RAIL AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN THE ESTONIAN SRR AND THE KARELO-FINNISH SRR/DEVELOPMENTS AT VAENGA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500170210-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 210
• Publication Date: September 1, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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U.S. Officials Only
CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION REPORT
25X1A
COUNTRY USuSI
SUBJECT Rail and Road Construction in the Estonian SRR and th
Karelo-Finnish SRR/Developments at Vaenga
PLACE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
DATE ACQUIRED
(BY SOURCE)
DATE D I STR. / 5zjq"_953
Estonian SSR
1. "in October 1952 extensive work startea on enlarging iht+ eti.~ of T-r '
Tallin -Leningrad railway line. The following projects are schedules for
complet.ion by 1955:
a. New shed for 12 locomotives.
b. Locomotive repair shop with three departments: repairs, washing,
furnace.
Railroad car repair shop.
d. storage depots for engine and railroad car equipment.
e. Storage depots for fuel (oil, coal and oil shale), water and sand.
Modern refueling equipment.
f. Storage depot for ties and rails.
g. New housing for 24 engine brigadea.
h. Club building and canteen for railway workers.
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SECURITY INFORM;.IION
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Agencies indicated above. It is not to be tran emitted overseas without the concurrence of the
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2.
"According to an order of the MVD of the Estonian SSR. issued in February
1953, the following lutomobile roads of the republic are to be 'reinforced'
during the road-building season of 1953:
a.
Tallin ?Narva
b.
Taalin
?Rennamoisa - Jon - Klooga - Pal&tski (new military road)
c.
Te.llin
?Arudevahe-Riste-Eaapsalu
d.
Tapir
?Riati-Virtsu
e.
Tallin
Arudevahe-Pftr r.u
f.
Tallin
Paide-Poltsamaa-Tartu-Voru-Pankjavitsa
Karelo-Finnish SSR
3. "A new 'normal' one-track railway line is under construction summer 1953]
in the Karelo-Finnish SSR from Medvezhegorsk on the Leningrad-Murmansk line
northwest toward the Finnish frontier at L1eNS-. It is constructed to carry
heavy traffic. The purpose seems purely strategic. The station of Medvezhegorak
is connected by a 'normal' one-track railway line with the port of Povenets at
the entrance to the Baltic-White Sea Canal.
1:. "There is normal traffic on the railway line Lodeinoie - Pole - Olonets - Salmi
- Pitkaranta - Lotmala.
5. "The Leningrad-Murmansk railway is being continued north of Murmansk. On 1 May
53 heavy trains travelled from Murmansk to Vaenga and toAntonovka opposite the
miiil.nry be of Folia naie. The extension thus links the Vaenga naval base
with the Leningrad-Murmansk railway line.
6. "By 20 May 53 all 'constructions' at Poli.arnoie, the former naval base of the
Northern Fleet, had been transferred to the new base at Vaenga. The repair
yards of the Northern Fleet are also now at Vaenga. The chief of these yards
is Captain of the Second Rank (fnu) Zakharov."
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