DELEGATION OF DUTIES BETWEEN A MINISTER AND HIS DEPUTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050078-1
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: December 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR I DATE DISTR. 16 Dec 1953
SUBJECT Delegation of Duties Between a Minister and NO. OF PAGES 2
His Deputies
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFORMATION
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELDYJ)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Fvery ministry is headed by a minister and deputies are ass?.gned to assist him,
Since every ministry in the Soviet Union embraces a large and varied circle of
activities with individual components scattered over enormous distances, the
ministers themselves do not supervise all the activities of the ministry, but
delegate some of their duties to deputies according to their various fields of
activity. This means that each deputy minister is assigned those areas of work
which are related to one another. As a consequence, the managers of definite
areas within he ministry resolve all problems in conjunction with that particular
deputy to whom the given area of activity is subordinated. Problems can be taken
up with the minister after coordinating with the appropriate deputy minister.
The minister is still charged with general supervision and responsibility for all
branches of activity and he may interfere in any of the activities of any of his
deputies. The minister is the sole supervisor of all branches contained within
his ministry. Inso.`r.r as possible, deputy ministers are appointed from among
specialists in the given field, for example, technical, exploitation, eta.
2. Each major ministry usually has five deputy ministers. The following is the nornal
pattern of delegation of duties between the ;minister and his delrutiea.
(a) Minister - general supervision.
(b) Deputy Minister for General Problems. He usually is in charge of central
directorates and auxiliary departments which are not concerned with exploitation.
?*ft as the planning-economic department, the labor and salaries dwpertt nt. the
o~+.niroial department, accounts, the finance directorate, etc.
(c) Deputy Minister in charge of the industrial, technical, construction branches
of the ministry (akin to the chief engineer).
(d) Deputy Minister in charge of personnel and the organization of training.
(e) Deputy Minister (usually two and sometimes more) in charge of the fundamental
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activity Of the ministry ( ' exploitation in the transport ministries,
extraction of minerals in-the miiningministries).
3? In
betwthe een former
Marine functions were divided an follows
e ministry rand of,the 1%rchant his deputieent
(a) Minister of the Merchant Marine - Nov
ikov
General supervision over the Ministry's production and finance activities.
(b) Deputy Minister of the Merchant Marine - Ba ev (General Problems)
Central Directorate of the Sea Register,
Central Department for Militarized Guard,
Planning-Economic Department
Department of Labor and tTages,
Central Accounting,
Foreign Currency -Finance Directorate,
Secret Coding Department,
Central Directorate for Marine Technical Supplies Glavaortekhsnab,
e for Communications and Radio Navigation,
Centr JlaDirectorats
Publishing House for"Morskoy,Transport",
Printing Office for "Morisdat",
Printing Office for the Ministry,
Commercial Department,
Juridical Department,
Department of Freight Movements,
Chief Directorate for Seaways - Glavmorput',
Office Directorate,
Admnietration-Fro:ertz.^s Department.
(a) Deputy Minister of the Mierchant Marine - Men'shikov
Chief Directorate for Marine Industry - Glavmorpz?om,
Chief Directorate for Machine Construction Industry - Glavmashprom,
Central Technical Directorate - TeTU,
Department for the Development and Reconstruction of Ports,
Chief Directorate for Marine Construction - Glavaorstroy
Department of Capital Construction - OKS
(d) Deputy Minister of the Merchant Marine-Bakye
Chief Directorate for Far Eastern Fleet and Ports - Glavdalfflot,
Chief Directorate for the Northrest Fleet and Ports - Glaveevzapflot.
(e) Deputy Minister of the % erchant Marine - Savinov
Chief Directorato for the Southern Fleet and Ports - Glavyuzhflot,
Chief Directorate for the Tanker Fleet - Glevnefteflot.
( ) Deputy Minister of the -:o,chant Marine - Khayurov
Chief Personnel Directorate,
Chief Directorate for Educational Institutions - GUUZ,
Military-Lobilizatioa Department - '1I10
4. In accordance with this delegation of duties, the manager of each department or chief
directorate was supposed to decide all questions with the particular deputy sinister
to whoa the department or chief directorate was subordinate. It was possible to
decide questions with the Minister either by coordinating with the appropriate deputy
sinister or on demand of the Minister himself. Particularly important questions and
questions of ;allay are not decided independently by the i
deputy mtzzster. Such
problems are decided either by the Minister personally or else are brought to the
attention of the Min late. .+v e_dtrci ~a ?K
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