CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE ROAD FROM PETROZAVODSK TO LENINGRAD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000400180006-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
COUNTRY USSR (Karelo-Finnish SSR)
SUBJECT Construction of Concrete Road
from Petrozavodsk-to Leningrad
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 9 April 1933
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
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The read started west of Petrozavodsk (N61-490 E34-20) railway station and ran
parallel to,and at several hundred meters distance,fm'm.,the railway line to Leningrad.
It was 12 meters wide.
The road was divided into construction. sections
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The road was as straight as possible. It often ran over marshy terrain which had to
be drained and consolidated. Earth had to be excavated or embankments built in order
to make the course of the road as level as possible. Equipment was defective and
progress wae.therefore,blow, especially at many workers were incapacitated by illness
or general exhaustion; some died.
Under the concrete surface was a layer of stone chips and below these a layer of
broken stone, the two layers combined being about 30 - 40 cm. thick. When the ground
was aarahq longbeams of wood and, on some occasions, branohe s of trees were laid and
fixed as the lowest foundation Dement, stones,eto.,were brought by truck from
Petrosavodak or its railway, station. Timber was felled, and prepared as near to the
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By sentembor 19,5f) about 30 km. of road had been feted
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