ROADS, RAILROADS, BRIDGES, AND AIRFIELDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000510002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 31, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY USR
SUBJECT Roads, Railroads, Bridge
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ORIGIN
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DATE: 25X1 A6a
INFO.
DIST. 544 October 1947
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1. Chardzbo (39?d5'N, 63?35VE)
Single track bridge parrying the Tran(aepian Railroad over the .t-au Darya near
Uhardshou. The bridge is described as more than 3 km long and high enough above
the highwater mark to permit passage of all types of river boats. At both ends
of the bridge there are sidings, each several kilometers long. Railroad ties
are laid ladder-wise on steel girders supported by piles. During the war German
attempts to bomb the bridge failed because the bombs fall through the interstices
into the water. A river port fronting the shore for "100 - 1000 meters on both
sides issitvated below the bridge, A large part of the traffic over the bridge
is said to be composed of trains carry ng kerosene from Srasnovode': to Bukhara..
Single track railroad bridge spanning the Syr Darya south of Tashkent. The bridge
is similar to the one at Chardzhou, about 2 km iongr send of steel oonstiruction.
There are several sidings at either anti of the bridge.
3= (55b47% ?479E)
Bridge carrying double track railroad over the Tom Riv. r at a poifi t 7 km north of
the railroad ts?;tion of Yurga 1, The bridge is of etalp, 500 t is long and has
a clearance of 15 meters above the hi :h+hvat +r mark,
4. Sher a
Six km west of Shar~ya (5902313. 450y,,) is a wooden single track railroad b-1.1
over the Vetluge. Riverq built in 1943. The bridge is appr i t
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TI. Railroads
1? The Sb1i.k? tek-Pechora section of the contemplated Archangelskk-'):,% utsk ine
waz comps 3 tad in Nay 1946.
2. The railwq line from Frunze through Kant" and a bache to the Chijaese border
was 67 Im, short. of c6rr4.nlatiori ?a72 I-lair 194 To irrittsi:ri.~all d -~s .?, Rent +
exisi, alcr p; this line.,
25X1 A Cor 7 gat t The Soviet press announced in July Auk yt 1946 that
1.i", wei be"h7.:' con-3trveted fror? Kant to Ry?.r?' ; 73 t=J~ reportod to
be uni'i.nis ed, but, the Kant -. Bystrovka sector was said to be ' :n operation
at that ti. '1c(=ding to a report of August 1947;, the Bystrovka r
I achy se or, beans built under the 194650 Plan, is 72 Iew,. cng, There
has bc,en nt irevious mention of extending this line to the bordt.r. )
By March 191+6, 24 km of track had been laid on the 7akhtan. Share , a railroad,
which in ex hest to be SS kr+a lone 3000 :workers were employed r,"a the line?
4= By lay 1946. lines for the electrification of the Chelyabinsk-Z-1 ; touet_Ufa
no aiec.trio locomotives were yet in. ) Pro T Model 1 ,.A, , and 60 of Soviet make,
Hoci 1 F,D. The Others are of various older types,
10. Between 1943 and 19145,. 6 new sidings were added to the freight yards at Ntzhni._
Tagil,; in Marob 1916 the yards bad 2h tracks, each 3 km long.
11 & For the continuation of the Sverdlovsk, Nizhni