COMMENTS ON A TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE APPEARING IN IZVESTIVA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040526-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 526
• Publication Date: September 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRE~
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Comments on a iYansportation Article Appearing
in Izvestiya
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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DATE DISTRaT September 53
NO. OF PAGES a,
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The 4 Jun 53 issue of Iz `eta cerriss an article entitled 'AUtilization of
Small Rivers" This article states that the Chief Directorate for the Transport
Utilization of Small Rivers in the RSFSR Ministry of Highway Transport unites
47 oblast directorates (The BSFSR contains 47 oblasts and six x ai) which
oar ice 25 thousand kilometers of water routes on small rivers. Annually,
8 million tons of various cargoes and several million passangere are transported
on these rivers. For.1953 it is planned to render navigable an additional
thousand kilometers of water routes in the Tomsk, Tyumen, Omsk, Kemerovo, and
Leningrad oblasts as well as in the Altai Krai.
2. In 1953, the first use is being mad:_, by the Chief Directorate, of cranes for
uprooting trees and small suction dredges which can be placed on trucks and
easily hauled. This machinery will help maintain navigable conditions on small
rivers.
3. The Krasnoyarsk and Kashira shipbuilding docks have organized mass nroduetion
of shallow-draft cutters designed by Mikhail Dmitriyevich Xhrennik. Each of
these docks is capable of producing 12-15 such cutters annually. Engineer
Kbrennikov, assisted by builder Potvl tsjn and Chief of the Technical Control
Division. Yitk ovki-, (all of the Krasnoyarsk Shipbuilding Dock) built a special
shallow-draft cutter with a water-jet-type motor in the summer of 1952. The
cutter is about 12 meters long, 2.5-2.8 in breadth, draws 35 centimeters and
attains a speed of 15-17 kilometers an hour. The cutterts bottom is like a
sleigh with broad runners. These cutters are very maneuverable. being able to
eoxeaute turns-where it would be impossible for ordinary propellor-type cutters
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to do so. The propelling mechanism of the cutter is placed within the hull,
while the steering apparatus is on the surface of the water. The vessel is
propelled by a powerful stream of water ejected astern. This stream of water
can be utilized ts. free another vessel from a sand bank by washing out the
bottom from under it. Water in the cutter proceeds through a conduit to a
pump from whence it goes through the steering apparatus and is hurled out with
great force through a pressure pipe. The cutter has been give the trademark
"MBKKh" (Melkosidyashchiy Buksirnyy Kater Khrenrikova - "Khrennikov Shallow-
draft Tug Cutter"). In rivers where timber is floated downstream, the cutter
can travel on the logs,, while in fishing beds it can go along the surface
without snagging the tops of the nets.
The article further states that along with rendering the rivers navigable,
the Chief Directorate is also constructing the Raesypukhinskiy, Mo_shanskiy
and Gorellskiy hydroelectric centers. As a result it will be possible to go
from Tambov to the Oka River using an all-river routs.
before the Government Decree an the reorganization of the
ministries, ere axictod an crgaisat.iy attae hod to the ndSFSR Co ncil of
lanisters called "Glavrechtrana" ((ChiefDire!ttorate for the Transport Utilization
of Small Rivers). Additionally, there was a Chief Highway Directorate attached
to the R.FSR Council of Ministers and the RSFSR Ministry of Auto Transport.
6. This article and others which have appeared in the Soviet press make it possible
to conclude that ministries and chief directorates in union republics were also
reorganized as a result of the new law reorganizing ministries of the USSR. For
example the three organizations mentioned above have been united into the one
RSFSR Ministry of Highway transport which includes
(a)
(b)
(c)
Chief Directorate for the Transport Utilization of S'nsll B!vers;
The Chief Highway Directorate;
The Chief Directorate for Automotive Transport.