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Lased on USSfl radio broadcasts of 1 April - 31 'ugust, this repot' includeo
all available monitored data relative to the SIvvot transportation sy/,ri.
1. REST^IJTIOi? :IID ITM, COIISTiRV TIOII
T19 Principal . rail anc? 'rater 12nos t?1eot of the Ural I?:auntains, connecting
i:oscotr trith Leningrad and Roctov, have been restored and their of#icicaaoy unproved,
according to Sovic t broadcasts. Double track linen have bean replaced along the
Lc in~rackli~ocotF-I{haxIsatr-^ostov-Prokh3aclr~p route;E. Rail bridges over tLe Dniepor,
Dnieotor, Pripet, Don, Svirr Il i=. , and tloz'ther;n Donets Rivers htme bet-,r rontored.
Ilith the restoration of the Dnioper Locke, navigation on the _%'bll lonC?ih. of the i iver
t?ra.s rosu.-aed this spring, and restoration of the Svir Lock: reoeoned corn i.-micatione
betueen Leningrad and the Volga River. In addition, the Georgian n5J_l!+,_3y. highroad
has been rebuilt and opened. to traffic, and the hight-my bridge of the ; lgei ..Chirehaic
it River in the Uzbek SSII "the biggest in the central. Asiatic RopuT: ? ; of--haa
also been ononed..
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In the construction of nor rd-11 line . major radio attention is to work
on lines in Contral .Asia. TIM b1C. Cost projects are the South Sibe:hian i ne, trlltoh
follotrs the route :`agnitororsic~i~avloc1 Barnaul-` t4l insk, and the Char . ou-I ungrod
line in the ^Ltrln3en Republic; one report oleL?er_cled the southern terninu, or the latter
to Shor Gel, near ?tho Iranian border. 'ibe Turlmenian line is linked tr';th ecrtonsive
irriCation pro jectb there. On the South Siberian line, the lteol:i.ne1c -1 evlodar,
Yulunda-7k)rnaui, and A1taislcoe-'.rtyt3hta section a are now sneer constr-~td1;ion. 7:orl:
has been started on the Chardjou-iashtttk section of the Ohardjou-ISn line.
At l oast two new rail trays have been opened' to traffic this year' ",c Sosva,-
Alapaevak line. tlhich improves the northern outlet for Urals products, and the
Dzhcmbul-Chu.? eic 'l u' line in southern Kazakh. O then branch lines are boAng cOLnpleted
in Asorbaijatn and Yaroslavl, e11d a narrou.gaurc
Optulca-Dollcov-Ulyenovelq?.
line is under construction betueen
* Reports do not indlw'se uhother both the ?:oncov-Briansk-Itharkov and he i :oaootr
Orel-! haricov d& ab? o-tract: lines have been r estorel.
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i ai;ertrae construction in alao in progreaa. Is. cireet river route bettroan
LoninCrad and I:oecotr ursa opened in July, land the Itoccou River aycta-! of uatttertrr. .
in being reconetr-acted to "tr pla itr3 carryin capacity." 'ieccotr is to be
by miter witlt the Muck Sea via the Okzi and Dnieper Rives, and for this ,m=ob9
n1 ortificia-, lal_o lb being built on the upper strewn of the Clca fiver. Pesletos
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increa?1n the lame-i ivor Oyoto':a, omaLl-river tranaporuation Ic being dctre],oped
under the F lvo.mYeer ELan. 1,000 Ltlomotere of c,i 1l. rivers have alroc r been rn o
navigable, and by 1950, 12,000 more 1 LLcmetcra are to be added to the s?^cl1.rive
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roo ca-tonto In the oy or of Qcoe , trxpn ar~ortatj mro occa.pional y reporteat
Jimv ahi~?pin- linen have boon adclal to those already established in the CI otoT: and
Japan Soas.% and new, fact, cargo lines hatto been added t:o tho r7 ael: Sw trd Cain
c;'; ^tats. A naval tort is bein8 conatru.cted In Sochi. I o.rge "passm C. er ar. ? trans
pert ohipe" are to be uaod+ in a regular -service on the Arctic Ocean.
Ifereasoe in nir_tr :^nor ation are re:Z?Ort6d. Although no retereribec to tho'
eonetruetion of rei.ltrayy or highway-n- in ' Iie Far East annoar, at lei.st tun :sear air! .
sorviaec3 have been ectablibhod: Iloscot I{habarovek and ::oeootrProvidehee E'mr.
Traffic at the Leningrad airport has doubled as compared with last year r:.anec nee
abed to carry machinery frees Leningrad and i_oscotr to harvest -3Anters, and ^ i'aip*i
for the rim-7 Clurxd jou-Ilur ad rail ray.
1T. OP;c"tx'~..I?8 1li]p 1rPl
fora i ncliccrtioni of the vo1um of tlmffio handled by the various tranc? : ortation
eereatms as comperod tr1; lh pro-tier levels are contained in monitored broadcas-hd.
l'cseaxger traffic is Bald to have r- at)~.edthe pro-tmr totdl, and /4 mi.].1.9.c?'? more
p.nommigors "trill Faa;re to be transported tta coaripdPecl with last tear." 1..o c.tzea aa
to the actual clailtonnage of shipments
,y by rail end water lines appaar, e-;w"
for an aneocjn eme nt that Self-.unload--tr ; freightoora with a gaeaoi.ty of 40 -;ono we
now under ecnatruetion. :- train-load of 25 of these cars can be unloaded i.~, five ~.`.
rsi.nutoo, the broadcast states. Ooneml titateapnte of planned or aooorsr.-i.i:ri?.cd
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lq~greaaos in ohipmen , hotraver, appear frequently. The nations a railroads, for
shipping pl cm by 101 4 perocnt by tho onO of April
eo rtp7.o, completed th. freirl i
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during :nay, dailg TotglTb ?hipmcnts trero increased by 15,000 tons. Nearly 4~ e?.e~xth of thou nati iw1 budge.; is allotted to trenaporhat1ott in the currant 11 Five
dear Plan, t. hichi pre~v Wes for an ail ppproont i.noroase In oar l ondingo during: 1947.
Tram' aehec?ulna 11 as rued in I-Toy "will insure the movemmt of a'n'' additional 5A00
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TeAnIa 1 Uuprov,.b onto, particularly in the raileroy sy,ten, tyre frequent]
enticed. The cell ec r?- ification of linen is reported a rajor Dro3eot; 500 1 ?ometera
rtre achodulod to be el'ectr3.fied thin year. The I'oaobv ro.iltrcy junction is to be
reponstracted, an Diu emetic olootric sirnrl syatet'i is being inata`.L.l.ed on 15nea i
bbtougilouc the oountr -, as troll no dieacl trained fre-i ght looculotiveo of the series
n~ I.L,n anc' IGnzenteeir electro-p1ase m.tl,a brrlces.
Addition and 3mrovecneiits in the tretortrays syatoI are also reported. The
~'5tzsorlul mooring patio n has been rcth i1t, and floating doolca are operating; on the
D iepiV, Don, Luba, a Volga Rivera. Pneuoatio loadinC raohinot have been ins-
9, tl.l ec? In i:oseot:' b' ;8otttbern harbor, caul tiireleoa, to ephone, and' telegraph can -
i.eationE botue! en I oscotr end River Fleet nor-be rwe Iioing innrovec and e:e-ondod.
Th Kra.snoarmelsl~ys hipbui-leing what f in Staling%Ad is operating again,
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according to i'oeoow ? neoeeeary repairs in rolling stools, furthermore, Tito', been
tber. An inte~rae itIbd norso transmission for the ltioseou IIinist y of Far u.aatern
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IBS ez'ics etateo tht.t "the technical conditiav^ of ships rc efrie til8rtlin(."
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Despite the; opt ]nit xc tone of reports, certain. faults in the tronepo.-tc~tioa
tin are a dnt t Le& 1 'Coordination between river and rail transportation it faulty,
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1. 1~ocscotrlCllexlscyv- c tong I'oscotr--.Loam rid
prom facing the builders of t'ailtmy transport 'Gi.33', year. In t1 7 no.ot
6 months the, have completed the restoration'
estoration of second traclca clue' ? the
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230 kilometers3 ].3ne, T?Ioscotr~.I{rn.^Icov Rostov, restored ttra.tiey trr ^:^ic
salong g the T?Iosco' -tetin ad trunk line din scl duri the uur, and on-
timed the rooonstruction of the ra.i].traye network in the Krivoi ?te area,
i;I1A Uonc*ts3 sin, and the Caucas[t3..." (LASS, III LIIGLI3I1 MORSE T1 NORTH
At EI I :A, I J1L'Y 1947)
(adcorpt) teScame 2,500 Idi.lcmeters of near and soco ld ;rail tracks in the
(Kxoe pt) "Already all second tracks ere In operation on the I"osootr to
Leningrad run, on the lino isoseotz-Kharkov--?Toctov.-ProlcIlladny? ..It (SOVTM
1101, ? VIDE, 10 AUGUST 1947--PRAVDA oditoxd.al)
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Iirasnodaz -.Sukherovoly (?) railroad 14-no, doatr oyed during the war, tray
completely restored 9 _~u ,net and is now open to traffic. (SURVEY :)r SOV
UNION RADIO UfOADCASTS, "Tnfornt ion Briefs," 15 AUGUST 191,7)
1. ~outIx-53,~ber,,I Ra11c?ra,y:
(I:;dcr rt) "0no of the most important itans in the Haut rlvo-Year .*..an is
the builOing* of the South Siberian Railtray. Chief L`ng .noer of the Central
Mr-dnletration of faiitray Bui? ding of the USSR i,ixu:Vtzy of Con cunii::ations,
...Il'oE..KU=atsov, Bald tb.': -TAB correspondent: eThis;rniltray trill ":o the
ahortost tray to transport Kuznetsk coal to hgnitogorak, the Ural;: and
the areas along the middle reaches or the Volga. It;:taill 03.lotr be?'-t?,r
cultivation of the rioh :rU.tal region. it, vill also allotr im rovem t of,
coal distribution in our country b7 connecting the for allay Tltibastuz, j ,
whore cost'! is ab and nt and oa y to roach, with the industrial oentc:r~s of
our country. It trim. m`ite it possible to start coal exf raoiio:a at
Sta1inek and ore tt ctrastion at AbaIcian.
"'The nett 3,600-Idlonrter rrdlimy runs from the I u brr area via St! 1itzak
and I3arnaul. This trill pornnit oonnoction of th6 interior rltai areas frith
the Altraiekayya Station on :the Tomsk railway. About ,7,0 Idil.om-tare of rail-
trr y have slroatiy been laic? but much excavation is st d to ba ''one on, the
remaining section and r ay constructions to be built.
"'The rat1wy here crosses the Sa7.gir rangb of the Altai mountains The
final choice of the pasoos, either throun01 a 1;00 motor tunnel or O.'~ oar
an open X.--mater Who ledge running along the i1opec of the nounte- n:;
dappends on the geological work in progress ,now. Fourteen machine .?.zeavators,
many locomotives, rai.ltmy oarriagesi and special nachin'es of 3.;iz~aer design
are being used here. Cranes designed by Kratiov will be tfsod.
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"'The cootor bettreen It o irsk and Pavlodar io 44 kilonetera long and runs
across... rtninhabited otopne lanes. The buile'inl; uorl:s are proceeding
tror?.i the two ends aims taneou,Zly. An 1"'-1aetor high cri i ment bas to be
built on the loft, bank of the irtysh near :'avlodar. Tuenty i`ive excavator;
are corking hero.
n1 A telephone line is being lml between 10mol nol: and Pavlodar stations;
dwelling houses, ratiil.t?roy staff '.,..Drkchops, and so forth, are boinl; built here.
The builders hove pron.ince.. to complete this year bohelulo by the
thirtieth anniversary of the October Revoltr ion. Radio cormnmioatio
are being introduced along the line to faeilitate9 the building works.
(TA.?.S, i 7 DICTATIOII SPIED FO-: TIIE PPOVI11CIAL P 12SS, 23 J'UI:E 191,.7)
(Ioerpt) "Big work is proceeding on the most :Important railt-ray project rf
the current rive-Year Plan-The Stalincl.-I'agnitogoruh trunk line, tfliich
will link up the eastern territories and the center of the country. (TASS,
III EITOLISII : DflZE TO ,C MI Al ERICA, I JULY 1947)
(i ccerpt) "The building; of the biggest South 21borian rain :vailwoy route
is being carried otrt. ::orks are he ng carried out at full blast on the line
Altaiskoo-Artyohta. The line Pavlodai -A1aiolinck is being built. Initial.
work is being clone on the line (TA.5S,. X11 P. O7?:: AT
DICTATIO:.' SPIED TO Y',.: PROVTIICIAi, FILM, 10 AUGU:.T 1947)
. Central. Asian Lines:
(Te'ct) "Sn Central Asia, a new railway 355 miles long is being buil.%
between the tot-ins of Shor Gel and Kung ad. It will be very import-1;-
economically for the Central Asian Re niblioo. The surveying work ho.,s now
been finished, and construction is to start in August." (I?IOSCO:,, Ill EUGLISH
I.IO^ZE TO IIOfl II X 17111 IA, 19 JU 11 1947)
(I tcorpt) "A fortnight are the prolitiinary investV abions along the track'
of the rail line to be built between Chardjou and iungrad have been
ctcnpleted." (TABS, _: Ei:GLISII i:0112E TO 11011TH AMERICA, 1 JULY 1947)
(3 coerpt) "Trains are rennin' on nearly constructed lines in the ste.,)nea
of Ifazaldistan, on the lines Dzhambul-Chulak-Tau,' which provides the
3.ii .ty;? of quicker exploitation of the national resources of phospho=rus
fur. the fertilizing of Central Asia Pi alas.... Building is being dc-40
on... L-ystrovl:a-Ilybacho...." (TISS, LI 1:USgIL-1 AT DIGTATIOI- SPEI TIE
PFl0VII3CIIL PFfl3S, 10 AUGUST 1947)
(Eaecorpt) "The last preparations ate being made for the building7 o'' the
Laardjou--Y,ungrad railway line. The first seot1e'n of 400 kilometers :s.s
been oleaied for the builc'_ng corks. Duelling houses are nor being
built along this section and uatez, oupnlies anct food centers are het organised for the :zany thouarands of future builders. Equilsaent mno ?u--
rbeiiGs, footwear, clothes, and foodstuffs are being brought to Chardi:~ti.
t the end of _'.u0L.c,t, 65,000 collective fazs.ors will arrive at ithc b ti.ldinC
sites. Large
110: 2, 0: IiVICE 13 AUGUST 1947)
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(Text) 'tDiroctor, General Chernylda, head of the ITain Eastern Railway
Building Administration, told our corrospondait that work started yester-
day on the whole stretch of the new railway line troy: Chars c?u to Tashtak.
This lopgren.t railway line in Central Asia uil.l run from l;hardjou to Itunrrad.
Over 12,000 collective farmers from Turlmonia and UibeItistan are working on
this railway line', together with numerous P.or somols from factories and ?
Government offices. The numbe2 of corkers till rise to 70,000 by the end
of August. This new line twill connect the Karakalpalt ASSR with the
(KhoreEm?) Province of Uzbekistan and the Tashauz Provtnoe of Turivneania
with the main USSR r&31-my network. The total length of the new railway
line will be (627) kilometers. The first section from Chardjou to Tashtak
Is 395 kilometers) long and should be ready by 1949. This line will have)
four locomotive depots, 27 passenger railway stations, 48 railuey junctions,
and over 100 bridgmi. Equipment and various instruments 'are being carried
to the railway from Moscow by air. The railway will cross the uninhabited
desert and its building is cornaocted t?ith the ronlanni.ng of the irrigation
oystes?t and the building of two large canals fro' the Aran Darya River to
(Khoresm) and Karalkalpak. The building of the Chardjou-Kungrad railway
will realize the most ardent hopes of the peoples of Tttrkmenia and
Uzbekistan." (SOVIET HOI?1 SE VICE, Review of KO..LSOMOLSKAYA' PRAVDA,
26 AUGUST 1947)
Ur-,As Nett?ror!:
(Excerpt) "Regular traffic has been opened on the line Sosva-Alaraevnk,
which has cut through the thick forests of the Urals, and opened a second'
exit for the coal of the rogoslov Basin and the Nadezhdinslcmetal works..)..
Building is being clone on the (line) Thus au-Naryshovo ..." (TASS, III
RUSSIAN AT DICTATION SPED TO THE PROVINCIAL PRESS, 10 AUGUST 1947)
Cher Regions:
A er i : (Summary) The builders of the Ilindeabaurak hydra-el30tr1c
power distributing station have completed the building of a, railway line on
the right bank of the Kura River joining the power station with the
Azerbaijan main railway line. The branch line covering a distance of 17
kilometers will soon be open to traffic. (SOVIET IiOIE SERVICE, 1 JULY 194 7)
Orel-Ulvnnovalc:
(Excerpt) "The building of the first section of a narrows-gauge railway
between Optukha-Bclkov-Ulyan 4aly has been completed." (SURVEY. OF SOVIET
U71011 RADIO BROADCASTS, "Informati-n Briefs," 11 JULY 1947).
TSostrot?n Galich: (Excerpt) "Building; is being done on the (line) I:oatroma-Galich...." (TASS,
III RUSSIAJT AT DICTATIOIJSPEED TO THE PROVINCIAL PRESS, 10 AUG'JST 1947)
C, RAIL BRIDGES
1. Rebuilt or Rest
(9umriery) 250 railway bridges, including 22 spanning the Dnieper; Pripet,
Dniester, and ?Jorthern Donuts Rivers, which worn destroyed by the Germans,
are to be restored' this year. A nett' method evolved by Soviet engineers
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~! endere concrete four times stronger, and helps to save building mnterials.
'6~The substitution of such concrete for strictural steel will save :ens of
V petal and speed up the bridge-building: program. (I10SCoI?', TASS, I.' I;TTGLISII
URSE TO ITORTII f ni, d' tICA, 21 APRIL 194.7
*+.n.v..a.~~~ . aa~.??, uu -- uaav %V u, U.a "u L_e_ ..Llliiy UL%Lut,viu UV tiL i -IU IJU.Lepea,
Don, Svv.ir, ITianen, and 'forthern Donets are standing." (UOSC01, Ti 33. III
914ew Bridges tinder Construction:
structures will. he fully restored in the ne v futti re, for i-ibich
purpose 29 r?il lion rubles have been appropriated." (IoscO?!, TASS U1
MIGLISH HORSE TO UORTH AIMRIOA, ?_3 1ifs7 1947)
~ ,.~Te;ct) "The construction of two big railway bridges across th' Harva
and Plarnu rivers has been started in Estonia. Tine neater part cC the
Estonian railways have been restored and riodurnized. Some 164 br1 ?r os
end tunnels demolished during the war have been built anew. All r '.aer
!' TI(Text) "The Soviet designers have evolved railway ties of reinfo-L?ccd
onarate which can stand the pressure of heavy trains developing r? speed up
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xnWLL lab or. .1110: l eadin; ra1~ .Ian
,the production of these cars is played by the engineers and constaactors
I jwno arrived here from. the Ur-.Is." (SOVI2T IIOI.IE SERVICE, 15 HAY 19..7)
(~Stumaary) A new automatic electrical' signal system, designed by ' riot
`PEngineer Idatelevieh, is now being installed on soviet railways. r. !ne
000 stations will be equipped with this device
.D. by the end of the year
prevent br?o.Icdoims through a fault'' of the ; witchnnan, undortrent .n
thorough six-months test on railways in the I?roscou region. (;,OSLO.', TASS,
r.IIN EIGLIShI IRIRSL TO NORTH AI' :I( A1 20 HAY 191,.7)
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(Surm'tary) The USSR Iliniotry oflRnila~r~ys has prepared a plan for roc n-
etruetion of tho I!osoou Rnilttoy, Junction. All suburban and many lone..
diatczioe trains tirlll be chnn'ed to electric traction, thus doublin r the
r..iberiof electrical railtoays. Ccne -1,400 trains will pane alorylgrailtrgge
trhtoh converge on rloocotr trithin 24 hours. (110SC0'.1, TASc, III I.IJC,ISR
IMPSE TO Ii?^?rtT1I A: MI -A, 21 rl11Y. 191+7)
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(E oerpt) "This year almost 500 kilaaatorn of railroad lines in the
Soviet;Union will be electrif7.e4 " (sunny or sovi T union RADT1 DRCAn.,
CASTS,! "Inforr:.etion Briefs", 27 IIJUNE 1947)
(I cc It "Amotl~
~'p) ,,, the techni novelties introduced on our rai'a'onds are
nor freight looonotivc;t of serlea 'L.I.L.,' Soviet diesel locomotives type
'T-L-F--20,1 all-taetai pasocngera cars, elcetro-pneumatic bralcen invented
by Kazi ntaev, and several others.. " (r10SCO!l, TASS, IIl I;11GLIs,: ;insE
TO J?IORTH ,L"?ERICA, 9 AUCUST 194.7) ? ? 1
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(Exbarp't) "Pravda publishes a talk frith the deputy head of the ;;R
Transport Couuuinication I linintry, Central Pcsacngor Admtni.strati ,.:, on
the, new schedule of paascngor.-train movement. This graph trill i- ' inti%,_
duoed on the USSR railtrayo in five days' tbao beginning the ni, of
Ilay 15-16. The ctm vor cuahec1u1o'prorviclec for a certain inoroano ?n the
passenger movement. For the, first tints since the tre.r, daily co: '-table
exproad trains trill run bettioen lloscotr?octli and rlosootrKiolovod.!:. Ilcnr
fast trains, Leningre,cl-I:inoral a Vody end Lail.n7rad..Soehi, are .:i.ao being
introduoed. The raili?rey connection bottroen Iloscotr and the capit-ls of
the! Central Asin Union Ropublical is being improved.
"On; -6ho railways of Trani-C;au us and Central Asia, diesel tra_. ,.n will
run. On big railway iunotions,: trst of all in Iioecou, Leningr Kiev,
I?Iovosibirelc, Kharkov, ml Dam, :950 suburban trains will be intr duood.
Groat renovation works of ctatio?i, platforms, booking offices, a lost-
lugg ge departments have nou sit ed. During this will be opont on the renovatiori7of p'=~Gor buildings. ngj.u 43 VII"t! IiE1'U rubles -Lon
SERVICE, 11 IIAY 1947) (SOoilE
(S~a.nzy) Beginning tonight, Soviet railroad tnansr,ort trill, bet its
operations according to a now;trsin schedule. The Deputy t?Tinis,? for
railtasye told corrospondonta' that at midnight of Ifov 15 the now ruin
sahodule trill be put into effectt~ According to the Deputy I-inic ;or, the
transport troncors are a ver-fe f11ling their quotas. ''ithin 1l, :.3of
'ley; the railroads of the nation) fulfiller', the .freight-chipping Can by
101:4 percent, increasing at, ?'?hoj some time the speed of transnor--..ion.
Thiity_nix paaso~ngor railroad linen have exceeded their freight chipping
quotas.` The now train sohocluto and regulations tail insure the ? -anent of
an additional 5,000 freighters dal
ly? (sovlLr H012 SERVICE, 15 1947)
(Dxoerpt) "Already in 19/,.G the Iverage daily loading thirteen percent as compared frit 1 5..?. ~C this Fivo-Yen increased 'fir
capital: to be spent on transport .h h - period,
is almost ono-sixth of all caitalsto be spont'onOnationalnecona-~'whiah
Tho'Governnent hac pads it incumbent on us to increase this year, an
compared with last year, carload s by not less than eleven per-c:tt....
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Ibro than sixty percent of grain in_bein- transported this ysar by the
rallwoyo.... Transport of passc3 tore continues to increase. In 1946
it has increased as oorpared with last year by slnost one and a half
times, and has rcaahod the pro--tjnr ?cool. purinn the current . ,
64.000.000 more noort o tdt t have to be tranoported an 0^*^?tiarp ' j h not Year.
Aoeord.i.nr to the surer tino-table, fifteen new long distance, 2: local,
and 21,0 suburban trains have been int'ro8uood. Durin,' this year, the
I:oscow-V1.adivostorc train time has been reduced by ainost ton hour s....
(IIOSCO:I, TAS3, IN RUSSIA11 AT DICTATION TO THE FROVIf1CII1L PUS-3, 9 ATIUUST 1947)
(Steamy) Soviet ralltmy engineers have inoroanod the daily frc ' ht
transported by 15,000 tons during the past month. A new railway schedule
introduood on Iloy 16 nekcc it poeoibl!o to excoed the dai .y loading program
by 5,000 oars. Some 273 :-.oro pairs_ot long diotanco, local, and suburban
passenger trains will start ru,:;.ng'soon. before the and of the year,
passenger trains will run up' greater ''diatom a o than before the war. The
average apeod of pasocaN'or traffic on all Soviet railirsys trill ir?aroaco by
2.5 kilometers per hour. (IIOSOCT!, TA33, III I314LISU T ORSP. TO ;Mnl ih AI FICA,
19 MY 1947)
II. WAT=AXS
A. TtES1'O[iED OR R.I 3UILT II?L.JfD IIATI S1AY,4
(Summary) The soviet eratortmyc roeonbtruction prolgrori trill boa e' ended by
700 kilometers within the next five yearn. Big canal systems,, a- ?i, as the
Dnioporprc-T ug, "Mite Sea-Baltic have already been restored. Pc ?? ~atruotion
of tf?" Volga-Pcltic waterways, one of the longest in the world, :11 in-
ereaIIo the carrying; capacity five-fold. (1T03C07TABS III MGM-1 IfORSE TO
rIORTIT AI -r-.A, 21 11AI i~/.,7) r ,
(Text) "The passenger stocrtor Illyioh' loft Kiev toddy for I:hrrscn for the
first time since the and of the war. On July 15 a regular trciff' c trill be
opened on the whole of the Dnieper. Comrade Savoly-ev, the hocid i the
Southern Central Admiriistration of the USSR I;inistry of the I1v.: Fleet,
told our oorr6a,ondent: 'Plot: that the Dnieper Locks have been r- stored
it in possible to rosine navigation oii the full length of the ri-. _:. The
workers of Dneprontory have restored the ruin Dnieper Look and hr vn brought
in a Foe: technical lnpnovaients in its operation as cacnpared trit1.,. the pro-
war pariod. The resumption of through navigation on the Dnieper aaveriug
the Oietanoe of 1,500 kileracters in of groat economic Importance. The
Dnieper merchant flotilla has been oc> plenented with huge steamer.-, and barges.
The rorrunption of navigation will allot' building materials regrtirs.' for the
restoration in southern provinces to be sent by water.'" (SOViL'T 1!OIO 3I VICE,
12 JUTE 1947)
(Text. "Lening+rad--Otter 2,500 kilometers of t:atoit:eyc along the cos 'and
rivers of the northwest of the USSR hava been restored trithin th. :iaet two
years. The big Svir Look, rooenciy restored after having been b7 ti:ted by
German invaders, again insures coae'aunications with the Volga v:In the
1;ariinslc Ia.7nl syetn. The newly restored Trite 3co-1'altic Catc".. ;rponod
last year, again gave Leningrad an outlet to the '.kite Sea. Dire water
coranmicatione have been restored between Leningrad and ITovogoro:" ,
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Petrameavodslc, I:edvoshyegorsk, Staraya P?.ussa, and other towns. Self-
propelling barges are plying on the Leningrad-Shcherbakov anc' Leningrad-
Iioscow freight lines. By the end. of the Five-Year I'la-, the pro-war level
of freight and passenger transportations will be surpassed." (I:oSCO", TASS,
Ili EIIG,LISII IiORSE TO INORTI3 Il;,ssRI3A, 2-. JULY 191;.7)
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(Excerpt) "...Principal ention must now he dero;;cd to the repair of
[rolling stock). has un to now been conducted very slowly.
The chief reason for the delay in the repair of... (rolling stock) is the
unsatisfactory supply of. materiel to the railways. In the first half
of June the railtreys received only one-third of the quantity of...
materials they are scheduled to receive for Juno. LSccae lumber plants send
material unsuitable for repair of rolling stock. L:.cl: of drying plants
and use of damp lumbar brings about a situation in tr'nich repaired rolling
stock becomes unusable for ' chilxnont c,_' grain within a . matter of days, and
new repair trorl, becomes necessary. 'Io can delay no longer. The first
ehinmonts of the new harvest I are beginning to arrive at the delivery points.
Particular attention crust beldevoted to correct organization of work at
points where grain I..-. moved! frog,. water to railways and from railways to
Crater. At these -points coordination between the rai.lwa3n.en and. waterway-
men is necessary. '..'e mustlnot permit a situation where barges loaded with
grain trhilo array time waiting for trains, and trains while away time
waiting for barges." (SOVIET IIOI? E SERVICE, 21,. JUTE 191,7)
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(Text) "A cargo ship sailed from Leningrad to I'oscow. Thus it opened for
the first time in the history of the USSR the direct river route between the
two cities, which, going; through a network of canals and rivers, is 1,400
kilometers long." (ITOSCO;?I; 1'TASS, IN RUS::IAII IrELLSCUREIEE ' TO EURCPE,
28 JUL'I 1947)
(Sure ary) Soon new regular;'~asaenger service is to oper_ on the raver
Dniester. (SURVEY OF SO"ILA'1UNION RIDI0 13ROhDCASTS, "Information Briefs",
25 JULY 1947)
0. E 2UIPI'EI'IT AIM OPMATIOIIS `-i
(E:cernt) "A big shipyard being built at the month of the River Venta
(on the Baltic) which is ice=free all the year round," (SU[-',Vi OF 3OVI::T
UITIOTT RADIO I3116OADC^STS, "Information :3riefs," 29 I.AY 1947)
Ir~~
"The OB is now free of ice !along its entire length. Regular conic.inications
with the trans-polar regions have begun. From Omalt, the steamship
"Vladimir Lenin" has gone on its first cruise. It ? will deliver to the far
north 600 passengers and htmelreds of tons of cargo." (SURVEY' OF SOVIET
UNION RADIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs.," 29 NAY 1947)
(Sumanry) Navigation has begun on the rivers of the I?'agadan area ( SURVEY OF
SOVIi;i' UIlI01T R':DIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs", 29 NAY 1947)
(Excerpt.) "The KrasnoermeisIcaya shipbuilding wharf in Stalingrad Is
caring to life again. Isere the assa:ably of sev:?ral barges which t r:'e
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atoms before the war has nou bean completod. In February of this year,
StalinCrnd ahipbuildora started on the first pout-irar barge of "1,000 tons.
Recently the barge m3 launched." (SUP,Vii DF SOVI"T ITUIOU PJDIO PRP:DCGSPS,
"Infornation Tlriofa," 11 JULY 1947)
(Text) "Tans of thousands of I"oaoovitec visited the exhibition devntoci to
the clevel'opmont of the tutorwnyr of the Capital under the new Five-"ear Plan.
The exhibit tells the story of the construtotion of tha::oscow-Volga canal
and of the Uhlich and Ryabinelc (ShohorboIcov) dirs. I??otr the Capital is con-
nected by va%cnrnys with the Volga '!alloy ritios, the Leningrad region,
the Karello-Piiutish Republic, and Archangolsk. The rooonetruction c1' the
Iloocow River syete*r of lrt?torunys tril'. triple its carryilig capacity. 'fetr
hydro-potifor stations ibuilt upon the i.oseoitr and 1:0 Rivers will supp'',v I'oscotr
with 0d03,t1nnal ehean electricity. ;,n artificial I.c'?e at present b inn built
in the upper stream of the acs represents the first Otep totrcrc' lir. ?:;yr of the
Ol:a with the Dnieper :and consequently of :_oacotr trit! the 'lac'- ,; ca.
TPJS, II? ::, GLIS}: IDR31' TO I10M2II .'I .RIC'., 17 JULY 19A-.7)
(E aerpt, "Food and other supplies will bo received on barged frog: floating
base (on the Dnieper, ;;on, ?:uba, and Vo llca Rivers--Ed.). ,he ships on the
routes Xraonoarmoielc-Gorlcy and Kraonoar36isl,-,312cherbc.'tav run on e sr)coial
tiretablo. The mooring places at Kinealuia, Yaroslavl, and Gorky are ready for
the unloadinc of the grain ships. The Sdranul mooring, niece has been rebuilt
and mochaniomo reinstalled in a difforont order. The direction of (;rain
trananortr has been revered here thin yecir; the grain goes from the railtrgy
to the river instead;of from the river to the ra3.lucy as last year.
Pnounatic loading maohinos havo been installed in I:oscotr'a southern harbor.
For the first time, the loading and the unloading proa'oacca are nou fully
nechoniaed. Repair trorl: is proooedinC on the Karns at 3olikansk, Move,
and other mooring places. In the northern basin, 45 barges have been
reserved for grain transport." (SOVILT IroI:E SERVrCE,;20 JULY 191?,7)
(Text) ' Somylin, heart of the oommunicationo department of the ::iniatry
of the River Fleet, told our radio correspondent that 15 and one 1>^_~.f million
rubles would be spent this year for ianrovinr W_rcloos, telephone, and tele-
graph cc tistunications : hottrecn cetabliahmonto of the river fleet. Ths liinietry
will be oonnoated byjhigh-frequency direct, telephone and telegraph lines with
the hoadlofficec of the river-fleet companies, river Aorta, and laming stages.
The :.gain lines will run from ;'oscotr to .lstrakhem and the ports and ahip-
buildinglyatda on tE-' Volga. Inother ici ortnrt line is being laid olong the
River ?'am. Direst ootrnmieation is also being established between coa-
raunioation lines destroyed by the one:-W have alrenry bean reotorad." (SOVTar
HO' 11F S iVICE., 23 N' y l9/ 7)
(T.xccrpt) "About :1,000 kilometers of a-,all rivers on, the torritor?r of the
Russian Federation wars made navigable by the collective farnoro. 'n
acoordanoe with the plans of the pout-trlr Five.-Year Plan, about 12, .;00
lcilmotcra of arinll rivers will be mado navigable by the end of 195J.
l.nd in t4e came year! of 1950, about five million tons of freight ari.I be
transported over the; waters of these rivers. If transported by land, the
sane qunntity of freight would require about five tho'isene' rrilroad
or about two million three-ton trucks. It is difficult to pre.:ent
picture of the benefits which our national ooonony would a u~re f the
fact that the small rivore grill. be opened to navigatia." (SOVIET 'iz:
SCf:VICE, 129 AUG13ST 1947)
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(Ebro=pt) "Asrhihal+nd--Ono of the gooloC;iool oxpoctitione curaeyin the
trat)Ic for the future eoloooal Xrine r Canal. has returned gore. ('.'store) of
the Aria Darya Rivor trill floe slang thin oonel to the Eeralc=i doiart aril
breathe life into barren land. (TAM, IT UIOLI3C ;;0It~E To NCrll'H fi =CA,
26 1W 1947)
(Iaaoerpt) ; "Tashiccnt-The expedition vvhioh made aerial photographs of the
vast and eteppon '?n Eaeb z 4arya and Dachara regions Inn returned....
Hundreds of survey parties are now explcrinr tbear. arena prepurtng a
dooign of the world'a biggest irrigation project. Amu Darya 1,1ivn-.- trill
be epennod; by a 6-kilomotar dam 28 meter's in height, which will `--t2ko atsey
ono--third of the tiiator in the river for the irrigotion of fields and for
power production. Part of this trator trill irrigate 730,0001 hoot, x an of
land in Turkn6nia while the rest of it will bring life to (M he .":area
in the ICeyd Kur desert in Uzbetcieten.... Power ctat.ione built o the
oanai will' proftoo 6 billion kilm att-hours of olootrio power per? annum. f'
(TABS, 114 IZ)GLISii NORSE TO NOIITH A>IFltICA, 21 MY 1947)
(2bmerpt) 'Tashkent-A trcncndoue progrnm of irrigation is proeooding in
Uzbek1etan The Sang Rurgan Isydropowor center, through which th-, waters
of the Sukh mountain river are c'irvotod Into Pergbena Valley to {frigate
cotton pl;:ntationo, has bean o-isoionbd. Construction of the ? -olcaeal
Ratta Kurgun rooervoir, to hole. 200 trillion cubic netero of ,tra'er, is
nearing completion. Another five large canalo and water reoorvo:-!2'n, and
a hide notworlc of ninon projeote are candor oonatruotion....It (7..39, IN
EIJGLISIt IDRSE TO I?TORTii AlaMCA, 11 JUNE 1947)
15 AUGUST 1947)
1. hh ak Sea T-anenortation:
(Exoorpt) "Tho first fast cargo lino is notr functioning on the '.acd: Sea
for carrying iron ore and bauxite. Thin - spooialization of ebip; -i:id harbor
:Cdoilitieo is greatly inoroaain^ their efficiency. This lino abrneate
Nilz.aev and Merlon tiith Soviet ranubo ports.... A fact cargo 14no to
also being organized between Poti and i .riurol." (SaRVfY OF O7 ' T UITIC 1
RADIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs," 27 JUI1 1947)
(Ezoerpt) ['Sochi, 9 Aug`The buildingr, of a coaport has boon cst ~ted here.
A large aecbhnknont, lar:3ing stages, eto., tdtli a number of hydris .',ro&nieal
Installations have been created. Thin Naval port will begin to 'notion
In; 1950." (S*YEVEY Or. SOVIET U?!ION RADIO BROADCASTS, "Informatio':_ Briefs,"
2. CFwotans
(Text) "tor the first tine, fast merchant lima will be iuau.eurrtiiod with
ships plying between Baku anti Aetraldhan for the rapiu transport of oil,
petrol and lubricants. This line will consist of eight fast ter .ara in-,
eluding the tanker "Stalin." 0tho:' fast mcrrohant ships willi car',y cotton;
timber, area salt on the line ICraenavodek-Actralt en-Dclcu. Speedy r;rane,ort
of grain in, also eonteeaplatad from the tturtlh Caucasus and from o;?rr? rel
Atria," (IIOSCOIi, IN RUSSIAIT TO TIIE 30VIM FAR EAST, 13 14AY 1947)
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(Text) ."The shipping season has been ina_u_*urated in the Faltie and the
first vessels sailed out on long-distance cruises fror the P..altio ports,
inaludinr a large group of chips bound for the Par Last. The pre-war
capacity of the Leningrad port will be considerably surpassed this year.
The freight turnover of :Iiga and other leading port.- on the I3r7t;c will
increase by half conpared with last year. big restoration progcnri is
in progres? in other flaltic its too." (I10SC0;?:, T_1SS, III EUGLISIl 1.,QRSE
TO' NORTH X =GA 10 I?IAY 1947)
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(Summary) The USSR intends to employ "large passenger and transport
ships" on a regular service in the Arctic Ocean. Aircraft ocpedii.ions
are to study conditions in June and 200 non of the Arctic Research In-
stitute will man meteorological stations and supply ships along,the North
Route. (SURVEY OF SOVIET UIIIOIT RADIO BROADCASTS, "Information Briefs,"
;. :, JUITE 1947)
(Excerpt) "Special noire bulletin for the Soviet Arctic--Ilavigation has
begun throughout the whole of the northern sea route. Ice breakers
"IMoye n" and "f dmiral .Solcarov" are plocring their way toward the Pay of
Ambarchik and other Arctic ports. Throughout the Arctic ports, ships are
being loaded and unloaded. The icebreaker "Stalin" is also taking part in
these operations. The combined ice breaker-transport "Deshnik" trae thu
first ship to arrive in Plordvik, the nearest port in the Polar region. It
brought Polar workers for this port and will be t --king, 100 of than back
to the mainland. Port Dixon is very busy just now. Through this port
two convoys have already passed. The work is nearly completed on the
third convoy trhioh is escorted by the ice breaker "Krasin." The .ourth
convoy left hrehangel. for Dixon escorted by ice breaker "iiolotov.' One
more convoy left I_urnansk for the Arctic. This convoy is escorted by the
ice breaker "Sibiryakov." The ice broker "Sibiryakov" will operate in
The Novoya 2mnlya straits." (SURVE' OF SOVIET UIIIOll rthDIO BROADC. TS,
"InfoxTiation Briefs," 15 AUGUST 191;,7)
5. Far Eastern Seas:
(Excerpt) "Idavigation in the Far East is in fall strinr?. Thrr? ports of
Southern Sakhalin have been equipped with neia -cechnical installations for
the purpose of ~_17or irrl; their loading capacity. iTGW lines are bein
established: V'..adivostnlt Koraalcov, Koreekov-Kurilo Islends, Vl edivostok
Sovetskaya Galin.-Aloxandrovac. 1egular trips of ,soviet ships are also
brfing ina_~;nurntod to Shanghai and Delny." (SURVEY OF lOVIL'T UI?ION RADIO
BROADCASTS, "Information Driofs,'*- 23 ItAY 1947)
LII. VI TI I
(Summary) A now our service was inaugurated 8 Ilay be+,ieen Rhabar ovsk
and 'ioseotr. The new service trill place the Soviet 1'ar East within 4.3
hours' fligAit from i?Ioscow. (DAILY REPORT, "Information Briefs," :i1;. I?UiY 1947)
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(S=:nary) Regular passenger automobile Itreffio along the rebuilt ? -s-or
military highroad is again opened. Between Dzaudjokau and Tbilisi
motorbuses are running c:aily. (SOVIJaT IIOI-M SMWIC1 , 7 MY 1?^,47)
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(Summary) The biggest highway bric'ge in' Via Soviet Central Asiatic
Rmblies has been opened to traffic in the Uabolc SSR over the Riv:::: Kalgan-
ChirchtL Lit. (SUP, 01 SOVIET U'!IOII RADIO I)RO1DCASTS, "Tn.#ornat:':~n
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(Summary) Eight nacr airlines have been opened in the irestern portions
of the Ukraine. Lvov, Stanislav, and othorl provinc; al centers now have
regular connections with all their c?istricto. (SURVEY or SOVIET T__-1 TON
fADIG IIE.OADCA: S. "Information Driofe," 23' i'my 1947)
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(Te .t) "ilott air lines between Leningrad', snc~ Odessal and Lc3ningred-Tashkent
vie Gorky, Kuibyshev, and A tyubinslc have' been inaugurated. IJet?r comfortable
27-seats' pianos have been put on the. a it I1 ne bettaoon Leninggresi Lees. j.
As compared to last year, the passenger endifreight', traffic at the
Leningrad airport has been doubled." (SOVI~T 110115 SERVICE, 9 JUI'1; 1947)
(Text) "The head administration of the northern sea route is inaururatin.g a
regular passenger and postal air service,I scow-Providence Bay, f' am
1 July 1947. Planes t till leave I?oscou ttrie~e a month On the 1st anc 15th
of the month and Providence ray on the 5thhond 21)th' of each month. ::Ih3
flight fra:.i i:of-1ou to Providence Day and neywit will take 10 days."
(SOVIE' ITO!'E S CE, 25 .NILE 1947)
COPIFIDLII;TTAI
- 15 I.
(Excerpt) "This morals,; from Leningrad a:~r#`1ev an airplane left carrying
three thousand tons of !lchinerS destined for Rost Sel Mach. Dori,