PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF BARANOVSKIY-KRASKINO RAILROAD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400600010-9
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2009
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 20, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT
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DATE DISTR. .O Jul 1954
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In 1938 after a Soviet-Japanese battle near the sea of Hassan and the Zaozernij
5i mountains, it was decided to build a new railroad line in this
area since there were no roads. The heavy July rains washed away every-
thin.g. The terrain was flat and very swampy.
3. Technicians were sent to-this area and performed detailed surveys for road-
bed locations as well as supply depot locations. Their findings were
delivered to the Kiev Transportation Project Loyztransproekg and. also
to the Moscow Transportation Project ffosproe t . The responsibility~to
construct this. railroad line and bridges from aranovskiy-Kraskino was
given to ffnu7 G a , who was Chief Minister of Slave Labor Camps in this
area under supervision.
4+. When the Kiev expedition arrived at Voroshilov.. Gulagy had already assembled
about six h d thousand laborers in the district of Baranovski?v and
Ambs~ Amba Zpia, River.
5. preliminary surveys of this area and with six members of the 25X1
rove from Voroshilov by motor car working our way to Kraskino.
after the 1938 battle all the people who 25X1
were Korean ethnic origin., ha een moved to Takitii or to Middle Asia,.
Manny of the Korean homes /Franz stood empty. In some areas,. members of
the expedition lived'in these homes temporarily and it was necessary to have
continuous heat in these buildings, as he'Far East frosts are very sharp
and temperatures reach minus 30 - 40 Co 25X1
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6. Two considerations were of prime importance* one was the necessity of having
evenly distributed water supply points along the railroad line.
The other was that the freight car ser es
we ng one ousan tons was to be used on this line.
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7. Freight trains going from Voroshilov to Kraskino were to use two engines
as there'was to be a 9% ruling grade as well as a 17.2% ruling grade when
going through the mountain pass.
8. This pass was a 32 meter cut through the ridge.=.between Sookhanovka /ig7 and Ria-
siOnovksj.amd was one of the narrowest places in. the . line. The other
narrow place was the bridge across the I agugay River.
This line would have a great strategic value as this was the only railroad
line and means of transportation both freight and passenger. to supply the
military garrison at Kraskino - Barabashi/Barabash, a military colony which
was located seven tD eight kilometers west of the railroad line, in the
valley of the Mangugay g7 River.; acid Amb i .
ENCIASURE(A); Rough sketch of proposed -Baranovskiy Kraskino Railroad Line.
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