ECONOMIC -- RIVER TRANSPORT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1171
• Publication Date: May 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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HOW DATE DIST. If *y 1949
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Eoonwmic -- River transport
DATE
PUBLISHED 25 Feb -- 8 Apr 1949
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NAVIGATION OPRUS ON LUGA AND ORELM RIVEIL2 -- Leningradskaya Pravda, No 60,
6 Apr 49
Navigation opened 5 April 1949 on the Lugs and Oreaezn rivers. Passenger
service opened 6'Apr1l 1949 an the Rkilok-Tolmaahevo Line. The Leningrad
Oblast Administration for thi Dwrolopment of Small Rivers for Tranoport plans
to ops4.r,ew passenger lines this Fusser on Vuoksi lake between Priozersk and
Gary and between Priozersk and Mazneohnoye.
NMW.RIVRR LINK STARTS FREIGHT TRANSPORT -- Sovetskaya Litva, No 77, 2 Apr 49
The Namen River Steamship Line of the Ministry of the River Fleet aanoances
that, beginning 1 April, it is taking orders for fast and slow freight for
transport on the Neman and rivers of Saliningrad Oblast.
NITA PAB?GEB SERVICE STARTS -- Laningradekaya Pravda, No 78, 3 Apr 49
Regular passenger service has started on the Neva River between retrokrepost'
and Norozovka landings. The steamship Arzamas carried nearly 5,000 persons
during the first 10 days.
DON CPU -- Veohernyaya ? akva, No 73, 28 1 r 49
71be Don River was free of ice as of 28 March 1949.
NAVIGATION (WR ON LITEU3PA RIM'-- Veohernyaya Moskva, No 73, 28 *r 49
Navigation has opened on the Liyelupa River from Tolgava to Salgala,
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shipping activity on the Dnepr River out of Kiev has begun. The steamship
R?upekeya opened passenger traffic. On 27 March the Diesel freighter Azarbayydzhan
and the passengsr staasrs, Tbilisi and Pa lik Morpzov, left for Xherscn. The
stoaaasr Alma-Ala took 6 barges to DRepropetrovak. The steamer Akademik itrylov
left Dnepropetrovsk for Kiev with barges of coal and salt,
The Don River is clear of ice as far as Bogeyevskaya Quay. The steamer
2uriy Dolgav?ak9.y arrived at Iblekhovskgya from Rostov. Passenger traffic has
opened on the Rostov-Azov-Bagal'nik line.
MM SHIPPM ACTIVE -- Rechnoy Transport, No 25, 29 ]War 49
The Amx-Darya River is free of ice as far as Khodzheyli Quay, but the river
Is ice-bound above this point.
LXKINMW PCB PRIPAUS FOR MAVIIATION -- Leningradakaya Pravda, No 69, 24 Mar 49
Final preparations are thing ooapleted for the opening of navigation
on, the Neva ver. High-speed freight handling will be practiced this year.
On the Lan ad-Moscow and Lsaingrsd-Gor'kiy lines the Diesel freighters
tiairyasw and Demidav, as well 'as others, will operate. .A mechanised pier
for unloading coal is being Installed at the Zalashnikovskaya Quay; this
change will double the number of coat care that can be handled. Speioa:
aaeehanizationwill out the tine needed for bunkering tugboats from 3-4 hours
to. 40-45 minutes. The following tugboats, among others, will be used in
operations this season: XV11 NiuD, Crgyka, and Nrasnyy Bogatyr'.
OBLA81' PRZ?ARIS FOR NAVIGATION -- Leningradskaya Pravda, No 46, 25 Feb 49
Water-transport workers of Leningrad Oblast are getting ready for spring
navigatim on small rivers had have repaired any barges and power-driven
vessels ahead of schedule. Several barges are being repaired at the Pasha
ShiWard, and one 150-passenger cutter at the Tolmaohevo landing. Theso
vessels will be ready by spring.
The assume shops of the Tithvin Office of 811x11 Rivers is building a
wood-borniag we-generator tugboat (gasokhod). In 1950, all power driven vessels
of the Tikhv1n Office will be equipped with gas generator: and converted
from liquid fuel to wood, the local solid fuel.
UVA S PB PRZPARI P NAVIGATION -- Leningradekaya Pravda, No 77, 2 Apr 49
The Nsva< River is almost eosplete]y free of too within the city limits
of Leningrad, from the river mouth to the fifth GM. The steaa tugs, Niohurin,
Nekresov, and Barrikada, are preparing -to sake their first tripe on 3 April.
The Leningrad Adminirtsatim of the Rydrometeorologinal Service reports
that the water an the Lnga liver and on the Toena and Okhta 1s 100-200
centimeters above the winter level. Ice flow began 1 April an the Plyussa
aad.Tigsdarivers and is expected on the Neva approaisately 10 April.
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IGZ FIX W.TM OR ICSLVA -- Maukovskiy Bolshevik, No 82, 8 Apr 49
The Moscow Administration of the Bydrometeorological Service reports that
toe flow has bean in the upper part of. the Moskva River. The river has
already been cleared of too in the vieiiity of Noshaysk. Ice still remains
in the river at Lvenigarod, but there are 1srxP cranks. The :tvdrometeorc-
logieal Service predicts that the too flow will begin an 9-10 April within
the city limits. On 7 April the water level at Mozhaynk increased 9 centiaeters
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between 0800 and 1400, 8 centimeters in that time at Zvenigorod, and 7
at Pavehin. The Nara, Lucha, and Istra rivers have been cleared, but the
Ruza is still filled with ice. -
WATER CORi'fl To RISE IN 18C0W RIVERS -- Vecbsrnyaya Moskva, No 74, 29 Mar 49
Tb.e Oka River l :rtaen 2} motors in its upper reaches. Ice movement is
ION BLASTED ON Bl3Bl4ARIV -- vedheryVaya Moskva, No 72, 26 Mar 49
Bleating of 'the ice La the Ncekve River has begun in order to prevent ice jams,
when the toe thaws. There will be about 4,000 small bl?ets along about
3} kilaatotere of the . river in '.no Serebryanyy Bor area. The thickness of
the ice this winter'reached 80 centimeters in places, but the vintor was
oon?arativelywarm and there was little snow.
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