FAR EASTERN SAKHALIN AND KAMCHATKA-CHUKCHI STATE STEAMSHIP COMPANIES

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• Publication Date: April 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEL-LIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SEOBET
SECURITY INFORMATION
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
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
COUNTRY USSR (Par Bast)
SUBJECT Far Eastern, Sakhalin, and Kamchatka-
Dhukobi.Stwte Steamship Companies
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DATE DISTR. 2 April 1953
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Far Eastern State Steamshiv Comnan
1. The Far Eastern State Steamship Company (Dalnevostochnoye Qosudarstvennoye Morskoye
Parokhodstvo - DAMP) was subordinate to the Ministry of the- Merch t Peet (NNS)
through the Chief Directorate of the Par Eastern Fleet This was 25X1
the largest steamship company of the Ministry of the Merchant Flee The company's
administration was in Vladivostok. The director of the Par Eastern Steamship
Company was General Director MP Third Class Syrykh (fnu) (formerly director of the
UOO1iP and Sovtanker).
2. The historical background of the Par Eastern Steamship Company is similar to that
of the other MMF steamship companies which were nationalized in Pebruary of 1918
and went through several reorganizations before 1946.
3. The DGMP maintained freight and passenger transport lines among various ports of
the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and Sea of Japan. From time to time ships of this
company made 'tripe to foreign ports, mainly to San Prancisco. However, since USSR
trade relations with the Western Hemisphere have been severed, these transport lines
have lost much of their importance.
4. The main cargoes transported by DGMP were as follows: coal from Buchan region (east
of Vladivostok) and Uglegorsk region (on Sakhalin mainly to Sovetskaya Gavan 48-58,
3140-18 and Nikolayevek as Amore; POL products and cruide oil from Sakhalin; amber,
machinery, and equipment, mainly to Magadan L69-34, E150-4q; processed metals mainl
to Magadan; and grain, foodstuffs, fish, etc, from Vladivostok to all the other ports'l
In addition to freight, the DGMP was very active in passenger transport, carrying
large contingents of slave labor from one Par Eastern port to another.
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The DGMP 1951 transport plate called for transport of 10 million toss
of freight. this plan was fulfilled. 25X1
Organization of the I G P ad-ministration was- vei similar to that of
the Baltic State Steamship Company However, the T/4 of 25X1
the DGMP rs administration ,was much larger and amounted to approximately
600-700 people. The DGMP's newspaper was called Tikhookeaas ,,y
Xo!ZjA and the distribution was approa abtely four ousan d eopiee.
The DGVP ' fleet was composed. of ai 'ip34,X1 tONTY 250 ft-sills.
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ships constituted about 7' Per cent of this fleet and diesel ships
most of the remainder. the following ships belonging to 25X1
DOMlt
(a) Steamships: -Aaa BNTI9_. k" IG 7 , XWR . TT T T,s T ''~Kldt a T', ''ING
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(1) Diesel ships: 3,IQH. 'SMOL 'Y
Amer, '. ,
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(c) Tankers p sTAL ,u%I o
X4,114024286 and repair,of DOMP vessels was done at evostoobwyy
Zavot in Vladivostok, a yard belonging to OlavMorProm; at Zavod #1
in a so% etskaya Oavan , a yard belonging to GlavMasbProay and at ship
repair shops of the DGMP in Vladivostok.
.SakY -a13n State~Steamshim Qommm~v
9. to 1946 some ships were taken from the DOMP,,,and the Sakhalin State
Steamship Company (Sakhalinskoye Galadarstvennoye Parokhodstvo here
called SQP) was organised hi an independent steamship **"any
subordinate to the Ministry of the Mer h t e. eat brough the Chief
Directorate of the Par Eastern Fleet The company's 25X1
administration was in Kholmsk on the eland of 3iakkalia, From 1950
the diroet r of the SOP was General Director NP 1hire class (tam
Eorobtsov (formed director of the Baltic Steamship Company,
Northern Mar time Steamship Company, and Par Eastern State steam-
ship Company).
10, Main cargoes transported by SOP were as followst tuber, coal, POO
products, cr-de oil, machinery and eq eat, oonstruetiea materials,
rocessed metals, and foodstuffs, The V, S transport plow called
!'or transport or two million, tons of cargo,
ll. 0101, or m Soh administration was similar to that of
'lot at on a smaller seals. The company's newspaper 25X1
was o led- as
SS. The sop maintained freight 404 Pass eennggeer dimes between various ports
on Sakhalin, Sea of Okhotsk a Vladtwa~stek. The SOP fleet was
oe o~ ? s! s
Maintenance and repair of sop vessels was done a Dai - 25X1
nevostoehn: ,n Isivod in Vladivostok cad the company's ship repair shops
is ~Chola.k,
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Kamchatka-Chukchi State Steamship Company
13. The Kamchatka-Chukchi State Steamship Company (Kamchatsko-
Chukskoye Gosudarstvennoye Parokhodstvo - KChGP) was organized
probably in 1951. The company's administration was in
Petropavlovsk na Kamehatke. Director of KChGP was General Director
NF 'third Q lass : Matyushev (formerly director of KaspYflot, Soviet
Danubian State Steamship Company, and Sakhalin State Steamship
Company).
14. Creation. of KChGP game about- because' of postwar developments, namely
the. Incorporation of E ri1 ,, Ostrova and Southern Sakhalin into
the' USSR, and the wish of the Soviet Gover ent . to give these areas,
:for propaganda reasons, their own regional organism ions
15. 'The EahOP- intained freight and passe rger ines betty. a Sakhalin,
Kuril s - Ostrova., Chukotskiy Peninsula L' of Alask, f, and
Vladivostok. The annual freight transport of this -company may
amount to approxiMately 1.5 million tons.
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