INTA COAL COMBINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 15, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the mewing of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the tranamlesion or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person I. prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Komi ASSR)
ENCLOSURE ATTACHED
SUBJECT Inta Coal Combine DATE DISTR. 15 March 1957
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report also provides information on administration,.peksonalitips, number of pits,
equipment,. and employment.
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six-page report on the coal combine in Inf
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1. Inta is a mining town of approximately 50,000 an s
in the Komi ASSR. Its coal pits are subordinate to the administration 25X1
of the Inta Coal Combine (Kombinat Inta Ugol), located in a three
story building at No. 3 or 5 Ultisa Kirova, in the first municipal
rayon of the town. Because most of the miners were prisoners, the
combine was subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs until
1951, When its jurisdiction was transferred to the federal Ministry
of Coal. At the same time more than fifty percent of the prisoners
were released, either as a result of the amnesty following Stalin's
death, or because they were victims of the mass deportation of 1914
and their sentences had expired. The ex-convicts, however, were
classified as silni-spets-pereselentsi, and, as such, were forbidden
to leave Inta.
2. The management of the Kombinat is composed of the follow
a. Director (Nachalnik Kowbinata);
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b. First deputy director in charge of personnel and
supply matters;
c. Second deputy director in charge of workers' housing;
d. Chief engineer, as technical mine manager;
e. First deputy chief engineer in charge of mining ma-
chinery maintenance and supply executive on behalf
of the first deputy director;
f. Second deputy chief engineer in charge of productivity
questions;
g. Chief mechanic, in charge of practical maintenance
of machinery, with the aid of a staff of three engi-
neers and a secretary;
h. Chief electrician (Glavniy Energetik) in charge of
the power station and current supply to the pits.
The administration of the Kombinat comprises the following
departments:
a. Planning (Planoviy Otdel);
b. Technical control (Otdel Tekhnicheskovo Kontrola);
c. Pit construction (Proektniy Otdel);
d. Norms and wages (Otdel Normirovania I Zaplati);
e. Technical supplies (Otdel Tekhnicheskovo Snabzhenia);
f. Sanitation (Sanitarniy Otdel);
~. Accident prevention (Otdel Gosinshektsyi);
h. Aid to victims of work accidents (Otdel Gorno Spasatelniy);
i. Fire fighting (Otdel Pozharnaya Voennizirovana Okhrana);
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j. Construction of workers' housing (Otdel Zhilstroyitelstva);
k. Maintenance of workers' housing (Komunalniy Otdel);
1. Supply of mining timber (Lesnoy Otdel).
4. The central administration supervises the activities of nine
pits located throughout the town, each of which has the identical de-
partments of the main office; the departmental heads under the pit
manager (Nachalnik Shakhta) maintain continuous contact with their
counterparts at the Kombinat. The pits are located as follows:
a. No. 1- Perv1y Gorniy Rayon;
b. No. 2 - Perviy Gorniy Rayon, adjacent to the afore-
mentioned;
c. No. 4 - Vtoroy Rayon;
d. No. 5 - Vtoroy Rayon, adjacent to the above-mentioned-
e. No. 9 - Vtoroy Rayon, situated at some distance from
the above-mentioned-
f. No. 10 - Vtoroy Rayon, near Nos. 14 and 5;
g. No. 11 - Zapadniy Posiolok Rayon;
h. No. 12 - Zapadniy Posiolok Rayon;
i. No. 13 - Vtoroy Rayon, at some distance from Nos. !t,
5, and 9;
J. No. 15 - at present under construction at the 15-IY
Shakht Rayon.
The deposits of pits Nos. 3,6,7, and 8 were exhausted by
1951, while Nos. 11 and 12 were opened in 1951. In addition to
pit No. 15, which is at present under construction, further ex-
pansion is projected for the near futrure.
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5. The Kombinat supervises almost 50,000 persons, including
the administrative staff, miners, and above-ground workers, as well
as employees indirectly connected to the mining industry, such as
workers of cement factories catering for the requirements of the
pits and for workers' housing power stations. Of this total some
10,000 were prisoners and the rest ex-convicts with the status of
Spets Pereselentsi in 1954, but since then this ratio has been re-
versed, increasing the number of people in the latter category to
35,000, while the maximum number of prisoners is 15,000.
6. Mechanization of mining processes, which was started me-
thodically in 1951, was noticeably stepped up in 1951-1955 and was
considered accomplished by the beginning of 1956. The following
types of machinery are known to be in use at the Inta mines:
a. Coal cutters of the types Donbas No. 1 and P.K. No.
241, both products of the Machine Plant "Kirova" in
Gorlovaka (Gorlovskiy Mashin Zavod Im. Kirova), in
the Donbas;
b. Cutter loaders (Ugle-Pogruzochnaya Mashina K.M.P.-l),
this machine cuts coal by means of two jibs and loads
it onto a moving belt, from which it is transferred
either to trucks or to the so-called Transportior,
a power loader with feeder troughs mounted onto a
conveyor belt (types S.T.R.-30 and S.K.R.11, manu-
factured by the Kharkov Tractor Plant in Kharkov and
Anzherskaya; type R.T.U.-30 from the "Voroshilov"
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Machine Plant in Aleksandrovsk; type S-153 from the
Porodo Pogruzochnaya Mashina).
7. The Inta pits produce stone coal (Kaminniy Ugol) which
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resembles that mined in Vorkuta, but/even worse in quality, with
a slag formation amounting to 50 percent. The entire output of Inta
is shipped to Leningrad, where it is wed for factory furnaces and,
to a lesser extent, as locomotive and power station fuel, being un-
suitable for foundry purposes. a~.
8. Annual production of the Inta pits totals from 3.5 to 4
million tons of coal. With the impending opening of shaft ho. 15,
which is expected to furnish 1 million tons, the Ministry increased
the plan target for 1956 to 5 million tons.
9. Each of the Inta pits is equipped with a bunker, a ware-
house for the storage of coal. The material is transported there
by means of a conveyor belt, to both sides of which women workers
are seated to screen the coal. The bunkers are built in such a
way as to allow for the entrance of trucks, which are loaded in-
side directly from above.
10. Construction of an additional thermal power station for
the Inta mines, begun in 1953, was not completed by autumn 1956.
Two turbines for the new plant have already arrived from Czechoslovakia,
the last shipment having reached Inta in January or February 1956
in 20 railway trucks.
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11. The following personalities are known:
a. Aleksey Vasilevich Kitayev,
nical supply department of the Kombinat.
. Shaleyev, fnu,l an electrical engineer, is the
. Shtivelman, fnu,l is the manager of No. 9
pit.
. Tur, fnu,l (heads the norms and wages depart-
Major Zhukov, fnu,l lis the director general
of the Kombinat,
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