SOVIET UNION MILITARY - ECONOMIC REPORT 7/8

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SOVIET UNION MILITARY-ECONOMIC REPORT
Translated from the German Report 7/8
Dated. 23 August 1943
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During the Second World War the German Signal Intelli-
gence Control Center of the Staff of the Chief of Army
Signal Service (HNW, LNA) issued a series of reports
to show the USSR military-economic situation as reflec-
ted in Russian internal plain language traffic. These
reports appeared at short, irregular intervals, usually
six per month, for the period October 1942-March 1943,
Eighty -thFcQ IAb ese re orts have been translated and
issued by
It is planned to issue a complete set of translations of
the reports, beginning with the most recent and woifk H b3a
RQbd, but omitting those already translated by -
The numbering of the items was added by,
the translator sincFeGl1baarmans did this only in the last
eighteen reports, in clusive. Since the
original material was in Russian, an effort has been made
when translating the German to determine the original
Russian term wherever possible. This is facilitated by
the Russian fondness for abbreviations. In these transla-
tions into English the probable meaning of the abbreviation
will be given in parenthesis the first time it occurs in each
report.
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23 August 1943
The Soviet Union
Military-Economic Report 7/8
(Based on domestic radio traffic)
Individual Me s sages
1. PERSONNEL SITUATION
(1) 200 healthy young people, as far as possible males, must be pressed into service
by 15 September 1943 from Rostov/Don Oblast' for the metallurgical plant in Chelyabinsk. The
Oblast' Executive Committee in Rostov/Don has been directed to carry through these service
drafts regardless of whether the people concerned belong to other enterprises and authorities.
Management employees of enterprises of the People's Commissariats of the Tank, Aviation,
and Coal Industries may not be drafted.
(2) 2000 persons are to be pressed into service in the Voroshilovgrad and Rostov/Don
Oblasti in August and September for construction work at the Coke-Chemical Plant in Gulbakha
(Molotov Oblast').
(3) As of 14 August 8, 550 persons were pressed into service and put to work for the
pits of Rostov-Coal.
(4) In Rostov/Don Oblast', 4000 persons are to be admitted to construction schools (?)
in September.
(5) The Oblast' Employment Bureau in Voroshilovgrad reports as of 18 August the follow
ing numbers of students in the following trade and factory schools:
Trade School No. 1 in Voroshilovgrad (?) 300 persons
Factory School No. 1 in Voroshilovgrad (?) 200 persons
Factory School No. 2 in Krasnodar 120 persons
A great lack of clothing and medical supplies is to be noted in these schools.
(6) In a short time 300 doctors are to arrive in StarobelPsk from Chelyabinsk,
Tashkent, and Chkalov. 300 young doctors are likewise expected in Kupyansk.
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(7) Stalingrad-NKRF is concerned, with the competent military okrug authorities,
about the draft exemption of apprentices of the class of 1926. Stalingrad-NKRF fears that
this class will be inducted into military service at the next draft.
(8) Gorkij and Zvenigovo have the following personnel in August:
Number Wages
Gorki,-NKRF
engineer-technical personnel
90
79, 000 ru.
employees
40
16, 000
conscripted personnel
25
3,600
apprentices
70
11,600
other personnel
68
24, 600
Zvenigovo -NKRF
engineer-technical personnel
89
76, 000
employees
50
20,000
conscripted personnel
30
5,000
apprentices
50
8, 000
other personnel
65
18, 000
(9) The personnel of Astrakhan-NKRF for 1943 is as follows.
Wages
ship's personnel 3, 474 20, 433, 000 ru.
dock personnel 348 3,205,000
communications personnel 125 500, 000
other personnel 822 3,Z49,000
management personnel 105 897, 000
(10) The Chief Directorate of the NKRF, Moscow, instructs Semipalatinsk-NKRF to
place the unemployed labor force in production at once for ship spare parts and for repair work
on grounds and buildings for the approaching ship-repair period.
(11) The shipyard in Surazhevka must punish in a disciplinary manner workers who
do not fulfill the fixed work norms (see disciplinary regulation of Military-Economic Report 5/51)
2. FOOD SITUATION
(12) From messages to Blagoveshchensk, Yakutsk, and Omsk it appears that many
NKRF offices have not finished the hay harvest by the beginning of the grain harvest.
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(13) Urallsk-NKRF is instructed, with reference to an official decree, to begin the
threshing work.
(14) Kujbyshev-NKRF reported that the threshing of one hectare of cultivated area
produced a yield of one double centner. Moscow requires an explanation of the cause of this
small yield.
(15) Grain Procurement at Stavropol' receives instructions to sequestrate 5, 000 tons of
wheat and 10, 000 tons of barley.
(16) It appears from a message to Semipalatinsk-NKRF that the steamship agencies
have no supplies of salt at their disposal. In view of the canning of the. vegetable harvest in
process, above-plan transport of salt from Pavlodar is to be guaranteed under all conditions.
The following requisitions, authorizations and deliveries were noted:
REQUISITIONS
Consignee
Quantity
Type
Consignor
Remarks
(17)
Kharkov City
4, 100 tons
Flour
Supplementary
and Oblast'
372
Groats
requisition
For Aug. and Sept,
(18)
Sovkhozes of
2
Vegetable
For accomplish-
the Kharkov
oil
ment of harvest
(19)
Sugar Trust
Kharkov City
100
Fat
work
Supplementary
and Oblast'
280
Meat and
requisition for
155
meat pro-
ducts
Sugar
Aug. and Sept.
3500
Salt
(20)
Majkop,
1000 tons
(21)
Distillery
.Astrakhan,
1
Oats
Stalingrad, Grain
(22)
" Volga-Tanker
Irkutsk, Mill
60
Oats
Procurement
Kansk, Krasnoyarsk
In August
(23)
Astrakhan,
35
Rice
Oblast', Grain Pro-
curement
Eastern Foreign
In August
"Volga-Tanker"
Trade
----
(24)
Kara-Mursa (?)
90
Butter
----
In September
Food Supply of
the North Caucasus
Front
170
2. 5
Milk Products - - - -
Cheese ----
In September
In September
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Consignee
Quantity
Type
Consignor
(25)
? Astrakhan,
41 tons
Canned
Eksportkhleb
(26)
"!Volga-Tanker"
Kujb ys he v,
20
meats
Salt
(Grain Export)
----
(27)
Water Trans-
port Base
NKRF Offices
930
Salt
Pavlodar
(28)
Semipalatinsk,
(29)
Lower Irtysh
Steams hip
Agency
Krasnodar
15, 000
Salt
Nizhnij Baskunchak,
(30)
Oblast'
N orth Caucasus
Tobacco
Salt Base
Armavir, Tobacco
Front
Factory
DELIVERIES
(31)
Rostov, Macaroni
115 tons
Flour
(32)
Combine
Zherdevka,
34.5
Sunflowers
(33)
Tambov Oblast',
Oil Mill
Voronezh,
Sunflowers
Millerovo
Oil Trust
Above-plan deliv-
eries to be shipped
in Aug. by the Low-
er Irtysh Steam-
ship Agency
In August
For the manufac-
ture of macaroni
Further shipments
follow.
3. OIL SUPPLY
(34) Moscow notified the Oil Sales in Krasnodar that the.August limit for the Oblast'
-Agriculture Department is cut by 1000 tons of petroleum and 100 tons of gasoline.
(35) Rostov/Don required for August and September for the Armaments Industry from
the Chief Directorate for Oil Supply in Moscow:
Motor oil 50 tons
.Cylinder oil 165 tons
Light turbine
oil 25 tons
Spindle oil 75 tons
Viscosin 25 tons
Transformer
oil 75 tons
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Consignee Quantity Type
Consignor
Remarks
436)
Gor'kij, 500 tons
{37)
"Molotov' 'Plant
Krasnoyarsk- 1000 Motor oil
Khabarovsk, Oil
(38)
NKRF
Rostov/Don, 180 Motor oil
Supply
Makhachkala
Supplementary
(39)
Oblast' Agricul-
ture Department
Sal'sk Motor Diesel oil
Rostov/Don
for Aug. and Sept.
Vehicle and Tractor
Repair Plant
Oblast' Oil Supply
In August
;40)
Zernograd, Mechan- 2
In August
:41)
ical Plant
Ezhedukhovsk, 5 Petroleum
Krasnodar, Oil
42)
Vegetable
Sovkhoz
Krasnodar, 3. 2 tons
Supply
In August
For September
43)
Oblast' Health
Organization
Omsk--NKRF 0.2 Petroleum
In August
44)
Sal'sk, Motor 1 Petroleum
Rostov/Don,
45)
Vehicle and
Tractor Repair
-Plant
Stalingrad,
1, 5
Petroleum
Oblast' Oil
Supply
Stalingrad, Oil
In August
-46)
Lower Volga
Steamship Agency
Astrakhan,
1
Gasoline
Sales
Astrakhan, Oil
In August
47)
"Volga-Tanker"
Ezhedukhovsk,
1
Gasoline
Sales
Krasnodar, Vege-
In August
Vegetable Sovkhoz
table Sovkhoz
In August
48)
Krasnodar, Oblast' 3.1 Gasoline
----
For Sept.
49)
Health Organiza-
tion
Omsk-NKRF
0.2
Gasoline
In August
50)
Omsk-NKRF
1
Gasoline
Additional in
51)
Rostov/Don,
1
August
In August
52)
Mechanical Plant
of the Repair
Trust for Sovkhoz
Machinery
Sal'sk, Motor
1
Gasoline
Rostov/Don, Oblast'
53)
Vehicle and Tractor
Repair Plant
Stalingrad,
1. 5
Gasoline
Oil Supply
Stalingrad, Oil
In August
54)
Lower Volga Steam-
ship Agency
Omsk-NKRF
0.2
Ligroin
Sales
In August
In August
55)
Omsk-NKRF
0.4
Ligroin
Additional in Aug.
56)
Krasnodar,
0.1
Ligroin
For September
Oblast' Health
Organization
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4. PRODUCTION
(57) By ]. September Kujbyshev-NKRF and Ural?sk-NKRF are to present plans for
modernization of the river fleet in 1944. The proposals are to include better utilization of fuel
and motors as well as increased traction.
(58) The following ship construction was noted:
Quantity
Type
Size
Construction
Consi nee
Remarks
9
Motor Ships
----=
Zamusk (?)
Fish Trust
Under Construction
5
Tugs
-~---
Kostroma
------
To be completed
I Se
tember
b
p
.
y
1
Tugs
540 tons
Semsk (not located) ---------
Completed
1
Tugs
600 tons
Voskresensk
---------
Construction begun
10
Flatboats
- - - - - -
Limenda
Kalach-NKRF
Received the boats
and requires 10
more.
(59) Bobrovka-NKRF reported that no work w as carried out in the thirdten-day period
of July on the motor ships of the Fish Trust, from lack of labor and material.
(60) The shipyard in Cherdyn has not fulfilled the ship construction plan in the first
ten-day period of August, and as a result the fulfillment of the monthly plan is in doubt.
(61) Krasnoyarsk-NKRF is behind in the preliminary work and in the preparation of
installations for the coming ship repairs.
(62) The production program of ship spare parts has not been fulfilled by an NKRF-
Plant in Chistopol?.
(63) According to a message of 15 August, Dock No. 1036 in Vladimirovka is no longer
fit for use. Until its repair, the dock of the "Lenin" Plant will be used.
(64) The following expenditures for the third and fourth quarters were authorized
to various NKRF offices for construction or repair-work.
Amount Office
44, 000 rubles Aral Sea
43, 000 Aral Sea
4,640,000 Astrakhan
130,000 Kirov
1,020, 000 Kujbyshev
597, 000 Kujbyshev
for construction
.in the 3rd quarter
for repairs in the
3rd quarter
for construction
and. repairs in the
3rd quarter
for repairs in the
3rd quarter
for repairs in the
4th quarter
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Amount
Office
106, 000 rubles
Molotov
383,
000
Molotov
220,
000
Chardzhou
180,
000
348,
000
(65)
Newly noted plants:
Plant
Oxygen Factory
Cement Factory
Tashkent
Spassk
Remarks
for repairs in
the 3rd quarter
for repairs in
the 4th quarter
for construction
in the 3rd quarter
for repairs in the
3rd quarter
for repairs in the
4th quarter.
(On Lake Khanka,
Far East)
(66) Semsk-NKRF reports the following fulfillment of the July turnover plan:
Freight
Actual
Coal.
13, 100 tons
5, 517 tons
Matches
20
Cloth
20
Harvesting machinery
16
Ship?s equipment
16
Other freight
5
(67) Moscow-NKRF sharply rebuked the office in Gorkij because ships are continuously
being left loaded beyond the planned time. As an example it is noted that a number of tugs
remained loaded with gravel at the docks of the motor vehicle plant in Gorkij from 5 to 16 August.
(68) The NKRF office in Semipalatinsk is already 12% behind in the transportation of
salt in the first 16 days of August. The transport plans for grain, wood, an d loam are not being
fulfilled either.
(69) Chardzhou-NKRF has 1000 tons of oil to be transported to cotton factories in the
period from 16 to 20 August. 1800 tons of cottonseed oil are to be taken on the return trip to
Chardzhou.
(70) In the third quarter the following offices have to turn over the following freight:
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Office
Freight
Kirov-NKRF
40,000 tons
Gorkij - NKRF
620,
000
Ufa-NKRF
60,
000
Molotov-NKRF
300,
000
Stalingrad
300,
000
Kujbyshev-NKRF
350,
000
Uralosk-NKRF
10,
000
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