SOVIET RAIL PRODUCTION

Created: 8/8/1950

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estlnated annual production of rails for broad gougeIn tho USSE for the60 is tabulated belowi

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(The planned production of rolla0etric tono. This figure probably includos some narrow gougo, mining, streetcar, and industrial mils which ore not included in the estimates above.)

The Kuznetsk Rolling Hill at Stalinsk produced, on the avorago, approxinatoly half of the Soviet output of steel rails during the uznetsk producedercent of the rail tonnage indicated inbove|ercentodercentusnetek roil production8 is ostinatedons withrated capacity for rail end been productionons. It Is estimated that Kuznetsk produced at leastercent of Soviet rail production9 and that it probably will again produce opproxinately

The following have been taken Into account ln arriving at tho above estimates!

prewar pattern of Soviet rail production.

current Five Tear Plan and fragmentary reports of

accounts of Soviet rail railingand reliable engineer reporto).

practice of diotlnguiebing between total roilrail production deli-mrsd to the railroads.

note* This report was undertaken In responsepecific request by the anny Hep Service.

This rxoorandun has not been coordinated with the intelligence organizations of tho Deportnents of State, Arcy, Navy, and tho

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