PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000400020067-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: May 24, 1956
• Content Type: IM

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Aerial 4oto6 eW taken during reseals a heretof e
ibes3 u Railer (Trace-Sib)
~oodas7 rants, o~'.,ths `~
beitween ZsoserW and 'Zansk; a branch line swding north along the
Zeneesi River from frasaoyarsk to DodaRaVO1 and a abort stretch of
railroad now Srktyvker?
Tlr.~ alw site of the Tr ns.Sib '~` end
It rues north of the regular rule, and did not appear to be
ia. aoe at t ie ti . at the pbotograobw. It. is possible that this represents
th route
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j eia a1d road bed that bas --been aDemdOMMU? Bo
attached =ape
the right bank of the Tonesei, fro` lr&amcy"sk to beyond
Dod,on*o, there is an active rail line. It aapears that the line is
double track for at least Dart of the distance of about lA Idlmeto s,
but the scale does . not -oosiait n m&tive determination. At a ,Dint 00e6e
five miles no th.+northeast Of Dodonovo. the line au pears to end abruptlf,
vitb no evidence of line surveys beyo?d that point. Several trains,
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Cvnt&nued contras,
Or tbe area and to tbs of the o or the
IMyeh and the Ob Rivera aboiw no very good evldence of a rail line.
One earth scar- rumning south fe Xbmtg-? sn7sk is very straight for
bong stretches but other indioations point to Its being a road rhtrharr
than aE railroad. In this ores of relative3y flat somts7~ trace is no
rasa for a road to be others lbws straight.
The single aerial pboto shooing SylctWvbw Images ibat is asnost
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oe~tain2 a,rail ed anteriag, the town !'sad The scuthweste.-AM
asahe ibc tie photo limits interpretatleas but a~dditiona`1otos
bare bead'', o dered. Tf the additional phctograntq ; is . Dore detailed
treatmsts, a auotl~emen'tary renart d.U be SAWsd. e
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