SOVIET UNION MILITARY - ECONOMIC REPORT

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• Publication Date: March 24, 1943
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SOVIET UNION MILITARY--ECONOMIC REPORT
Translated from the German
Dated i 21+ March 1943
/THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING
THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES
WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE LAWS,
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 793 AND 794. SEE
ALSO PUBLIC LAW 513, 81ST CONGRESS, SECOND
SESSION. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELA-
TION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN
UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW./
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Research & Reports
Strategic Division
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During the Second World War the German Signal Intelligence Control
Center of the Staff of the Chief of Army Signal Service ?(HNW, LNA)
issued a series of reports to show the USSR military-economic
situation as reflected in Russian internal plain language traffic.
These reports appeared at short, irregular intervals, usually six
per month, for the period October 1942-March 1943FOi icy-three
FDIyhb a reports have been translated and issued by
It is planned to issue a complete set of translations of the reports
beginning with the most recE $I,E aavorkin backward, but omitting
those already translated by The numbering of
the items was added by the translfie the Germans did this
only in the last eighteen reports, inclusive. Since
the original material was in Russian, an effort has been made when
translating the German to determine the original Russian term
wherever possible. This is facilitated by the Russian fondness for
abbreviations. In these translations into English the probable mean-
ing of the abbreviation will be given in parenthesis the first time
it occurs in each report.
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24 March 1943
The Soviet Union
Military-Economic Report
(Based on domestic radio traffic)
More Important Reports
(1) In radio communications of the Civil Air Fleet, a message intercepted on
22 March from an unidentified radio station to Moscow mentioned a 13th Independent
Flight Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet for the first time. According to the message,
it is also designated as the 13th Flight Regiment.
(2) The 9th Flight Regiment was again confirmed in a message of 21 March (last
mentioned in the Daily Report of 5 March).
(3) A message of 22 March revealed that regulations governing home duty, disci-
pline, troop duty and guard duty are being applied in the Civil Air Fleet. It is
not clear from the message whether these regulations apply only to the Civil Air
Fleet or are regulations of the Red Army.
(4) In order to compensate for the shortage of personnel in NKRF enterprises,
the following measures were undertaken:
I. Mobilization of urban and rural population (for example, 329
persons were drafted for ship repair work at the NKRF plants
in Novosibirsk).
II. Various sections in the enterprises are to be merged fir
example, in the NKRF enterprise in Ust Usa the supply and
timber offices are to be merged.)
(5) An intensified program of practical training was noted at the beginning of
the navigation season. The following forces were transferred:
From the technical school in Chardzhou to Aralsk NKRF 30 machinists
10 pilots
Krasnoyarsk to the Enisej
Steamship Agency 110 men
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From the technical school in Blagoveshchensk to
"KRF in Khabarovsk 119 men
From the technical ^^hool in Blagove hchensk to
the Upper kmur Steamship Age_ y 59 "
From the technical school in Yakutsk to the Lena 121
Steamship Agency
Personnel Si tua tion
Moscow NKRF
(6) Moscow is protesting the cancellation of draft exemptions for 6 workers of
Shipyard "Gorki," in '^aznezhe.
(7) message to the NJKRF in Ulyanovsk indicates that a serious shortage of
experienced personnel exists.
Gail Sup :
(8) Inland Steamship Agency Supply in Gorkij is to deliver 200 kg. of auto
gasoline to each of the following plants from its March allotment:
uh_p Repair Yard "Molotov" in Gorkij
Plant "Tc'plokhod"
Plant "T y tnov-Lenin"
(9) Kujbyshev NK .F requires:
for ship repairs 35 tons of oil
50 tons of mazut
for workshops of the barge "Bezdna''
20 tons of mazut
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in Zolotovsk
30 tons of mazut
Material SuY
(10)
Tiflis."Generator" requests the following for repair purposes.-
roofing cardboard
paper for manufacturing
roofing cardboard
window glass
1000 rolls
20.000 meters
2 cars
(11)
The Poti Construction Industry requires 2000 meters of cable,
(12)
The Armavir Leather Combine reports the following balance of preserved hides:
hides
(large)
6,000 pieces
hides
(small)
2,000 "
pigskins 4 000 "
Since there is a lack of salt, they can no longer be preserved.
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Tiflis
(13) The Copper Industry reports:
output of copper products:
On 19 March 3 tons
Since the be
ginning of March 57 "
Remainder not
shipped 105 "
(14) Plant "Kirov" requests from the C.D. for the Machine Tool Industry in
160 meters of 200-250 mm. rolled pipes
(15) Iron Supply reports the conclusion of an agreement concerning the shipment
of 10,000 spades and the necessity of obtaining 30 tons of thin sheet-iron.
(16) The Ferrous Metallurgy Industry reports that 217 tons of old metal were
processed in March.
(17) Ufa NKRF is to receive 40 tons of assorted iron from the Chief Directorate
for Metal Sales in Chelyabinsk.
(18) Novosibirsk NKRF will receive: conducting wire - 131 meters
untesteu metal - 20 tons
plate
(19) Blagoveshchensk NKRF has been permitted to receive 1/2 ton of nails, on
loan, in the first quarter of 1943.
Chemical Supply
(20) On 5 March one carload containing 1.479 tons of dyes and 3.5 tons of
priming was shipped from Moscow to Plant "Generator" in Tiflis.
(21) Baku received 1 car of Bertholet salt. The 6 tons of Bertholet salt and
0.1 ton of red phosphorus remaining in excess of the state plan are to be delivered
to the Armenian Match Industry in order to avoid a threatened disruption of production.
(22) Grain Procurement is to use 1.5 tons of oil waste for the production of
varnish.
(23) The copper vitriol factory in Alaverdy will receive 180 tons of sulphuric
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(24) Krasnoyarsk NKRF is to receive an additional 100 kg. of solid quicklime
from Sverdlovsk,
(25) Yakutsk NKRF does not have any battery acid or quicklime.
Timber Supply
(26) The Timber Industry organizations in Pechora Oblast' are obliged to deliver
64,000 cu. in. of timber in the first quarter. As of 1 March, 298 cu. in. had been de-
livered.
(27) As of 1 March Ust-Usa NKRF-has from its own procurement:
Unprocessed firewood 2383 cu. in.
Processed firewood 12800 " "
(28) The following was shipped from the organizations of the Timber Industry:
Unprocessed firewood 2,263 cu. in.
Processed firewood 11,298 " "
In the second quarter 7,620 cu. in. of timber are to be procured.
Production and Construction
(29) Stalingrad NKRF requires a 2022 kw. alternating current generator for the
plant in Krasnoarmejsk.
(30) The shipyard in Zurazhevka'is to deliver as many shrubs and stones as
possible in order to fortify soil at the drain canal of the "Ryazhevoj" Dam.
Transportation Situation
(31) The total transportation plan anticipated in April for the NKRF in
Kujbyshev is 104,500 tons.
This includes:
grain 56,300
cement 2,700
Part of the shipments will be sent by railroad in order to relieve the
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