ROADS IN THE USSR AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ROAD SYMBOLS ON SOVIET MAPS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200260003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Roads in the USSR And The
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Soviet Maps
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reapona- ble or a Brea eat o goo etio amt canographto research for the entire
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country"
With erez usage
fit of a tl later field check.
mw,ps, all classified Sears , and had to be tu d in each da after use. On one
ooaasioAl while on a training march., a road shown sir rly did not exist,
in fact, the errors in the military maps was a standing Jo a among the officers.
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main highways are marked with direction signs,
this road atlas in for Red use or1y, and carries a "Beare
security class fioation.
This is the width of the surfaced part of the highways shoulders axe not included.
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The term "Sbosse" as used on the Soviet mps designates a hard surface, all weather
road. The construction may be paving block, driven stone, or asphalt surface. 25X1
On Soviet mayor of larger soale tbar tiI100;0OO, the red color (fill) is veed for hard
surface roads3, the hlao% Is lived for Improved roads. On sulaller scale imps, red
inoludaa Via hard surf aoe autoptrada and shi e . au~all scale rya? he s i lie sawn
symbolization. Spoalcing of topographio map,a th Any 'black line moans te.~p roved
t road. The latter dirt road no, matr ained.
earth road a ,in t~7,aolc lino a ~1ir i
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The "improved, dirt roads" which are not passable after heavy rain, have a total width
from drainage di,toh to drains a ditch, of 8 to 10 meters and arm graded so that there
is a shoulder angle of about taxi degrees. Theme "improved dirt roads" may have a
10086 surface cover of oohblestonoe, ,wish rock, or, gravel. In some i nstaneee of
better oonatruotion the soft or rth crown may be aovorod with a ooarpe (abarp) rook
and then surfaced with a gravel, or Pand fili,. 25X1
tbare 1,t very- 1i t+-le lie ha Beal mq .:fpmant for roads in the 'TSS . 25X1
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Country roads are usua;ly 8-10 meters wide (from center to center of drainage ditch)
with shoulders at a 10 angle. On each side of the road is a level atreuob two
meters wide which could possibly be used as an alternate road in bad weather, How-
.ever,, where the road passes through cultivated areas, the farmers plant their fields
up to the edge of the drainage ditch, taking in the two-meter stretches on the sides
of the road, "Improved" country roads actually have little "improvement", Collec-
tive farmers contribute six days of labor per year to the maintenance of local and
rayon roads, An improved road from Kirovograd to Poltava was under oonatruotion in
1950 and. was built as follows: Crushed stone was laid on a base of sand; gravel
was used to fill in the gaps between the stones, and the whole was covered with a
laver of sand.
In 1949, collective farmers in the Ukraine, wire engaged in the construction of a
hard surfaced highway between Kiev and Odessa,, The now highway will by-pass Kirovo-
grad to the east.
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asphalt roads in the USSR:
(a) Moscow-Minsk
(b) Moscow-i her' kov
(c) Rf ga-` a ,gave-Siauliai
(d) )elgave-himpaja
(e) Orsha-Magilev
(f) Orel-Bryansk
(g) Lvov-5ambor
Road construction to carried out. to a great extent by collective farmers who have
bottle or no ex+ertenae in this type o work. Thus, although plans for road build-
ins are well prepared, actual construction is poor.
Thousands of highway bridges were destroyed during the tern retreat f ,om the USSR.
These bridges were temporarily repaired by Soviet Army I sneers and 'v 'e subse-
quently turned over to civil authorities. The latter have as yet mode no efforts
to replace the temporary bridges with permanent structures.
Soviet trucks are overhauled once azu'tually.
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