CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200039-5.pdf

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“ CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200039-5 oe a Te PE bag ‘Sanitized Copy Approved rr) 4 for Release 2011/08/31 r SOVIET RAILRO... OPERATIONS IN 1953, PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS (Comment: This report Presents the full text of a speech delivered k May 1954 by B. P. Beshchev, Minister of Railways USSR, at the opening of the All-Union Meeting of Workers of Railroad Transportation. ] Comrades! The Communist Party and the Soviet State have always paid and still are Paying a great deal of attention to the development of railroad trans - Portation and to the elevation of its work. This has been expressed in numer- …

ma. } plan, loaded more than 606,000 cars of consumer goods and raw matertals for the A000700200039-5 ! sSanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809 r STAT This great program was laid out in the decisions of the 5th session of the 1 Supreme Soviet of the U3SR, and of the September and FeoruaryMarch plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The tasks of railroad transportation in the contemporary period of Comnunist construction were established in the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Central Committee of our party on…

Ao ase 201 1/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200039-5 r The responsibility for thé fail of various types of freight is shared equally by the Administration of Freight Operations an Potapov), and the Main established the necessa for the Presentation of increase the car in we to fulfill the plans for the hauling . ! system chiefs, the Main i d the Planning of Hauling (chier, Traffic Administration (chier, Karpov), who have not ry strict discipline for the fulfillment of the plans empty cars, and who tolerate consistent failures to ventory of important loading systems. The plan for the delivery of …

3 0-00809A000700200039-5 . -{ * Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP8 r STAT Car layover time has been reduced very slowly at loading and unloading stations. In 1953, ca: layover time was reduced by only .7 hours and was 2.3 hours higher than in 1940. The layover of cars from the completion of a loading operations until the moment of dispatching amounts to 60 pefeent of Ce the over-all time at loading and unloading stations. i Ieee For the fulfillment of the plan for accelerating car turnaround time * it is necessary, by the end of the Fifth Five-year Plan, to reduce furthe…

. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : r The Proper maintenance of locomotives, cars, and tr in the steady operation of the railroads. CIA-RDP80-00809 Me . Most of the locomotive ana repair crews during recent years have brought At the same time there are a about an improvement in locomotive maintenance, number of unsatisfactory Workers in systems and terminals. On the Omsk, Ufa, Karaganda, Fast Stboeria, South Ural, and several other systems, the number of For example, at the Barabinsk Terminal, Omsk Railroad System, unfit Loz omotives Surpass the norm by almost unfit locomotives …

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200039-5 [ STAT It must be pointed out that several systems drew thc necessary conclusions from these directives and in the 1953-1954 winter their work was more regular, In particular, such syscems as the Tomsk, Pechora, Kazan', Moscow -Kursk -Donbass, the Moscow-Ryazan', and several others, have made timely preparations for winter and have confidently increased their hauling tempo during winter conditions. However, during the second half of the 1953-1954 winter, operational work declined because of negligence in a nuuber o…

af \ 0 . a) . Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200039-5 r BO, STAT Several systems are not fulfilling the traffic schedule of passenger trains. As a result of poor educational work on the part of several economic leaders and political departments, and because of a lack of sufficient control on the part of the Main Passenger Administration (chief, Zaporozhtsev) and Passenger offices, the intolerable facts of disruption of discipline, a rude attitude toward passengers, and poor condition of cars and station buildings have still not been remedied on the syste…