STATUS OF STARAYA-RUSSA-VALDAI-BOLOGOYE LINE/RAILROADS FROM GROZNY TO TBILISI/PLACES OF RESETTLEMENT OF ETHNIC GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000400650009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE, AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Status of Staraya-Russa: yaidai-Bologoye
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
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Line/Railroads from Grozny to Tbilisi{
Places of..Resettleaent of Ethnic Groups
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The Staraya Russa Valdai Bologoye railroad line was completely destroyed
during World War II. The Germans confiscated all railroad ties and rails
and destroyed all bridges and dams along the road. The line was later re-
built very quickly by the Soviets and followed the same route as it had,
previously. It was Soviet gauge and covered the same i +AT,~P a ore.
troop supp ies
There is a railroad line through Grozny - Maklach Rata Lic7 - Bakst Al ya.t
to Grozny. Another railroad line passes through Grozny - Mozdok - Amarvir2
Sukhumi Kutaisi to Tbilisi. There is also supposed to be a railroad
line from Grozny to Ordzhonikidze, through the Pass Krestovy and on to
Tbilisi.
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Before World War II, there was a concentrated settlement of ethnic Germans
at Engel's on the Volga River. During hostilities, however, the Soviets
accused these individuals of disloyalty and moved them behind the Ural
Mountains in the region of..the Caspian Sea. Engel's was thereafter used
as a training area for the Soviet Army. Before World War II, there were
various settlements of ethnic Ukrainians in the Ukraine as for instance
near Odessa and Astrakhanka. These groups were not as large as the German
ethnic group at Engel's. During hostilities, the Ukrainian ethnic groups
were also raa-w+tlpel behind the Ural Mountains in the region bordering on the
Caspian S~UNC
the relocation of the Crimean Tatars
imprisoned Their estimates of the Crimean Tatars who were re-
located varied from 300 thousand to three million. this group
was also resettled near the Caspian Sea.
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