RESULTS OF INTRODUCING AUTOMATIZED PROCESSING TELEGRAMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R000100100037-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: October 5, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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 Vestnik svvazi (Communications
nera.iuj sit) 1i, ntiVGuuar Ill),
Moscow, Page 20
The volume of telegram traffic at the Minsk Telegraph Center increases
each year by approximately 10 percent. From 1949 to 1954 the volume in-
creased by 70 percent. The well-timed and high-quality handling of the
continually increasing telegraph traffic permitted automatization of
telegraph communications and more rational organization of the entire
process of handling telegrams.
It has already been reported in VesWsvsazi (No 1 for 1951 and
No 10 for 1954) how a complex brigade of rationalizers under the leader-
ship of Comrade Golovanevskiy designed an4 constructed in 1954 an
automatization attachment for the ST-35 (a tart-stop teletypewriter equip-
ment and how in the same year all the telegraph center's teletypewriters
were converted to this equipment, technological procedures in the
instrument, technical, and non-instrument services were improved, the
maintenance of records was simplified, and the organization of the work
of telegraph operators was improved.
In 1950 16 ST-35 teletypewriters at eight inter-city communications
centers were equipped with the automatization attachment, which in June
c(f that year permitted the automatized processing of 3.3 percent of the
total telegram traffic. In December of 1950 the volume of automatized
communications had already risen to 11.5 percent of the total traffic; in
1951 this figure was an average of 23 percent, and in 1954 it was 85.4
percent.
The average output of the telegraph operators was 280 wph in 1950,
345 in 1951, 420 in 1952, 595 in 1953.
Beginning with 1953 the Minsk telegraph center introduced the method
of automatized communications,. with the load for group e and even for
group 1 being transmitted and received by a single telegraph operator.
The mastery of this method by all the-telegraph operators permitted
bringing the average output for January 1950 up to 40 telegrams (970
words) per hour, while in individual cases this output was considerably
greater.
Year Percent of Percentage of
traffic automatized
increase communication
over 1949 in total traffic _
Output of
Cost of 1,000
Delay of
single worker
rubles of out-
telegrams
in basic
put (rubles)
in trans-
activity
mission(%)
(1,000 rubles)
1949
100.0
-
10.2
785
1.74
1950
113.5
4.9
11.4
713
2.04
1951
123.4
23.0
12.8
658
2.35
1952
142.9
35.1
15.3
550
1.98
1953
163.7
50.4
17.8
487
1.28
1954
170.5
85.4
19.5
473
0.79
Along with this, the working conditions of the telegraph operators
were substantially improved, the quality of the processing of telegrams
was increased and its costs was lowered. Message spoilage at transmission
in the first quarter of 1955 was lower than at the Riga and Tallin
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telegraph centers eomn'tiiig with out enterprise. It amounted to 0.16
percent of the totpi number of test telegrams as against 0.17 percent
in the first quarter of 1949. The rate of handling telegrams through
our unit has increased considerably. In 1952 within a 30-minute period
only 35 percent of the test telegrams passed through the unit, but in
1954 this figure was raised to 58 percent. The delay of telegrams
in transmission during this period was reduced by half, which can be
seen from the Foregoing table.
The rise in the productivity of labor outstripped the increase
in the load, which made it possible to release 120 persons from the
staff of :.tie telegraph canter. In 1955, due to an increase in the pro-
ductivity of labor and the introduction of a number of organizational
technical measures, 20 more persons were released. The yearly wages
of all the released workers amounts to more than a million rubles.
1"+utomatization of the transceiving of telegram:: gives rise to no
substantial increase in expenditures for operational materials. The
high cost of perforator tape is somewhat offset by savings in Other
materialu~ Thus, in the processing of 1,000 telegrams in 1955 it is
planned to spend on telegraph forms for manual processing 1.3 rubles 48
kopecks, fo: automr_tized processing 6 rubles; on starch gum 5 rubles
46 kopeck? and 50 kopeck:;, respectively; on elle pmnn~: r'ccrds 2 rubles
50 kopecks, but on perforator tape in automa,i.zed pre:;,;,tng 15 rubles
15 kopecks? in the manual processing of 1,000 tel. rams 20
rubles 94 kopecks one spent on basic operational materials, and in
automatized proc!ssir:;> 22 rubles 15 kopecks.
L. must ba pointed out that the Minsk telegraph center uses a
single control fona made from printing waste. The simple method of
fastening the pc rfc?rr_ted tape to the control form, with a single punch
(proposed by corrrsd-as Kotovaya and Misochenko, telegraph operators)
eliminates the possibility of losing the tape in the conveyer.
,1cpendi.ture5 on tschnical servicing of the automatic attachments
together with depreciation are also small, amounting to not more than
40,000 rubles per year. Due to the large savings in wages with such a
small increase in expenditures for technical. servicing, the cost of
production is substantially lowered. Thus, the cost of 1,000 rubles
of production in 1954 amounted to only 60 percent of the cost in 1949
and the savings resulting from this reduction exceeded 3.5 million
rubles. It must be said that the cost of production at our telegraph
center is considerably lower than at enterprises with manual processing
of telegrams. For example, the cost of processing a received telegram
at the Gortkiy telegraph center in 1954 amounted to 74.6 kopecks and
the planned cost for 1955 is 71.1 kopecks, while at the Minsk telegraph
center the corresponding figures are 58 and 52.2 kopecks.
The personnel of the telegraph center, not content with the achieved
results, are crnf ronting the task of full automatization of the processing
of telegrams, no reorganization and concentration of light-load communi-
catiors,equ.ipping an exchange for automatic transit (which will permit
a further increas; in the productivity ?f labor), reducing costs, increasing
the rate of handling of telegrams from ',e sender to the addressee,
and improving the quality of their proc ..'ng.