RAILROAD SCHOOLS BEGIN ENROLLMENT FOR 1950 - 1951 SCHOOL YEAR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTR - USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Educatl9n - Railroad technical schools
Transportation - Railroad, schools
HOW DATE DIST. Aig", Aug 1950
PUBLISHED Daily and weekly newspapers
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WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow NO. OF PAGES 7
DATE
PUBLISHED 31 May - 29 Jul 1950
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REPORT NO.
RAILROAD SCHOOLS BEGIN ENROLLMERT
FOR 1950 - 1951 SCHOOL YEAR
fflumbers in brackets refer to appended list of sources]
The Main Administration of Educational Institutions of the Ministry of
Transportation has announced the opening of enrollment in railroad-transport
tekhnikums fpecialized secondary technical school] for the 1950 - 1951 school
year. The course of instruction is 4 years.
The Ministry of Transportation operates an academy [not identified,
13 institutes, 84 tekhnikums L83 of which are identified belo], 152 tech-
nical schools and the All-Union Correspondence Tekhnikum of Railroad Trans-
port with 40 affiliates in various cities. This year along, 150,000 railroad
workers are completing studies in technical schools and various courses.. 0
A list of specialties offered by the railroad tekhnikums is given below;
numbers in parentheses indicate the number of tekhnikums at which the various
specialties are taught.
Steam locomotives (37), Diesel locomotives (5), traffic and freight opeZ-
tions (29), track (26), railroad cars (15), railroad telephone -telegraph commui-
ication (13), construction of civilian and technical buildings (13), railroad
commercial operations (12), signaling, cent_alized control of switches and sig-
nals, and operation of block signals (12), planning and financing of railroad
transport (11), accountancy for railroad transport (10), railroad structures (10),
electric power supply for electric railroads (7), rolling stock for electric
railroads (5), track and construction machinery (5), power engineering (3),
water supply and sewerage (3), material and technical supply (2), welding.(2),
metal cutting (2), metal forging (2), heat processing of metals (1), excava-
tor operation (1), radio communication (1), refrigeration (1), mechanization
of freight operations (1), calculL4-ing machines (1), logging (1), overland .
timber transport (1), tunnels and subways (correspondence tekhnikum only), op-
eration and repair of subway rolling stock (correspondence tekhnikum only).
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Eligible for enrollment in the tekhnikums are USSR citizens, 14-30 years
of age, with at least a seventh-grade education, who can pass examinations in
the USSR Constitution (oral), Russian language and literature (oral and written,
plus dictation), and mathematics (oral and written). In those tekhnikums where
instruction is not in the Russian language, there is an additional examination
in the particular language used. Honor graduates of 7-year schools in 1949 and
1950 are exempt from entrance examinations.N
Railroad tekhnikum pupils are provided with the following stipends: for
the first year -- 185 rubles; second year -- 2].0 rubles; third year -- 235
rubles; fourth year -- 260 rubles. Pupils who maintain grades of "Excellent"
are given stipends 25 percent larger. In addition, pupils are entitled, to the
rights of railroad employees, including that of free passage on the railroads
of the U"SR./
Space in school dormitories is provided for those pupils especially in need
of it, usually pupils who come from out of town.
Applications may be presented in person or sent by insured mail to the di-
rector of the tekhnikum, and must contain the following documents: certificate
of education (in original), birth certificate (in original) or identify card
(presented in person), an autobiography, three photographs (bareheaded, 3 by
4 centimeters), record of draft status (for those subject to military service),
health record issued by a medical institution, and residence credentials.
Entrants must, in addition, take medical examinations prescribed for rail-
road workers in various specialties. _/72
Entrance examinations are being given 1 - 20 August, with registration tak-
ing place 21 - 25 August.p
There is no age limit for entrance into either evening divisions or the
All-Union Correspondence Tekhnikum of Railroad Transport. Applicants must work
in specialties corresponding or related to the subject chosen for study. Appli-
cants must furnish, in addition to the documents required, a letter from their
place of employment listing their job duties. ApFlications for admittance into
the correspondence tekhnikum may be turned in at educational-consultation points.
Instruction in the tekhnikums is to begin on 1 September 1950. 7
Certain of the railroad tekhnikums are also offering 3-year specialized
courses for steam-locomotives engineers. Applicants must be at least 19 years
of age and have seventh-grade education. Room and board, uniforms, and a
stipend of 100 rubles a month are fu-?-nished.J7
A list of railroad tekhnikums operated by the Main Administration of Edu-
cational Institutions of the Ministry of Transportation, giving location, spe-
cialities taught, and address follows. An asterisk (*) following the name of
the school indicates that the tekhnikum is an educational-consultation point
of the All-Union Correspondence Tekhnikum of Railroad Transport.
1. Akmolinsk* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations; eve-
ning division: traffic and freight operations. Akmolinsk, Karaganda Railroad
System.
2. Aktvubinsk -- Track. Aktubinsk; Orenburg Railroad System.
3. Alatyr' -.? Steam locomotives; railroad cars; welding. Alatyr', Pervomay-
skaya ulitsa, 50.
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4. Alma-Ata* -- Steam locomotives; railroad cars; track; traffic and
freight operations; railroad commercial operations; railroad commercial opera-
tions. Alma-Ata, Kasgarskaya ulitsa, 108.
5. Ashkhabad* -- Diesel locomotives. Ashkhabad, ulitsa Svobody, 14.
6. Baku* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations; track.
Baku, uli.sa Chapayeva, 51.
7. Brest-Litovsk* -- Traffic and freight operations; track; signaling,
centralized control of switches and signals, and operation of block signals;
railroad telephone-telegraph communication. Brest, Pushkinskaya ulitsa, 55.
8. Bryansk -- Steam locomotives. Bryansk-II Station, Moscow-Kiev Rail-
road System.
9. Velikiye Luki* -- Steam locomotives; railroad cars. Velikiye Luki,
Pervomayskaya ulitsa, 27.
10. Vil'nyus* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations. Vil'-
nyus, ulitsa Mindauvo, 20.
11. Vologda* -- Steam locomotives; track. Vologda, Tekhnikumovskiy
pereulok, 4.
12. Voronezh* -- Steam locomotives; traffic avid fre93ht operations; signal-
ing, centralized control of switches and signals, and operation of block sig-
nals; evening division: steam locomotives. Voronezh, Studenchnska;?a ulitsa, 18.
13. Voroshilovgrad* -- Track; technical and civilian buildings; structures.
14. Volkhov -- Track. Volkhov, Leningrad Oblast, Murmanskaya, 11.
15. Gomel'* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations; 1-ailroad
commercial operations; planning and financing of railroad transport; accountancy
for railroad transport. Gomel', Sovetskaya ulitsa, 95.
16. Grodno -- Steam locomotives. Grodno, ulitsa Ozheshko, 1.
17. Daugavpils* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations.
Daugavpils, Kaunasiyela, 25.
18. Dzaudzhikau -- Diesel locomotives; signaling, centralized control of
switches and signals, and operation of block signals; traff!.c and freight opera-
tions; railroad commercial operations; welding. Dzaudzhikau, North Osetian ASSR,
technical village behind the railroad car repair plant.
19. Dnepropetrovsk* -- Electric power supply 'or electric railroads; traf-
fic and freight' operations; railroad commercial operations. Dnepropetrovsk,
Pusakinskiy prospekt; 77-a.
20. Yelets* -- Track; technical and civilian buildings; structures. Yelets,
Moscow-Donbass Railroad System.
21. Inza -- Railroad cars; track; evening division: track, Inza, Tomsk
Railroad System.
22. Irkutsk School for Mechanics* -- Track; technical and civilian build-
ings; structures. Irkutsk, 4-aya Sovetskaya, 1-a.
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23. Kaluga -- Railroad cars; Diesel locomotives; evening division: Diesel
locomotives; railroad cars. Kaluga, ulitsa Zhenshchin-Rabotnits, 11.
24. Kaliningrad -- Steam locomotives; track; technical and civilian build-
in3s. Kaliningrad, Naberezhnaya ulitsa, 4.
25. Kiev El.ectrcmechanics* -- Electric power supply for electric railroads;
power engineering; railroad telephone-telegraph communication; signaling, cen-
tralized control of switches and signals, and operation of block signals; traf-
fi., and freight operations; railroad commercial operations. Kiev, Zheleznodorozh-
naya Koloniya, Stadionnaya ulitsa, 3.
26. Kiev Construction -- Track; technical and civilian buildings; structures.
Kiev, ulitsa Chapayeva, 5.
27. Kiev Material Economy -- Material and technical supply; planning and
financing of ra!lroad transport; accountancy for railroad transport. Kiev,
ulitsa Chapayeva, 6.
28. Kovrov* -- Steam locomotives; track and construction machinery; excava-
tor operation; e.*ening division: excavator operation. Kovrov, Vladimir Oblast,
ulitsa Bortsov 1905, 71.
30. Krasnoyarsk School for Technicians* -- Railroad cars; water supply and
sewerage; planning and financing of railroad transport. Krasnoyarsk, Novosibir-
skaya ulitsa, 50.
31. Kremenchug -- Steam locomotives; railroad cars. Kremenchug, Kolkhoz-
naya ulitsa, 14.
32. Kuybyshev* -- Steam locomotives; heat processing of metals; planning
and financing of railroad transport; accountancy for railroad transport. Kuy-
byshev, corr:r ulitsi Vokzal'noy and L'va Tolstovo, 44.
33. Kursk -- Steam locomotives. Kursk, ulitsa Dobrolyubova, 4.
34. Leninakan -- Traffic and freight operations. Leninakan, Transcaucasus
Railroad System.
35? Leningrad imeni F. E. Dzerzhinskiy -- Electric power supply for elec-
tric railroads; rolling stock for electric railroads; traffic and freight opere--
tiona; railroad commercial operations; railroad telephone-telegraph communica-
tion; signaling, centralized control of switches and signals, and operation of
block signals; structures; planning and financing of railroad transport; account-
ancy for railroad transport. Leningrad, Borodinskaya ulitsa, 6.
36. Leningrad Mechanical* -- Steam locomotives; railroad cars; evening
division; steam locomotives. Leningrad, Ekipazhnaya ulitsa, 20.
37. Lodeynoye Pole -- Steam locomotives. Lodenoye Pole, Leningrad Oblast,
ulitsa Sverdlova, 89.
38. L'vov* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations; railroad
telephone-telegraph communication. Lvov, Snopkovk,kaya ulitsa, 47.
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40. Moscow Planning and Financing -- Material and technical supply; plan-
ning and financing of railroad transport; accountancy for railroad transport.
Moscow, 2-aya Meshchanskaya ulitsa, 65.
41. Moscow imeni Oktyabr'skaya Revolyutsiya -- Traffic and freight opera-
tions; railroad commercial operations; refrigeration. Moscow, Nizhne-Krasnosel'-
skaya ulitsa, 39.
42. Moscow imeni A. A. Andreyev* -- Electric power supply for electric rail-
roads; railroad telephone-telegraph communication; signaling, centralized con-
trol of switches and signals, and operation of block signals; radio communica-
tion; track; structures; evening division: rolling stock for electric railroeds.
Moscow, Yaroslavskoye shosse, Kuchin pereulok, 14.
43. Moscow imeni F. E. Dzerzhinskiv* -- Steam locomotives; power engineering;'
rolling stock for electric railroads. Moscow, ulitsa Kazakova, 8.
44. Moscow Evening -- Metal cutting; metal forging. Lyublino, Moscow-Kursk
Railroad System, Plant imeni L. M. Kaganovich.
45. Nikolayev -- Track and construction machinery; mechanize on of freight
operations. Nikolayev, Pushkinskaya ulitsa,?7l
46. Odessa* -- Steam locomotives; water supply and sewerage. Odessa, Plosh-
chad Kaganovicha, 15-b.
47. Omsk Construction* -- Track; technical and civilian buildings; struc-
tures; track and construction machinery. Leninskiy Rayon Omsk, ulitsa Lobkova,
1.
48. Omsk Ele..trotechnical -- Railroad telephone-telegraph communication;'
signaling, centralized control of switches and signals, and operation of block
signals; rolling stock for electric railroads; planning and financing of rail-
road transport; accountancy for railroad transport. Omsk, Moslnvskaya u.i+sa,
Administration of thy. Omsk Railroad System.
49. Orel -- Signaling; centralized control of switches and signals, and op-
eration of block signals; traffic and freight operations; railroad commercial
operations. Orel, 2-aya Novosil'skaya ulitsa; 52.
50. Orsha -- Traffic and freight operations. Orsha, Timiryazevskaya ulitsa,
51. Otrozhka -- Railroad cars. Otrozhka, Southeastern Railroad System,
Krivonosa, 33.
52. Penza -- Steam locomotives; water supply and sewerage. Penza, Volodar-
skaya ulitsa, 88/5.
53. Poltava- Track; technical and civilian buildings; structures; evening
division: steam locomotives. Poltava, Southern Railroad System.
54. Rostov* -- Steam locomotives; track; structures; planning and financing
of railroad transport; accountancy for railroad transport; evening division:
steam locomotives. Rostov-on-Don, ulitsa Gor'kovo, 90/125.
55. Roslavl' -- Railroad cars; evening division: railroad cars. Roslavl',
ulitsa Kaganovicha, 5.
56. Ryazan' -- Track; technical and civilian buildings. Ryazan', ulitsa
Kalyayeva, 44.
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57. Pechora* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations; track.
Ukhta, Komi ASSR.
58. Saratov Construction -- Technical and civilian buildings; structures;
track. Saratov, Rabochaya ulitsa, 14.
59. Saratov Mechanical* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight opera-
tions; railroad commercial operations; railroad telephone-telegraph communica-
tion. 3aratov-II, Ryazan'-Ural Railroad System. I-
60. Samarkand -- Traffic and freight operations; planning and financing
of railroad transport; accountancy for railroad transport. Samarkand, ulitsa
Doprizyvnika, 10.
61.. Sverdlovsk Construction -- Track; technical and civilian buildings;
structures. Sverdlovsk, Pervomayskaya ulitsa.
62. Sverdlovsk Electrotechnical* -- Rolling stock for electric railroads;
electric power supply for electric railroads; evening division: rolling stock
for electric railroads; electric power supply for electric railroads. Sverdlovsk,
ulitsa Bykova, 34-a.
63. Sevastopol' -- Track; technical and civilian buildings. Crimea, Simfer-
opol', ulitsa Rozy Lyuksemburg, 15.
64. Slavyansk -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations. Slav-
yansk, South Donets Railroad System, Fabrichnaya ulitsa, 14.
65. Stalingrad* -- Steam locomotives; ;traffic and freight operations.
Stalingrad-II, Klubnaya ulitsa, 39.
66. Syzran' -- Track; railroad cars. Syzran', Sovetskaya ulitsa, 28.
67. Tayga* -- Steam locomotives. Tayga, Tomsk Railroad System.
68. Tambov* -- Railroad cars. Tambov, Zhelezhnodorozhnaya ulitsa, 117.
69. Tashkent Electromechanical* -- &beam: locomotives; railroad telephone-
telegraph communication; signaling, centralized control'of switches and sig-
nals, and operation of block signals. Tashkent, 2-aya Sarykul'skaya, 2.
70. Tashkent Construction -- Track; technical and civilian buildings.
Tashkent, ulitsa Lunacharskovo, 49/53.
71. Tbilisi* ?- Electric power supply for electric railroads; traffic and
freight operations; railroad telephone-telegraph communications. Tbilisi,
ulitsa Ninoshvili, 13.
uic- 72. Tikhoretsk -- Steam locomotives; railroad cars. Tikhoretsk, South
Caucasus Railroad System.
73. Tomsk -- Traffic and freight operations; railroad commercial opera-
tions; railroad telephone-telegraph communication; signaling, centralized con-
trol of switches and signals, and operation of block signals. Tomsk, Starodepov-
skaya ulitsa, 10.
74. Tula -- Track and construction machinery. Tula, Tekhnicheskaya ulitsa,
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75. Ulan-Ude -- Steam locomotives; railroad cars; metal forging; metal
cutting; evening division: metal forging; metal cutting. Ulan-Ude, Railroad-
car plant.
76. Khabarovsk School for Technicians* -- Steam locomotives; traffic and
freight operations; railroad commercial operations; signaling, centralized
control of switches and signals, and operation of bloc;: signals; railroad tele-
phone-telegraph communication. Kharbarovsk, ulitsa Karla Marksa, 79.
77. Kharkov* -- Signaling, centralized control of switches and signals,
and operation of block signals; railroad telephone-telegraph communication;
planning and financing of railroad transport; accountancy for railroad trans-
port; calculating machines. Kharkov, Dmitriye,3kaya ulitsa, 26.
\Chelyabinsk -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight operations;
evening division: traffic and freight operations. Chelyabinsk, ulitsa Lenina,
76-a.
79. Chernovtsy* -- Steam locomotives; track. Chernovtsy, u:litsa 28 Iyunya,
80. Chita School for Technicians -- Steam locomotives; traffic and freight
operations; power engineering. Chita-I, 1-aya Moskovskaya ulitsa, 25.
81. Chkalov* -- Diesel locomotives; track and construction machi::ery; eve-
ning division: steam locomotives. Chkalov, Gorsovetskaya ulitsa, 1/3.
82. Timber -- Logging; overland timber transport. Ilet', Kazan' Railroad
System, Mushmari village.
83. All-Union Correspondence Tekhnikum of Railroad Transport -- Traffic
and freight operations; railroad commercial operations; steam locomotives; rail-
road cars; signaling, centralized control of switches and signals, and operation
of block signals; railroad telephone-telegraph communication; tunnels and sub-
ways; operation and repair of subway rolling stock; electric power supply for
electric railroads; Diesel locomotives; track; technical and civilian buildings;
planning and financing of railroad transport; accountancy for railroad transport.
Moscow, Yaroslavskoye shosse, Kuchin perenilok, 14.Q2
SOURCES
1. Literaturnaya Gazeta, No 62, 29 Jul 50
2. Gudok, No 66, 2 Jun 50
3. Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 3o 114, 31 May 50
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