RAILROAD SYSTEM NUMBERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000400080001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 1, 1942
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY : USSR
SUBJECT: Railroad System Numbers
PLACE ACQUIED : - -.
DATE OF INFO: ^
DATE ACQUIRED : 1942
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1. The block numbers to railroad systems are assigned by the Ministry of Transportation
through the Administrative Departments of each railroad area. For example, M K V-
1-000-000 means that the Moscow-Kiev-Voronyzh system uses this numbering method.
Other areas of the Soviet Union are the southwest or V Z, the Murmansk, the Archangel,
the Leningrad, the Moscow, and so forth. The number following the letters of the
alphabet mean: #l, for Moscow; '#2, for Leningrad; #3, for 'T Z, or southwest;
#4, for Kiev.
2. No separate blocks of numbers are assigned to certain itinistries, such as the
Timber or the Petroleum. Ministries. However, the Petroleum Ministry, having
special tank cars, has additional distinctive markings besides the block numbers
issued by the Ministry of Transportation.
3. I do not believe that specific blocks of numbers are assigned to special types
of cars such as refrigerator and tank cars. For example, when I transported fish
from. Leningrad, through Moscow and Kiev, to Odessa, my freight was transferred
four different times into new tank cars and yet the tank cars had the same group 25X1A5a1
of car numbers, with only the letters of the alphabet changed to conform with
those assigned to each railroad area.
4. As well as I can remember, new cars were given consecutive numbers as they were
added to the system's freight car park, without regard to the type of car.
5. Numbers are placed on the freight cars by the system which will operate them.
Each railroad system. had its freight-cars delivered from several plants. For
example, the M K V system obtained its freight cars for one year from Kharkov
and the next year from Kharkov, Lugansk, and from Moscow. Regardless of how
many factories provided freight cars to one system., numbers were still supplied
in the same manner as mentioned earlier.
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