BATUMI-SAMTREDIA RAIL LINE AND OTHER INFORMATION ON RAILWAYS IN GEORGIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
USSR (Georgian SSR)
Batumi-Samtredia Rail Line and Other
Information on Railways in Georgia
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1. The president of the Georgian Railway Workers' Union is Anton Vasilevic-'
Corbinadze (sic; Korbinadze or Chorbinadze?), who lives in Tbilisi, is ,
member of the Communist Party, and is married.
2. Train No. 83 runs between Kutaisi and Batumi. It passes the railway junc-
tion of Kviani (42-05N, 42-10E)at 0815 hours and arrives at Batumi at 1200
hours.
3. Train No. 47 runs along the Tbilisi-Batumi, line.
4. A railway school is located on a corner of Pushkin Street in Batumi.
5, he following is the legend for the attached plan of the Batumi rail yardh
1. Batumi station
2. Batumi freight yard
3. Rail car depot
4. Engine depot
5, 6. Engine and rail car denots
7. Hospital
8. Nazut depot, guarded
9. Petroleum depot, guarded
10. Oil depot, guarded
11. Stalin Plywood Factory
12. Citrus fruit combine
13. Engine department
14, 15. Electric power station
16. Water reservoir
17, 18. Passenger train repair shop
19, 20. Freight train repair shop
21. School
22. Club
23-29. Lodgings
30. Bridge across the railway
31. Train workers' dormitory
32. Concrete
33. Sand site
34. locomotives
35, Central depot
36. Reserve nazut depot for locomotives
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37. Petroleum pumping depot
38. Auxiliary train
39?42. Railway bridges
43. Stalin Oil Factory (at least 5,000 workers; has its o*.n guard)
44. Bridge
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verences from the sketches attached-to
a. Attachment 2, Item 1: M&khindzhauri station. First drawing showed orte
siding; second drawing shows two sidings.
b. Attachment 2, bridge between Items 3 and 4: Length is 30-40 meters.
c. Attachment 2, Item 4: Should read: "water tank where locomotives r+b;:a3n
water".
d. Attachment 2, Item 7: Re-identified as petroleum pump factory; corre. t
version not determined.
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e. Attachment 2, Item 8: Kobuleti station. First drawing showed four s .dings;
second drawing shows three sidings.
f. Attachment 2, Item 6: The area of the Kobuleti milit,~tiry airfield is about
200 hectares. A large number of unidentified pisues is on t he field.
h. Attachment 2, bridge between Items 9 and 11: First d.-awing showed or.
bridge. Second drawing shows three bridges. The first two are 3,"40
meters long. The third (nearest Notanebi) is a reinforced concrete
bridge over the.N?tanebi River; it is 80 meters long, has metal a:'ches
,and three spans, and is not guarded.
i. Attachment 2, between Items 14 and 16: Three bridges 35-40 meters long
are shown.
J. Between Attachment 2, Item 18, and Attachment 3, Item 2, a reinforced con-
crete bridge over the Supsa River is shown. It is 90-100 meters long,
has metal arches and four spans, and is unguarded.
k. Attachment 3, Item 1: Re-identified as petroleum pump factory; correct
version not determined.
Attachment 2. An auxiliary airfield is shown north-northeast of the
military airfield (Item 6).
Attachment 3: Item 4: First drawing showed two sidings; second, drawing
shows three.
m. Attachment 3, between Items 11 and 25: A guarded bridge over the Rion
River is shoran. It is 150-200 meters long and has metal arches
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7. A number of discrepancies occur between Attachment 3 to
second sketch of the Samtredia rail yards Attached.is a copy of the second
version, to which the following is the key:
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Concrete railway bridge, 150-200 meters long, metal arches, 8 spans, unguarded
Automatic switch tower
Samtredia station
Water reservoir
Square
Railway district department
Police station
Ministry of Justice and hospital
Garden
Rail car depot
Bridge across the railroad
Planery workshop
Locomotive depot
Locomotive turntable
Sand site
Petroleum pumping depot
Mazut reservoir
Coal depot
Bridge
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Tskhalkaya station
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