VETERINARY MEDICAL DATA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 469
• Publication Date: September 18, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTR~ INTELLIG~NGt AGENCY
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SUBJECT Veterinary Medical Data
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a. The more important and authoritative body of veterinarians is, of course,
located, within the Narodni IComissariat Zemlyedyel (Itinistry of Agriculture,
referred to as I~tarkomzem). Narkomzem, 24oscow, assigns a chief veterinarian
to each of the republics. Veterinary inspectors of 27arkomaem are dispatched
throughout the republics, ablasts and raycns. each oblaat and rayon is
assigned a veterinary. The district veterinaries are provided with mare
?facilities and in most cases each rayon has a Yeterinnrnsys Itiyechebnitza
(Veterinary Hospital). The rayons are divided into uchxstka (smaller 7.and
areas) which do not rate a doctor of veterinary medicine, but are assigned
feldschers.
b. Narkom Sor-klxoz (ISinistry of Sovkhazes) has its aywn vuteriaariar.~ which it
assigns to the Swkhozes throughout the iSJ'ii.
c. Yarkom 2;yesnoye Proryyahlyenost (N.inistry a? Meat InBustry) assigns its own
veterinarians to slaughter houses where they serve as meat inspectors.
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b. In disease control. in the iSS$y certainly in ;qy regioa, there were two
parallel groups involved:
. (1) ZootEKaicbiskaya Rabota (Animal~Husbandry) was responaikrle for food,.
plsnning for livestock, for animal huabandrgj and for available statistics
on the number of eaimals expected to be born. It was also responsible for
aufficien~. stables ahd'corrai.a iar Lhe i3rasTOCa.
d. The forces of the Red'Army and the i~RVD have their own veterinary departments.
e. In addition to the above, the I.linistrv of Transport aasi.gna its own voterin-
eriana to :najar shipping junctions within the USSR. Whenever livestock is
transported from one sector of the US:R to another' a livestock inspection i?a !
held and a bill of health issued by the Diatriot Veterinarian. However a
subsequent eammination of the livestock is made at the junctions by the
i3iniatry of Transport veterinarians.
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e. At oblast hendquarters, there were approximately 30 DVMs in 1946. He,adquartera
used to assinr. them to positions in the field.
b. The University of Samar?akand had a faculty of 15 professors, all doctasa oS
veterinary medicine, whore primary concern r~:ts teaching, but they did some
research.
c.. The IJauchno.Sledstvermy Institut (the Scientific Research Institute) employed
10 llVi?is who devoted their entire time to research in infectious animal diseases.
4? i ~~giSiRl 7nraim4_ry:
a. The oblast and Iiarkomzem had a large district veterinary diagnostic laboratory
at :iatta Kurgsn, Uzbek, USSR.
b. There was another diagnostic laboratory at Harshi. TA3a laboratory prepared
e serum SZHYK - Sivorota Zerobyk Kobyl, a serum taken from pregnant mares.
This sRn.un was used in accordance with the method of Zavodovaki to produce
multiple birth in karakul sheep.
c. All drugs and instruments required for veterinary use in the Samarakand Oblast
were provided by a district supply horse, referred to as Rayoniy Snabzhezi,7e,
5. sr?var~Tent Digease Gontrol ~2;o.;,r,{~:
a. The nnyoniy Vrnch, who was responsible for control of infectious diseases ir.
his district, would rake a yearly plan for such control. Upon aompletion.,gf
his plan he would submit i't to the oblast where the plan was to be exami.~iod.
The oblast would either iaprove upon this plan or send its own with recaua-
25X1 mendations to 27arkoazem. In the event that the representative of i+farkomzem
in the republic could not p?-ree upon control :zeasuress he would subai:t?his
elan for disease control to the iiarkauze~n~ USSR.. When the pan was final7~
received i~om headquarters, ,oscow~ the Rayoniy Vrach took altoh measures as
follow:
(1} ~ checked X11 of i;he ghesF,. within the rayon .for h~rucellosis. 'T.o :sake
the test far brucellosis,. we lutradermally injected brutzeilizat, a biological
product with which we could detect this infectious disease,.
(2~instructed to i.napeot 6I]. the hamsea in the:district for gLanderc:.
(3 accinated for anthrax. The serum?~u;ed for anthrax was the sane
as that used in the US.
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(d) '~inenever an in_feciio?.k disease :ties F~videnCed ~xnEdiately
notified the :3ach.al.niY. of lirsshi (manager or mayor Fits response t~
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veteri.~arian for:F u~~:. o strop;; Co.nwnist. ::e may havo b
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consiciesed a good veterinarian '.:-.cause he was a good Comtnu.~.iat.
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t ?~. The cenaral level cf co?iprtence is a difi'ioult factor to evaluate,. but
(2) , :issi~_nments which iricludeci the need for. vet9r3na~~;~ science were hapoled
by the Rayoniy Vrach, who was expected to maintain disease control. He was
resnosi:ble not c+n1Y for the liv?stock, lout for whatever ,birds and fowls
were found on the koikhoze=
(a) 7kienever an ani,-nal died an autopsy had to be performed before the,
animal. could oe removed. It was compulsory for n veterinarian to issue
a. certificate concernin? the details of death of the animal.
(b) In practise, the issuance oi' death certificates by veterinarians
was based on autops? results or findinns but in most oases this was
'ff alt
~ ce a ruse or ai opsies lu sac case . es a ve erirtar ~ par n. y
responsible fcr losses of arii.~:a].s, he does not always submit true findir~s
when diaonosin~ a particular disease. 'Po preclude the possibility of being;
persoua:ly iaplicated aid char~ew with sabotage the veterinary slAnts
his diaf~nosis and firdins thereby hopin;; to prevent action against himself
or others who .aibht be accused,
(c) Incidentally, if an ania~l died of injury, negligence or ;malnutrition,
.someone at tho kol~hoz had tc :iaite restitution (as an exampley,a Khovkhoz
cow is priced by the state a,u; +iot the i:hovkhoz). If in the veterinarian's
conclusions aster diaanocis, ~, cow has died of az?W of the aforementioned
reasons, the kolkhoznik ( Y.olkhoz worker} has to pay its value in :popsy
i~ o~iseases a:aon~ a:z;,u~1.:-~
of the Coanunist Party of tt:c ro.,roa.
a. The iiarroniy Veterinary of Iiatt,a Kurgan, was considered one .of the. best in
applicaiipn of this traiaino, ho:.orer, was not good, t?r Salaaov bein,; a perfect
e:~.m,i e. It :oust lie reae:abered :.hat ;n Centre]. Asia the literacy 7.eve1 was
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