ROADS/RAILROADS/PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION/SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500440083-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: March 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved or Release 2005/08/17: CIA-RDP80-00 09A000500440083-9
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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Roads/Railroads/Public Health and Sanitation/
Security
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Traffic in Moscow is fairly heavy, although it is jnot eeotiparable
to that in a large US or western European city. The principal
automotive traffic in cities was' trucks. The main streets in
the cities were always good. They were generally of a width
larger than that found in New York or Chicago. The major
streets Were at least the width of such streets as Fifth Avenue
in New York or Michigan Avenue in Chicago. As soon as one leaves
the main section of the city, the streets become much narrower --
i.e. two-lane. There is a well paved, threo-lane highway between
Moscow and the airport on which it is possible to~pass another car.
In Tbilisi the streets are all narrow except for one or two main
thoroughfares. The number of passenger cars on the roads in
Tbilisi seemed greats?" than that in either Minsk or Kiev. That is
just an impression. Ex'tepts;or Moscow, where there was a great
deal of truck traffic, thero?never were conditions of overcrowding
of cars. There is very frequgxit'public transportation service within
the cities, but bus and train seMce to outlying districts is
infrequent.
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the roads in the cities were black top. '1$e put-
cities, outside the central urban area the snow,was allowed to
pile up, and we"had no idea of what the road surfaces were.
In Georgia the roads often became impassable
electric train from Sukhumi to Tbilisi. The track
did not appear to be narrow gauge. There was. an extensive amount
of rail traffill. On the Sukhumi-Tbilisi rM a lot of
freight trsSfi11 a lot of passenger attic in
the Caucasus which ooked like commuter traffic. Between eitied
there seemed to be two tracks, one going each way. This was also
true for the trackage between Kiev and Kharkov; mach
less freight lying between these latter two po 2AZ8.
There was a fairly large number of railroad bridges in the Caucasus,
but many bridges on either the Kiev-1C~arkoy or
Moscow-
le d a stretches, which were '= rid'es'.
0 ~J' ..Char txn railroad
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about 30 to 50,hm?ate?pt.T4i,Liai
a new dam. It was ema11,and 1a4 a
~ electric station. Also, in Tbilisi
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a numb ~r of crippled people, usually sea wo had. bed World
Sher II casualties. There was no evidence of ma nouriphmeAt"
? The 'people Were (generally healthy, although their 'die tu~,d a
heavyconceftration
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In the factories
-there 'Was always I a dispensaryand local first-aides a n, a 1,i,ttle
hospital attached, to the 6ispensary. o yon who
got a i'ck would', call the local' hoaPiz&L
., , an a ;Loo tor- wuul&.'be. sant,
to him. It the doctor Monad the patient to be .6.cidsal ly .sick, thm .' :::
pcitient would receive his i ile abscnti.'rQBr.the
In the cities a
cr or pharmacies, and it seemed that people wenz in on their
own and paid for What they got.
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In the cities,Icrevs of men and women work night and day toll keep
snow off the s~'seets. any litter in the streets
and they seemed to be in good repair in the urban arees
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The streets were always clean. No L tter .was ?throvn. a.u laoe in
the -buildings. Trash `?canms' were placed at frequent intervals
along the streets. The public toilets, on the other-.hand, were
always very poor and very-dirty. The II main -smells we encountered
were near the toilets and they were invariably there.
I Inever cautioned about drinkly,
water, ni no one E.s a e to serve it in all
public -rooms .and offices there -is a pitcher of water end's bowl;
Ito rinse your glass I in .the water in .the bowl a4d-
t a ?e nt makes the glass all right for -the next. Person.-to -use.
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