THE MOSCOW TELEPHONE SYSTEM

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• Document Page Count: 79
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 468
• Publication Date: August 29, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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h6RMATION REPORT Tbto materfaf contain. lnformadon aU?ed" th.
NaNon.l U.bmn of th. United Stet.. within th.
PREPARED AND DISSEMINATED BY .aw of th. undo-a? Law,, nw fI, U.S.C.
So" ...
COUiiT'Y
USSR
and 7" i . tra.nmte,lon or r r latbn
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY .on y p,aan aw. an U1 '"h?' per.
The Moscow Telephone System
DATE OF INFORMATION (Dpte or dofp, on pr
wean or rondit7??. durrlb?d In "port Mtw??n whiny,
ge
ilfnnelled through the Central station to other s were built, all calls were
ts of the cit.
equipment was used to handle calls from other ce er
s. In addition to rervving
as the central exchange, the central Station was also a zone exchange and bas
two, 10 thousand groups for its own district. Cen 3. thThe e Revolution. tioThe n directional w hhou in~ ei btgtor t~narrow build
basement. built
cable before on-
tained 1200 pairs of wire. On the first floor were the finance, personnel
adninistration offices. on the second floor there was a library and t and
he labora-
tories. In the measursmsnt Tabora
the capacity of certain 141.0the r~e?ieta r lines, Ected tc+F~serv_cees
and the repair shop were is an adjoining building; ' 7 service
4. The Central Station had 100 telephones within the ui1ding to carry on the
routine administrative work. Siemens Nalske equipment was used raths.- thin
Illriaka v , The 3-'ichn sysie? was in alsost uaivaeal use throughout
Union, with a few exceptions. The other notable exception, where Shs the soviet
equipment was in use, was the Mremlin. msas aislf~e 11
n
o
center of the city were the following stations: Minskaya, lrbatslosya, Taganskaya
2. The lain exchange was called the Central station and Is[ exchange in the world. It was originally the onl exchang
tb? largest
y? is Moscow and handled
60 thousand telephone lines. As other exchan
DATE DISTRIBUTED
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lines (abonants) The city ~m uw wad wired to handle 1,500,000 telephone
was divided into zones, each with its own telephone
exchange wired to handle 10 thousa
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S. In the center of the city, telephone wires WOW
d
frog the "all" of lbscow, the wires were stri .~..F 'OYVA'. 5mver, away
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batWeen )" gd cow and diet wires, with one exception. The
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a
eta,n a 'lam cotarmunteli4aton wwssface move used.as in us with d 1y 10 lane
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and then the call was re he to do csafer of the Between next Vyases diatanaandd '
lbecow, however, there was thisedirect contactibetween )Asco? and the small rail-
road stations.
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