KOMSOMOLSK/NIKOLAYEVSK RAILROAD SOVIET FAR EAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300070024-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 14, 1958
• Content Type: BRIEF

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Apprv d For Release 2005/12/25: CIA-RD 78T04751 00030007 V -0
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JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-CIA
INSTALLATION: Komsomols.k/Nikolayevsk Railroad BRIEF NO. JB-23-58
LOCATION Soviet Far East DATE 14 November 1958
B B. E. NUMBER: None : 50035' to 53009'N
WAC NUMBER: 204 and. 196 137002" to 1400431E
REQUIREMENT RR/HTA/E/R44/58: Describe the .Komsomolsk/Nikol.ayevskR.ailroad.
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The K.omsomolsk/Nikolayevsk Railroad. is one of the new post-World War
II railroads under construction in the Soviet Far East. A study of
indicates that this single-track railroad: i111.e has been corn-
p.ete and is operational from Komsomolsk northeast to Litvintsevo, a dis-
tance of 130 kilometers. Beyond Litvintsevo where only a few miles of the
railroad are covered by photography the roadbed has been cons.tru~ted, but
it does not appear that tracks have been. laid.
Although only the northern half of this completed 130-kilometer section
is covered by photography, it is apparent that the new railroad leaves the
Komsomolsk-Sovetskaya Gavan Railroad at a point near Selikhin or Tudor,
approximately 50 to 60 -kilometers east of Komsomolsk. It extends in a
;northeasterly direction. to Ondy (50044'N/137055.'E), where the photo cov-
erage begins, and then. runs along the eastern bank of the Amur River to
just beyond Litvintsevo (51?06'N/138028E) where the coverage