SOVIET ARMY TRANSPORTATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000400350001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2009
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 23, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
USSR/Austria
Soviet Army Transportation
This is UNEVALUATED
Information
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Sacs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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ARMY review completed.
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COUNTRY USSR/Austria DATE DISTRasc,28,1954
SUBJECT Soviet Army Transportation NO. OF PAGES 3
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A. ORGANIZATION AND MILITARY TRANSPORTATION
Organizational Breakdown of QGF Transportation Section
a. Water Transport
1. Up to 1953, the Soviet Navy kept a contingent of unknown
size in Vienna. Personnel of this contingent worked on
an unknown type of shipping on the Danube River. Replace-
ments for naval personnel did not come through Chop (N 48-25,
E 22-i1) as did army replacements. but, instead, came through.
the town of Izmail (N 45-21, E 28-46). On leave Soviet
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b. Rail Transport
2.
most of the rail transport used by
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CGF was Soviet property; for example, the Austrian-made
flat cars used for repair and rebuild purposes
were the. property of the USSR. it was
possible that some of the military transport used in.CGF was
Austrian.
the Adtninl -
s ra on or Soviet Property in Austria USIA-Upravleniye
Sovietskogo Imushchestva V Avstrii) controlled all Soviet
rail traffic in Austria.
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B. RAIL MOVEMENT
Car-Loading Practices
,Soviet tanks in Austria were normally side-loaded at railroad
stations and end-loaded only when there were special conditions
requiring loading in open fields. a T-34 tank side-
loaded in Mannersdorf (N 48-23,.E 16-50) directly from a concrete
railroad platform to a'wooden flatcar that was level with the plat-
form. The tank drove onto the flatcar from the side, turned on the
top of the flatcar, and nearly wrecked it in the process.
T-34 tanks were loaded
flatcars.
Tonto sma113 two-axle Austrian
there
was never more than one tank to a flatcar. The tanks
were out on the Austrian-made flatcars facing the front end of the
train with their turrets turned so that the muzzles of the tank guns
pointed to the rear.
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Loading Stations 1
Transloading Points
10.
Chop. / -m3Tiary goods here transferred to and from
USSR trains possibly by Soviet border guard personnel or labor
units. In the vicinity of Chop there were many tracks of both
gauges which ran side-by-side into a large railroad yard and which
were used for the transfer of goods.
C. MOTOR TRANSPORT
11. Soviet Army units usually used motor transport
only for short-distance moves up to 40 km. For long distance moves,
railroads were used, because the 13th Mecz.
Div. was-mechanized, it theoretically had sufficient vehicles to
entirely move itself by motor transport; however
up o bO percent o the division's motor vehicles were of World
War II vintage were old and worn-out and any long-
distance movemen wi h these vehicles would not be practical.
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motor convoys when the 13th ads
Mecz
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coo took its students out for practice motor
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marc
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These convoys usually were,.made u of various tucks such as
Fords, tudebakers and ZI- 5.
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in convoys between trucks varied for different speeds and loads;
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:13. See paragraph 1.
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D. WATER TRANSP
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