Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasus and Baku in the Transcaucasian Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. Maikop is closest to Kerch, 185 miles away. It produces 2,479,500 tons, only 7% of Russia's estimated yearly oil production. Grozny, farther along the way, produces slightly more. But Baku, nestled far down on the Caspian side of the Caucasus, is the richest oilfield in the world. Alone it produces nearly 75% of Russia's rich oil stores...
Russia's Roads. Last week there was news of a great, new U.S. supply center on the Persian Gulf. Through the Gulf, and then overland by highway and railway, through renamed Persia to Soviet ports and railheads on the Caspian Sea, the U.S. was sending war goods to Stalin's Armies. Aircraft assembled at the Gulf delivery points were flown directly to Russia. And, as it had already done in Eritrea, the U.S. Army was providing supply bases for future U.S. forces in the Middle and Near East...
...Capture the 25% of Russia's industry near the Caspian...
Iran. Eventually, unless Hitler changes the Allies' plans, the heaviest traffic may get to Russia by way of Iraq, Iran and the Caspian Sea. It was reported from Ankara last week that more than 70 ships are plying between the U.S. and the Middle East with materials for joint British-Russian defense, that they have begun to unload at the rate of a ship...
...check to Adolf Hitler. Persia's slim facilities for transportation must be improved. Rolling stock has to be brought in (mostly from India, which has a different gauge but can produce the proper gauge). Ports like Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf and Bandar Shah on the Caspian have to be modernized. Weak links in the railroads connecting the Persian Gulf with Russia must be remedied. To these ends a U.S. mission under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell, former Administrator of Export Control, prepared last week to leave for the Middle East...