SOVIET TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000100030011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 31, 1947
• Content Type: IR

A9 AL O C ' UP REF>O T NO.
)HO REPORT
Oi` 1TRV USSR r
Soviet T?r s'portation S am,.
PLAC Soviet ~~ 3i casts monitored by F13IB
ACQ1?-1RBB 25X1 A6a
DATE
e wa r'PSYE9biFiP.Y 6'IYS~L#3l.Y ~{(j
&~a.AE,LY RE G1 OTHER ?3OURUL
ELIAB' E RELiARLS. R~Fa3LE P~L9ALiLE !U[3G O1R TS TRUE TRUE
proved For-l elease'I99 8-04864A0001000300
-
1 April - 31 August 1947
25X1A2g
DATE DISTR 17 September 1947
WO. OF PAGES 15
NO. OF EMU
JSTFD BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT T
REPORT NO.
GRADING OF SolfatCE CC! P EC-DR'S GRi G OF Col."!!! a:N'!
------ .~.w _
COMARMED
SOUr : Soviet Radio ftvadeaet
PROBABLY
PiSS
DLY
PROMBLY
ANW&F
rT
By
OTt1ER
IM
L
TRUE
TRUE
l3t1Ui *a UL.'
FALSE
B
U
NOT Y
A' BLAQLE
-
1 HODUC L TON AND SUl"+164/LF a e e o. o s o n s r w s a r s a m s n: a a s a a o a a s x a s w m ***a* *&.4 s .. a a 2
~~yg?-?l. R,sto`ietion and Now Constii tioneeee-eso av e a o e e e a e e a o a o w o s a s a b 2
iI Op ration and .i1i 'Yt saaaobeaga.essa?seoae+o......safo+qf~x oS,J 3
{gyp III. Admitted ?W ~ of sraassosaeasos a obssmeseasasa a ssassosa nsa, _ 4
BRO.iii. CAS F1aG.CLa PT S
~!s ~ wa.".3FmT~~
Lines Rebuilt or Restored }~! ??~~ ''aa..~~
..i. ~? 6'Aoesi. oo K1Ydarko '+A"tL( atov; T` o oo'ii .Lehi gr dr a o . a f + s ! a q f s a g5
G'.a Vv .aaseamemaesmoaao~smasaseemesmaaaAeaaoaa,amese..,.a 5
B. Conetxat.ofl in Progress
Cn n i?
aob.m+oasooommamba+aearbasau,mr~ ~?~
2 Central Aei5~y9.i '.~;.'d..l'3? Lines~p~a.,~~j. ....eo.. 6
e b l e f w a f a e a f f f a r 0 0 o f b a 6 a 1 6 0 x~ 6
e!'~,e.9 Urals k1~8~sStY1S9.~qagCbaQ msbmswm omeeosamaoaaemo0f aeraaeeaa6oas: ,,
7
45 Other Regions............................... aaooaa y,.. 7
Rail Bridges
3?, RdY ui1', or roped oredamaoassbolmeaemeemaamasaomsaaaeaa ss p7
2`-' New Bridges Under Construction ...................... , 8
D. Fquipient Operatic S?.ar............emoaesaafsaasmmsaaa 8
A. ? Reabored or Reba ilt Inland that ya ............... o a ..10
B. .'3W Inland Waten' ysoasa...... msaaaafabwaoossesasoaso easa.
C. i>rjui e3nt ww Opel"c^-..+--OilCe,.ofoarrosesamfaeoq+eosreaaaaraaa.?ll
D. C rats Associat d with Irrigation Projects .s. e+ a r o r a ~, o a 1113
E. "0:3 xteru ye
is being reconstructed to "triple its o xrryinn capacity. 'k S'Toscow is to be linked
by water with the Black Sea via the Okm and Dnieper Rita, and for this ;robe,
W-1 artificial Wm is being Ebuii? t on the upper stream of the Cka ?fiver. Besides
inereasirg! the large-river syote~_s, smell-river transportation is being dweloped
wader the rive.-Year Am-i. 7,000 1 tlcmeters of sna1l rivers have alreac)r been node
navigable, and by 1950, 12,000 more kilomaters are to be added to the sr^s3i-river
network.
Impratrerients In the system of oceart,^tr tsy?ortgtion are occasionally reported,
I`3cnu ahippin- lines have been added to those already established in the Caotsl_ and
Japan Saris, and near, fast, cargo lines have been added to the Black Sea drd Caspian
.? eyotens. A naval, port is being constructed In Sock.. Large "passer abi trans..
port ships" are to be used in a regular-eerviao on the Arctic Ocean.
Increases In six tranwncrtaI on are reported. Although no rei~ercariaes to the
construction of ra lur a or highways in the Far East appear, at least two :yew air
services have been established: tioscow.I{hab?arovek and Foocoms-Provideaee r!q.
Traffic at the Leningrad airport has doubled as compared with last year; y,1anes are
used to carry nachineery fro Leningrad and llbscotl to harvest Oenters, and aVipnent
or the netu Chard3ou-Iiungrad railway.
1I. OP ' TIOIIS ; EMIl't~U 1
R
li'ety indications of the volnane of traffic handled by the variOUs tranV Y^tation
s; etc ns as caVarod trtth pro-war levels are contained in moxiitbred broa1ca thd.
Pr-;?ssc er traffic is said to have rR ached the pre-vat totdl., and M. m1ilic?i more
assengors "will have to be transported as compared with last gear." No c ues ao
to the actual daily tonnage of shiiiicnts by rail and water lines appear, except
for an anno nceaneat that self-unloading freightcars with a capacity of 40 iron are
now tndor cart; traction, 11- trainload of 25 of these care can be unloaded 1-i five
minutes, the broadcast states. General etatan*nts of planed or aocomplisl ed
COIIFIDEIITIAL
Approved For Release I 9969NE1 DENTrR78-04864A000100030011-5
 25X1A2g
Approved For Release 19(9ONFj DEKT4? 78-04864A000
COI! +ID?i'TIAL
4--
increases in shipments, hotrevrer, appear frequently. The nation's railroads, for
e aarip1e, eotapleted the freight .shipping plan by ,01./+ percent by the onc'. of April,
and during ",:ay, daily freight ahipaa.onto trero inoreneed by 15,000 tons. Ilearly
One-sixth of the national budget is allotted to transportation to the cur re it Five
Year Ilan, trhi.oh provides for an all pp roent increase in car loadings durinac 1947.
Train. schedules ,as revised in I-lay "will insure the movenent of an additional 5,000
freightcars daily. "
Tec nlooI improverionts, n'articularly in the raiitray system, are freluently
anriouleed. The eleotr? i'ication of lines is reported a. major project; 500 11.c eters
-uro scheduled to be electrified this year. The ; "osooir rc.i?.tray junction is to be
reconstructed, an automatic electric signal syote is being inata'lled on lines
throuC?hout the country, as troll as diosel trainsi freight locomotives of the series
"L. r.L, n ?ine, Kaaanteeiv' eleetro-pnenmatio brtdkea.
Additions and improvements in the tratervays syster. are also reported. The
"Sa pul mooring palace" has been rolm t,, and floating docks are operatin{ on the
Dnieper, Don, tuba, and Volga Rivers. Pneumatic loadinr, rachines have been in-
ato.l.e ! in 1:oocotrih southern harbor,, and wireless., telepihone, and telegraph ooa-r-
munications bottreen I?loscotr and river Il et ports pro being izinrovec mid. mehended.
The Kraenoarineislmra shipbuilding uhr f In Stalingt'&d is operating again.
Despite the optimistic tone of repotts, certain faults in the transposvtdtion
system are admitted. Coordination between river and rail transportation I faulty,
according to i ioacow, and necesaa-by repairs in roiling s oc?:, flncthernore, Ii:ove been
hampered by late and 3.nec nplete delivers of supp{iee, as well as poor duality of
lumber. An intercepted morse transmission for the i?ioscotr Ministry of For astern
'i.sherios -states that "the technical oonditioxi of ships remains aloriing."
Approved For Release 194ON0"I WERTAe78-04864A000100030011-5
 Approved For Release 19~9(~NF1DP+TMt78-04864A0
5 -
I I. al"I 0
A. LINE, flE 3UILT OR fESTO1
CPYRGHT
mv-oet
Ma
25X1A2g
Elwcerpt " ome 2,500 Idlometers of new and second-rail tracks in the
progrom facing the builders of rcitw r transport this year. In t1",a pact
6 months they have completed the restoration of second tracks alor7 the
Z 230 l4lometers line, lloscota-Kharlkov-Rostov, restored ttro*way tr. Ilo
along the Nocootr-Leningrad trunk line dammed during the tzar, and ..on-
thd Donets Basin, and the Caucasus...." (u ss, It? EI LIOIi inIonsi T) PioRTii
XMUCA, 1. JtffI! 1947)
CPYRGHT
(Excerpt) "Already all second tracks are in operation on the I =osootr to
1101M S IGE, 10 AUGUST 1947--PRAVJJA editorial)
2. Oje:
lcrasnoc1ar-Sulchsre7s?qr. (?) railroad line, destroyed during the tier, t a.s
conplete1 r restored 9 ',uguet and is now open to traffic. (SURVIZ OF SOV:i T
UIJIOM RADIO BItOADCUSTS, " lnforK ation Briefs," 15 AUGUST 1947)
D. C011STItUCTION lit PP,,OGflZSS
CPYRGHT
1. _otxh --S Eir ri an Railt,':
('ti eprt) "One of the most important itw-s in the new Five.-Year 17.'.an its
the building of the South Siberian Railwor. Chief ]ngineer of the Central
Adtainiotration of fail tray Building of the USSR t' linistry of Coy muni_cations,
A. . $u retsov, earl: tb.' .-TASS correspondent: ' This rai a w a r ulil ` the
shortest tray to transport Kuznetsk coal to T'agnitogorsk, the Ural and
the areas along the middle reaches of the Volga. It will allow be ~,tor
cultivation of the rich 111tai region, It will, also a,.llot, it rovemcnt of
coal distribution in our country by connecting the far 0txa7 Eltibastnz,
where coal is abundant and easy to reach, with the industrial centors of
our country.- It will make it possible to start coal extraction at
Stal imssk and ore extraction at A 7.
"'The nett 3,600-kitcxneter railway rune from the Ku b? a Urea via Stl=Tinck
and ?3arnaul. This will permit connection of that interior Altai ar. e.s with
the Al]taiskayya Station on the Tonek rail T. l~ibout 70 Idlotn^ters of rail-
way have .already been laid but much excavation is still to be 'one on' the.
remaining section and many constructions to be built.
"'The railway here Drosses the Selgir r angc of the Altai mountains the
final choice of the passes, either through a 400 meter tunnel or a.Jon~;
an open 3!p.mater wide lodge rutming along the slopes of the mountains
depends on the geological work in progress now. Fourteeta machine .%zcavators,
many locomotives, railway carriages and special machines of i'izyae., design
are being used here. Cranes desinned by Kr&t1ov will be t3sed.
Approved For Release I 94QMII DERRDR78-04864A000100030011-5
 Approved For Release I 9( 1D 78-04864A0(?0% 011-5
CPYRGHT
COI?IFfl 1TIAL
-6-
"'The sector between Altnolinsk and Pavlodar is 44 ki].orietero long and rune
ttuross... uninhabited steppe lands. The building works ere proceeding
from the two ands simultaneously. In 1's-rieter high a~.bank ent has to be
built or. the loft bank of the Irtysh near I'avlodar. Tcrenty-five excavators
are trorl here,
n 1 A telephone line is being Wilt between Almolinsh and Paviodar #tationa;
duelling; houees, rail.wrey staff i,orkshopc, cucl so forth, are being built hare.
The builders have promiseel. to complete this year's sohedule by the
thirtieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Radio cotmuniodtiona
r-iPP hniyu, 3ntrnhaeafl_ ,lnnr. the line to facilitate the buildinr' works. I"
CPYRGHT
(TABS IN DICTATION SPEED FO L THE PROVINCIAL PRESS, 23 =E 194;.7)
141.1 14317P '];p the onex+m n tc~rri ! nri_e~r- nnrl thra nrmtor of thrr onimtrX_ (TAld
III E TGLISH `ORS TO CRM Ai E lICA, 1 JULY 1911.7)
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
the current Five-Year Plan---The Stalinclt-I agnitogoraLr trunk line, which
DICTATIO'' SP MM TO TM PROVIIICIAL, PISS, 10 000,2T 1947)
full blast on _ the lire
grin hi Etit. Tnitial
. sr (TABS,. ail rtl; SIP. AT
735oaerpt "The building of the biggest South Siber
is being carried out. :forks are being carried out
Altaiskoe-Artyshta. The line Pavlodar'-Alcolinsit is
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
2.C-IICs, Lln2s:
CPYRGHT
Text "In Central Asia, a new railway 335 miles long 4beine bui3
between the tot-ms of Shor Gel and ICungrad. It will be 3mportar-,;
econonioally for the Central Asian Republics. The surv Aurm M300 : , lilt MIGLISH
IMRSE TO ItOITLft AiMLICr1, 19 RT L 1947)
CPYRGHT
n cerpt "A fortnight ago the preliminary 3nves n ations along the track
or ].eted. n (PASS, Ii ' +_ GLTSII i:Ofl.OE TO IIOflTII AL 5RXCA, 1 JULY 1%7)
CPYRGHT
of Kazakhstan, on the lines Dzhanbul-Chulak-Tau, which provides the nosei--
(1 oerpt). "Trains are running on newly constructed lines in the ste:;ypes
bil ty of quicker exploitation of the national resources of phosphor-as
I on. ravka- ba It I (TASS, III fUSCiAI AT DICTATIOI' SPELO
PROVINCIAL MLSS, 10 AUGUST 191x7)
(Excerpt) "The last preparations ate being jade for the building of the
Chardjou-Kungrad railway line. The first section of 400 kilometers .T~s
been cleared fbr the buileing works. DE-jelling houses are now being
built along this section and water cupnlieo anc7 food centers are bet
organized for the _zany thousands of future builders. Equipment ins?c u
eta, footwear, clothes, and foodstuffs are being.- brought to Shardj att.
At -the end of :'lug: qt, 65,000 collective fair-ors will arrive at the Ire ti l
sites. Large sums of non have been allotted for the buildinr, of t,-Is
rniltrcy. it (SOVIET T10:2 S' IJICE 13 AUGUST 1947
Approved For Release 1940M DEN1AIL78-04864A000100030011-5
 CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
25X1A2g
Approved For Release 199Q flA,78-04864A00
CPYRGHT
(Text) "Director General Chernykh, head of the I.1a,in Eastern Railway
Building Administration, told our correspondent that work started yester-
day on the whole stretch of the net, railtagy line fro*. Chardjou to Tashtak.
This longest railway line in Central Asia will run from Chardjou to Kungrad
Over 12,000 collective farmers fron Turkr-enia and Uzbekistan are trorking on
this railway line, together with numerous Komsomols from factories and
Government offices. The number of workers will rise to 70,000 by the end
of August. This never line will connect the Karakalpak ASSR with the
(Khoresrm?) Province of Uzbekistan and the Ta.shauz Province of L'urltmenia
with the main USSR railway network. The total length of the new railway
line will be (627) kilometers. The first section from Chardjou to Tashtak
is 395 kilometers long and should be ready by 1949. This line will have
four locomotive depots, 27 passenger railway stations, 48 railway Junctions,
and over 100 bridges. Equipment and various instruments are being carried
to the railway from Moscow by air. The railway will cross the uninhabited
desert and its building is connected with the replanning of the Irrigation
system and the building of two large canals from the Amu Darya River to
(Khoremn) and Karakalpak. The building of the Chardjou-Kungrad railway
will realize the most ardent ha es of the peoples of s^ur?crienia and
? , E, Review, of K0i1301,10LSKAYA PRAVDA,
26 AUGUST 1947) +
3. Urals Negri:
(Excerpt) "Regular traffic has been opened on the line Sosva-Alapaevsk,
which has out through the thick forests of the Urals. and opened a ascend
B=Mng To C one on a (tine) russu- N aryshevo...." TAB _ IN
4, Other R%donst
0 THE PROVINCIAL PRESS, 10 AUGUST 1947)
s Stsiiazy sThe builders of the Uindeohaursk hydro-eleotric -
power distributing station have completed the building of a railway line on
the right bank of the Kura River Joinin? the power station with the
Azerbaijan main railway line. The branch line eoverinr' a distance of 17
om ers wall. soon be open to traffic. (SOVIET HOME SERVICE, 1. JULY 1947)
Orel-U1vanovsk:
CPYRGHT
Excerpt) "The building of the first section of a n wr- gauge railway
CPYRGHT between ui ha Bolkov-U n SUR OF SOVIET yanoyalM hag bean pa=3a+ed U'IION RAD 0 BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs," 11 JULY 1947)
Kostrot --COY ich:
CPYRGHT l(Exoerrit) n (TAUS,
IN RUSSIAN AT DICTATION SPEED TO THE PROVINCIAL PRESS, 10 AUG'JST 1947)
0 RAIL BRIDGES
1. Rebuilt or Restored:
(Summary) 250 railway bridges, including 22 spanning the Dnieper, Pripet,
Dniester, and Northern Donets Rivers, which were destroyed by the Gerr.ns,
are to be restored this year. A netr'method evolved by Soviet engineers
Approved For Release 199~91U019VDIDG7f 78-04864A000100030011-5
 Approved For Release 194DERT1,78-04 25X1A2g
COrIFIDEIrTIAL
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
renders concrete four times stronger, and helps to save building materials.
The substitution of such concrete for structural steel will save -none of
NUME an spa up e r ge- , program. , ,
IPRSE TO NIOItIII ElICA, 21 APRIL 1947)
CPYRGHT CPYRGHT
(Excerpt) "Again, as before the war, great railway es over the Dnie
Don Sv3.r Nieman and orthern Donets are atandi .." 'M OSCO1 , T13S, IN
DICTATION FOB. THE PROVINCIAL PRESS 10 AUGUST 1947
2. New Bridles Under Conatrution:
(Text) "The aonstruation of two big railway bridges across the PTarva
and Piarnu Rivers has been started in Estonia. The greater part of the
Estonian railways have been restored and modernized. Sam 164 br:j lanes
and tunnels demolished &iring the tar have been built anew. All :?`"3er
structures will be fully restored in the near future, for which
U FY K V h I I se 29 m on rubles have been a ro riated ' IICSCO' !, TASS
EiIGLISH HORSE TO NORTH AIIERICA, 23 MAY 1947)
D. EQUIPI'.I IIT ACID OPERATIONS
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Text "The Soviet designers have evolved railway ties of reinforced
to a5 kilometers per hour. Such ties, made of special reinforced ionorete
of high clastioity can serve 40 yearn, or three times longer than ordinary
concrete which can stand the pressure of heavy trains develoninc a speed un
of wood. This is particularly inportent, since 135 million ties tyre to
practically equal, while the now ties will help save a tremendous amount
wooden ties. The cost of the wo6de--n and the reinforced concrete ties is
be laid on the Soviet railways within the next 5 years. This yeas: the
r-IOSUOU, TASS, III ENGLISH MORSE TO NO1 TH AMMICA, 12 IMAY 1947)
first eonsi en? of reinforced conarete tins, will be =ntinally "
(Text) "Kaliningrad railway car works begam the production of tot aA axial
self unloading cars with capacity of 40 tons each.. Comrade Gorbur7v, the
director of the factory and the Deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Counc ._.
informed u?- that the new self-unloading oars are equipped with a,o, mod6rr,
gadgets which speed up unloading considerably. As it is Inozm, ti,-3
commonly used cars are usually unloaded by six rorIzers and it take.-, them
two and one half hours to unload. But the train of 25 new cars sail be
unloaded within five minutes with minimum labor. The leading role In
the 73roduation of these
who arrived here from the Urals." (SOVIET HOME SERVICE, 15 MAY 1947)
(Sum mlary) A new automatic electrical signal system, designed by Soviet
Engineer Itatalevich, is now being installed on Soviet railways. L zae
1,,000 stations will be equipped with this device by the end of the year
and 4,500 by the end of the Five-Year Plan. The system,,thich is i esigned
to revent br
CPYRGHT thorou six- monthe test on rails s in the Moscow f (I.IOSCO , TASSS,
IN E TGLISIH MORSE TO NORTH A!'IMICA, 20 MY 1947)
Approved For Release I MIDC -RIVE78-04864A000100030011-5
 A2g
pp 400 DEj+T t 25X1
Approved For Release 19400 78-04864A00010003
030011-5
-9-
CPYRGHT
(Sumiary) The USSR Ministry of Railways has prepared a plan for recon-
struction of the iioscow Railway Junotion. All suburban and n, any long,-
distance trains will be changed to electric traction, thus doubling the
number of electrical railr-.rays. Sow ,1,400 trains trill pass along railways
which converge on Moscow within 24 hours. (IIOSCOU, TASS, III EIIGISH
MORSE TO NORTH A;-M,,-,A.. 21 MA! 191.7)
CPYRGHT CPYRGHT
Excerpt "This year almost 500 orneters of railroad lines the
" SURVEY OF SOVI3T UNION Rf1DI:O BROAD-
.qe%win+ TTrAon 411 be CASTS, "Information Briefs", 27 JUNE 1947)
CPYRGHT CPYRGHT
(Excerpt) "Among the technical novel es introduced on our rai:roads are
new freight locomotives of series 'L.I .,' Soviet diesel locomotives type
'T-L-F-20,' all-metal passengers care
by KaaantseR and several th " (AIOSCOT3, TASS,. IN EMLISI HORSE
TO NORTH AIRICA, 9 AUGUST 1947)
CPYRGHT
(Excerpt) "Pravda publishes a talk with the deputy head of the 'S3R
Transport Corntunication Ministry, Central. Passenger Administratiju, on
the new schedule of passenger-train movement. This graph will b intro-
duced on the USSR railways in five days' tine beginning the ni::~ of
May 15-16. The si er schedule provides for a certain increase 'n the
passenger movement. For the first time since the tmr, daily cox- %. rtable
express trains will run between IloscowY6tiochi and Moscow-Kislovoch!z. Nev
fast trains, Leningrad IIinerslnys Vody and Leningrad-Sochi, are :iso being
introduced. The railway connection between I!oseow and the eapit.ls of
the Central Asia Union Republics is being improved.
"On the railways of Trans-,Caucasus and Central Asia., diesel tra?'s will
run. On big railway junctions, first of all in Moscow,, Leningr, ", Kier,
Novosibirsk, Kharkov, and Baku, 250 suburban trains will be intr-rduced.
Great renovation works of station, platforms, booking offices, a lost
luggage departments have now started. During this year, L8 mil]_r_on rnibl gn
SERVICE, 11 MAY 1947)
(Sum. ary) Beginning tonight, Soviet railroad transport will be(- :. its
operations according to a new train schedule. The Deputy Minist .- for
railways told correspondents that at midnight of May 15 the new -,Fain
schedule will be put into effect. According to the Deputy r:inis,;er, the
transport workers are over-fulfilling their quotas. "ithin 14 c. 17a of
May, the railroads of the nation fulfiller'.. the freight-shipping )"..an by
101.4 percent, increasing at the same time the speed of transpor~,i:.tion.
Thirty-six passenger railroad lines have exceeded their freight chipping
quotas. The new train schedule and regulations will insure the j'- vernent of
an additional 5,000 freighters daily. (SOVIET HONE SERVICE, 15 ' ' 1947)
CPYRGHT
Excerpt "Already in 1946 the average daily loading increased ".y
thirteen percent as compared with 1945.... During this Five-Yet' ., period,
capital to be spent on transport -s 41 billion, 100 million rubl,;s, which
is almost one-sixth of all capital to be spent on national econox
The Government has made-it incumbent on us to increase this year, as
compared with last year, carloadings by not less than eleven perr!ent....
(SOVIET HOI?E
Approved For Release I 99 N 1DEAT6678-04864A000100030011-5
 Approved For Release 1 9QNF DEKTTL78-04864A0eQ101003'0011-5
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
-- 10
I.fore than sixty percent of grain is beinr- transported this year by the
railways.... Transport of passengers continues to increase. In 1946
it has increased as connared with last year by almost one and a half
times, and has reached the pre-tar level. jMZjaCthe current veer,
000 m e e idll a e to be trans ate c3 ed th last year.
According to the surner tine-table, fifteen new long r?istanoe, 2' local,
and 240 suburban trains have been introduced. 'During this year, the
I=osoocn-V1adivontolz train time hen boon re hioAd by ttirwrt tan hrnis g_ _ _ _"
0?i7SCO1U7, TASS, IN RUSSIAN AT DICTATION TO THE PPOVI.TTCIAL PRESS, 9 AUGUST 1947)
(Sur=miary) Soviet railway engineers have increased the daily fro.-;-ht
by 5,000 cars. Some 273 :^ore pairs of long distance, local, and suburban
introduced on May 16 makes it possible to exceed the daily loading pro
transported by 15,000 tons during the past month. A new railway schedule
passenger trains will start running soon. Before the and of the ;tear,
passenger trains will run up ;greater distance than before the war. The
12.5 kilometers per hour. (MOSCOT1, TASS, IN ENGLISH F.ORSE TO NOR` }f A1,-MIA
A,,
19 IMY 191,77
ii. WAA` JAA 8
A. RESTORED OR REBUILT INLAND t-UATMITAYS
CPYRGHT
(Summary) The Soviet waterways reconstruction program will be a ended by
700 kilometers within the next five years. Big canal systems, s`' h as the
Dnieperpro-.Dug, '''bite Sea-Baltic have already been restored. Re struetion
of t'--, Volpa-Ptltic n one of the n
CPYRGHT (I40SCOT', TASS, IId I ''IGLIL ,b MORSE TO
NORTH AIr I OA, 21 'IAA' 1947)
CPYRGHT
(Text) "The passenger sterner Illyich left Kiev today for Nhersc n for the
first time since the end of the wnr. On July 15 a regular traff: will be
opened on the whole of the Dnieper. Comrade Savelyev, the head c:' the
Southern Central Administration of the USSR Ministry of th-+ IUv...? Fleet..
told our correspondent: 'Now that the Dnieper Locks have been r(-?tored
it in poaciblo to resume navigation on the full length of the The
workers of Dneproetory have restored the rain Dnieper Look and hr-:a brought
in a few technical improvements in its operation as compared with:. the pre-
war period. The resumption of through navigation on the Dnieper ::overing
the distance of 1,500 kilometers is of great economic importance. The
Dnieper merchant flotilla has been complemented with huge steam.eY and barges
T '
CPYRGHT restoration in sou _ ern provinces to be sent bv .1 water."' (sovi +.i HOME SERVICE,
12 JUDE 1947
CPYRGHT
(Text) "Leningrad: Over 2,500 kilometers of waterways along the -.ekes and
rivers of the northwest of the USSR have been restored within the last two
years. The big Svir Lock, recently restored after having been b: ted by
German invaders, again insures communications with the Volga via the
Nariinsk Canal systcri. The newly restored "bite Sea-Maltie Cane.. opened
last year, again gave Leningrad an outlet to the t'hite Sea. Dirt water
communications have been restored between Leningrad and TTovogora,
Approved For Release I WID J-R 78-04864A000100030011-5
 CONFIDfl1TI.IIL
Approved For Release 19PfpjLJjWe78-04864A
CPYRGHT
25X1A2g
Petromeavodsk, I:edveshyegorsk, Starayar'?.ussa, and other totans. Self-
propelling barges are plying on the '.Leningrad-Shcherbakov and Leningrad-
CPYRGHT trin-napa=tationn 1,11 1A h " (TIOSCO', T'ASS,
III 1 ITGLISII MORSE TO NORTH A `2 RI 3A, 21 JULY 1947)
CPYRGHT
(] ccerpt) "...Principal attention must now be devoted to the repair of
(rolling stook). Important work has up to now been conducted very slowly.
The chief reason for the delay in the repair of...'(rolling stook is the
unsatisfactory supply of... material to the railwayys. In, the first half
of June the railways received only one-third of the quantity of...
-materials they are scheduled to receive for June. me lumber plants send
material unsuitable for repair of rolling stock. Lack of drying plants
and use of damp lumber brings about a situation in tahich repaired rolling
stock becomes unusable for shipment of Crain within a.matter of days and
new repair work becomes necessary. T?e can delay no longer. The first
shit nento of the new harvest are beginning to arrive at the delivery points
Particular attention rust be devoted to correct organization of work at
points where grain is reeved from water to railways and from railways to
water. At these joints coordination between the railwaymen and waterway
men is necessary. '!e must not permit a situation where barges loaded with
waiting for barges." (SOVIET HO:?I SERVICE, 24 J[JITE 1947)
CPYRGHT the first tine in the history of the USSR the direct river route bets-Teen th
two, cities, which. oin throe h a network of canals and rivers, is 1 00
kilometers long." I'JCSCON, TASS, Ill RUS IAIT I IMLSCIIRE,IEE^, TO EUROPE,
23 JULY 1947)
(Sura:?ary) Soon new regular passenger service is to open on the river
Dniester. ("URVTTY OF SO'TILT UNION RADIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs",
25 JULY 1947)
C. EQUIPI E NNT AND OPERATIONS
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT J(E~Kcerpt) "A big shipyard is being built at the moo
(SURVfl OF SOsVI
UNION RADIO J3RO:JC "STS, "Information Briefs, t' 29 NAY 1947)
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
"The OB is now free of ice along its entire length, egra ar communications
with the trans-polar regions have be~rau-. From Omek, e steamship
"Vladimir Lenin"' has gone on its first cruise. It ?td
north 600 pannerweta and hwAreda of tons of " (SURVEY OF SOVIET
UNION RADIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs," 29 AY 1947)
(Sum.ary) Navigation has begun, on the rivers of the Iagadan area? (SURVEY OF
SOVIET UNION RPiDIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs", 29 MAY 1947)
romng o K207.1 Here the assembly of sev^ral barges which :.ere
Approved For Release 199AMIPWR'Q1Q78-04864A000100030011-5
 25X1A2g
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Approved For Release 1.99(W[$14At78-0486
CPYRGHT
started before the war has now been completed. In February of this year,
CPYRGHT
"Information I3riefs, " 11 JULY 194.7)
(SURVEY OF SOVI.-T ITITION PJ.DIO BRO DCASTS,
(Text) "Tens of-thousands of I'oscovites visited the exhibition devoted to
the development of the v tertaaye of the Capital under the new Five .!ear Plan.
The exhibit tells the story of the construction of the , oscow-Vole Canal
and of the Uglich and Ryabinsic (Shcherbakov) dans. Now the Capital is con-
nected by waaL?ertrcys with the Vora Valley eitiea, the Leningrad region,
the Karelo-Finnish Republic, and Archangelsk. The reconstruction of the
Iloscow river system of waterways will triple its carrying capacity. s?etr
hydro-power stations built upon the I:oseotr and 'v'isa Rivers will supp"-'.y i_OSeour
with additional cheap electricity. An artificial Ix'-e at preset h sing built
Oka with the Dnieper and consequently of .:oscow with the ssea.'" (I?CSCOT'.
TASS , L ' y%IGLISFI I TORSI TO NORTH A U ' ! y 17 JCJLY 191)
(Excerpt) "Food and: other supplies will be received on barges from floating
bases (on the Dnieper, Don, I'uba, and Volga. Rivers-Ed. ). The chips on the
routes Krasnoarmoisk-Gorky and Krasnoarmeisk-Shcherbakov run on a special
timetable. The mooring places at Kineshma, Yaroslavl, and Gorlcy are ready or,
the unloading of the grain ships. The Sarapul mooring place has been re t
and mechanisms reinstalled in a different order. The direction ofg*,rain
transport has been reversed here this year; the grain goes from the rail-my
to the river Instead of from the river to the railway as last year.
Pneumatic loading machines have been installed in Iosoow's southern hcrbor.
For the first time, the loading and the unloading processes are now fully
mechanized. Repair work is proceeding on the Kama at Solikerzsk, Elovo,
CPYRGHT reserved for grain transport. (SOVIE2 HOI-.E S tV.[CE, 20 JULY 191,7)
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
(Text) "Samylin, head of the communications department of the USSR 1 etry
of the River Fleet, told our radio correspondent that 15 and one half million
rtmni nntinn 1 inner Anafirnyn 1 er tht r-+nnmy heir nl_rnnr?y harm rentnrcrl sn
H01-4F SERVICE, 23 JIM E 1947)
River "aria.. Direct communication is also being established between
c
building yards on the Volga. Another important line is being laid a ng the
The main lines will run from I'oscoti to Astrakhan and the ports and sh p-
the head offices of the river-fleet companies, river ports, and lanli g stages
will be connected by high-frequency direct telephone and telegraph Ii es with
graph communications between establishments of the river fleet. The linistry
rubles would be spent this year for improving wireless, telephone, an I tale--
(SOVIET
xcerpt "About 3,000 kilometers of sriall rivers on the territortr of the
Russian Federation were,made navigable by the collective farmers. :n
accordance with the plans of the post-war Five-Year Plan, about 12,300
kilometers of smell rivers will be made navigable by the end. of 1950.
And in the same year of 1950, about five million tons of freight Uri"~i be
transported over the waters of these rivers. If transported by land, the
same quantity of freight would require about five thousanc' railroad.,..
or about two million three-ton trucks. It is difficult to present
SERVICE, 29 AUGI?ST 191;-7)
Approved For Release 19"FOM)Wl78-04864A000100030011-5
 25X1A2g
- 1 3 ..
D. GAITALS ASSOCIATED 7111 IRRIGATION PROJECTS
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Approved For Release 199E DKTF1A 78-04864A
(Excerpt) "AshX:3 bQd--One of the geological r editions seurteyi the
traelt for the future colossal Kram r Canal has returned here. (`raters) of
the Amu Dea River
brorat1io I1 f p (ntn iv7" m 1J (mss, III . IG :l aII ORS E TO NO1 P l tsi?uMICA,
26 IIA! 1947)
(T eerpt) 'Tashkent--The expedition tr'hiah made aerial photographs of the
vast and steppes in Kashkadarya and % Ohara regions his returned....
Hundreds of survey parties are now expldrine, these areas preparing a
design of the world's biggest irrigation project. ,Amu Darya Riv,- will
be spanned by a 6-?'.meter dam 28 meters in height, which will ?,-nke away
ono-third of the water in the river for the irrigation of fatelde and for
power production. Part of this water will irrigate 730,000 heat:.Lres of
lend in Turlanenia while the rest of it trill bring life to (M he .tares
in the Kzyd Kun desert in Uzbekistan.... Power stations built oo, the
c nAt ti111 : rnnnne A hi 11 i nn kJ 1 oz m bwaz s o;9 olo tills rq%mrP6.- awm.
(TABS, :DT ENGLISH I-~I?RSE TO NORTH ANEI.IOA, 21 MAY 1947)
Uzbeitisten. The Sary I{urgan ydropowor center, through which th=. waters
of the Sokh mountain river are c?ireoted Into Fergrhana Valley to ~.rrigate
cotton plantations, has been oommisaioncd. Construction of the Colossal
Katta Kurgan reservoir, to hold 200 million cubic peters of Irate:, is
nearing completion. Another five lame car nls and :cater rpaaryc~ : -~, crnr3
a wide notworIc of minor projects are under construction...." O.'SIS III
ENGLISH NORSE TO NORTH Mfg RICA, 11 JUNE 194.7)
(Excerpt) "Tashkent-r, treriendouo program of irrigation is proceeding ?
E. SOVIET-rCONTROLL1 SEAS
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
1. Mack Sea 'ra?ananortatioia
for carrying iron ore and bauxite. This - snecial
CPYRGHT
(Excerpt). "The first fast cargo line is now fnnak
CPYRGHT
RADIO BROADC:SS, "Information Briefs," 7 JUNE 1947)
also beinp or enized between Poi ': + and
Toning on the: Sea
tion of ships -md harbor
4
This line oor~nee to
A Rt~ag .` Q fe
(SfRV OF gory- v UmIt I
013=erpt) "Sochi, 9 AuL.--- o build .y of a seaport has been at : ,ed here.
A large embanIaxent, landing stages, etc., with a number of hydra '~ chnical
installations have been erected. This.Naval rt will begin to ruction
ASTS, " o ratio'.. Briefs,"
15 AUGUST 1947).
Text "For the first time, fast merchant lines will be inauguretod with
ships plying between Saku and Astrakhan for the rapid transport of oil.,
petrol and lubricants. This line trill consist of eight fast tan!-ore in..
clueing the tanker "Stalin." Other! fast morohant ships will, caz' y cotters;
timber, rang salt on the line Krasnovodslt.-Aotrakhan-emu. - Speedy %ransport
ei ~rrA i n i n1 an nnr h canp1 n 0 ?r7 from t ho ba&43hCauoau is cn "mr re
Asia," (P?KISOOti, III RUSSIAN TO THE SOVI'u FAR EAST, 13 14AY 19/4,,7)
CONFIDITTTIAL
Approved For Release 19"10M)Qff3P78-04864A000100030011-5
fdcilftieo is greatly inoreasinr their efficienc
 Approved For Release 19400F1DEKML78-04864A :11 0011-5
_14_
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
3. Faltic Sea:
(Text) "The shipping i3eison has been inaugurated in the P ltie and the
first vessels sailed out on long,-distance cruises from the Poltic ports,
including a large group of ships bound for the roar East. The pre-tar
capacity of the Leningrad port trill' be considerably surpassed this year.
The freight, turnover of I,iga and other leading ports on the Baltic will
i nnrnnn b g anal f rte= rail ,.,4th l scat =nr_ t big rcantnrnt4 nn =nter= in
in progress in other Baltic its too." (ISOSCOTw1, T_255, Ill ENGLISH IiRSE
TO NORTH A-: EtIdn 10 MAY 1947
4. antic Ocean:
(Summary) The USSR Intends to employ "large passenger and. tremsport
ships" on a regular service in the Arctic Ocean. Aircraft expeditions
are to study conditions in June and. 200 men of the Arctic research In-
stitute will man Meteorological stations and. supply ships along the North
Route. (SURT1,'Y OF SOVIET UNION RADIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs,"
27 JUNE 1947)
"Information griefs,"
(Excerpt) "Special news bulletin for the Soviet Arctic-Navigation has
begun throughout the whole of the northern sea route. Ice breosers
"IMikoyan " and "Admiral iokarov" are plowing their way toward the Way of
lambarchik and other Arctic ports. Throughout the Arctic ports, sl.tips are
being loaded and unloaded. The icebreaker "Stalin" Is also taking part
these operations. The combined ice breaker-trrnsport "Deshnik" trio the
first ship to arrive in Nordvil,, the newest port in the Polar region. It
brought Polar workers for this port and will betaking 100 of then back
to the mainland. Port Dixon is very busy just notr. Through this port
two convoys have already passed. The work is nearly completed on the
third convoy which is escorted by the ice breaker "Krasin." The ."ourth
convoy left Archangel for Dixon escorted by ice breaker "i-lolotov.' One
more convoy left turnanslc for the Arctic. This convoy is escorted by the
ice h ran ? n tt tt uIll = ate in
5. Far Eastern Seas:
(SURVEY OF SOVIL UNION RADIO BROfl.DC,ISTS,
15 AUGUST 19/;,7)
(Excerpt) "Navigation In the Far East is in full stwring. ... Thr ports of
Southern Soldialin have been equipped with new technical. installations for
the purpose of ~.1ar ng their loading capacity. New lines are being
e?atablished: V'.adivostok-Korsakov, Korsakov Kurile Islands, Vlsc?:Gvostok-
S 1 *--- ^ 1
innucpurrted Dal=." (SURVLYY OF SOVIIT UITIOIN RADIO
BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs," 23 MAY 1947)
111. VI TIO1
(Summary) A new air service ties inaugurated 8 INay between Khabarovsk
and ?Moscow. The necr service will place the Soviet Far East ,r1thin 48
hours' flight from Moscow. (DAILY REPORT, "Information Briefs," :1.4 I??AY 1947)
Approved For Release 19"F0w) W JP78-04864A000100030011-5
 Approved For Release I 9!649 D[WF1&78-04864A00010003MIA&g
15-
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
(Sum mazy) Eight necr airlines have been opened. In the western portions
of the Ukraine. Lvov, Stanislav, and other provincial centers now have
regular eonneotions with all their districts. (SURVEY OF SOVILT 7'I011
RADIO Lli3OADCA S, "Information Briefs," 23 !;AY 1947)
(Text) "Derr air lines between Leningrad and Odessa and Len - as ton
via Gorky, Kuibyshsv, and Aktyubinsk have been inaugurated. New comfortable
27-seater planes have been p u t o n the. air line between Leningrad a ca I_osootz.
o compa^~re to 3-Got year, tb a :P 0"n" Pi= ny~ri t'rMM gb +rar-ri n st the
Leningrad airport has been doubled." (SOVIE'flOIIE SERVICE, 9 JUI'E 1.947)
(Text) "The head administration of the northern sea route is inaugurating a
regular passenger and postal air service, _?'eseow-Providence Day, :D,-=
1 July 1947. Planes will leave I-Ioscow thrice a month on the lot en(' 15th
of the month and Providence Bay on the 5th and 20th of each month. he
] j gb+ f~s+rv, I ruxnnrr ?!:n PrnvirAnnena Thy finr7 'rw w trill take 10 dnye."
(SOVIET IHOIE S E R L CE, 25 JUNE 1947)
(Excerpt) "This morning fraa_i Leningrad air e._r? an airplane left
three thousand tons of machinery destined for Rost Sel Nach. Dori_kg the
month the Leningrad factory of rubber and technical r tnnufacture 0-1,7~atohed
by air to various centers of harvesting work some 30,000 square me~e:rs of
industrial belts for harvestinkn machinery. In the near future to ' ' Y~ Rost
Sel I oh, the "Commnunar" and other factories for agricultural mach.:" =,; ,
SURVEY OF SOVIL'T UNION RADIO Bs OI'1DCASTS, "Infor:.ation Briefs." 25 :Jib 194,7)
aMP^1 101f
o ATIT0I iOL'IT E M,
T
(Stmary) The biggest high ay brie-ge in the Soviet Centzal Asiatic
Re ub1Iee has been opened to traffic in the Uabek SSR over the Riv .: Kalgan -
ChirehU Bit. (sum =r OF SOt.IET U'N'IOII RADIO BROADCASTS, "Informat,': n
Briefs," 27 JUIJ 1947)
(S=ic y) Regular passenger automobile traffic along the rebuilt '- orgies
milite y highroad is again opened. Between Dzaudjokau and Tbilisi
motorbrises are running gaily. (SOVIM II01- S 'VICE, 7 NAY 19/7)
.COIIFIDEC TIAL
Approved For Release 19989/0M)W78-04864A000100030011-5