Soviet Railways

[Der Alte Fritz]

Yes I am looking for the Manzhosov article too. I have written to the Old Kursk website and to the University of Kursk Library who have passed the request onto another university library in Kursk in the hope that they can help. I will let you know if I get anywhere with this. Art says that there is a copy in the Russian National Library but I have yet to find anyone in Moscow who could go in and get a copy.

For those who want to look at the GKO State Committee for Defence decision as above, you can find them at http://sovdoc.rusarchives.ru/ Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Did anyone manage to get hold of this article? I never heard back from the second Kursk university.

[Yuri]

Yes I am looking for the Manzhosov article too. I have written to the Old Kursk website and to the University of Kursk Library who have passed the request onto another university library in Kursk in the hope that they can help. I will let you know if I get anywhere with this. Art says that there is a copy in the Russian National Library but I have yet to find anyone in Moscow who could go in and get a copy.

For those who want to look at the GKO State Committee for Defence decision as above, you can find them at http://sovdoc.rusarchives.ru/ Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Did anyone manage to get hold of this article? I never heard back from the second Kursk university.

Good health and peace to your home!
What is this article? If possible, write the author's name and the title of the article in Russian.
I'll try to help you.

[Yuri]

Stats on the USSR's transport (including railways) in 1940-1945 (from "Strategic overview of the Great Patriotic War", 1961)
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Probably the first published source (albeit classified) with concrete numbers for Soviet rolling stock. I wonder how it happened that the number of freight cars increased by more than 50,000 in 1943? Activation of "frozen" stocks?

In the territory liberated in the winter of 42/43, a large number of railway cars and steam locomotives were captured.

[Der Alte Fritz]

Yes I am looking for the Manzhosov article too. I have written to the Old Kursk website and to the University of Kursk Library who have passed the request onto another university library in Kursk in the hope that they can help. I will let you know if I get anywhere with this. Art says that there is a copy in the Russian National Library but I have yet to find anyone in Moscow who could go in and get a copy.

Did anyone manage to get hold of this article? I never heard back from the second Kursk university.

Good health and peace to your home!
What is this article? If possible, write the author's name and the title of the article in Russian.
I'll try to help you.

Hello
The thesis is: Специальные формирования Народного комиссариата путей сообщения (НКПС) в годы Великой Отечественной войны (1941 - 1945 г. г. )
Год:1998
Автор научной работы:Манжосов, Александр Николаевич
Ученая cтепень:кандидата исторических наук
Место защиты диссертации:Курск
Код cпециальности ВАК:07.00.02
https://cheloveknauka.com/spetsialnye-f ... 41-1945-g-
and there is a copy in the State Library: https://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01000215676

[Vasilyev]

Two interesting articles were published earlier this year about the operations of the NKPS in Eastern Europe during the last years of the war:

https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/organ ... ovoy-voyny

https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/ekspl ... 44-1945-gg

[Der Alte Fritz]

Stats on the USSR's transport (including railways) in 1940-1945 (from "Strategic overview of the Great Patriotic War", 1961)
Transport.png

Probably the first published source (albeit classified) with concrete numbers for Soviet rolling stock. I wonder how it happened that the number of freight cars increased by more than 50,000 in 1943? Activation of "frozen" stocks?

If people are interested this interesting report is available here:
Voenno-istoricheskiĭ otdel Generalʹnogo Shtaba, Strategicheskiĭ Ocherk Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ 1941-1945 gg. [Strategic essay on the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (Moskva: Voenizdat, 1961), https://vk.com/wall-45188300_1921?yscli ... p701554975.

the date is significant as Stalin was dead, the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in temporary retreat, generals memoirs were appearing and the General Staff had been working in private on their study of the war. They could not break the bonds too much but it gives hints of a different story. This brief period of freedom was closed down during the 'June 1941' by A.M. Nekrich publication scandal when the Institute M-L reestablished control of the narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nekrich
June 1941 book can be read here:
https://archive.org/details/june221941soviet0000nekr

[Paul_Atreides]

If people are interested this interesting report is available here:
Voenno-istoricheskiĭ otdel Generalʹnogo Shtaba, Strategicheskiĭ Ocherk Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ 1941-1945 gg. [Strategic essay on the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (Moskva: Voenizdat, 1961), https://vk.com/wall-45188300_1921?yscli ... p701554975.

Oh, thanx!

[Der Alte Fritz]

Good health and peace to your home!
What is this article? If possible, write the author's name and the title of the article in Russian.
I'll try to help you.

Hello
The thesis is: Специальные формирования Народного комиссариата путей сообщения (НКПС) в годы Великой Отечественной войны (1941 - 1945 г. г. )
Год:1998
Автор научной работы:Манжосов, Александр Николаевич
Ученая cтепень:кандидата исторических наук
Место защиты диссертации:Курск
Код cпециальности ВАК:07.00.02
https://cheloveknauka.com/spetsialnye-f ... 41-1945-g-
and there is a copy in the State Library: https://search.rsl.ru/ru/record/01000215676
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I now have this thesis if people want it, drop me an PM

[FORBIN Yves]

Interesting but large line are double tracked railroads ? maybe possible to have a legend ?