelyabinsk to Xnopacevo (sic);
the Ghelyabinsk-Matoust sector is already electrified.
do Varshalling yards are at Kulomzinr, where the Mesnow-Sverdievsk-Omsk line
arrives, and at Barabinak (300 Inn east of Omsk)0 flask station is under re?
pair at present..
e. The B.AoM. line (BnikalAmur-Uore) is of particular importanco in the
East. It was oompletecl in 1939. It trnins at Taishet end goes northwest
through Bratskoe Ostrog.,Ust.Kut (a port on the Lena Pivor).Podaibo; it
coatinnos south, reachin,t, Nagornon, and then noo t(niards the sea in two
differentAirectionss onteast to Port Ayan and the other southeast through
Stoiba-Nimanchiks reanhing the River Amur at 1Comsonolsk. This line is
linked with the Trans?Siberian railway as fellaws
25X1A
1. 0ne sector along the Vitin valley, probably beginninn at Bodaibo, arriv-
ing at Herchinsks which in its turn is linked with a brannh of the Trans-
Oiborian railway by the Nerehinsk.rriiskovajo sectoro
The second lino joins Nagornee with Rukhlovce,
The third begins at Nimannhik and reaohos the Trans-Siberian railway
at Bakhoreva, probably following the, Bureya valley.
Uonment: The Baikal-Amur .ailroad,rnnaing east from 7nishot
on the 7fiTials-3fLerian (northwest of Lake Baikal) to iomsomolsk and Sovots-
nya Gavan on the Pacific,was oonstructed during the lai,ter part or the
1930s. Conflicting opinion exists on whether the road har. been entirely
completed. The route of the Baikal-Amur Railroad (from wont to east) is
roughly as follows: Taishet to Ust-Xut, then south or the Lona avoss
the gold region of Bodaibos the 'ntallowni Mountains the valley of the
Upper Ion ns the Tukuringra Yountainss the Selemdsha Pivor, the upper Bureya
Rivers and on to Komsemolsk. Connections with the Trans-Siborian in the
cast are made from lines running south Prom Sofiski to Bureyas and from
Komsomolsk to Ehaborovsk. Except for the branches and the western end of
the lines in no other place doe q it come within 100 miles of the Trans-
Siberian.
The Baikal-Amur Railroad is important from an economic angle because it
will make accessible the gold deposits or the Ilodaibo regions the Vitim
regions and Southern Yakutias and connect the coal deposits of 13ureya
with the iron ore deposits of Chuigano)
IDENTIAL
Approved For Release 2000/06/26 : CIA-RDP82-00457R000300430004-1