ORGANIZATION OF REYDTANKER SHIPPING COMPANY, MMF, IN ASTRAKHAN

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• Publication Date: November 25, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
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DATE DISTR.. 25 November 1953
NO. OF PAGES 30
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT It TENTATIVE.
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I. Reydi,anker (Roadstead i'etrrileaam) 8hi ug C .ny was set up in 1923 as an
independent organization: on thin, bri.sis of tae fa r Kaspar (Caspian) Shipping
CompanyF ].t acts, as the. m 4cld.ii link of the Caspian-Volga petroleum ronveyor,
wh!ch operates in the fo..loviri maxi rs petroleum products from the 'Baku oil
fields are carried. by ship: of ptt4A4e,r (Cssp&4 . State Petroleum Shippi.ag
Company) to the A.st;:rakhaa 11 $pot Roadstead i ' 1ckt is 40 to 50 kilameters from
Guryev (N 4"(_09.v E 51-53). Frcca thia 'road tead, a .11ciw Reydtanker Taarge
carry the, petroleum to Peshnnvy 1a, d. (N 461+9, E 51-+2) where it is :pumped. in-
to storage tanks for furth.eZ" abl aent via o. 30kil xne.ter pipeline to Refinery
No. 441 in Gnu yev, The tm?in petroleum ahtymbrxte are carried byReyd`t;anksvr
vessets from the ; ,., ?out Roat3utead to the stbrage tam of Gl.avNef 1Lyt
(Chief Directorate for Beta: of ni S i) in Antra. a,n, At this ppint) the
petroleum is picked tip by V"Tol~;tanker (Vol, State Petropl.eum Shippir Graz pang)
and cart led to v lou.s port,p{ Qnng the ynj a f no h as the mouth of
the Ka River d 1
2.. Vessels can move from t
Caspian Canai,w hich..ha,s
is less than -tlo meters d:Ecp
Several dredges work p;.
r.vigat:ion, seasons
jct : ,1A, t a, to Y t'rak n only via the Volga-
lag d 4th af' 3 maters. The Ural..CaspLlars Canal
in 1.4p r f`aquent1y. Hocked. vrith earth
Jr 4p. ' ~ 1 ~ u e during the entire
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SECURITY INFORMATION
Organ. .a.tiarl, of Reydtan r Chipping
Conxpany'g , . in . t: .n
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3. The Reydtan -r, Shipping Company is under the Ministry of Merchant Fleet, USSR,
and is directly subordinate to G.lavNefteFlot (Chief Directorate of Petroleum
Fleet). The company's headquarters is located on 2nd Kontrolna.ya Ulitsa,
Dom No . 2
L., The Chief of Peydt;tinker is appointed (or dismissed) by the Minister of MMF
subject to the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
To help the.chief direct the shipping company, there are two deputy chiefs,
a. chief engineer who is also a deputy chief, and a chief of the Political
Section,. The company is administered. 'through a number of subordinate organi-
zations known. as sections (otdel.), services (sluzhba), age ies :( e;nstvo):
and offices Zee appended chart on page 3o`~ Some of these are eeatxal ad-
mi.niatrstive organs directly responsible to the chief of the company while
others are responsible to the chief through one of his deputies, Several
administrative organs are directly under the chief of the Political Section
whose ra,uthority i.s on a, le~re.l with the company chief.
5. In addition to the s;bove.mentioned administrative organizations. there are the
following orga,saizstions subordinate to the shipping company,
a. Ship-Repair, Plant i/n "-entb,,Aantv4rsa y of the. October Revolution
b , Ship-Repai,.r Shops No. `,+5
c, Guryeit Ship -Flepair Shops
d9 A,atrakhs.raPet.roleum Agency
e. Agency of the 14-Foot Poadstead
fa Gu:ryev Maritime Agency
g. School for, Ship Per5onrel
h. Construction and Repair. Section Wqhtq2L1
Central O axnizetions under Chief of Reydtariker
Chief Accounts Office
6. This office is charged with the direction of the financial activities of the
company ,.;rid its subordinate organizations., Its principal task. is to distribute
funds among the company. a organizations and to keep an accurate account of
expenditures. It is also chrtrged withA
P .R. Making up conapa;ny pay rp11s
b0 Keeping account of expenditures for capital construction and for the re-
pair of buildings and installations;
c. Keeping accounts of sums advanced to workers and employees of the company
for uniforms
The Chief Accounting Office .i.s also responsible for maintaining permanent di-
rection and control of the 'bookkeeping offices of 'the following organizations
of Reydtanker
a,o Shipbuilding Plant i~n. Tenth Anniversary of the October Revolution
b. Shipbuilding Shops No.
c. Guryev Ship-,Repair Shops
do Route Maintenance Services
e. Communications Services
f. Astrakhan Maritime Petroleum Agency
g. Agency of the 1.+-Foot Roadstead
h. Guryev Maritime Agency
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b. Paying salariet.of company employees.,
c. Preparing; accounts and invoices.
d. Exercising control of company's current accounts; liquidating or keeping
to a minimum company''s debit or credit accounts
e. Keeping accou.nts~,of hauling costs
f. Keeping accounts of the company chief's fund and controlling the spending
of this fund.
g. Controlling fund transfers and seeing that they do not become frozen.
h. Making up and forwarding to the Ministry and to GlavIefteFlot operating
financial accounts and reports.
i. Ensuring timely payment of accounts by the shipping company.
Exercising control over the cashier offices of the shipping company and its
organizations .
Mgbilizati.on Section
10. This section is subdivided into the Mobilization andAntiati-craft'defenne
Subsections.
a. The Mobilization S;ubsection is charged with:
(1) Keeping records of persons (:officers, NCO Is, and EM) liable for
military service -
(2) Selecting candidates for special registration in cooperation with the
military commissariat.
(3) Providing registration fors and taking measures to preserve and
supplements the mobilization reserves.
(4) Providing military training for fleet personnel in accordance with
instructions.
(5) Determining the categories of personnel liable for military service
and their military specialities.
(6) Conducting studies on the most rapid methods of converting ships
into naval units in the case of war.
(7) Determining and coordinating with the military commissariats the list
of-persons exempt from ca.ll'to'military'service..in case of war.
b. The itiaircrgft D_efense Subsection is charged with-
(1) Familiarizing all shipping company personnel with antiaircraft defense
regulations.
(2) Setting up a plan for locating the antiaircraft gun positions in
cpnformance with the antiaircraft defence headquarters of the city.
(3) Working out a plan for building bomb shelters for company personnel
and for Immediately camouflaging company property in case of enemy
air raids.
(4) DetermJr4pgcomzzW requirements for antiaircraft guns and equipment in
cooperation with the city antiaircraft defense headquarters.
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Providing ship crews with instructions concerning chemical and fire
defense in case of war.
Cal,cu:tating Machine Pool. (byuro )
11. Such a multitude of necessary and unnecessary accounting forms and reports
have been introduced into the administration of the Soviet economic system
that 75 percent of office workers 8 time is spent in compiling various cam-
binations of figures and presenting them on numerous graphs or so-called
Abedsheets". Because of this, scarcely any time is left for legitimate work,
and employees, engineers, or technical workers, are involu t,Ar. ily transformed
into bureaucrats who write countless pages of reports and compile vast com-
binations of numbers.
12. Mechanized accounting factories" or `calculating machine pools" equipped
with accounting machines have been set up in several of the larger organiza-
tions to enable them to cut down on the time consumed by these complicated
accounting systems. Rey:itanker's Calculating Machine :Pool. has four, accounting
and. four adding machines which do work for the Planning Section, Libor and
Wages Sectio; Operational Services, and. for budgetary and accounting offices.
Most of the employees do not trust these mechanized accounting methods and
prefer to retain the old methods even though the old methods require fike
times as much time.
Administration Section
13. This section is charged with,
a. Supervising the work of typists.
b. Keeping recordsof incoming and outgoing correspondence.
c. Maintaining a,rc.hives.
d. Providing for the supply of accounting blanks and fo
e. Providing and. keeping records of ekpenaitures for stationery writing
materials.
f. conducting and maintaining the inventory.
g. Supervising heating, cleaning, etc., of office buildings.
h. ProNding shore personnel with uniforms.
rye a1 Advisor?uriskonsult
14. Formally, the legal advisor is subordinated to the chief of the shipping
cexmpansy. in fact, however, he is working under the direction of the
Commercial Section and the Labor and Wages Section. His function is to conduct
legal cases against various organizations and persons on.la;bor questions.
Besides that, he Is authorized to settle claims in arbitrations. Since. the
majority of Reydtankervs conflicts are with the Volgatanker and Kseptanker
Shipping Companies, or GlavN4ft:b.yt (Chief Directorate for Petroleum Sales ),
the legal a.dvi.eor4a main activity lies in the field'.of petroleum trans..
porta:tion.
niza,tions Under Chief Political Section
15. Central organizations directly under the Chief of the Political Section
are the Political Section., the Politotdeleta Printing Office,, and the Editing
Offices of Morskoy Reyd (Sea Roadstead). A. instruments of state control,
these organs represent considerable power in the shipping company.
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Political Section
16. Reydtan .ra Political Section was organized in the first half of 1950 with a
Tf0 of 1 members. Its function is to organize political and educational
work among company personnel. The sect.ion~;is co ce d with all organizations
of the merchant fleet located in Astrakhan. A list of these organizations
follows
a Reydtan er? Shipping Company
b .. Directorate of .ReydTekaFlot (Reydtanker Maintenance Fleet)
c 1 Ship-Repair Plant i/n Karl Marx.
d.. Astrakhan Inspectorate of Morregistr (Maritime Registry)
Astrakhan Shipyards of the Ministry of Merchant Fleet
t' Astrakhan Sea Port (Dry-Cargo Agency of Kaspflot).
17. The principal functions of the Political Section aces
To drive for the fulfillment of production plans by means of introducing
socialist competition and stakhanovism.
b. To organize political education among sailors.
c. To promote propaganda and agitation in the fields of politics and production.
d.. To conduct special work among the Komsomol (since World War II, the Komsomol
organizations in the USSR have had no influence or authority). To direct
this work, there is a special assistant to the chief of the Political Section.
e. To organize mass cultural and educational campaigns, i.e.,. the fight against
hard drinking, etc.
f. To organize the work of $arty groups and ^'corner& on ships.
18. To best understand the Political Section of Reydtanker, some of the real as-
pects of its activities must be brought out. To start with, all members of
the company"s Political Section are very poorly educatedlwith the exception
of the Chief of the Political Section. After short courses in the history of
the Communist Party and in the biography of Stalin,, these political workers
think that they inaw everything and that they are far superior to engineers and
technicians. It is interesting to note: that Tjmofeyev Deputy Chief of the
Political Section, Kochkin - Chief of the Propaganda Sector, Generalov -
manager of the Party Study Groups (Kabi y)x, and several instructors are
former employees of the MB.
19. The political officers carry out their work from very comfortable offices.
They use little tact in their dealings with people who are nearly always
much better educated and trained than they arepand the methods used by these
semi-literate authorities are dictatorial and rude, making relation's humiliating
for honest employees. Political education amounts to little more than the
teaching of Communist Party history and Stalin's biography to the sailors
while mass agitation work is nothing more than-the promotion of stakhanovism
among the workers., Mass cultural work among the sailors consisted of little
more than a system of informants among the sailors. No real educational or
cultural work was carried out. Meetings were utilized by the political
workers as a means of collecting information about non-cooperative persons.
Every member of the section carried several booklets in which he entered _
facts of a political or moral nature abort persons discussed at the meetings.
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20. At first, efforts were made to transform the Komsomol into a type of Party
organization by dictatorial methods. The result was that the Koms miol or-
ganizations started to fall apart. Sailors threw their .Komsomol tickets 011,I)
overboar:?d, did not pay membership dues, and tried every "legal" method of getting
out of the organization.
21. Sailors h tr in unions ard. all Komsomol and Communist Committees of shore and
ship personnel are, in fact, subnrdinate to the Political Section.
u'r3.iting Office of ? o gray Reyd (Sea Roadsteads)
22. The editorial office of the Morskoy Reyd newspaper, while financed by the
Hipping cospa,ny, is directly subordinate to the company's Political Section.
Morskoy .Reyd, like all Soviet press, is an instrument of state control. For
this reasor, it is much better off financially.'than the company generally
and is even allotted company funds which further restrict the company's economic
activities. According to one editor, party directives had instructed the paper
to slander persons not in favor of the Party. If the person slandered could
not clear himself, he was sometimes further persecuted until he lost his job
or was even fs.ll.y prosecuted by law. In this way., a, person who could not
be dismissedd, on legal or formal, grounds could be dismissed through action
of the press.
Politotdel.ets Printing Office
23. This office prints the newspaper . rskoy Feyd which has a circulation of
1,ooo copies (sic). It also prints various document forms for the shipping
company and other organization3 of the merchant fleet located in Astrakhan.
In addition, it takes orders from outside organizations. Formally, it is
subordinate to the Publishing Office of the magazine Morekoy Flot (Merchant
Fleet) but,, in fact, it is under the Political Section of Reydtanker. From
the financial point of view, it is organized on both a budget and a cost ac-
counting basis or system. With the financial organizations, it is registered
as a, budget organization financed by the publishing house of Morskoy Flot.
All s1ms receivved. from the customers are transferred to the account of the
publishing: house which operates on a cost accounting basis. The publishing
house, in addition. to paying for its own activities, also pays for the costs
of the printing office. Profits are turned over to the State budget. These
organization are not permitted to set up a directorsp fund.
24. Besides the Politotdelets Printing House, the following other maritime fleet-,.
printing houses are known:
a, Morek:oy r" lot (Merchant Fleet), of Ministry of Merchant Fleet.
b. Bolshevik Kaspiya (Caspian Bolshevik) of Kasptanker and Kh pflot Shipping
Companies.
c. Sovetskaya Baltika, (Soviet Baltic.) of Baltic Shipping Company.
d. Chernomorskoy Moryak (Black Sea Sailor) of Black Sea Shipping Company.
e. Moryak Severa (Sailor of the North) of Northern Shipping Company,
f. Sakhalin Moryak (Sakhalin Sailor) of Sakhalin Shipping Company.
g. Tikhookeanski.y Moryak (Pacific Sailor) of Far East Shipping Company.
h. Moryak Zapolyarya (Sailor of the Arctic) of Murmansk Shipping Company.
i. Latviyski.y Moryrak (.Latvian Sailor) of Latvian Shipping Company.
Organizations Administered through Deputy Chief for Fleet Operation
25. The following organizations are under the Chief of Reydtanker but are
administered through his Deputy for Fleet Operation.
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0 era.tona,l. Ser v.Lce
26a The Opea , t:.iorVi,J. Service, which i.s char. ged with the organization. of PO:i, trans-
portation., i.s made up of .n Operational Planning Branch and a Dispatch Branch.
Fa . The .Di..ep+ ,tc.r.t Branch .is c.ha sged. with.-
(1) Directing fleet opera,,tions It must dispatch ships in accordance with
the Month 1?Lan of Operation and must coordinate petroleum hauling with
the ,ar tanker Shipping Company,
(2) I.asu:ing direct:tves or the composa tion. of ship cargoes to be unloaded
i
(3)
a,n."
ssuirag oper'ations,l directives to the fleet,
issuing dall.y schedules of fleet, :mosreme!nts
(4) Prep:;xing dispatch eummna.rie, (communiques) on the location of the
f.leeete O:n. the amou:at of freight arriving in Astrakhan or avail-able
at the r?oadstea,d., rrcd. on the amount of freight en.route to the
roa,ds Leads can : as
pt a,:rz :er shape
(a) l:.ssuing di.r?ectjves to the Appr,r.9,kha.n. Petroleum Agency., to the .Agency
of the 111-1'bo- Ro-idstFv cL Find to the Guryev Roadstea,d..Agency concerning
their d.A..iiy work Lcaads., los.d.ing and unlosdLtng opera ti ons
(F) Publishing d il;y :3u m% r?i.ee on the fulfillment of the petroleum hauling
plans .as of 1800 hour.. (:Ru..in i.lment of the dally plan is calculated
by t.,x,ki.n,g the smcLint of freight shipped from the I4-Foot Roadstead to
Asti akliiii before hours. For example., a barge shipped from the
.Rosdstee I at 1.801 on 121 June would be included. in the pl.ann for 26 June.
The month plan is estimated from The amount of cargo shipped from 'the
14-Foot; Roadstead to Astr?a,.kh ,n urzl-11. 2400 hours of the .last day of
the mo:cith.. Reydtarker? hauling pln.ns are cs3,lculated. according to dis-
p e.tched. cargoes , )
b. The Opera ;ion-.1 :Fla,nn:t Y;.e. z3ra.nch Ova. ged With,
(1) F'Dt4bL .:hirg fleet ;work :norm; or t;o'.cal.l.ed. :indexes of empty ru:ns, loaded
un 3.~7 G"\rp.r
r~." . e a?i. p er t e mFe d:u.r t g -loading and. ux{l oaadi?ag operFa, t i. o.rrs, etc.., and
T,P r' s fox op? r.a ` i c~r?h.1 . dct;t.v'es
(2) .'Br'eaking is n 'the hauling plsin according to individual ships, i.e,
'the 3o,.csJied Plauniri 'r.~ect.ivvp 0 erativ. '
8 lh t p - nyy Plan) No,, 2. Rlanni rig
Directive No. .]. is p:re,q,ywed. for each petroleum shipping comp ray by
G' ,avl\iefteFlot of the Mtni.stry of Merchant Fleet? This plan assigns
hauling quotas to companies --s Individual units. Planning Directive
No. 2 is the breakdown of Planning Directive No. .1. according to in-
dividual tanker n or a' 11 the cage of Reydtanker, according -to in-
dividual tugs. -'here '.~ always h considerable discrepancy between
these two d.irecti.ver,. For e a:mp.l.e, if GlavNe.fte.F,lot assigns Reyd-
tad er a monthly hauling quota of 600,000 tons of POD products and
Reydt:s.nk:er' has 20 tubuats9 it would be'' expected that each tug would
have to haul 30, 000 tons per month in order, to fulfill the company ? s
plan. However, Planning Directive No. 2 is not based on what a tug
actually must haul, to guarantee fulfillment of the company?s assigned
quota., but rather or. the physical hauling capabilities of the in-
dividual vessels. For instance, if the tug D0GA. is able to tow
one 10,000 ton barge and to make a round 'trip in 86 hours, then it
will be able to make seven, or at least six trips per month. Con-
sequently the Planning Directive No. 2 will assign to the tug
Bf GA-111 L'R 9, monthly quota of 609 000 instead of 30,000 tons. This
system is used purposely to gave the company from hav,-.ng to pay
bonuses to the tugs for overfuifilling work norms which would
certainly be the case if the 3CC'-..A:`a* were assigned onl ~ 301,000 tons.
.And, since every petroleum shipping company on the Volga-Caspian
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B9conveyor" normally overfulfills its assigned quota, the shipping
companies are getting special bonuses, a large part of which should
be turned over to the tugs for their participation in the over-
fulfillment of the plan. The tugs rarely get any bonus, however,
as their norms are artifically set too highs Instead, the bonuses
become additional company profit
(3) Keeping accounts of tug and. ship operations according to dispatch
summaries
(4) Working out petroleum.-hauling data for the next navigation season.
(5) Preparing a composite report of plan fulfillment of ships on a basis
of the dispatch summaries. l."his report includes all indexes of
Pe jl;;r?oleum hauling by ships.
Commercial Section
27. This section is charged with.
a. Making out freight invoices for its customers in, accordance with hauling
costs, In presenting accounts to Gls.vNefteS3`yt, the section uses a tariff
Ix4?9sR217i~,1,
b. Concluding agreement with Gla rNefte8by-t on the hauling of petroleum products.
c a Concluding agreements with other organizations on the leasing of ships,
d. Keeping accounts of fleet layover caused. by Volgatanker and GlavX' efteS'byt .
e. Representing the company in legal matters concerning the company and other
organizations .
r7 he Commercial Section plays =cr, import mt role in the financial activities of
the company because the .Fiihance Section alaocates money to the company on a
basis of the accounting of the Cozvmerc Section.
' oute Maintenance Section
1028. Only the Danube and, Reydtanker Shipping Co ,pani.ee~ have Route Maintenance Sections
in their orga,ntz,ations, A1.1 . ether Pouts Maintenance Sections are subordinate
to por. is , Reydtaaru er o s Route Ms .nte ,race Section was transferred from the
Astrakhan Directorate ReydlorPua (now ReydTekhFlot - Roadates.d Maintenance Fleet)
to Reydtanke:a;? by order of Shtrshov, former Minister of the Merchant F...eet.
29. The Route Maintenance Section of Reydtank.er Is charged with maintaining safe
snd.regular navigation on the Vo7..ga-Caspi=in and Ural-Caspian Canals. The
following are subordinate organ za,tions of this section;
a. Maintenance Sector of the Vo.lga..Caspian Canal (headquarters in the village
of Olyajo
b. Maintenance Sector of the Volga-Caspian Canal (headquarters in Guryev)
30. The Route Maintenance Section has two main groups; the Route Maintenance
Group (prcmerno--i akatel.no-proyektirovoch ya grupPa u sounding, research,
and planning group and the Navigational Aids Maintenance Group (Eks~loatatsionaya
Grle - Ope:rational. Group)
a. The Route Maintenance Group has the following responsibilities
(1)
(2)
To take periodic soundings of canals and to issue charts giving
these soundings (summer and winter depths).
To observe'. regularly the water level in the canals and to issue graphs
containing this data.
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(3) To carry out salvage operations in the canals
(4) To draw 'up plans for canal, construction and to design canal equipment.
(5) To plan channel-dredging work which is carried out by ReydTekhFlot
(Reydtaizker? .Maintenance Fleet).
(6) To compile estimated costs of channel-dredging operations and to
coordinate this data with ReydTekhFlot.
(7) To control fulfillment of dredging operations by ReydTekhFlot.
(8) To keep accounts of work done by .Reyd'TekhFlot for the purpose of
assux?ing payments for this work.
b. The 20,vigatiozi1 Aide Maintenance Group has the following responsibilities
(1) To assure the constant operation of navigational aids on the canals
(beacons, buoys, markers).
(2) To overhaul channel markers and to take inventory of navigational
aids during the winter period.
(3) To make observation"a on the condition of,the canal channels and the
water level in them.
(4) To register, and to draw up statements concerning damage done to channel
m xkers by passing ships.
Communications Service
31, The Communications Service is made up of five groups uc ast ,). They are
the Radio Station, Radio Bureau, Radio Workshop, Telephone Station ,
and Workshop, and the Field Radio Stations (at Guryev, Olya, and the debarkader
DONBASS),
a. The Radio Station maintains constant radio contact with Moscow, Baku,
Gurryev, Yras.novodsk, Makh.achkaia., 14-Foot Roadsteads, and Olye. Its
main duties are.
(l.)
To communicate in the clear with the above-mentioned points at
specified times.n particular, the station is in communication
with Moscow between 12 and. 13 hours and between 18 and 19 hours
daily.
(2) To transmit and receive correspondence in cipher.
(3) To maintain permanent radio contact with ships at sea or at various
ports.
(4) Together with the first group, to check the radiogram texts in order
to insure that no message is sent in the clear when ciphered text
should be usedo
b. The Radio .Bureau?s main responsibilities are:
(1) To register incoming and outgoing radiograms,
(2) To type and decode radiograms sent in the clear.
(3) To control radiogram texts to assure that no message which should be
ciphered is sent in the clear.
(4) To control radiogram texts for the purpose of preventing misinterpreta-
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(5) To deliver incoming radiograms
(6) To assure compliance with radio regulations
c. The Radio Workshop repairs coastal. and ship radio equipment.
d. Reydtanker's Telephone Station has its,_crn independent switchboard called
"More" (Sea)s, which consists of 200 numbers. The station provides com-
munications with sections and services of the company, which are located
both in Astrakhan and on Zayachyy Islandwhich is located.on the outskirts
of Astrakhan. Through the "More switchboard, the company also has direct
connections with the oblast Communist Party, the Oblast Communist Party
Executive Committee, the Trusov Rayon Committee of the Communist Party and
with the apartments of leading company officials. At the telephone
station there is a telephone workshop which is charged with the maintenance
of company telephone lines and apparatus.
e. The Field Radio Stations maintain the following radio communications-.
(1) Reydtanker with Olya., particularly in connection with operations
of the Maintenance Sector of the Volga-Caspian Canal.
(2) Reydtanker with Guryev and the Agency of the 1)4-Foot Roadstead, in
particular in connection with the.Guryev Maritime Agency and the
Maintenance Sector of the Ural-Caspian Canal. It also provides radio
communications between the Guryev Maritime Agency and ships attached
to it.
(3) The Agency of the 14,-Foot Roadstead (debarkader DONBASS) with Baku,
Guryev, Maritime Agency., Reydtanker, and ships of Reydtanker.
Maritime inspectorate Section
32. The Maritime Inspectorate is one of the controlling and consulting organs of
the ship-ping company. Since mid-19)49, special attention has been paid this
organization and more responsibilities were given it in connection with strong
anti=accident campaign. At this time, the accident rate had reached enormous
proportions. The reasons for this high accident rate were:
as Because of the loss of many ship officers during the war, the fleet had
to depend. on young inexperienced ships' officers who had received only
short courses in their line of work.
b. Labor discipline in the merchant fleet had sharply fallen (drunkenness,
laxness, and sleeping on duty posts, etc.).
c. There was a lack of navigation equipment and supplies on ships.
d. There was a shortage of ship personnel, which made necessary long and
tiresome watches.
e. The practice of operating ships in poor repair during the war was not yet
discontinued.
f. Following repair work, ships received inadequate inspection by the Maritime
Inspectorate and were released for duty while still in poor condition.
There were cases where bribery or drinking bouts determined whether or not
a ship was ready for operation.
33. The Maritime Inspectorate Section has on its T/0 inspectors, captains, mechanics,
firemen, and skipper--instructors. The 'responsibilities of the section are:
a. To investigate and keep registry of accidents.
b. To determine costs of ship accidents.
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C. To consult navigators on. safe methods of navigation and to consult
technicians on the proper operation of ship machinery.
d. To supervise the fulfillment of "Regulations for the Technical Operation
of Ships " by ship crews.
e. To see that ships are provided with navigational equipment and supplies
and to make out orders for needed navigational equipment.
f. To procnxre navigational equipment for ships within the limits of the
approved allocations and to assure that this equipment is properly
maintained?
g. To provide ships with up-to-date sea charts.
h. To compensate compass deviation in ships and to prepare deviation cor-
rection tables.
i ~ To regularly inspect ships.
j. To periodically examine ship crews to see if they possess the minimum
technical knowledge requirements.
k. To take part in comni,ions involved in summing up the work accomplish,-
ments of ship crews for' the month, quarter, or entire navigation period for
the purpose of determining award winners.
34. When a vessel of the Soviet Merchant Fleet is damaged, it may fall under one
of two categories, "Accident" or "Wreck'"... The Wreck category is by far the
most serious one and offenders in this category may be given any punishment
including court prosecution.
35. The amount of damage done a, ship has no bearing on which category it falls
under. For example, if two ships touched, even 'though only slight scratches
of the paint resulted, the- category Wreck would be applied. Similarly, to
run a ship aground without. damagl.ag_ the ship at all is considered s most
serious Wreck. At the sane, time, the lose of an anchor or ship propeller,
which would mean a loss of thousands of rubles, is considered an Accident
and no serious punishment is meted out to- the responsible person. in spite
of several proposals to aesesse accidents according to the amount of damage
done to the ship, the Mini stry retains the old method and has even dis-
couraged. further discussion. of the problem.
Astrakhan Maritime Petroleum AZency
36. The Astrakhan Maritime Petroleum Agency is a sea tanker port which is both
,administratively and operationally subordinate to the Reydtanker Shipping
Company. All other ports of the USSR are independent of the shipping
companies. Generally, ships are under -the direction of the shipping company
while they are at sea, but they are under the direction of the port authorities
while loading or unloading at ports. When ships *re in port, relations between
the shipping companies and the port authorities are handled through dispatches
;.r.eceipts for p~..jments made the port by the shipping company for loading or un-
loading ships on or ahead of schedule), or demurrages (receipts for payments
made to the shipping company by the port for detaining vessels over the time
allotted for loading opera.tiors). At present, there is a vigorous campaign
underway to cut down excessive layover of ships in ports. In 1950, the
Ministry of State Control, USRR,issued an order stating that port chiefs
guilty of detaining ships in ports would be fined. The
fine would be equal to the sum of the damages brought about by the ships`
detention. Moreover, port; chiefs responsible for repeated excessive ship
layover were to be prosecuted according to the criminal code. Nevertheless,
excessive ship layover during loading and unloading operations continues
to be a significant problem. For example, unproductive layover of Reydtanker
barges at the 14-Toot Roadstead exceeds 50,000 ton-days per month. In Astrakhan,
this figure is in excess of 100,000 ton-clays per month. Two hundred to three
hundred thousand rubles per month are lost in this way, For their own 'protection,
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company heads frequently cover up the amount of time lost in unproductive ship
layover and sometimes 'try to find "justified reasons" for this time loss.
37. The Astrakhan Petroleum Agency, as mentioned above, is really a port. It is
headed by a chief who has two deputies, one in charge of operations, the
other in charge of the Economic Office. The financial activities of the
agency are performed by tl a Chief Ac"count'ing Office headed by a chief accountant.
a. The Operations Group is charged with organizing loading operations in
Astrakhan within the limits of allowed time. It consists of a Dispatch
Office located at the Petroleum Agency, and a Receiving Office located
at the Petroleum.Ease.
(1) The Dispatch office has the following responsibilities:
(a) To receive dispatch summaries from the Operational Service
concerning the arrival.. of ships and a chart of ship movements.
(b) According to information on ship arrivals, to arrange with
GlavNeftes-ayt and Volgatanker Shipping Company to place at
the disposal of Reydtanker, wharves, tank capacity, and pumping
equipment,
(0)
To control loading and unloading schedules and to make up a chart
including this data.
To make monthly and semimonthly reports of loading and unloading
operations.
(e) To control the operations of and do keep accounts of the Road-
stead Fleet's operations.
(d)
(f) To establish norms for unloading operations and for the Road-
stead Fleet's operations.
(g) To direct the work of the tanker cleaning details.
(2) The Receiving Office has the following responsibilities:
(a) To provide quick loading and unloading of ships at piers of the
petroleum base.
(b) To make up accounts of loading and unloading operations in
cooperation with tepresentatives of GlavNefteSbyt and forward
them to the Dispatch Office.
(c) To make up accounts of loading and unloading operations at
petroleum bases.
(d) To control the quantity and quality of POLE products shipped or
received.
(e) To give the Dispatch Agency hourly data on loading and unloading
operations.
b. The Economic Group has the following responsibilities:
(1) To supply the fleet with spare parts, navigational equipment and
other technical supplies.
(2) To supply ships with fuel, water, lubricating oils, and cleaning
(3)
(4)
fluids
To organize mess facilities on ships.
To assure that.the debarkaders and piers are kept in good technical
condition.
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(5) To direct the work of freigkt trucking units
(6) To provide technical equipment for loading and unloading operations.
(7) To control the T/O of the auxiliary fleet assigned to the company and
see that the fleet is kept in good technical condition.
(8) To keep accounts of expenditures for materials, fuels, lubricants, and
wiping and polishing materials.
(9) To service and maintain vessels :11yin in ice in winter.
c, The.A.ccOunting Office of the Agency does _nQt_hgye_ its _,own .gcount,_ttbank but
receives its currency from the shipping company. It has the following
functions
(1) Faye aalsries to shore workers of the agency and to ship personnel
of the awc..i.liary service fleet and the POE transport fleet
(2)
(3)
Pays allowances and bozsusea to the above-mentioned personnel.
Keeps accounts of food. expenditures according to the cost of
collective messing.
(4) Keeps accounts of expenditures for uniforms of ship personnel, of the
transport and auxiliary fleets, and of the agency?s shore personnel.
(5) Controls and keeps fthsn.cial accounts of the work of ships operating
on a cost accounting basis,
(6) Keeps financial accounts of materials and technical equipment.
(7) Supervises accounting offices of ships.
(8) Forwards all kinds of financial records to the shipping company.
(9)
Forwards to the shipping company accounts concerning compliance to
the Labor Plan.
(10) eps accounts of supplementary payments made to ship personnel at
the ship-repair 'bases during the inter-navigation period.
(11) Supplies currency to the Agency of the 14-Foot Roadstead.
enc o f the 14-Foot Roadstead2
38. This agency is a direct connecting link between the Reydtanker and Kasptanker
shipping companies. It is located 110,mi.les from Astrakhan and its offices are
quartered on the specially-equipped vessel (debarkader) DONS. The DDNBA SS
lies at anchor at one place during the entire period of navigation. The main
task of the Agency is to provide for the rapid and uninterrupted unloading of
Baku petroleum tankers. The Agency is divid.*d. into a Dispatching and. a Re-
ceiving Branch. it is run by a chief and his deputy.
a. Functions of the Dispatching Branch axe:
(1) To chart movements of Kaaptanker and Reydtanker vessels.
(2) To forward Information about the departure and movement of Baku tankers
(3)
to the Office of Operations of Reydtanker.
To coordinate the movements of barges and tankers.
(4) To supervise the loading of barges and to record these operations.
(5)
To supervise the making up of barge convoys and to direct them to
the Astrakhan and Guryev Roadsteads.
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(6) To compile monthly and bi-monthly reports of fleet operations at
the roadsteads and report,, of ship utilization while the ships are at
the roadsteads,
ba Functions of the Receiving :Branch area
To direct loading and unloading operations on ships,
To check the quality and quantity of freight received from tankers.
To make up freight receipts.
To compile summary reports on. loading and unloading of ships
To coordinate time norms for loading and unloading operations.
To see that barges are correctly loaded.
c. The Accounting Office of the agency has the following responsibilities:
(1) To pay salaries, allowances, and awards to workers of the agency, and
to ship crews of the auxiliary fleet of the agency.
(2) To keep accounts of expenditures for feeding workers of the agency
(3)
and. crews of ships assigned to the agency.
To keep financial record. of agency material assets.
(4) To forward all. financial accounts to the Astrakhan Petroleum Agency.
(5) To submit a. report concerning compliance with. the Labor Plan to the
agency.
(6) To supervise accounting offices on ships assigned to the agency.
Guryev Maritime en
39. The Guryev Maritime Agency, located in Guryev, Kazakhskaya SSR, is directly sub-
ordinate to the Reydta,nker Shipping Company. In character, the agency is much
like a small shipping company. After transport barges of Reydtanker have ar-
rived at the Guryev Roadstead, they are put at the disposal of the latter organiza-
tion. Here the cargoes of POL products are transloaded into smaller barges of
the Guryev Maritime Agency and the empty Reydtanker barges are sent tack to the
14-Foot Roadstead, The Guryev low-tonnage barges are towed along the Ural-Caspian
Canal up to the petroleum base on the Peshnoy Island where they are put at the
disposal of the Receiving Branch of the Guryev Agency which unloads them
(petroleum is transported from Peshnoy island. to Refinery No. 441 at Guryev via
pipeline). The empty barges are then returned to the Guryev Roadstead where they
are again loaded.
40. Petroleum is pumped from Reydtaaker barges to the smaller Guryev barges by pumps
located on the Reydtanker barge NOVOBOGATIKSK, the steamship KALININy or the
debarkader MARY. On Peshnoy Island, the petroleum is unloaded by pumps in-
stalled on the shore which are operated by the petroleum base. The Guryev
Sea Agency transports 300,000 to 400,000 tons of petroleum (gazoil) during
a single navigation period.
41, The Agency is run by a chief and his deputy and has the following branches.
a. Dispatcher Branch - this branch is very poorly organizaedo It is located
in the shipping company building in Guryev !fbile all problems connected
with transporting petroleum are determined. atithe Guryev Roadstead
which is located 40 to 50 kilometers fi?om town. Communications between
Guryev and the Roadstead are very poor. There are no service cutters
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and the wireless .tation of the agency is located on Peshnoy `sland or
on the debark ,derv MA?Y stationed at the Curyev Roadstead. As a result, the
Dispatcher Branch has no direct contact with the fleet and, under such
conditions, it is doubtful. that the Dispatcher Branch is very effective
3.n_helping the shipping company fulfill its plan.
In actual practice, all problems connected. with petroleum hauling are settled
by the deputy chief of the Agency who stays at the Roadstead during the
entire navigation season. It would be very simple to have dispatchers at
the Roadstead during the navigation season. As it is, however, the Receiving
Branch representatives who live at the Roadstead do both their work and the
work of the Dispatcher Branch., Meanwhile, personnel of the Receiving
Branch who live at the Roadstead get a, salary of 650 .rubles per month while
dispatchers on shore get 830 rubles per month.
The functions of the Dispatcher Branch. are
(1) Coordinates with the Agency of the JA Foot Roadstead the movement of
petroleum barges to the Guryev Roadstead.
(2) Directs the movements of the Guryev fleet from Guryev to Peshnoy
Is.land
Compiles dispatch suzmms,ries on the quantity of freight arriving
from the 14-Foot Roadstead., on. the quantity of freight being trans-
shipped at the Guryev Roadstead into the low-tonx
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arges, and on
the quantity of freight being unloaded from the lOW tonnage barges
at Peshnoy Island.
(ii) Compiler;, reports, and. accounts for plan orders (plan-,irikaz) of ships.
(;5) :Keeps accounts of work performed. by the fleet between the Guryev Road-
stead snd Peshnoy Islands
(6) Compile. work norms of the fleet and coordinates them with the shipping
Cam'a.ny.
(7) Breaks down petroleum hauling plan according to individual ship.
b. The -Receiving Branch is divided into two groups, one group stationed at
the Guryev Roadstead and the other stationed on Peshnoy Island. Functions
of 'the Roat.:stead group are,,.
(1) To direct 'the transshipping of POL products from Reydtanker barges
into the smaller barges of the Guryev Agency.
(2) To carefully examine the quantity and quality of the freight re-
cei,red.
(3) To compile freight :receipts
(4) To keep accounts of ship loading and unloading operations.
(5) To coordinate time norms for loading and unloading operations.
(6) To assure that bb.rges are loaded correctly.
Functions of the Peshnoy Island group are:
(1) To supervise petroleum pumping from the smaller barges at piers of
Peshnoy island into storage tanks of` Gla,vNefteB}3yt
(2) To examine the quality and quantity of the delivered freight
(3) To compile freight receipts.
(4) To compile summary reports of unloading operations.
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c o T be. .A:.dmi..:aistrat.i.ve, Economic, and Financial Branch of the Agency
has the following section-
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(1)
Accounting Section,
labor and Wager, Section
Planning Section
A.dm.i:nistrcative and Economics Section
Supply Section
Fire Brigade and Guard Detail.
Commuria.cations Section.
Ship Repuir Shops
Maintenance Section of Ural-Caspian Canal
(10) Office of the Agency'j C.tief,w:hich. includes cipher clerks, economists,
and secretariat.
42. 'ransshippin7 sta,at:.on personnel of the Agency, of GlavNefted a~yt, and of Refinery
No. 4.41, wwork on, the Principle of "Who is going to cheat whom?" Agency personnel
try to deli.vex? poox -qus,lit v fre,l.ght 'petroleum with water in .it and to deliver
less freight than is shown on the papers. At the same time, Glav'NefteBbyt tries
to show that either insuff .ciernt freight via delivered or that it is of poor
quality. This is enough to bring a penalty to the shipping company.
43. At the taa t of the navigation season, whe . agreements are concluded with shipping
compsnnies, the transshipping personnel try to show that the capacity of their
petroleum pumps a4 less than it :really is. This makes it possible for them
to then fulfill the norms for petroleum pumping easily and even to get bonuses
for overfulf1l.lmenta of plan.
44. Transshipping ?personnel of Refinery No. 44! try to show that the petroleum
received is of low quellty and that the shipments are short. This sometimes
'brings a, pes silty to GlavNefte byt .
45. All. these secti.onn work under the direction of the shipping compa.ny. Operationally,
all of these sections, and for that matter all the agency's organs, are unable
to settle bu.s:i.ness questions independently, On all. necessary or unnecessary
questions, they are afar"a,i.d to take the responsibility and are always asking
directions,'f_r^om the shipping company. This fear of responsibility is characteristic
of Soviet institutions. :Because of It, employees write tons of unnecessary
papers. Soviet laws show no mercy to workers who make mistakes or, neglect their
duty.
46. The Fire Brigade and Guard. 'leta:il have little to do except collect their
salaries as there is no longer any port say such, in Guryev. GlavNeftel'lot
has not reduced. the T/O of the Fire Brigade or Guard Detail in spite of
the fact that there is no need for them since the port is no -longer in use.
Tanker Clearing Detail.
47. The Tanker Cleaning Detail is a part of the petroleum agency. Its primary
task i s to clean remains of POL products from barges and to clean self-
propelled vessels before they are brought in for repair. Reydtanker's
Cleaning Detail is the only one in the Merchant Fleet where the cleaning is
done manually. The main tools used are pails, brooms, rags, water, sawdust, and
scoops. The detail employs 80-1.00 persons, all of them women including the
chief. The women sometimes faint and must be pulled out of the ships' holds
because of the strong gases encountered there.
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48. The Tanker Cleaning Deta, 7 is broken down into crews consisting of eight to
ten women each, including the crew chief. Working hours are not regular but
rather depend on. the readiness of ships for cleaning. The crews may be called
upon at any time to start work on a new ship.
49. In addition to cleaning ships' holds, the detail has the following responsibilities:
a. To launder ships' washable equipment (mattresses, curtains, covers, special
clothing, etc.)
b. To sew and re-upholster mattresses, curtains, covers, etc.
In spite of the 'very hard working conditions, the women workers are underpaid,
The crew chiefs belong to the third category and are pel d 1 ruble, 30 kopeks
per hour while the workers get I ruble, 10 kopeks per hour. Only with great
difficulty can these women. raise their salaries to 400 -450 rubles per month.
( anizations Administered through Deputy Chief oVk,
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Marine E=ineerirg Service
50. The Marine Engineering Service is responsible for the technical operation
of the fleet, for fleet re;pa,ir,;rad repair documentation.
a. The Technical Operatia fl 6r as t~ 1a made up of group engineers and group
thermal technicians who are specialized according to ship. Its functions
are,,
(1)
To constantly supervise the technical operation of the fleet. To
carry out this function., a 24-hour watch,made up of group engineers,
was orgar:i.z ed to check the condition of incoming ships and to fill
out forms stating their condition. With these forms to refer to,
group engineers analyze s. ship"s condition and then take the necessary
action.
(2) To conduct the:rmotechnical and d.yriamometric tests of ships in order
to find ways to improve their operational, qualities.
(3) To adjust mraln engines and a,uxi:l..I.s.ry machinery.
(4) To compile summary reports on defects of sh:ips9 hulls and machinery
and to determine the necessity of having interchangeable spare parts.
() To supervise the repair of ships in plants, dry docks, or repairs
made while the ship is in operation.
(6) To investigate cauaes of ms.chi nery breakdown.
(7) To conduct tests of ships in operation.
(8) To coordinate with the Inspectorate of Maritime Register problems
concerning ship operation.
(9) To conduct ship inspections.
(10) To see that the ship crews know and comply with the "Regulations for
the Technical Operation . of the Merchant Fleet".
b. The Repair. ;Documentaa.tion Branch bas the following functionb a
(1) To plan for the repair of the fleet, both during the winter period
and. during the navigation season,
(2) To compile summary reports on types of ship repair and estimated costs
of this repair on the basis of summary reports on defects of ships,
barges, etc.
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keep a.ccoUnt > of repadr costs
(4) To plan and to keep accounts of expenditures for fuel, .lubricants
and wiping materials.
(5) to keep account, of spare parts on hand and to make up orders for
new ones
(6) To compile repair progress reports
7) To compile ten-day repa?.ir, charts.
510 The existing system of planning repair operations of the fleet is full of
defects and contradict lor:,_s. the Ministry plans repair allotments for the
fleet on the bd is of actual, repair expenses for the preceeding year rather
than on the detailed orders on necessary repair work prepared by the shipping
company. Frequently, the money allotted for repair work is too small to-
pay for. evert second -rate repair work. It is impossible to exceed allotments
because the i,mc s >-sr^ee under the strict control of a, bank and the shipping
company chief can be criminally prosecuted for excessive expenditures.
52. The repair work done on a -0ibi;p is a ,d justed to fit the sum allotted for this
work, rathex? than: the need for repair. As s. result, many defects cannot be
taken care of and must , t;h.erefcm e, be *.ken care of by the ship 18 regular
crew which gems no additional. pa.,Y for this work? This situation is causing
constant d.i.ocigreementa betwe ri c.n.pl.vins, mechanics, and group engineers on
one ai:cip and,. wshi. repr~ir y. rds on the other, Al o, there are disagreements
between shipping compnnie ~ and. Inspectorates of maritime register, because
the latter organr'y,s.tion dons not permit the operation of poorly repaired
ships ? 'The most t.mportrjn ~ t;qa;:K of ship: repair personnel apparently is to
return ships without having done much repair work on them.
53. The organization of . hip_repa,:~.:r u'Ork by ,he ships own crew during the winter
plays an important; part in, the MMtrf ne Frgtneering Service. 'T'his method was
first introduced. i.n. 1946 r nd. aa,,f'terward.s used extensively, Tn carrying out
this work, the rah::{? + crews are divided into two paxties. One party, consisting
mostly of the deck crew, . f; aa:rrsigned to such work as guard duty, removing ice,
emergency jobs, etc n They are paid 90 percent of their regular :sa.lery for this
work, The second. party, made up mainly of machinists, is assigned to repair
the main and. auxiliary ma.cbinery. They a :re paid by the piece-work system,
Cai.t;.?l Con.struc c i on Section
54. This section has the fo.l.l ov in* function_ q;;
s . To draw up eu;tims.ted coat., of caps gal construction projects provided for by
the plan, an,., after the approval by the Ministry of Merchant Fleet, to
register them in, the i ndiLmtrl al bank.,
b. To coordinate with the c 1 t. y ctur^'a,l section, all civil cozstruction
projects (bui.ldsings, ; ettlemeents, c.lus
C. To supervise organ.i.i:atlory.a engaged. ,icx the repair or construction work,
both, from a bar.dpoi.nt of the quality of work done and the proper use of
assigned furdisa
d. To make up invoice . for the orgsn:i?,ations for which repair or construction
work has beet. done.
ea To keep accounts of capttal...repnir and construction work performed.
55. In 1951, the Capital Constr?uction Section fulfilled the following tasks a3., Super,,ri&ed fulfillment of capital -repairs of Volga-Caspian and the Ural-
Casp::La,n Carat s by Reyd' khPlot from a financial. point of view and invoiced
bill. 6, for these works
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b< Checked the quality and volume of work done by the Construction Directorate
No. 1 including:
(1) Construction of a launching slip for the Ship-Repair Plant i/n 10th
Anniversary of the October Revolution,
(2) Construction of workers, settlement of lumber on Zayachiy Island,
C. Directed construction afatwo--story stone residential buildings consisting
of 16 apartments on Ulitsa i/n Babushkin, No. 4, in Astrakhan.
d. Supervised the activities of the Construction and Repair Section of the
shipping company.
Supply Section
56. The Supply Section of the shipping company is, in fact, a procurement and supply
office (ZagotSnabKontora)a Instead of procuring materials from GlavTekhMorSnab,
the main procurement supply office of the Ministry of Merchant Fleet according
to approved orders, it is forced to procure most of the materials by its own
means, both through the MorTekhSnab (Maritime Technical Supply) Agencies and
through other organizations. It must be pointed out that problems of material
and technical supply are very grave in the USSR.
570 The following materials are considered as most scarce for the various organiza-
tions in Astrakhan:
a. Timber and lumber
be Construction materials
(1) Bricks
(2) Paint
(3) Drying oil
(4) Plumbing for buildings
(5) Pipes
(6) Cement
(7) Fittings for doors and windows
c. Sheet steel
d. Spare parts for the internal-combustion engines
e. Steel cables
f. Anchor chains
g. Some kinds of profile steel
h. Navigation instruments
i. Electric cables
j. Electric wiring
k. Red glass for light buoys
58. The Supply Section of the shipping company is charged with the following re-
sponsibilities of supply: planning and accounting, procurement, distribution,
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and supervision of motor transport. It functions in the following manners
a. Collects material supply requests from all organizations of the shipping
company.
b. Draws up a summary request for the necessary materials for the shipping
company. This summary request, together with an account of available funds
and of materials on hand,is forwarded to GlavNefteFlot of the Ministry.
c. On the basis of approved funds, materials are either received from the T.
Ministry of Merchant Fleet, or provided independently through the MorTekhSnab
Agencies or through some other organization.
d. All ,materials received proceed first to the transient warehouse which is
located on the left bank of the Volga in Astrakhan, where they are registered.
e. From the transient warehouse, the material is transferred to the warehouses
located on Zayachiy Ostrov, on the left bank of the Volga, where it is again
registered, to prevent possible theft by the warehouse men.
f. From these warehouses, the materials proceed to the customers, organizations
of the shipping company, and to the fleet, through the navigation warehouse.
g. The Accounting Office of the Supply Section keeps accounts of, and distributes
the material received.
59. Supply men are very severely punished for hoarding materials which have not
been used during the current year, or during several years. There are two
reasons for this hoarding. One is to have the material on hand to satisfy
possible future requests. The other is that there is a'law prohibiting the
selling or exchanging of materials to organizations of the Ministry of Merchant
Fleet without the permission of the Ministry and that is very difficult to ob-
tain. As a rule, materials which are not in great demand are hoarded, for
example, steel wire, lime, incomplete machinery, damaged manometers, etc.
60. Supply men are also severely punished for having mere materials on hand than
the shipping company actually needs,as the warehouses are only authorized to
carry necessary equipment. Supply men nevertheless try to keep on hand scarce
materials which would be difficult tb obtain when needed. The best warehouse
men are those who have important connections,as personal favors play an im-
portant ;part in the field of supply.
Planning and Designing Section
61. This section, organized in 1947, is run by a chief on temporary payroll. The
section's designers, draftsmen, engineers, technicians, and tracers are paid
by the piecework system, according to approved norms. It has the following
functions-
a. Prepares blueprints for ships not having them (plans of the ship's hull,.
superstructure, main and auxiliary machinery, and other details).
b. Works out drawings of the new parts and units of ships which are to under-
go repair.
c. Works out plans and drawings for modernizing ships and ship machinery.
d. Works.out plans and drawings of ships and of ship machinery which has to
be replaced.
Guryev Ship-Repair Shops
62. These shops are charged with the repair of self-propelled vessels and barges
of ReydTanker which are attached to the Guryev Maritime Agency. However, they
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cannot provide medium and capital-repfLirs of ships, so such work must be sent to
Astrakhan. The shops are generally very poorly equipped and are in poor tech-
nical-condition. This situation was brought repeatedly to the attention of the
Ministry but neither the necessary sums nor tools were made available to them.
For this reason, work at the shops was sometimes done by semi-primitive methods.,
which were reflected in the poor quality work performed. Altogether,,the shops did
mostly hull and painting work. When they did repair machinery, the ship re-
paired would break down after only 20 to 30 days of operation.
63. Administrative add shop personnel of the Guryev Ship-Repair Shops are grouped
together in nine units. There are from 30 to 40 production workers. Gross output
is about 500,000 to 6oop 000- f?ubleS per yeara",
64. The shopl~s work plan is approved by the shipping company.as is the T/0 for the
administrative and technical personnel and production workers within the limits
approved by GlevNefteFlot's Labor Plan. The shops work on a cost accounting
basis and have their own accounts in the Guryev section of the State Bank.
Ship-Repair Shy No. 552
65. These shops are housed on three, old steel petroleum barges tied permanently to
the shore on Zayachiy Ostrov. In addition, the shops have a warehouse and a ,r ,.?:r
garage on the shore. The shops perform current and medium repair of trans-
port and auxiliary vessels during the winter period. In addition they per-
form navigation and accident repair work during the navigation period and clean
engines and boilers.
66. The workshops are subordinate to[ the Reydtanker Shipping Company. They have
their own account in the Trusov Section of the State Bank in Astrakhan. They
are run by a director, his deputy, and the Party organization "elected" by the
collective of workshops. "Election" of the Party organization is directed by
the Trusov regional committee of the VKP(b). The shops are divided into ad-
ministrative, shop, and non-industrial groups.
~. The administrative group has the following subsections:
(1) Planning and Production Section
(2) Accounting Section
(3) Labor and Wage Section
(4) Design Bureau
(5) Technical Supply Section - acts on supply problems through the
supply section of the shipping company.
b. The shop group has the following shops:
(1) Machine Shop
(2) Filler Shop
(3) Boiler Shop
(4) Forging Shop
(5) Copper Tubing Shop
(6) Electrical Shop
(7) Carpentry Shop
(8) Tool Shop
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Auxiliary Shop
c.
The non-industrial group includes:
(1)
Electric Power Plant
(2)
Steam Power Apparatus-used mainly to pump water from the barges used
as workshops.
(3)
Estimates Group
(4+)
Motor Pool
67, Production a.etivity of the workshops amounts to 3 million rubles gross pro-
duction per year. Of this, 2.5 million rubles is for repair work, 200,000
rubles for orders of the Ministry of Merchant Fleet, and about 300,000 rubles
for orders from outside organizations received via Party organization recommenda-
tionsa The plan for repair jobs is drafted by GlavNefteFlotwhich bases its
figures on the volume of repair work estimated by the shipping company and
on the amount of funds assigned to the shops for repair work.
68. Hiring and firing of personnel and the maintenance of a personnel file is
carried out by the Personnel Section of the shipping company. The T/0 of
the administrative personnel of the workshops is approved by the State T/0
Commission of the Council of Ministers, USSR, while the T/0 of the shop and
non-industrial personnel is approved by the shipping company on the basis
of labor limits approved by GlavNefteFlot. The average yearly number of
workers employed at the workshops is 160 to 200 persons. The maximum number
of workers is employed during the-winter repair period between December and
May. At this time, additional workers are recruited from ship crews.
69. All financial and statistical reports of the shops pass through the shipping
company office. Workshop production charts are approved by -the shipping company.
Overhead costs run about 150 percent.3
Ship-.Repair Plant i
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70e This plant is an industrial enterprise charged with current, medium, and
capital repairs of barges and self-propelled vessels of the Reydtanker Shipping
Company. It has two floating docks for mooring vessels. The plant has its own
account in the Trusov Section of the State Bank in Astrakhan, through which it
can transfer money to other organizations and persons to pay salaries, expenses,
etc. It works on a cost accounting basis.
71. The plant is subordinated to the Reydtanker Shipping Company. It is run by
a director, his deputy who is the chief engineer, and by the Party organization.
The plant consists of administrative, shop, and non-industrial groupsowhich
have a number of sections.
a. Administrative groups
(1) Planning and Production Section - plans. financial and operational
and productionr._. activities. This includes planning the use of.and
the accounting of funds which are allotted for a year. and the working
out of control figures for the next year. Also included is the planning
and accounting of productionr;_ (output) activities of the plant.
(2) Main Accounting Office - runs the financial activities of the plant
under 'the control of the shipping company administration.
(3) Labor and Wages Section - standardizes work norms, works out T/O
of all plant organizations, supervises labor laws and workers'
records, conducts socialist competition, and organizes accident
prevention.
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(1) Personnel Section - hires and fires workers and maintains a personnel
file
(5) Planning and Design Bureau - prepares required designs and blueprints
for the plant,
(6) Administrative and Economic Section - maintains inventory of plant
properties and buildings, keeps archives, and registers incoming
and outgoing correspondence.
(7) Technical Supply Section - handles the material and technical supply
of the pant, mainly through the Supply Section of the shipping
company.
(8) Secret Document and Mobilization Section - handles records, correspondence,
and keeping of secret documents, and also the record t4 persons working
in the plant who are liable for military service.
(9) Finance Section - settles financial questions. Gets money from the
bank for paying salaries and prepares accounts and invoicesa
(40) Chief Engineer's Section - sees that the plant's electric power plant,
steam power apparatus, and machine tools are in good technical con-
dition,
(11) Capital Construction Section - keeps record of technical documentation
on capital construction and repair of buildings and installations and
supervises this work.
bo Shop group
Machine shop
Fitter shop
Boiler shop
Forging shop, copper piping
Foundry
Electrical and electric welding shop
Wood processing shop and sawmill
Carpentry shop
Painting and roofing shop
Tool shop
Auxiliary shop
Docks
C. Non-industrial group
(1) Electric Power Plant - provides the factory and workers settlement
with electricity in case the city supply fails.
(2) Steam Power Plant - heats buildings and provides power to steam-powered
machinery.
(3) Motor Pool - provides for motor and water transport and cranes.
(4) Estimates Group, - determines estimates on the repair of ships' hulls
and machinery, and coordinates them with the shipping company.
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Office of the Commandant - an auxiliary organization administratively
subordinated to the eighth detachment of militarized guard.
(6) Oxygen Station produces oxygen neceps.ary for gas welding and
cutting work. It also produces compressed air necessary for starting
internal combustion engines and for operation of compressed--air
hammers.
(7) Housing Section - handles problems connected with workers' housing.
72. Technical. Control Section - this section controls the quality of production.
it is an independent section directly subordinate to the Qhief Engineer.
The T/O of the Technical Control Section follows:
Number of persons
Salary Remarks
rubles)
Chief of Section
1,200
Senior Engineer
1
950 Controls productions
Engineer
1
830 Machine and Assembly
shops
Engineer
830) Boiler, and forge
Engineer
830) welding shops and
foundry
Technician
60Q)
Laboratory testing
Engineer
790)
of materials
:Laboratory Assistant
450)
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73. The Technical Control Section has three main functions:
a. To control. the quality of individual parts and units produced in the plant?s
shops.
b. To control. the quality of work done on ships or other projects.
c. To control-the quality of materials used in production, The section
e mines the materials used in its Tabora bbries
(j)
Every engineer of the section is specialized in a certain field of
production.
(2) When a part is produced, the section checks its technical condition
(3)
then the Technical Control Section is relieved from responsibility.
In this case, however? the chief engineer must give his approval of
the piece in written form.
and a responsible individual gives his stamp of approval.
If there is disagreement between the inspector and the shop foremen
or chiefs, a decision is rendered by the chief of the Technical
Control Section. If, however, the plant's chief engineer intervenes,
(4) The inspector approves the worker's wage chits if the item produced is
satisfactory. He gives an order to withhold money from the worker"s
salary when an item is rejected,if,the worker.is responsible for the
rejects Frequently, a worker is blamed for a reject only to save the
time which would have to be spent in determining the real reasons for
the defective work and to keep the administration from blamed
74. The gross output of the plant is about 12 to 14 million rubles per year. This
includes 10 to 11 million rubles for ship-repair work for the shipping company,
1.5 million rubles for orders of the Ministry of Merchant Fleet for other
enterprises of the Ministry,. and 1.5 million rubles for organizations outside
the Ministry. The latter organizations have no connection with the Ministry
of Merchant Fleet. Their orders are accepted according to directives of the
Oblast Party Committee. This work cannot be planned and frequently must be
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done when the plant is busily engaged in fulfilling its own production plans and
thus disr,
,4pts the plant-Is planned schedules for ship repair. Ship-repair schedules
are fixed by GlavNefteFlot which determines these dates, taking into consideration
the volume of work which is suggested by the shipping company on a basis of the
amount of work to be performed and the funds available for the work.
75. The plant is paid by the various organizations concerned for the repair work. The
T/0 of the administrative personnel of the plant is approved by the State T/0
Commission of the Council of Ministers, USSR. The T/0 of the shop and non-
industrd 'Al personnel is approved by the shipping company on the basis of a Labor
Plan approved by GlavNefteFlot.
76. The average number of workers employed is 1,000 to 1,100, per year. The maximum
number of workers is employed between December and May when the winter reir work
is done. Additional workers are acquired during that period from ship crews.
77. All financial and statistical accounts of the plant pass through the shipping
company office and the ship-repair schedules are approAdd by the company. During
19+1-19+5, the plant produced aerosleighs (aerosan), mine throwers, and artillery
shells,and it repaired naval vessels and tanks.
78. Overhead. of the plant amounted to 150-170 percent of labor costs,3
Organizations Administered through Deputy Chief
for Personnel and Training
Personnel Section
79. The Personnel Section is made up of the Ship Personnel Sector, the Shore Personnel
Sector, and the Sector for filling out and keepingaccount.of Workers' Booklets.
It has the following functions?
a. Hiring and dismissing personnel, and maintaining records of ship and shore
personnel.
b~ Producing and keeping current Workers' Booklets.
c. Keeping records of personnel transfers.
d. Reassigning surplus ship personnel during the inter-navigation period.
e. Milli g- h.ip T/Os when the navigation season opens,.
Making u ve- -abs n e. f s forms for t qt$.
s 1 Af .1 4m~, personnel awards and promg ions,
and forms .for persons who break labor discipline, to be forwarded to the
office of the public prosecutor.
Housing Section of the Right Bank
80. This section serves residential buildings belonging to the shipping company
located on Zayachiy Island. Its functions are:
a. To maintain a record of accommodations and of lodgers.
b. To collect rents.
c. To assure that the lodgings are kept in good condition.
d. To assure adequate sanitary condition of the lodgings and to guarantee
fire control measures.
e. To report maintenance needs of lodgiiigg;_; and to issue orders for their
repair.
f. To assign accommodations and to find ways to utilize living space the most
efficiently.
g. To allocate accommodations in dormitories and barracks,
h. To supervise operation of the lodgings and dormitories.
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i. To ;provide cleaning and garbage service.
j. To ;provide regular operation of the public bath and to see that proper
sanitary conditions are maintained.
Housing Section of the Left Bank
81. This section serves the residential buildings of the shipping company located
in As'trikhan. Thhser,buildings include the five-story residential building
on Kirov Ulitsa No. 20, a two-story residential building on Voroshilov
Ulitsa No. 4, and the administration building of the shipping company on
2nd Kontrolnaya TJlitea No. 29 Functions of the Housing Section area
a. To maintain a record of accommodations and of lodgers,
b. To collect rents.
c. To assure that the buildings are kept in good technical condition.
d. To assure that adequate sanitary conditions are maintained and to provide
fire control.
e. To report maintenance needs of the buildings and to issue orders for their
repair.
f. To supervise compliance of occupants with house rules.
g. To provide cleaning and garbage service.
h. To provide heating and to:see that the central heating system is in good
condition.
is To satisfy the specific requirements of the oblast and city Party leaders
who live in 'the building on Kirov Ulitsa No. 20.
Construction and Maintenance Section
82, This section of the shipping company is an auxiliary enterprise. It provides
for secondary and capital repair of the residential and service buildings. It
operates in the following way, First, the volume of the repair work is
determined and estimated costs are drawn up. These in turn are sent to Glav-
NefteFlot which generally sharply reduces the estimated costs before approving
them. As a result, the section is forced to cut down the volume of the planned
repair work. Finally, a construction and financial plan is drawn up and labor
and material requirements are determined on a basis of the approved funds. The
section then carries out its activities on the basis of this construction and
financial. plan.
83. Reydtanker?fi Capital. Construction Section supervises the work of the Construction
and Maintenance Section. Funds allotted by the Ministry for the repair of
residential and service buildings are so small that not enough projects can be
planned to keep the Construction and Maintenance Section busy. For this reason,
the section is often forced to obtain work from outside organizations in order
to keep its working force intact. The section?s workers are paid by the ]Pd:ece-
work system according to established norms.
84. While the section is frequently idle, it still is riot given the task of main-
taining the residential building on Babushkin Ulitsa No. 4. This is partJ31
explained by the poor personal relations between the chiefs of the Maintenance
and Construction Section and the Capital Construction Section.
Section of 'the Construction Foreman for the Construction of the Residential
Building on Babushkin Ulitsa No.
850 In 1950, the Ministry of Merchant Fleet allotted 400,000 rubles for the con-
struction of a 16-apartment residential building. The funds were to be spent
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from the excess profit funds of the shipping company, A special crew of
workers was organized on a temporary basis under the direct technical super-
vision of a, construction foreman and an accountant, to carry out the con-
struction work. This section was to be liquidated after the building had
been completed in. January 1952. Even before the building was finished,
the best, apartments, which were to be given to workers of the shipping
company, were distributed to the followingjpersons; Secretary of the Kirov
Regional Committee of the VKP(b), a representative of the Water Transport
Section of the MG.B of Reydtanker, and to two important city Party members.
Officers' Training Combine (Uchebrno-.Kursovoy Kombinat)
86. The Training Combine is charged with the instruction of low-ranking officers
of the Merchant Fleet (diesel and steam-engine mechanics third class,
coastal shipping navigators, captains of ships under 200 tons, and other
specialists such as firemen, mechanics, radio operators, seamen, helmsmen,
etc,), In addition, courses are given for freight transloading personnel
and first mates
870 Training is given to shipsv officers either as full-time courses or on-the-job
training,, They are paid three months? salary before starting the course but
not more than 600 rubles per month. The Chief Directorate of Educational
Institutions of the.Ministry of Merchant Fleet approved a, plan for training
an average of 14+0 persons per year. Of that number, 50 were 19)f-ranking officers
enrolled for full-time training. The plan allots funds for training facilities
and for student and instructor salaries. Instructors are generally appointed
from engineering and technical personnel of the shipping company.
88. Altogether there are five different coursesg
a. Full-time courses for lq t-ranking officers - the instruction program for
this course, as approved by the Ministry, lasts nine months. Graduates
become coastal shipping'navigatofs, diesel or steam engine mechanics
third clasp, or skippers of ships under 200 tons. Prerequisites include
three years of sea duty and a minimum of seven years?educationo After
gra.duatibn,,, students are given certificates which, after a specified
period of job experience is completed, are replaced by appropriate
diplomas.
b. On-the-job training for to -.ranking officers these courses are usually
organized by order of the chief of the shipping company and are not a
part of the ministry's training program. They were planned to give a
minimum of technical knowledge to shi.ps? officers and mechanics. The
course requires two hours of attendance daily during the inter-navigation
period and lasts one month,
c. Full-time courses for seaman specialists - this course, which is based on
the program approved by the Ministry, lasts three months. It trains fire-
men, mechanics, seamen, helmsmen, and pilots. Students are required to
have not less than one year of sea duty and not less than five years of
education. The courses are given during the inter-navigation period and
graduate students are finished in time to start working in their specialty
the following navigation season. About 60 to 70 students are enrolled in
each course. `.they receive about 200 rubles per month while enrolled. They
receive a certificate of graduation at the end of"the course.
d. Part-time courses for transloading personnel and first mates - these courses
are given during the inter-navigation period. They are taught only to ships'
officers (mates) and transloading personnel who are already on the job.
About ten to fifteen students are enrolled in each class,
ee In addition to the above-mentioned courses, individual training of seaman
specialists is offered. For example, an exper, snced mechanic or ship's
officer will train (for a definite period) a second-class seaman so that
he may qualify for first class. When a trained person passes an examina-
'tion, he is given an appropriate certificate and his instructor receives
a cash reward.
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School for Ship Personnel
89, This school was organized in 1948 by the Ministry of Labor Reserves with the
purpose of preparing ship personnel for the Reydtanker Shipping Company, In
1951, the school was turned over:?to the Ministry of Merchant Fleet and sub-
ordinated to the shipping company. It is located on Zayachiy Island. The
course, which lasts two years, trains second-class seamen, firemen, mechanics,
and engine operators. The students are 14 to.16.years old. and, are recruited on a
mobilization principle, as it is done ~y the Ministry of Labor Reserves. The
100 to 200 students enrolled in each course are divided into groups of 25-30
according to their specialty. The training and living conditionspof the
students organized on a military basis. The students practice close-
gtder drill and go to classes and meals in military formation. An entire
class is called a company and each class is divided into groups called
platoons? Students live in the barracks on Zayachiy Island. They are pro-
vided with clothing and food. After graduation from this school, a student
is obliged to work for at least four years on ships of Reydtanker or Reyd-
TekhFlot (Roadstead Maintenance Fleet). The instructors, staff is made up
of former ships, officers. The school is run by a chief and his deputy for
instruction.
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3. This percentage represents the amount charged for labor above actual labor
costs. It does not include the cost of aterials nor a 15 percent charge
above material costs.
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