ECONOMIC - RIVER TRANSPORT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220687-6
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 687
• Publication Date: April 29, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic - River transport
Daily aawepapers
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
NAVIGATIO BNGIIIS ON MARY R1V 3;
NEW D4~TS IN RITE BOATS
On 21 March 1949 navigation began -n the liayygi River. The Diesel ship
Shipovka will serve the Tartu -Khaaelava.-luunyya-Myakea-1Lavastu-Eno tra Line, and
the steamer Singisepp will aeon be put into service on the Tartu-Praaga Line. i
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NAVIGATION BEGINS OA YUZaiii BUG -- Pravda Ukrniny, No 67',1 22 Mar 49
Navigation began on the Tuzhnyy Bug River on 21 March 1949. The first
rune of the season were made by the motor outter BT-51 and the steem,h.p Frunze,
out of Nikolayev.
*X3COW-1WS4P0T LIIE TO OPEN -- Pravda Ukrainy, No 67, 22 Mar 49
Preparat4one are under way for the opening of the Moscow-Molotov paseinger
eteaaer line, which has a run of 2,313 kilometers. Nine comfortable Kane and
Volga steamers will: be used. The round trip by water takes 17 days.
ILI DIM ICE BREAKS -- Kazakhetanekaya Pravda, No 51, 13 Mar 49
It vas reported 13 March 1949 that the ice on the Ili River had begun to
break.
ICE BREAKS ON DNEPR -- Sraenyy Flot, No 69, 24 Mar 49
A TASS dispatch, dated 23 March 1949, repor~.ed that ice on the Dnepr had
begun to break in the Kiev area.
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:yAC?.0 r ,on TO :4EGf1 ON MOSCOW CANAL -- Pravda, No 79, 20 Mar 49
The Cann.1 imeni Moskva between the Moskva and the Volga rivers is free of
ee, a.id ?3reparationa for navigation are almost completed. The Diesel ship
los`.f Sta:.in is ready for operation. Ten new Diesel passenger ships will
opei.ateo,.t of Moscow, and the Kalinin Ship-Repair Works will put out ten clew
~at.->ttgar cutter.,. A number of barges will be added to the freight fleet.
New ')ading u nc .:nloading machinery bas been installed in the northern and
veatasn ports i' Moscow. New passenger lines between Moscow and Yaroslavl',
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