BREST RAILROAD CENTER

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1952
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CENTRAL INTELIGENCE AGENCY
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Brest Railroad Center
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1. The city of Brest-Litovsk is located on the border between Poland and the USSR on
the Bug River. It is a large and very important strategic point in westerseckfaia
with a well developed railroad syztem (the highways are unsatisfactory). aase
Brat Railroad Center iz divided into the following railroad ztatiens; Breete
Tsentrallnyy; Breet-Vastochnyy; Breat-Zapadnyy; Breat-Polesakiy; Brest-Severnyy
(with a large railroad point - the Engineer park ?-(inzhinerhyy spark)); Mukhovets.
VoyennYy Aalitary station7. All of theass enumerated stations are interconnected
and form the large railroad center. Dezerptions of the stations follow:
2. At Breet-Teentraltnyy there ie a central pasaenger ztation, a customs holies;
(tamozhiya) for chocking hand bagaage and a border control check point. Oppozite
the waiting room, toward the city on the other side of the tracks is the freight
station which performs all of the freight operation for all sections of the rail-
read center, There are freight. division within each separate station and they40
operate subordinate to the main freight office.
3, The Brest-Teentral!nyy Station has 32 tracks, half of which are European gauge
1E3II, and two freight rampz. Az a rule, reearatiens freight and foreign
rciea are traneshipped at this stations The station area, particularly in
the places where freight is transshipped, in ;surrounded by a solid concrete- wall
two meters high and is guarded.
The Breat-Vostochnyy station has about 18 tracks, mix of which are of European
gauge. Up to March 1949, the 5th Division of the Central transehipping Bao No
3603 (v/ch 96705) 'MRS functioning here, but, wax deactivated when the amount of.
freight coming in decreaued. Here there were five electric portal cranes with
capacitiea of 175, 110, 75, 18, and 15 tons. 1g0 cranes were transferred to the
6th Division of the Central Base No 360$ at Brent-Polesskiy Station; the remain-
ing on to the Engineer Park at Breat-Severnyy Station where they were put at
the diaposal of the chiefs of the- 1st and 3rd divieinns. Some of the European
gauge lines to this station were converted to Soviet broad gauge after the de-
activation of the 6th division. The main switching yard for care destined for the
interior, large car repair shop, freight warehouses, and a cuatome hone are
located at Bres-aTeetochnyy Station. At prezent, 'transshipping operations are
not heavy and are done at a rate of 150-200 cars a month.
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5, The Breet-Polersekiy Station has abdut 14 tracks, four of which are European
gauge. At this 'station the transshipping operations are, for the most part0
carried out by the laborers and machinery of the 6th Division of the Central
Base of the MVSZnnistry of Armed Forces?' No 3603, and partly by railroad
freight handlers. The capacity of tranahipping operatinne could be increased.
8e10 units per day but, because of the lack of empty cars and machinery, there
arc uesaally loaded 2,500-3,000 cars per month by Central Base 3603 and 250-300
cars by railroad laborers.
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In addition, at the end of 1949, the 4th Division of the Central
'Ease of MITS,-11SSR, No 3603, which had four cranes, was operating here. Two of
the cranes we:re electric portal cranes of 175 tons and 75 tons capacity, and the
other two were railroad Diesel cranes with a capacity of 15 tons each. After
tee deactivation of this divisinn (for the same reason as the 5th Division) all
of these cranes were transferred to the Engineer Park of Brest-Severnyy Statione
At present, uranium ore is the main freight transshipped at Mukhovets--Voyennyy
Station. This is a shah-station with eight tracks, four of which are European
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gauge. The transshipping capacity of this station is four to five trains per
day and et present 800.10000 carloads per month are transshipped by the workers
pf Central Base No 3603 and 100.150 carloads per month by railroad workers,
The Brest-Zipadnyy station has about 10 tracks, half of which are European gauge,'
It serves as a layover point, All trains crossing the border in either direction
must undergo custom.; inspection here. Transshipping operation; are nob carried
out here with the exception of coal coming fran Poland to the USSR. For trans-
shipping coal a special ramp with a conveyor system having its urn stub track
haw bens built. In addition to this, coal is transshipped on two .other take
(Nos 1 and 2) of the statim by means of :Diexel and steam-operated excavators,
of which there are about 12. Average transshipping time for rine car is 15e20
:minutes.* Transshipping time for a train of up to 60 cars (coal) in either
location is about two hours. ,
Although it is poonible to process up to 12 trainloads of coal per day, an
average of only eix to eight trains per day are being procesieed at the present
time, depending upon the number of 'trains arriving. Trains with freight destined
for this station wait their turn for dispatching to this or another station for
transshipping operations
9. The BreeteSeVernyy etatien haS two sectionseeBresteSevernyy. and BregteSevej4yee
Engineer Park. 'Ae ite.nameiMPliepeereeteSevernyyie a:station like Breste
'.Zapadnyy with the exception that abSolutely no', freight eperatione are carried cut
here. The Engineer Park is a large train tranexhipping point at the disposal of
the Transshipping ase of WS, USSR, No 3-605e At presente the 1st and 3rd
divisions of Central Base No 3603 are operating at the EngineerPark, '-
10. The Engineer Perk i2 an area with a well,developed network Of track; surrounded
by a: barbed wire fence two meters highe The park it about five kilometers long
and from 500 to 1,000 in wide. In 1949 a large ordnance-technical base of the
MVS, USSR was 'located in the grounds of this park. Entry to the Engineer Park
as effected by special pas, issued by the U Ti B f1kdmin'7,stration of Centra
Base ( Upravleniye Tsentralihoy Bazy.21 3603, and IT itriotly checked 'at the .
control and check points (mpp). Pers&a:i not having a passeeauch as railrbad
worker e and employt-s are net permitted (pewees are temporery)e The park area
has five KrPteee Security of the park and of the loaded trains ix the responie
sibility of the Separate Local Rifle Company, of Central Base No 3603.
11. Because ofthedeaCtivation of the 2nd Division (Zhabinka Station), the Lithe
Division (MUkhevets.Voyennyy Station), the 5th Division (BrestVoistochnyy)eiseed
the 7th Division (Berestovitea Station). the Engineer Park has: increased in
importance andcapaeity Since all: of the technical eqUipMent and machinery of the's.
divisions were transferred here,
12. For that reason, in 19L9 the rail net of the Engineer park underwent considerable
reconstruction and improvement, New railroad sidings and switches were built*
BresteSevernyy was directly connected with the Engineer Park (0.5 kilaneters),
and a now line about three kilometers was built from the Engineer Park to Brest.,
Veatochnyy Station,
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13* Se much for a general description of the railroad station of the Brest Rail
Center.
14. It is necessary to keep in mind that the Engineer Park is at the present time
the main transshipping point and is of very great importance in contrast to
the other stations. In the Engineer Park, there are about 20-25 railroad
tracks of Soviet gauge andfke same amount of European gauge arranged for
freight operations,' in addition to a large number of auxiliary tracks and sidings.
15. the Engineer Park is the main transshipping point. Here
ranspor pped by labor and means of Central Base No 3603.
(Some trains are reloaded by the railroad's own labor forces.) At present,
the remaining stations take care of their own transshipping, depending on the
type of loading problems. Brest-Tsentral'nyy Station is included in this
group. Assignment of loaded trains ie done according to the importance of the
freight and the marking on the trains. Whether the trains are to be serviced
by labor from Central Base No 3603 or from the railroad depends on their
destination markings. As a rule, all heavy transshipping operations are done by
Central Base of the MVS No 3603 which has heavy machinery (cranes and labor
forces in the form of its divisions of labor battalions at its disposal.
16. Percentagewise it appears that the Central Transshipping Base does about 80-
85% of all the transshipping done at the Brest Rail Center and only 15-20%
is done by the railroad.
'Note:Trains from Poland with Uranium are are given priority treatment in
transshipping, Polish trains, as a rule, are not detained at the transshipping.
Polish trains, as a rule, are not detained at tIse transshipping point because
the USSR must pay for car delays in gold.
17. Central Base 3603 has a total of 22 cranes of various capacities and types,
among them 1)4 electric gantry cranes; two-175 tons, one-110 tons, two-75 tons,
four-45 tons, two-18 tons, .9.e-,1,.e-15 tons, one-12 tons, one-eight tons; three rail-
road Diesel cranes; and fie steam cranes; two-15 tons, three-18 tons, three415
tons. The cranes are distributed as follows: Brest-Polesskiy Station has four
electric gantry canes; (two-45 tons, one-eight tons, one-15 tons); Brest-Severnyy-
Engineer Park has all the remaining cranes. Three "Borgvard" 21- ton-caterpillar
cranes are little used generally but are utilized in the crane repair shops of the
270th OKTB (Separate Crane Equipment Battalion) for the shops own servicing.
For that reason I am not taking them into consideration.
18. In addition to the cranes, Central Base MVS No 3603 has on hand great quantities
of equipment for the manual transshipping of trains (hand-operated hoists,
wheelbarrows, shovels, crowbars, slides, etc)?. For the most part the heavy
freight is unloaded with the cranes and the light freight is unloaded manually.
19. Railroad-owned warehouses of all the freight stations of the Brest Rail
Center are intended only for the short-term storage of private freight
passing through Brest to other addresses. These warehouses or baggage-
rooms (bagkauzy) accommodate very limited quantities of such freight or
private baggage destined for transport. Daily the stations receive and
dispatch different freight for the interior and the vest. Because of the
absence of sufficient car space it is not possible to ship all the freight
immediately. In these cases such freight is held in the baggage rooms until
it is dispatched to its destination. In this way they are of interest only
to stations and not the system generally.
20. Central Base 3603 has a large number of storage warehouses. All of them are
centered around the main transshipping point, the Engineer Park. They were
built in 1945 and there are about 100-120 of them. The warehouses are rooms
built of planks covered with wood shingles and are' 50 meters long, 20 meters
wide, and three meters high (to the lower edge of the roof). There are no
ceilings in the warehouses thich greatly increases tbeir capacity. There
are wooden floors only in those warehouses designed for the storage of special
freight (private property, foodstuffs, valuable freight, etc).
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21. The warehouses are spaced along the railroad track and a narrow gauge track
for transferring freight from the cars leads to each of them, vJalls in the
warehouses are single, that is, only one layer of boards. Metal strips or wire are
fastened to the planks around the warehouses to serve as a seal to prevent
anyone from removing the sheathing. These warehouses played an important part
in the years immediately following the war, i e 1945, 1946, 1947, because, during
this time, great quantities of all types of freight were coming from the ,,vest.
The goal of the Soviet government at that time was directed toward bringing
everything of value out of Germany. Because of this, the Brest Rail Center,
particularly, the Engineer Park, was literally clogged with equipment from
dismantled factories and other freight. It was impossible to dispatch all of
this at the same time due to a shortage of transportation. As a result the
warehouses were blilt and put at the disposal of the Central Transshipping
Base of MVS USSR No 3603.
22. At present these warehouses are mostly empty; the Engineer Park in particular
is almost unleaded, that is, all of the freight which had been in it has
been sent to the interior of the country. Only certain parts of the freight
destined for local delivery are left in the warehouses.
23. During 1948-51, incoming trains from across the border became fewer and fewer
in number and, as a rule their loads were immediately transshipped to Soviet
trains for dispatching to the, interior. As a consequence, the importance of the
warehouses was reduced with each successive year and at the present time is
insignificant. The organization of Central Base MVS USSR 3603 was sharply
reduced.
24. The general conclusion to be drawn from this problem is: in cases of necessity,
Base 3603 can, at any time, be developed to its original organizational status
and the warehouses adapted to the general reqUirements. The role of the
Brest Rail Center as an intermediate point located on the western border is
very important.
2. At present Central Base 3603 has at its disposal; two separate workers'
battalions, One separate crane equipment battalion, a separate local rifle
company; three base sections.
26. The 3rd ORB Separate '.workers' Battaliog (Battalion Commander Lt Col Rudenko)
is located west of the city of Brest near the fortress. Overall personnel
strength of the battalion is 350. The 262nd ORB (Battalion Commander Lt Col--
family name I do not know) is located near the Engineer Park on Kamenetskiy
Sbosse; The organization of this battalion is like that of the 3rd ORB. The
3rd ORB is used for transshipping operations at Brest-Polesskiy and Mukhovets--
Voyennyy stations; 262nd ORB at the Engineer Park, chiefly for manually trans-
shipping trains, but occasionally as freight handlers Stropovshchiki/ during
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/(Battalion Commander Lt Col Shvidchenko;
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battalion as its name implies is to transship freight with cranes. It consists
of two crane companies (Commander of 1st Co is Major Lebedev, the 2nd Co Capt
Gudzenko) and one equipment company (in 1947 this company was reduced in
personnel). Total complement of the three companies is 350 men (this includes
supply and administrative personnel). At present the battalion numbers about
250 men
27. The personnel for the most part are technical specialists, crane operators,
electricians, tractor operators, chauffers, fitters, lathe operators, etc.
The battalion has good crane repair shops and a large power plant for
supplying the cranes with power. The shops and power plant are located next
to the Engineer Park near the cranes.
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28. Twelve tractors are used for hauling heavy freight during the loading and
unloading operations. Six trucks are used for hauling water for the steam
cranes, fuel for the Diesel cranes, repair crews to places of accidents
and for the general use of the battalion.
29. The amsa eparate Local Rifle Compa (Company Commander Major Maslennikov)
is located in the area of 262nd ORB. The company has about 150 men and is
used to guard trains in the transshipping area, the base administration and,
finally, the control and check points (KPP) of the Engineer Park,
30. At present, there are three sections at Base 3603. The 1st and 3rd sections
are located in the Engineer Park and the 6th at Brest-Polesskiy. The functions
of these sections are: the immediate supervision and organization of the
transshipping operations; the accounting for and dispatching of trains to their
destinations. All machinery (cranes) and labor forces are also attached to them.
The sections as a whole are responsible for the punctuality and quality of the
transshipping of trains. In their work, they are accountable to Central Base
MVS USSR No 3603.
31. About 700 of the battalion military laborers are directly employed or
assigned to transshipping work. The rest of them are employed with different
tasks within the section.' Work assignments depend On the presence and number
of trains. Military employees may be used no more than 12 hours per day and
crane operators, as a rule, work in shifts (three shifts of eight hours each).
Work is not planned according to shifts in the workers' battalions as this is
too difficult.'
32. The number of civilian laborers employed is unknown to me. As a rule the number
of them Used for loading or unloading work is under the control of the freight
office. They work on a voluntary basis and receive piece-work wages, i e
according to the number of cars. unloaded. Each station has both full-time and
temporary (contracted for various operations) freight handlers and the number
of both of them depends upon the amounts and types of freight to be loaded or
unloaded. Because of this the number of civilian laborers always varies. In
my estimation, throughout the Brest aail Center, the railroads handle about
40-50 cars a day (comprising one train), of-which nearly 60% pass through
BrestTsentral'nyy. About 80-100 workers organized in three shifts are reouired
to transship the freight of this many cars. An average of two hours are
allowed for two men to transship one carload. Per shift they roughly trans-
'ship-82=4 carloads. Some freight can be transshipped by means of conveyers.
In these cases the unloading norms are much less, about 20-25 minutes. These
conveyors are on track 32 in Brest-Tsentralinyy Station,
Note: Coal trains have not been taken into consideration. Most of them are
unloaded at Brest-Zapadnyy. I do not know the number of workers employed there
but the work there is highly mechanized and goes on day and night. The total '
number of workers there Completely satisfies productional demands-.
33. Battalion military personnel are sometimes employed in transshipping work 12 hours
a day in two shifts. As I have mentioned above the distribution of labor crews
to work depends upon the arrival of trains at the transshipping area. Here
the reckoning is very simple. Let. us assume that two trains per day arrive at
this or that station with the address of Central Base MVS 3603. (Their arrival
in Brest was telegraphed earlier.) The battalion commander assigns to
transshipping freight from these- trains (if the freight in them is to be handled
manually) all of the personnel, who usually will be busy until all of the cars
are transshipped. This will' take two to three hours, after which the men rest
until the next day, occupying themselves in their free time with military and
political training,. If one train is to be-unloaded in the evening and the
other in the morning then the battalion commander will work the crews in shifts.
I have already described shift work of the civilian freight handlers employed
by the railroad.
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34. The number of laborers in each shift is indefinite, depending upon the number
of cars present for transshipping Calculating the required number of laborers
for the railroad for each shift is done as follows: four cars for two men for
eight hours' work.
35. Such norms do not hold good for military personnel. Here the battalion commander
assigning crews is guided by the number of cars to be unloaded; the sorts of
freight and the labor expenditure necessary for them, and, finally, by the time
estimated for the transshipping of freight of the given train. All of this is
taken into coneideration in order to eliminate the possibility of extra layover
of cars during transshipping operations. For each case of extra delay, the
railroad exacts a daily fine from those at fault. In order to prevent this,
the crew commanders usually assign more military personnel to transshipping work
than is ordinarily required (sometimes five-six or more mento one car).
36. Transshipping goes on day and night, with the exception of trains with valuable
freight which are unloaded only in the daytime in order to prevent thieving.
For night transshipping, flood-lights have been installed so labor productivity
is no less at night than in daylight. As a rule night transshippin7 is done when
there is a Concentration of transports iii: the transshipping center or when there is
Priority freight to be handled.- All large trains are handled during the day.
37.
Trains from across the border arrive under guard at all times. So-called
"vertushkas" .5otating guard detailg which are permanent and are numbered
have been set up. TU Hvertushka" consists of: Vertushka chief and detail
made up of: one officer (junior lieutenant, lieutenant, or senior lieutenant);
his assistant (sergeant); 6-10 riflemen; one cook. The military personnel of
the wVertushkas" belong to a special separate guard regiment, which, at the
present time, is located in Frankfurt on the Oder (Germany). The Hvertushka"
chief officially accepts the train in Germany and escorts it to Brest, guarding
it all the way. Upon arrival in Brest the guard chief transfers the train
officially to Central Base No 3603, and he and his detail take another train at
the border and return to Germany. In Brest, the trains addressed to Central
Base 3603 are guarded by the Separate Local Rifle Company until they have been
handled and transferred to the railroad for dispatching to destination. Trains,
.under railroad supervision are guarded by the railroad's own guards. All cars,
loaded and dispatched from Base 3603 have seals of the shipper and of the railroad.
Trains arriving from across the border also have two seals (railroad and
Shipper).
38* At present the station of the Central Transshipping Base MVS USSR No 3603 trans-
ships an average of 9.3 - 10.5 thousand carloads a month which comprises
about 186-210 trains. Of these, 6-6.5 thousand carloads are transshipped at
the Engineer Park, 2.5-3 thousand cars at Brest-Polesskiy and, 800-1,000 cars
at Mukhovets-Voyennyy. About 3.5-4 thousand carloads are transshipped at the
crane house per month.
39. The monthly transshipments by the railroad average 1,250-1,300 carloads (or
15-20%). Of these about 650 carloads are transshipped at Brest-Tsentralinyy;
150-200 carloads at Brest-Vestochnyy; 2507.300 carloads at Brest-Polesskiy;
100-150 carloads at Mukhovets-Voyenniy. Civilian labor is not used in the
Engineer Park,
40. At Brest-Vostochnyy and Brest-Tsentraltnyy transshipping of cars is done only
by railroad laborers. (Transshipping of coal at Brest7-Zapadnyy is not considered
here.) In calculating the number of carloads transshipped on the railroads
(that is by civlian freight handlers) I considered only freight arriving in
Brest in the form of foreign trade and as reparations. The remaining freight
(official and personal baggage, local freight, etc) I did not consider, for
it usually comes under passenger traffic, not freight.
41. Such is the organization of the 270th OKTB and a division of the Base No 3603.
(In both cases I considered only the officers in enumerating the posts.
Naturally, some of the posts enumerated have clerks and typists at their
disposal. In the divisions there are no more than f4 e to eight, the remainder
are officers.)
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42. In closing let it be said:
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Rail Center has greatly decreased in the post-war years, its
importance remains. The importance of the Brest Rail Center is evident3
primarily due to the international situation that has developed in the
aest.
(b) The Brest Rail Center can be developed to its full capabilities at any,
time. Its transshipping capacity can be increased three-four times
compared with 1950-1951.
(c) For guaranteeing the transshipping at the Brest Rail Center, the
Central Transshipping Base is to be increased to its former state
which will make it possible to increase transshipping three-four times.
(d) At all times, since the day of organization Central Base 3603 has
had much experience in transshipping, warehousing, and storing
freight.
43., Cars are usually converted in the car-repair shops of Brest-Polesskiy Station.
Only those cars coming to the USSR from Germany as reparations,. are converted.
Locomotives, all-metal refigerator cars, passenger cars, whole trains of 12-13
cars (all-metal), freight cars and flat cars periodically arrive in the USSR
from Germany. All are built according to Soviet specifications. Upon entry
into
the USSR these locomotives and all of the cars have European gauge, LTO 8"1
axles, but along with them are sent the required number of Soviet gauge
axles, loaded on flat-cars. In Brest they are exchanged, that is, the
locomotives and cars are converted.
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Note: Traina,-arriving in the USSR from across the border are unloaded in Brest
and then returned.. But, as a rule, the railroad steals a few cars and converts
them. The German or Polish markings are painted over and Soviet markings are
painted on. This is profitable for the Brest railroad.
The European gauge axles are returned to the original shipper in Germany for
subsequent use with the next shipment of locomotives and cars from Germany
to the Soviet Union.
45. In the car repair shops of Brest-Polesskiy Station up to 100 cars with a total
number of 200 axles can be converted per day. But such a number never arrives
in Brest. The monthly conversions amount to about 250-300 cars.
46. About 1,000-1,200 man-hours, with the necessary machinery are required for
converting= such a number of cars.
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in Brest.
(B): Organization of a Division of the Central Base MVS USSR
No 3603.
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Diagram of the Organization of the 270th Crane Equipment Battalion of
Central Transhipping Base MVS USSR No 3603 in Brest.
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Administration
1
Chief of Staff.
Chief of Line Unit
AssIt Chief of Line Unit
Chief of Production Affairs
(zavdeloproizvodstvom)
-2-
Battalion Commander
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2 Ass't. Bn. Co,,; for Service Sections
3 Dep. En. Co. for Polit. Section
4 Dep. En. Co,j for Tech. Sections
5 Chief of 3anitation Section (1)
Chief of Finance (1)
Secretary of Party Bureau
Secretary of KomsomolT Bureau
Chief of .Class I Supply
Chief of Clothing and Equipment Supply
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Technical Section
Chief of Technical Section
Crane Engineer
Equipment Engineer
Technical Section Mechanics
Chief of Crane Repair Shops
Ass't, Chief of Crane Repair Shops
At the present time the 270th OKTB has two companies and a service station
(subordinate to AssIt. Battalion Commander for Service Sections).
Company
1. Company Commander (1)
2. Deputy Company Commander for Technical Section
3. Platoon Commanders
(three in the company)
Note: In the battalion there are 250 military personnel, 22 cranes,
12 tractors (caterpillar), six trucks, three caterpillar cranes, four horses,
one automobile, a power plant, and a crane repair shop.
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Organization SKI
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Division of the Central Base MVS USSR No 3603
1. Chief of Base Division
2* Deputy Division Chief for Political Sections
3. Deputy Division Chief for Technical Sections
4. Division Chief of Warehouse Storage
5. Chief (me Distribution of Labor Forces
6. Chief of Loading and Unloading Section
(he has three transshipping instructors)
7. Chief of Accounting Sections
(he has three assistants)
8. Chief of Dispatching Groups
(he has three dispatchers)
9. Paymaster
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