FACILITIER OF THE UKHTA OIL COMBINE; RATE OF 1952 SHIPMENTS/RATE OF VORKUTA COAL SHIPMENTS/RAILWAY SECURITY EAST OF KOTLAS.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500190008-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT gacilitier of the U.hta Oil Combine; Rate of 1952 Ship-
iuente/.tate of 11or::uta Coal Shipraents/Railway Security Bast,
COUNTRY USSR
The Uichta Bitumen Works
The U::hta Carbon Black Frr.ctory. (Carbon black in used in the rubber industry)
The Ukhta Mechanical Works
The Ukhta Repairs Plant
The Ushta Electrical Power Station.
2. "In 1952 four trains with 4.0 cisterns of 50 tons each left this combine daily for
Leningrad and from time to tine for Archangel.
3. "Ten trains, each with 40 hopper-cars (each car taking 60 cent tons) lof wtrainsith werecawe
daily to Kotla? from the Vorkuta region in 1952. Fifty per
directed on to Leningrad while the rest went t- the towns of Archangel, Kirov and
Molotov. The Vorsuta coal is first-grade' coking coal for metallurgical plants.
'4. "In'1952 the population of Vorkuta numbered 42,000; 75 per cent were convicts working
incoml mines. Their working and living conditiLnc are very hard. The coal mines
are;underarouud in the permanently frozen tundra. Most of the convicts live in large
one-story wooden barre.cks.
5. "FremlKotlf:a eastward the railway is strictly Guarded by MDD Interior Security Forces
(Voiuka Vnutrennei Okhran M'ID). All works on the railway east of Kotlas are executed
by, Buil ing Administration of the NVD o" the Pechora Railway (Stroitelnoe_Uaravlenie
MVA'Pechorekoi Zhelezr.ot Dorogi), which ur:as forced labor."
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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1. "FT...;: the statio:. Of Chiuir:, ucnt of firc t? n,111 of U.:hta an tare idorth-Pechora (Severo-
Pec'norakaia lteilwu; , a Bide line branches off to the 'A.hta Oil Combine (r_chtinsl:i
I:13ft nxroi k:ombinat). In 1952 the combine 'consisted of the following plants:
The U: bta Uil Refinery No. 1
The Ul:hta Oil Refinery 1:u. 2
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