SHALE USED AS LOCOMOTIVE FUEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600310551-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 551
• Publication Date: May 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Shale
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE SEAMING OF ESPIONAGE ACT EO
U. S. C.. SI AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TNANNMISSION ON THE RE, ELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY NANNER TO AN UNAOTHORITTO FENSON IS PRO?
NI[ITED [T LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FOR- IS PRONIEITED.
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Shale began to be used as fuel for locomotives of the Leningrad Railroad
for the first time in 1949. The tens of thousands of tons of shale since con-
sumed in locomotive fireboxes have made it possible to eliminate long-range
transport of coal to Leningrad.
Recently, A. Vasil'yev, a lecturer at the Leningrad Institute of Railroad
Transport, and Candidate in Technical Sciences, worked out a mixture of third-
grade shale and lean coal for locomotives. This mixture is being utilized for
the first time and is giving a satisfactory performance.
Two years ago, shale was sorted by hand in the "Kiviyli" Shale Mine. At
present, electric drills are operated at the mine faces. This has resulted in
a 50-percent increase in the miners' labor productivity of the miners and a
reduction in the production costs of shale.
DATE DIST. 4 May 1)50
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REPORT NO.
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