the study of the importance of railroad transportation during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 remains relevant. The Kirov railroad, the main transport artery of the north-west of the USSR in the pre-war period, was a rockade railroad and carried out a significant amount of transportation in the area of the theater of military operations. Based on the materials of archival sources, collections of documents, as well as the available historiography, the author makes an attempt to analyze the experience of immobilization of the Kirov railroad in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939–1940. In this article the implementation of separate directions of railway transport immobilization is considered on concrete examples: increase of throughput capacity, as well as planning and organization of military and other transportations. Their influence on the outcome of the battles of the war is revealed. Measures to improve the defensive capacity of railway transport in the north-west of the USSR, implemented by the Soviet military-political leadership as a result of the analysis of the experience of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939–1940 are analyzed.
north-west of the USSR, railway transport, Kirov railroad, Soviet-Finnish war of 1939–1940, winter war, mobilization, mobilization preparation.
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