TRANSPORTATION - RAILROADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600210612-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 612
• Publication Date: March 31, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Tranepcr'~r~ticn -Railroads
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Seco~ tracks have been rebuilt on the ~Sinok-Moecoa-poronezh-Roator Line
sad un the lbscow-Leningrad Trankline. TZIs 2~econstruction of SnpyanoY, Debal'-
tsevu, 2aeinovata~a, and Lilrhaye ,unctions f.e is the process of completion.
Hundreds of stations, depots, gad bridges hays beam ivconstrected. The lbltava,
Ityum, Steniele~, Roetoc, Hharkov' loocmotivo sad railroad car repair plants.
have ottained their prewar capacity, after having been completely razed.
Along with reconstractioa of the tracks, progress is being meEa in
eleotriffcetioa, the i~tallation of new technological equip>bat, and the.:
aanstrnction of new trunlclinee. Trains atw new ell.ctrifie3 oa the
Chelyabinsk-Zlatoust-BercijaueL Line is the IImle, the new lines of the lloecow
~nactioa, oa the reconstructed sectors of thli Leningrad a~ Ta111n ~a>ystioae,
n~ on the new Rioni-Tkibuli Line in the Caucasus. ~cibali ideatltied as
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