ECONOMIC SERVICES OF THE MOSCOW-RYAZAN RAILROAD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A046900130001-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 18, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the IInited Staten within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 sad 794, the transmission or revelation of which in .any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT .Economic Services of the Moscow- DATE DISTR. 1$ .February 1959
Ryazan Railroad
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on the workings of the
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Ryazan railroad trunk line
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arrangements :and other aspects of this office.
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COUNTRY: USSR (Mosco~t Oblast) REPORT
SUBJECTS Economic Services of the
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VPRITTEN UP: 15 September 1958
In 195b this office was allotted 12,000,000 rubles to cover its annual plan.
riveting shops made up for the annual output of 12,000,000 rubles, plus 2~ profit.
The income from the (truck) motor pool and the railroad agency and the railroad
was to be deducted from the following year's allottment.
If this sum of money had not been spent in the space of a year, the remainder
Banking o~nd insurance was handled by the
trial Security Bank which made
loans to the various agencies in the industry with the approbation of the
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corresponding Ministry.
Passenger insurance was available to those who wanted it
A special revision office was in charge of checking expenditures made in each
they kept track of money spent in concurrence with
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the :annual plan, and attended to orders of materials from consumers.
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In accordance with these orders the supply office iii their orders with the
manufacturer, careful to regulate supply and demand so as to avoid delays in
filling orders. A record was kept of the exact amount of materials sent to the
respective railroad agencies who used these materials, so that no one exceeded
its quota of materials to the detriment of the others. However, this office was
at liberty to regulate the quantities of shipments ~,- sending more of one type to
one consumer and less of another type to another, at their discretion.
There was no private enterprise in the USSR Railroad system.
In 1956 the price~of metals (rubles per kilogram) were as follows:
VS1Yhite metals: nickel- between 40 and 50
zinc - 50
duraluminum - 35
silver - 115
lead - 100
Yellow metals: copper - 100
According to repair shop statistics, from 150 to 200 steam engines were repaired
annually and about 600 various type cars were repaired annually.
Freight train repairs were more frequent than repairs on passenger trains, but
the latter were more costly.
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Supply centers
supplied railroad repair, construction,
and maintenance centers with raw materials.
Once the railroad cars were put back into working order these centers sent the
cars back where they came from, or where they were most needed.
Basic maintenance materials such as window glass, valves, electric devices,
piping, and fixtures were sent to various reserve warehouses which kept materials
on hand for light repairs.
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