USSR HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 21, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 28, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CEITRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S4-4-808,11
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT USSR Ines* . onstruction
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACO.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. PAGES
REFERENCES
28 October 1958
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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Comment: ...liefel:exice paragraph 6
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(Note: Washington distribution indicated by "X"; Field distribution by "#".)
INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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USSR HIGEWAX COSIRUCTION
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1. The three-bighWay construCtion prdjecte from 50X1 -HUM
1948 to 1953 are pointed outon'the-overlay of a non..4tandard SOViet
-(1evropeyskaya SSSR) msTs. scale, 1:42000,000publisbed in Moscow
in 1956 on page 4.
Moscow-Leningrad. Highway
2. Ole Moscow-Leningrad eaPhalt highki4 was ftve 'meters Wide Until 1948,
When a project waS initiated to increase the Width to seven meteiiil
aiail bap:rare the sboliblets.
Moscow-Rostav-na-Donu
tOV-naDOliu high*ly
Work was supervised by-an NO major Wb; ihTtUr4.
, was subordinate to an MVD Colonel. The major was very demanding
aad any' portion Of the highway which did-nOt meet his standarde
ges-ripPed UP and reconstructed. as Many times as necessary until
it met the &aired etandarda. The highway was seven 'Meters wide
With two4eter hard-shoulders-On each 'The highway was. Con-
strUdted'on-relatively level terrain d61.drainage ditches Were
exCaVated-WheraVer nedesdart. (See Sketch:On-page.% Of drOSS sec-
tion-OfhighWay0 SuPOly and Asphalt-preparation stations were ce?
ConatructedeVery-30 kilometers alOng the route during the winter -
MOntha, (Naike3t1Det?0 likmmaiems., January, and February), when work
on the highway ceased.
4. When the bighWay Was-cdtpleted4 taintenande Ciewa Who Operated.
graders, anowpIoW6,-aapbalt patching e40ipMent? and-graVel Spreaders,
were loCated in stations every 60 kilometert along the highway. -
-These crews Were compoded of six to ten laborers, with one MVD
supervisor, at each Station..
5. estimate the cost involved in highway construc-
tion; each kilometer of highway
cost spproximstely-200,000 rubles. a supervisor of a crew of
between six to ten workers received ,a salary of 1800
rubles per month the normal deductions, came to
1500 rubles. the laborers received about 1200
rubles per month before. eductions. In the early stages of this
highway construction project in 19482 it took. two
Weeks to construct one kilometer of highway; however, by 1950,
experienced personnel bad reached the norm of one kilometer per week.
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Sten Crew Coaitntated one kLlOsieter -Per Week
faire'paid. a tinirtaily- bontid, *rich in his case brought
up to 2000 rubles per mcath.
they
salm
'the - highs*. we/ 'designed 'for .404otivehiClea...
Be-had -dean Stet*. shovels and; ste446110ra -tratapOrted W 'heavy
&Ay-bed-trailers. In Cate of eiaergency, he the higl.iWity
Oauld- tolerate 100-ton loads. The one exaeptiozi vas in Xxvym Where
the -steel cOnatrUcted..highwor trifige -had Oaptidity:4-
-no further- iiiforkittion about this bridge.
traffic On this road vas hem.
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q11 riainrity of maps used. had the scale ot 1:250,000 .but
CMicps with Scales of 11_500,000,* 114/
ca zie 'fits/ ItiosCOw. Each: Crew ituterirlisor Wad 1813iied kap/ fOr-hiii
partionlar seetiimi Ottbe higintay and was required. to turn them
in at the abote4ontiOned doniittudt16tatiOni.idiere.-they-i4ere
stored:- The maps were neither ?Claiiiiified- nor- kePt-under-lOck -
and key, but eaCh- Oreii/upervisor signed out copies and was res-
ponsible for their return.
Moseotr-Warsanr Highway
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8. tJ asphelt highway Vas eleiten *Meters wide; thiii Was
the only highway Of Ibis-dize in the Soiriet-thiiOn.
The ileCtiOn of the "highway lettietti., ?
Oitha'. (1.1 54.-;31, E ? 30;.25). (3-5442,-E 30-30) 'fiqiiireid.
SO*/ SUrfaCe and. sboUlder no information
about -the type of traffic on. this highway.
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iligt0181? Projects (1948-19511
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