TYPES OF UNCLASSIFIED CORRESPONDENCE USED IN THE MERCHANT AND RIVER FLEETS OF THE USSR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR DATE DISTR. 3 e48
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in the Merchant and River Fleets of the USSR
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1. This report deals with unclassified correspondence to and from head-
quarters to the peripheral offices in the system of the Merchant and
River:f leets. This correspondence is divided into the following basic
types:
(a) Directive correspondence which includes orders, commands, circulars,
injunctions, ordinances, instructions, and directive letters.
(b).firective-instruction correspondence which includes all directive
documents listed in paragraph (a) with attachments of regulations,
instructions or explanations on the order or procedure of the use
of a given order, circulars, ordinances, etc. Such correspondence
always goes from the higher offices to the lower ones.
(c) Instructional correspondence which includes all kinds of explana-
tions and instructions relating to the fulfillment of this or that
measure or assignment. Such correspondence goes from the higher
offices to the lower ones or from, special offices not depending
on their subordination.
(d) Executive correspondence which includes all kinds of reports and
dispatches concerning the fulfillment of a command, ordinance,
directive, etc. Such correspondence goes from the lower offices
to the higher offices.
(e) Report-information documents which include all types of accounts,
information, dispatches, articles, references, control codes, and
25X1A reports on the condition of business in this or that section. Such
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correspondence goes from the lower offices to the higher ones,rbut
in certain cases is made public before a large audience as, fQk;
example, articles read at council&, meetings:, conferences, and
other . such. gatherings.
(f) Documents of mutual correspondence which include all letters,
service notes and information. These documents are used In
correspondence between official individuals, organizations, and
sections, not subordinated to each other, or in correspondence
from the lower organizations to higher organizations.
(g) Inquiries and depositions of an official and personal character
which include all types of inquiries, depositions, anrl. complaints.
These documents are usually used without regard to the subordination
of individuals or organization, or they are used between lower organs
and higher ones.
We come now to an examination of each separate type of document used in the syster,
of the Merchant and. River Fleets.
ORD
(A) Orders by the Ministry.
Orders by the Ministry may be given out by the Minister personally,
or by the Acting or Assistant Minister in his own area of operations.
Orders by the Ministry are divided into the foilowin two balsio types:
(I do, not include here secret and top_ secret orders,,.
(.a,) Orders of a general character.
These. orders take in the widest variety of questions.
concerning the functions of organizations, and concqrn:s i .
the Ministry,, The action of such orders is covered by the
appropriate. questions to all organizations and enterpriste
fn the,.Minl,'stry. The majority of the orders. of a general
character are duplicated by printing and sometimes by meor.s
of ~hot;ostat /3i2 (steiklografichesky) . Up until 1951
inclusive., the number of orders of ,,a general character given
out in the. Ministry of the Merchant Fleet averaged 800 to 1000
per, ,Year`. Approximately the same, numb_ ? of orders was P-1ven
out. inthe Ministry of the River Fleet also. The numeration
of these orders is chronological, beginning with 2 January
(Order #1) and ending with 31 December (Order #800 or #1000).
From the beginning of each year, the numeration of orders begins
with #1,.. Orders of a general character usually have the.
following appearance.(accord (according to the latest practice iti-the
Ministry of the Merchant and River Fleet of the USSR);
Order
of the Min.ister.;oi` the Merchant and River Fleet
of-the Union of SSR
#510. 12 June 1953
Contents: On; the reorganization of the editing of the
basin newspapers "Morskoy Reyd",and '"Za
SovetskUyu Nef
,Xp ord.er, to have a more rational. organization of the peal :odical
organizations serving the seamen of the Northern Caspian and
the~'riverme.n of the steamship oompany Vol;gotanker - I ORDER:
1.. The reorganization of the existing editorial :staffs
of the newspaper .published by the Directorate and PoI1 _;csl
Section,.of the steamship company Reydtanker - "Morskoy Rryd,,"
and of the newspaper published by the Directorate and
Political Section of the steamship company Volgotan',cer .. "Za
Sovetskuyu Heft", into' a single editorial staff of a
newspaper to be published by the Directorates and Political
Sections of the steamship companies Reydtanker and Volgotanker
and the Basin Committee of the Professional Union of Sea and
River Transportation Workers.
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2. The creation of a single printed organ of these companies
which.shall be called "Sovetsky Tanker."
3. The Chief of the steamship company Reydtanker, General-
Director of the merchant fleet third rank Kotlyarevsk' and the
Chief of the steamship company Volgotanker, GenerA1-Director of
the river fleet third rank Kuchkin, to present to me a project
report on the editorial staff of the newspaper "Sovetsky Tanker."
Minister of the Merchant
and River--Fleet
of the Union of SSR
(3. Shashkov)
Such an order was, I am quite sure, actually given, because the newspaper
"Pravda" of 6 Jul 53, #187, under the headline, "Sovetsky Tanker,"
carried an article which stated that in Astrakhan a new newspaper called
"Sovetskyr. Tanker," an organ of the Directorates and Political Sections
of Volgotanker and Reyrdtanker and the Basin Committee of the Trade Union
of Sea and River Transportation Workers, was being published The news-
paper comes out three times and week ,and has four pages.
Order
of the Minister of the Merchant and River Fleet
of the Union of SSR
Moscow #236
Contents. On personnel
25 March 1953
ROMANOV NIKOLAY ALEXANDROVITCH from the 31st of March of
this year is appointed to the office of Chief of the Astrakhan
Seaport with pay as per salary schedule.
Minister of the Merchant and
River Fleet
of the Union of SSR
Shaskov)
Order
of the Minister of the Merchant and River Fleet
of the Union of SSR
Moscow #650 28 July 1953
I ANNOUNCE THE ORDER OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME SOVIET
OF THE USSR OF THE 27TH OF JULY 1953, CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT
TO THE POST OF CHIEF OF THE BALTIC GOVERNMENT MERCHANT STEAMSHIP
COMPANY OF LOGINOV, NIKOLAY PAVLOVITCH.
Minister of the Merchant and
River Fleet
of the Union`of SSR (3o Shashkov)
"By Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Sevlet of the USSR."
To the Chief of the Baltic Government Merchant Steamship
Company LOGINOV, NIKOLAY PAVLOVITCH is bestowed the title FNEiAL-
DIRECTOR OF THE MERCHANT FLEET SECOND RANK.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
K. Voroshilov
Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
N. Fegov
Moscow, Kremlin
27 July 1953
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Other orders of general, character by the Iinistry have exactly the same
form as the foregoing examples. This is a different form for orders of
general character used in the Ministry. To this type of order belongs
the line or travel order. These orders are usually issued during the
period of stay of the Minister or of his assistant on a business trip
to the field. Travel orders are concerned with the activity- of one or
of several organizations which the Minister or his assistant visited on
the business trip,, Often such orders are issued by the Mini Ater in the
regular place of his stay (in Moscow), in the event that the der refers
to one particular case. Line or travel orders usually have :.e follow-
ing appearance:
Baku
Order
of the Minister of the Merchant and River Fleet
of the Union of SSR
#2'- l 9 June l : 3
Contents: Concerning Personnel of the steamship company, "Kasptanker"
For the early fu.lfill!mcnt of the May quota for petroleum transport -
I order:
1. A reward given. to the. Chief of the steamship company Kasptanker,
Comrade Mukhin - two months official salary.
2. A reward given to the Assistant Chief of the steamship
company Kasptanker for Exploitation, Comrade Alexandrov - one and
one-half months official salary.
3. The Chief of the steamship company Kasptanker Comrade flukhin
to reward workers who distinguished themselves in the fulfillment of
the May quota for the transportation of petroleum products, expending
for this purpose 30,000 rubles.
4. That the payment of the premiums be made from the fund of the
Chief of the ~st.ean ship company.
Minister of the Merchant and
River., Fleet
of the Union of SSR.
Order
of the Minister cof the Merchant and River Fleet
of the Union of SSR
#l2/p 23 July 1953
Sometimes the Minister calls his order not line, but travel, and then
such an order usually appears as follow3:
Contents u, Concerning the personnel of the steamship company : o;: banker'
Captain ofr the motor. ship Moskva Comrade POMERANETS - 1 ;:o
be confirmed in the office of Captain of the above motorshi
Minister` of the Merchant and
River Fleet
of the Union of SSR
(3. Sha shlkov )
She sb.Kov)
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be stated briefly, usually in one phrase. In orders conoe.rn.ng
hiring, firing,: transfer from one job to another, promotivil or deriucion
in office or title, determination of pay, personal~reward;,in other
words those orders which concern some individual, groups of indiv`_r_6uals,
or personnel, contain a general description of the con.t.e+nto- of t fe
order; for example., "Concerning Personnel" or "ConcernIng.the Personnel
of the Organization. "
(b) Orders of an. internal character.
Such orders are usually given out internally in tai
ministry and reflect the internal life of the central
apparatus of the ministry. Orders of an internal nature
by periphez.?cl, organizations are not disseminated in this
group. The system of numeration of these orders is chrono-
logical and hcgirts with number 1 at the start of every new
year. The diffex.-ence in form between orders of a general character
and orders of an internal character is that the orders of an
internal nature re marked "interns." and below their number
stand., the 1ettex? V. Under its heading is written "Order in the
Ministry" rather than "Order of the Ministry" as is the case
with general orders. The following are examples;
Order
of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet
of the USSR
Moscow Nc 65/v
11 February 1950
Contents: Concerning the personnel of the ministry
To allow regular leave to clerk-typist of the secretariat, of
the ministry, Kiselevaya, MA, for the Working period 12 February
1949 to 12 February 1950. The leave shall last 18 working days,
from 12 February of this year to 4 March of the year inclusively.
Minister of the Merchant Fleet
of the USSR (N Novikov)
Another form of internal oro.;:r is as follows:
Order in the
Ministry of the Merchant Fleet
of the USSR
Moscov" INTO 65
11 March 1952
son~erning personnel of the ministry
Malova,, Tatyana Alexyeyevna is promoted to the pcsitie m 3f
senior economist in the Currency-Financial Section of thc_ m i'r st ry.
Comrade Malova a s salary is to be in accordance with the sta.:;,.
salary schedule.
Assistant to the Minister of the Merchant Fleet
of the USSR
About 500 to 700 orders of an internal nature are usue-. f_l ;v .:.3suec?.
during the course of one year. These orders are v0 .r,'', rarelj r..reted.
They are usually reproduced on typewriters or by steklograph 1`,sic-7.
The originals of all orders issued by the ministry are filed . -l
the Directorate of Affairs of the Ministry and must r:remaln in :.,he
archives more than five years.
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(B) Orders by the Bead D..r:~ectorates of the Ministry
These orders are issued by the chief of the head d.ireeto +ate dr .by
the individual fulfilling his duties. Orders of a general:`` nature a;nd
orders'of an internal nature, when issued by the head directorate, Rio not
have a special numeration and are not registered. These and other orders
go under a general numeration. -About 500 such orders are-usually-issued
in one. year. Their form is usually as follows:
Order
by the Head Directorate of the Petroleum Shipp=ins; ?feet
of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet of the USSR
No 2,36 6 July 1951
Contents:- ..................................................
...............................
Chief of the Head Directorate
of the Petroleum Shipping Fleet
Ministry of the Merchant Fleet of the USSR (L Serebryany)
The order- and system of issuance and registration' of line or travel
orders by the head directorates of the ministry are just the same
as on the ministerial level. They differ only in outer form. On
some of these orders the name of the head directorate and the
signature of the chief of the head di-rectorate are written. Usually,
in the course of a year a small number of line and travel orders,
50 or 60, is issued by the read directorates.
(C) Orders by the indpendent and major organizations of the ministry.
Such orders are issued by directors or persons fulfilling the
work of directors of independent or major organizations and 'al".o
by persons having the right to hire or fire workers. --he rtiaivier
of issuance of these orders, going under the signature of the
director or assistant director of one of these organizations, is
exactly the same as on the ministry and head directorate levels.
These orders concern the activity of a given organization and of
the entity of management within its jurisdiction. An average of
400 to 500 such orders are issued in a year. These orders hwre
the following appearance:
Order
By the Astrakhan Government Roadstead
Petroleum Carrying Company 11Reydtankor"
Astr:?a1'h an No 25!1
12 July 19521
Contents: Concerning the Transfer of motorship RB-160 to th
Gurev Merchant Agency of the "Reydtanker" Corn yy
order to strengthen the carrying power of tit-
fleet of the Gurev ~Merchant Agency of the "Reydtanker"
I ORDER: -
1. That the motor tugboat RD-160, nor' included on
on the balance of the "Reydtanker" Company, and built _?- 'de T\ zhsly
factory, be turned over to the Chief of the Gurev Mer . ` ..
Agency of the "?eydtanker" Company.
2. That the Chief of the Personnel Section o i
company, comrade Kopalov, assign 4 full crew to the RB--1b,!
date not later than 15 July.
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3 That the Chief of the Astrakhan Petroleum.
Carrying Merchant Agency,- comrade Obyatanov, see that 'tile
RD 160 is fitted out with all supplies and navigational equio-
mentnecessary to start the voyage to Gurev not later than
16 July.
Chief of the Company
"IReydtanker"
General-Director of the merchant fleet
;rd rank (Kotlyarevsky)
Besides the directors of organizations, the director. of major
economic units within a given organization can issue orders.
These orders usually concern: some activity in the unit and do
not go beyond the limits-of. the unit director'-s own jurisdiction.
For exampleo in the steamship companies, the directors of the
following units may issue orders:
Chiefs
of
agencies;
Chiefs
of
repair shops;
Chiefs
of
exploitation services;
!Chiefs
of
machine-ship service;
Chiefs
of
route and bouy service;
Chiefs
of
labor and wage section;
Chiefs
of
other production sections;
Captains and skippers of ships.
These orders are registered and enumerated within the given
economic unit or service. Usually the average number of Such'
orders issued in a year is small, 50-60. In many cases there:
orders arc designated with the initial letter of the unit which
issues `their. For example, orders from the exploitation se t'v__ce
beer the letter "e" after the numb-r, from the machine-shin
service,,- "in" and from the petroleum aency, "n". Such orders
usually have the following form:
Order
In the Exploitation Service of the "Reydtanker Co- an;
Astrakhan No 25/e
10 July 1 5~
Contents: Concerning the Placing in Reserve of the Moto ship
"Pamyat' tov Voykova"
Bearing in mind that the flow of petroleum cargoes
Baku. to As;tral.han is now at a level which does not requi-e the
use of certain excess tugs of the company--I ORDER:
1a '),hat the rn/s "Pamyat' tov Voykova" beginning the
10th of July of this year be placed in reserve force
of five days.
That the captain of the rnn/s "pamyat' tov Voy :ov-,
comrade Ku.lichkin, keep the ship in six-hour preparedmcs ,;o
that, it may get under way as quickly- as poss..'-1.,e -In case the
reserve period is cut short. -
Chief of the Exploitation Service
of the "Reyd.tanker" Company
Captain of the 1,1erchant Fleet 2nd Rank
(p Kiki, shin)
Here we will turn our attention to orders issued by the personnel
sections (by the directors of the personnel sections o hE~'
assistants) < These orders usually concern matters pet?t.r?_ t.. i+ "Co
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personnel, that is, hiring,,firing, transferring of workers
from one job to another, 'and the determination of regular and
additional leave, the announcement of programs of incentive, the
exacting of disciplinary fines,.etc. Such orders are enumerated
chronologically. About 200 are issued per year on the avera~-e.
In many organizations orders issued by the personnel department
are labeled with the letter "k'.'; for example:
Order
by the Astrakhan Government Roadsteac
Petroleum Carrying Company Reydtanke:a
rr92/k
28 May 1951
Content,: Concerning the personnel of the company
It i ordered that lfhramkina, Mariya Alekseevna be
temporarily assigned from the communications service of
Gla.vkasp:r1ybprorrl to the position of senior radio operator
in the commun'cations service of the Reydtanker Company,
beginning the it of June of this year, with salary
according to the state salary schedule.
Assistant Chief of the Company
Reydtanker for Personnel
Lt Colonel-Director A S of the Merchant Fleet (F Dolbnin)
However, not every order concerning personnel may be issued by
the director of the personnel section. He may not issue these
orders in such cases when the job of the given individual is not
within the jurisdiction of the director of the personnel section.
In extreme cases, the director of the personnel section can issue
an order to an individual if he has the sanction to do so from
the director of the organization in question, or of the hitcher
organization (directorate or ministry). FOr example, the di:-'ector
of the personnel section does not have the right to fire, : Rnsfer,
or exact disciplinary fines from the chief engineer of the
organization, the chief of a service, or section, or from any
individual under the ministry, or the chief of the head directorate,
or the director of a firm. When working with personnel in the
Soviet Union, it is absolutely necessary to know under whose
jurisdiction the individual in question comes. Line or travel
orders in the organizations of the ministry are issued by the
director of the organization or by the assistant director, while
visiting a peripheral organization (only when it is absolutely
necessary that an order be issued). Line or travel orders are
registered and enumerated separately from the general orders.
About 30 to 40 such orders are usually issued during the year-r.
(D) Orders Issued in. Small Organizations of the Ministry.
Orders issued in the small organizations of the Merchant and
River Fleet (by the inspectorate -of registry of the USSR, the inspectorates
of port or navigation control, by agencies of technical supply
(Mortekhsnab), by construction sections, etc) are not divided into
general and special orders. All orders, including; orders concerninV,
personnel, are issued. by the directors of the organizations or by
individuals acting for the directors. The system of enunera`:;= r ,
registration, and publication of the orders in small organiza_''_;n
is exactly the same as in all organizations of the Ministry.
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COMMANDS (ORDINANCES .
Commands.,, sometimes called ordinances, have a different. 'form from
orders. They may be issued by every director of an organization, firm,
service, section-, or? any individual acting for the director, within the
boundaries of his jurisdiction. Commands.,. or ordinances, usually deal
with any kind of informal question or special individual or groups of
individuals. Commands are registered separately from orders. _ heir number
in large organizations of the Ministry (steamship companies,. port
authorities, etc) averages 50 to 60 per year. It is necessary to note that
although the commands or ordinances are formally different from orders,
practically there is no difference whatsoever. In practice, there often
occurs such a situation in which the director does not wish to give an order
on some question, alp:,=:' he confines himself to giving a command or ordinance.
The reason for this i.:3. that under the present system copies of absolutely
all orders issued by directors must be sent to the Basin Procurator, the
Head Directorate of ubord.ination.(or to the Ministry), the Inspector of
the Ministry of Government Control for Accounting, the Superintendent,
and also to the Control for Le:Tality of the order issued. Very often,
cases occur where the above-mentioned controlling organs change the orders
to please themselves, and sometimes. call to,account the director who issued
25X1e order in the, first place.. Copies of the commands, however, as a rule 25X1A
are not sent to the above organs for control. This circumstance often
leads the director to substitute commands or ordinances for orders and, as
tated, the jurisdictional power of both is identical.
give an example of when the director, knowin,,; that an illegal ord
by him would be,changed by the-procurator, iesued this order in the form of
a command.
Command
in the Ship. i.epair Factor imeni Karl Marx
Astrakhan #7
8 March l0 l
In view of the tense situation regarding the winter
repair of the dredge "Rodina," and with the purpose in
mind' of liquidating the lag. in production in the winger
repair of ships--I ORDER:
1. That Sunday,. 11 March, will be a working day
for workers, engineer-technicians and laborers.
2. That compensatory time for the Sunday work will be
given in one of the following days.
Dir-ectcr of the ship-repair factory
imeni Karl Marx
Engin .erg-Captain of the Merchant Fleet 2nd Rank (,V,erenikin)
First of all it should be remembered that similar commands were issued i_r?
a whole series of other firms of the Merchant Fleet. Such a command iry
illegal on two countis. First of a11,.the right to take one away the day of
rest in the week is not given to any director of a firm or organization or
even to the minister himself.. Only the government may-make people work,- on
a holiday.: A director may call special workers to work on a holiday but in
order to do this he inust have the consent of the director of the _1-1r-:-:,d
directorate or the minister, and of the Central Committee of La" :)., t7ns.
In the second place, no director has the right to give compensator'._- t.vc:
for a holiday spent in working. The worker himself gets to select, a~: i.is
own discretion, either double compensatory leave or double pay for the
holiday spent in working. If such a command were to fall into the bands of
the procurator, it would be revoked immediately. Commands, however, cry) not
go to the procurator but are circulated only within an organiz3ti n e firm.
Of course, someone could inform on the director but in practice tft s never
happens. People are afraid to take any chances because the director 13
sure to find out the name of. the informer and take appropriate Treasure:,.
Often commands or ordinances take the following form:
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Ordinance No 11
Since 20 July of this year is designated as the day to
evaluate the productive economic assets of the company'by
the total amount of work accomplished in the first half 'of this
year,
Rlql~ Mm ssion be formed as follows s.
1n;. Assistant Chief of the Exploitation Service of the
company, Tsiganov,. MI Chief of the Labor and Wage Section,
Dergachev, AX,,., Chief of the Planning Section,. Sereda,.... MP, - for
the preparation; of a report for the Chief of. the Company on
assets.,, Deadline for report, 10 July.
2,. Chief, of the Labor and Wage Section, Dergachev, AA,.-
for the preparation of an address on the subject, "The Company
.and Socialist Obligations." Deadline, 10 July.
3...Chief of the Administrative-Management Section of the
Company and Chief of the Astrakhan Petroleum Carrying Merchant
Agency Comrade Obyatanov, KA - for the formation of a club.
Deadline, 20 July.
4 Chief of the Personnel Section for the Company, Comrade
Kopalov, SI to take care of the registration of people taking
part. in the
5. Chief of the Secret-Code Section of the Company,
Comrade Polovkov, VA - for the preparation of a list of members.
,of the presidium. Deadline, 18 July.
6. Chief of the Exploitation Service of the Company,
Comrade Kubyshin, PN, and Chief of the Administrative-Management
Section of the Company, Comrade Filippchenko, AV - to provide
the people taking part in the with transportation
to and from Zayachya Island.
Chief of the Company
"Reydtanker"
General-Director of the Merchant Fleet
3rd Rank
Kotlyarevsky)
CIRCULARS (CIRCULAR LETTERS)
In the Merchant and River Fleets the word "circular" or "circular
letter" is used to denote a special type of ordinance, issued by the
minister or by his assistant. Usually the circular has the character
of a document concerning some particular case and appears either as
an ordinance of the Soviet of Ministers or as an ordinance of the
Minister himself or of his assistant. Circulars are always designated
by the letters TsM or TsZM, supplied with corresponding numbers,
designating the numerological order of the circular. The letters
with the number are always in the upper left-hand corner of the
document. The initials TsM mean that the circular is issued by the
Minister. The initials TsZM indicate that the circular is issued by
the assistant. of the Minister. Circulars usually are reproduced by
typewriter.' and are addressed to the directors of organizations and firms.
The usual form of the circular of the Minister has the following
appearance
TsM - 11
Moscow
11 May 1950
To all chiefs of steamship companies, ports, basin
directorates, sea routes, construction organizations;
to the directors of factories, docks, repair shops;
to the chiefs of merchant marine schools; and to the
chiefs of instruction combines.
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In fulfillment of the ordinance of the Soviet of Ministers of the
USSR of 10 May 1950, #5665-r, I suggest:
That the pay.of the.instructors in the instru,ctioli._cdmbines for
the.,p eparation of personnel be established, subject to education
qualifications, not higher than 12 rubles for each academic hour.
Minister. of the Merchant Fleet
of the USSR (N Novikov)
The..'folfowing.is an'example of the circular issued by the assistant
of the' :Minister'::
TsZM -
Moscow, V .
6..April 1950
To all chiefs of steamship companies, ports, and transloading
points. In the compilation and presentation to the steamship
corpa.nie.s. of dispatches. concerning the processing of ships
I suggest the following;
1. That the._c':hiefs of ports.and. port points present
dispatches to the steamship. companies,, only after a
detailed examination of the. elements pertaining to the
time that ships will remain in the ports and port points
with the existing.
2, That the eh.e?s of ,the steamship companies. pay for
the dispatches only-after examination and concurrence with
the chiefs of the wage and labor sections and with the
chiefs of the commercial sections.
Assistant Minister
of the Merchant Fleet of the USSR (V Bakayev)
Sometimes the same form of circular is issued by'the chiefs of the head
and central directorates of the Ministry, but this is not a wide
practice The directors of .peripheral organizations of the Ministry do
not. issue circulars of. this. form.
INJUNCTIONS
An injunction is a document, belonging to the category of orc..inances
or.circulars However, there is a. difference between the injunction
and the~.above-mentioned documents. Orders, circulars, and ordinances
go from the higher organs to the lower ones; injunctions usually ;o
from same ld n