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Rail and Water Transportation in Russia
March 16, 1921 issue

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The article focuses on the report on Soviet Union's transportation system, delivered by the Commissar for Transportation. Whereas toward the beginning of the year the aggregate mileage amounted to 33,000 versts, toward the end of the year it totaled 60,000 versts. At the beginning of the year railroad system carried 6,000 freight cars per 25 hours. An indispensable requirement for the normal functioning of transportation is efficient telegraphic communication. At present 32,500 of the available 38,000 telephones of the Republic need radical repair. With regard to water transportation, the amount of freight carded has increased considerably in comparison with 1919.

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TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SHIPPING; TELECOMMUNICATION; FREIGHT & freightage; SOVIET Union
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