COMMENTS ON ARTICLE APPEARING IN VECHERNAVA MOSKVA

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• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 525
• Publication Date: September 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The 10 Dec 52 issue of Vac nave Moskva carries an interview with Surochkin.
Deputy Minister of the USSR Railway Ministry on the topics "Railway Transport
in the New Five-Year Plan." This arti;?le contains data on railway transport
in the Soviet Union, of which the following am the most important: Toward
the and of the five-year period, railway transport freight turnover must
increase 35-40% in comparison with 1950. Knowing that the actual freight
turnover in 1950 was 601 billion-ton-kilometers against a planned 532 billion,
we establish that the freight turnover in 1955 will be 812-841 billion-ton-
kilometers. The 1952 figure will be approximately 740 billion-ton-kilometers.,
2. By 1955, railway car turnabout time must be reduced by 18%, while average
24-hour mileage of locomotives must increase 12% over the 1950 figure. The
1950 average turnabout time was seven days, therefore it must be reduced to
5.8 - 5.9 days by 1950. Average 24-hour mileage of locomotives was about
280-295 kilometers and this figure must be increased to 312-320 kilometers by
1955.
3. It is planned to bring into use 60% more secondary railway lines in 1955 than
in the, previous five-ye" p.-rind, will. co;..-, iee app. ox i
nntely 20 thousand
kilometers, since it is known that 12,500 kilometers of secondary railway line
were supposed to be constructed in the fourth five-year period.
4. The Fifth Five-Year Plan provided that 2.5 more railways were to be built and
put into use than during the Fourth Five-Year Plan. We know that the figures on
railway construction during the Fourth Five-Year Plan were 7_7 thousand
kilometers, therefore 18 thousand is the amot;nt of railroad to be complete by
1955.
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During the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the following projeota will. also, be completed:
(a) Complete construction on the South Siberian 14--ain mine on the sections between
Abakan and Akmolinsk;
Complete construction on the Chardzhou (39.03 N 63.36 F) -- Kungred 43.06 N;
58.54 E) Line; .
Launch construction. of the Chardzhou akat (47.40 N; 53,14 E) Line.
6. The South Siberian Main Line will insure augmented ccmmunicationa between
Siberia and the Urals and European USSR. This will open a direct route to the
Kuznete coking coals for metallurgy of the Southern Urals, will improve transport
communications in the Siberia and Kazakhstan region. The Chardzhou-Kung^ad line
will plan an important part in developing agriculture and industry of Uzbekistan
and Kara-Kalpakiya.
7. During the Fifth Five-Year Plan, construction ?.rill begin roc ' he following
rail-roads:
(a) Krasonyarsk-Eniseysk;
(b) Astrakhan-Gurev;
(c.) "'yz (5603N, 53.02E) - Pronino
(54.17`1; 51.17E) ?. Surgut
(d) In Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, necceaazy r,4i2.way reconstruction works will
be carried out.
The interview with the Deputy Minister also brought cut the fact that during the
Fifth Five-year Plan there will be a large thc: ease in the amount of trackage at
the railway stations which will significantly in:rease their traffic capacity.
10. During the Fifth Five-Year Plan, four times more railway mileage will be
electrified than during the previous plan period. The Fourth Five-Year Plan
called for the electrification of 5.3 thousand kilometers of railway, there-
fore, 21.2 thousand kilometers is the amount cf mileage to be electrified in
the Fiftt) Plan period.
11. By the end of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the track se?oticna to be equipped with
automatic block aignalli.ngttill be inc..:eaaed by 80% i.n comparison with the
Fourth Plan period, and this will comnrias 18.7 thcuaand kilometers of railway.
12. By the end of the fifth five-year period, 50 thousand kilometers of railway
lines will be equipped with automatic train staps, which makes 2.5 mm:e than
were equipped during the previous plan period.
13. During the Fifth Five-Year Plan work will be begun equi .i: clli^ stock
with roller bearings, which vill make it easier to start the trains rolling,
increase the life of the axle-box and lower fuel and lubricant conaicaption.
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