COAL UNLOADING AND STORAGE AREA AT MOSKVA TOVARNAYA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000500090001-6
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL 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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast) REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Coal Unloading and Storage Area DATE DISTR.
at Moskva Tovarnaya
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COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Coal Unloading and Storage Area at Moskva
Tovarnaya
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
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DATE DISTR. 25 April 1955
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1. From January to September October 1948,00REM No. 11 ' constructed
i new coal unloading and storage area at Moskva Tovarnaya which is
the freight terminal yard for the Moscow-Donbas Railroad located in
the southern part of the city of Moscow, 1
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2. Most of the coal shipped to this installation was mined in the Moscow
area (podmoskovskiy ugol') but there were also shipments of Donbas
coal. The coal was loaded from bunkers into trucks and then delivered
to various consumers in Moscow. None of the coal was retained for
railroad use.
3. All of the metal ties which were used for construction of the instal.-
lation consisted of war booty from Germany.
Following is a legend of the coal.unloading
and storage area on page 3. Numbers in parentheses refer to numbers
indicated on the sketch.
(1) A 1.2-meter-high fence made of metal ties surrounding the entire
installation. The area enclosed by the fence was approximately
100 meters by 200 meters.
(2) A ramp for unloading railroad coal oars. It was constructed of
metal ties and was filled in with sand. The ramp could handle
about twelve 50 - 60 ton coal oars at one time and it stood
about 2.2 meters above the ground. Two men, one on each side
of the train, could empty the cars in about 15 minutes. The
floors of each coal oar consisted of eight hatches, four on
each side. When the hatches were opened manually, the coal
spilled out on both sides of the ramp. (See memory sketch of
the ramp and of the unloading hatches of a freight oar on
page 4). 1
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Two open storage areas about 20 meters wide, which stored coal
unloaded from railroad cars. The areas were surfaced with a
floor of metal ties.
(4) Two spur tracks. A steam-operated crane equipped with a boom
and clamshell bucket and mounted on railroad wheelp transferred
coal from the open storage area (3) to the bunkers45).
(5) Four metal bunkers for storing and for loading coal into trucks
(see sketch on page .#).
(6) Two stone and concrete aprons for trucks.
(7) Four truck entrances.
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Comment: GOREN (Golovnoy Remontno Vostanovitelniy
Poyez) No. 11 was a forward repair and reconstruction train.
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