THE CENTRAL STATISTICAL DIRECTORATE OF THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040062-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLA SIFICAT Or . ;.rC1 ET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IfId'FORMATION RE -%"d&-;.m:,
1. A state Planning Commission was organized in 1921 under the direction of
Krzhizhanovskiy by cider of Lenin. The Central Directorate of Accounting
of the National Economy (TsUNKhU) of GosPlan,y USSR was a part of this
Commission. By a decree of the Soviet of Ministers dated 9 Jan 48, the
State Planning Commission was renamed the State Planning Committee
(Gosudarstvennyy Planovyy Komitet) and the TeUNIChU was renamed the
Central Statistical Directorate (Tsentral'noe Statisticheskoe Upravlenie-.
TsSU),
Oeiginally these agencies conducted their work from within their own
organizations. In 1928, however, they began to enlist the services of
representatives of peripheral organizations. At the present time peripheral
organizations of the State Planning Committee (GosPlan) exist localities of the USSR. Thus there is a representative l all
Astrakhan Obleot' who has under his jurisdionthe Oblast oPlanning the
Commission (ObPlan) located on Sovetskaya Ulitsa #15 and the Statistical
Directorate located on Ulitsa Chernyshevskogo #6. These local agencies
are subordinate to no one other than the State Planning Committee. On the
other hand, in questions of plannin and accounting, they have the right
to and are obliged to demand data and statistics from all organizations.
The TsSU prepares report forms and instructions thereto for the various
industries of the Soviet Union. These forms must be strictly adhered to
by all of the enterprises concerned. A table of forms which mist be
submitted by various enterprises to the TsSU is published as a guide for
Soviet production activities.
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT The Central Statistical Directorate of the USSR
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(a) The Department of Labor maintains the following files of labor statisticsa
(1) Records of the population classifier? by the physical ability of the
individual to worko
(2) Records on the special skills of the working population by categories,
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2. The following b