BACKGROUND AND ORGANIZATION OF THE MINISTRY OF PAPER AND WOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY USSR

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BACE[HtOUHD AND ORGAN?ZATION OF THE
MINISTRY OF PAPER AND V D-PROCB88ID0 INDUSTRY USSR
L9umbers in parentheses refer to appended sources--7
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OP THE INDUSTRY
In 1925 - 1926, about three fourths of all paper and cardboard and more
than four fifths of all paper industry semimanufactures produced in the USSR
were put out by the seven large trusts shown below.
Central Russian Paper Trust (Tsentrobumtrest) 9
Leningrad Paper Trust (Leningradbumtrest) 7
Poles ye Trust ('olesakiy Treat)
Ukrainian Paper Trust (Ukrbumtreat)
Northwestern Timber Trust (Sevzaples Treat) 23
Belorussian Paper Trust (Belbumtrest)
Rama-Ural Paper and Timber Trust (gam-Uralbumles Treat)
Thirty-three other combines 48
Total 87 (1)
The People's Commissariat of Cellulose And Paper Industry USSR was esta-
blished by a ukase of 27 April 1950 (la), and the appropriate offices and func-
tions transferred to it from the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat of
Timber Industry USSR, as has been pointed out in FDD Summary No 48, p 136.
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The People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR b:came the
Ministry of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR on 15 March 1946.(2)
On 29 July 1948, the Ministries of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR and
Timber Industry USSR were combined into the Ministry of Timber and Paper Indus-
try USSR.(3)
On 16 February 1951, the Ministry of Timbe- and Paper Industry USSR was di-
vided into the union-republic Ministry of Timber Industry and the all-union Minis-
try of Paper and Wood-Processing Industry.(4)
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT
OF CELLULOSE AND PAPER IBDiSTRY USSR, 1940
The most complete available information on the structural organization and
f" ctional scope of the People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry
UuSR, predecessor of the Ministry of Paper ant Wood-Processing Industry USSR,
is embodied in a decree of the Council of People's Commissars USSR of 15 August
1940. This decree:
1. Confirmed the following structure of the central apparatus of the Peo-
ple's Commissariat oY Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR;
Main Administrations
Main Administration of Cellulose Industry (Glavtsellyuloza)
Main Administration of Cellulose and Paper Industry in the Western Regions
(Glavzapb'm-prom)
Main Administration of Cellulose and Paper Industry in the Eastern Regions
(Glavvoetbumprom)
Main Administration of Cellulose and Paper Industry in the Central Regions
(Glavteentrobumprom)
Main Admtnistration of Cellulose and Paper Industry on the Karelian Isthmus
(Glavkarelbumprom)
Main Administration of Material-Technical Supply (Glavbumanab); on cost-account-
ing basis (na khozraschete)
Main Administration for Sale of Cellulose-Paper Industry Products (Glavbumsbyt);
on cost-accounting basis
Main Administration of Educational Institutions (GUUZ)
Divisions and Sectors
Technical Council with Design-Testing Bureau; on special funds (na spetesred-
stvakh)
Technical Division with Invention Development Bureau, Standardization Bureau,
and Interdepartmental Commission for Alkaline Solutions
Industrial Management Division
Division of the Chief Mechanic and Power Engineer
Fuel Division
Transport Division
Capital Construction Division
Planning and Economic Division
Finance Division
Central Bookkeeping
Sector of Consmers' Goods
Division of Cadres
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Division of Workers Cadres and Wages
Military Division
Secret Code Division
Secretariat of the people's commissar, his deputies, and Collegium of the peo-
Ple's commissariat
Control-Inspection Group under the people's commissar
Central Inepectorat, for Boiler Inspection
Administration for Military Protection and Antiaircraft Defense
Administration for Administrative Affairs
Chief Legal Counsel
Arbitration; on special funds
Records
2. Subordinated the following combines directly to the People's Commis-
sariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR:
Kama Cellulose-Paper Combine
Balakhna Cellulose-paper Combine
3. Subordinated the following organizations directly to the People's Com-
missariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR:
All-Union Ukrainian Trust of Cellulose and Paper Industry (Soyuzukrbum-
treat); on cost-accounting basis
:111-Union Belorussian Trust of Cellulose and Paper Industry (Soyuzbel-
bumtrest); on cost-accounting basis
All-Union Trust for Repair and Assembly of Equipment and Construction
of Cellulose-Paper Industry Enterprises (Soyuzbumstroymontazh); on cost-account-
ing basis
State Institute for planning if Cellulose-Paper Enterprises (Giprobum)
Central Scientific Research institute of the Cellulose-Paper Indus-
try (TsNIIB)
Publishing House "Gosbumizdat"; on cost-accounting basis
4. Authorized the People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry
USSR to organize with the system of Glavbumsbyt an All-Union Timber-Sorting
(lesobrakerazhnaya) Office (Soyuzbumles) with local sorting organ,,.
5. Determined that, with respect to enterprises and economic organizations
directly subordinate to the People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Indus-
try USSR cost-accounting rules for main administrations of industrial people's
commissariats, as established by the 15 July 1936 decree of the Central Execu-
tive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars and recorded in Sobraniye
Zakonov aaaa, No 43, 1936, p 361, would be applied directly to the People's
Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR.
6. Confirmed the local organs of Glavbumanab shown in Appendix 1.
7. Authorized the People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry
USSR to organize under Glavkarelbumprom a cost-accounting-basis division of
supply, without the right to organize under it local offices and agencies. De-
termined that all operations of supplying Glavkarelbumprom's enterprises through
the division should be carried out only through the system of Glavbmenab.
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8. Confirmed the local organs of Glavbumsbyt Shown in Appendix ?.
9? Confirmed the general staff of the administrative apparatus of the
People's Commissariat of Cellulose and Paper Industry USSR, consisting of 3,025
Persons, including:
a. In the central apparatus, 1,040 persons -- 792 in administrations
and ..visions sustained by the state budget and 248 in administrations and divis-
ions on a cost-accounting basis and ,n special funds
b. In administrations of union trusts dad their offices and depart-
ments, 198 persons
C. In local organs of Glavbumsnab, 899 persons
d. In local organs of Glavbumsbyt, 600 persons
e. In l(:.1 state-budget-sustained organs (inspectorates for boiler
inspection and transport), 58 persons
f. In other organizations on a cost-accounting basis or on sF,cial
funds, i.e., publi.hing house, auto base, housing administration, rest home,
local arbitration offices, and forces (oily) authorized to recruit workers,
230 persons.
Appendix 1 to Decree of 15 August 1940
Local Orgt..ie of Glavbuasnab
Supply Offices
Location
Agencies Subordinate to Offic
Moscow
Leningrad
Moscow
Leningrad
es
Smolensk
Vyborg
Arkhangelsk
Odessa
Lvov
Voroshilovgrad
Rostov-on-Don
Dnepropetrovsk
Gor'kiy
Sverdlovsk
Sverdlovsk
Belorussian
Minsk
Departments of All-Union Timber-Sorting Office
Departments
Loce?:,,j
Agencies Subordinate to Departments
Gor'kiy
Gor'kiy
--
Molotov
Molotov
--
Minsk
Minsk
--
Vologda
Vologda
--
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Departments
Leningrad
Petrozsvodak
Vyborg
Linear Sorting
(lineynyy brakerazh)
Offices With Trade Bases
fbazy___) Under Them
Moscow
Leningrad
Ukrainian
Kharkov
Odessa
Rostov-on-Don
Gor'kiy
Belorussian
Smolensk
Voronezh
Novosibirsk
Stalingrad
Sverdlovsk
Kuybyshev
Georgian
Azerbaydzhan
Kursk
Saratov
Kazan'
Central Asia
Armenian
cowl
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Location
Leningrad
Petrozavodsk
Vyborg
Agencies Subordinate to Departments
Appendix 2 to Decree of 15 August 1940
Local organs of Glavbumabyt
Location
Moscow
Leningrad
Kiev
Kharkov
Odessa
Rostov-on-Don
Gor'kiy
Minsk
Smolensk
Voronezh
Novosibirsk
Stalingrad
:+erdlovsk
Kuybyshev
Tbilisi
Baku
ki..9k
Saratov
Kazan'
Tashkent
Yerevan
5 - Aft
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Offices With Trade Bases
bazy) Under Them Location Agencies Subordinate to Offices
Kazakh Alma-Ate
Northern Vol" -da
Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk
Yaroslavl' Yaroslavl'
East Siberia Irkutsk
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PERSONNEL OF THE FENT MINISTRY
Data on organizational structure and top personnel of the present Ministry
of Paper and Wood-Processing Industry USSR, obtained from sources published
since 16 February 1951, is given below.
Minister: I. Ye. Voronov (21)
Deputy Ministers: Veynov (12), Myasnikov, and I. Gutsalenko (8),
Main Administrations
Main Administration of Cellulose Industry (Glavtsellyuloza); chief, Serdyu-
kov (8); deputy chiefs, Kuznetsov (19) and Migulev (20)
Main Administration of Paper Industry in the Western Regions (Glavzapbumprom);
chief, Balmasov (8)
Main Administration of Paper Industry in the Eastern Regions (Glavvoctbumprom);
chief, Chistyakov (8)
Main Administration of Paper It?ustry in the Central Regions (Glavtsentrobumprom);
chief, Zagryazkin (14)
Main Administration of Paper Industry In Kaliningrad Oblast (Glavkaliningrad-
bumprom); chief, Lyskov (8)
K',.n Administration of Paper Industry on Sakhalin Island (Glavsakhalinbumprom);
chief, Gorbunov (8)
Main Administration of Material-Technical Supply (Glavbumsnab); chief, Lazut-
kin (8)
Main Administration of Plywood Industry (Glavfaneroprom); chief, Olesko (8)
Main Administration of Hydrolytic Industry (Glavgidrolizprom) (7)
Main Administration of Cardboard Industry (Glavkartonbumprom); chief, Prigo-
zhiy (8)
Main Administration of Furniture Industry (Glavmebel'prom); chief, Gavrilov (8)
Main Administration of Match Industry (Glavspichprom) (10); chief, Stepanov (9)
Main Administration of Paper Industry Capital Construction (Glavbumstroy); chief,
Biserov (8)
Administrati.ons and Divisions
Technical Administration; chief, Vasenko (20)
Equipment Administration (13)
Production Administration; chief, Polyakov (11)
Transport Division (14)
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Trusts, Institutes, and other Components
lAtvian Paper Industry Trust (Latbumtrest) (15)
Belorussian Paper Industry Trust (Belbumtrest) (9)
Lithuanian Furniture Industry Trust (Litmebel' Treat); chief, Al'peravichyus (16)
All-Union Ukrainian Paper Industry Capita. Construction Trust (Soyuzukrbumstroy
Treat); chief, Ryabov (8)
Hydrolytic Industry Capital Construction Trust (Gidrolizpromstroy Treat); chief,
Lopatin (8)
Wood Chemical Industry Capital Construction Trust (Leskhimstroy Treat); chief,
Chebotarev (18)
Central Scientific Research Institute of the Cellulose-Paper Industry (TeNIIB)
(17)
State Institute for Planning of Cellulose-Paper Industry Enterprises
(Giprobum) (8)
State Institute for Planning of Wood-Processing Enterprises (Giprodrev) (8)
State Timber and Paper Industries Publishing House (Goslesbumizdat) (18)
Six other main administrations, which were listed in a 1948 source as
among the components of the Miristry of Cellulose and Per Industry USSR (1946 -
1948) but which have not yet been identified as components of the present minis-
try (1951 - ), are given below for the sake if completeness.
Main Administration for Supplying the Cellulose and Paper Industry With Timber
and Fuel (Glavbumlestop)
Main Administration for Sale of Cellulose-Paper Industry Products (Glavbumsbyt)
Main Administration of Workers' Supply (GlavURS)
Main Administration of Sulfate Cellulose Industry (Glavsul'fattsellyuloza)
Main Administration of Sulfite Cellulose Industry (Glavsul'fittsellyuloza)
Main Administration of Educational Institutions (GUUZ) (6)
SOURCES
1. Bol'shaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya, Vol V, 1927, P 55
!a. Moscow, Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR, No 15, 1940
2. Ibid., No 10, 1946
3. Moscow, Pravda, 17 Mar 49
4. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 15 May 51
5. "Concerning the Organizational Structure rf the People's Commissariat of
Cellulose and Paper Industry, 14 August 1940." Sobraniye postanovleniy i
rasporyazheniy Soveta Ministrov SSSR, No 22, Item 544, 1940
6. Moskva -- Kratkaya adresno-spravochnaya kniga (Moscow --
Information Book), Moskovskiy Rabochiy Publishing House,
7. Moscow, Lesnaya Promyshlennost', 2 Aug 51
8. Ibid., 25 Oct 51
9. Ibid., 11 Oct 51
10. Ibid., 14 Oct 51
Short Address and
1948
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11. Ibid., 30 Aug 51
12. Ibid., 18 Oct-51
13. Bumazhnaya Promyshlennost', No 3, 1951
14. Leensya Pr=yshlennost', 25 Nov 51
15. Ibid., 19 Aug 51
16. Ibid., 7 Oct 51
17. Ibid., 16 Aug 51
18. Bumazhnaya Promyshlennost', No 5, 1951
19. Lesnaya Progyshlennost', 4 Nov 51
20. Ibid., 18 Nov 51
21. Bumazhngya Promyshlenaost', No 1, 1951
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