ADMINISTRATION OF KOLKHOZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600010117-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 117
• Publication Date: November 25, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Administration of Kolkhoz
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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.the Tmeni Chapayeva Kolkhoz)
employed over 500
workers-.about 125 men, most of them youths of 15-19 and men
nr?I ~`r5 women. 15-65 in age, There were few male
kolkhoz workers in the 20-50 aide group : those of the 20-50
group were in the Army; and there were few in the 30-40
group because so many died in the war, Also, men of the
25-50 age group preferred to work in factories rather than on
kolkhozes.
2. The Kolkhoz Directorate (Upravleniye Kolkhoza) consisted of
seven persons:
(a) Chief of Directorate (my position)
(b) A veterinarian called Zaveduyushchii Kozyaistva (manager
of livestock)
(c) An agronomist
(d) Prlevod (manager of fields)
(e) An engineer in charge of the machinery
(f) A mechanic in charge of equipment repair
(g) Deputy to the k olkhoz chief (this post was held by. a
woman)
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There was also an office force of three: a bookkeeper, an
assistant bookkeeper and a secretary. Nine men or women,
all employed in leading positions in the kolkhoz (as fore-
men, section managers, mill managers, etc) formed the nine-
member Partorg (political committee).
4. The Directorate and the Partorg are elected by the employees
of the kol;thoz. Actually the Ukrainian Central Committee of
the Party is given a list of reliable political workers by
the Oblast Party Commictee, which it in turn has received
from the Raion Party Committee. The seven candidates necessary
are approved by the Ukrainian Central Committee of the
Communist Party and the workers elect them unanimously."
are for
employees responsible
elected
members The nine political indoctrination Poftall~ kowho lkhoz are
in the same way.
5. The chairman (directorate chief) of a 1t.olkhoz earns about
480 rubles per month, and about 1000 work days pryo
(86 work days per month). A "work day" is the product of
the total output and earnings of the entire 1colkhoz split
up among the directorate and workers according to the 1000
of productivity or position of the individual.
work days annuall of about 7000 rubles, 500 kg o sugar,
3 tons of flour, an a truckload of vegetables and fruits.
annual earnings totaled about 25 thousand rubles.
6. Partorg members received 45 work days per month above their
regular earnings as foremen, managers, etc. The 500 employees
were given 1-2 work days per day, according to their efforts
and accomplishments.
7. The kolkhoz had 1100 hectares of grain land; 30 heetarres of
orchards (apples, pears, plums); two fish ponds .o g
40 hectares in size (the fish was canned and sold by the
,:..lkhoz); a ve etable Barden (cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers)
50 hectares in size; about 5000 fowl (geese, turkeys,
chickens, ducks); 800 swine; 60 cows; 5OR o25 xen ki1rwfiefield
dower
work; 80 horses; 110 beehives; a dairy;
plant; and a steam powered mill.
8. In 1948 one hectare of the t,.olkhoz land produced 161 centners
(one centner equals 50 kg) of grain and in 1949 one hectare
of land produced 20 centners of grain.
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