OPERATION OF A MACHINE TRACTOR STATION (MTS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050380-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2011
• Sequence Number: 380
• Publication Date: March 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Background
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tree e e er a on the 32 olkhozy which J under its administra-
tion. Before the planting of these shelterbelts was started, a major
percentage of crop yields were lost due to the devastating southeast
winds which begin about the first of June and blow continuously day
and night for three or four weeks. As a result the ground would become
coogaletely dried out to a depth of 20 cm, causing it to crack open,
thereby exposiad the roots to the air and killing the crop. Tree
shelterbelts were planted in rows 20 meters wide running north and south
and 10 meters wide running east and vest. The distance between rows would
average two and one half kilometers east and vast and five kilometers
north and south. The rows were graduated so that you had low bushes
(usually acacia) at the outer edge, than small trees (usually poplar),
and in the center tall trees (usually oak), then the poplar again and
lastly the acacia bushes.
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Location and Function
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area MTSf was located five ks north Vosneeenek Ukraine, and covered an
all farm machinery used on the. 32 kolkhozy under its 4urisdicti
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repairs to farm machinery were made on the individual kolkhozy during the
summer season,
summer but in the fall every piece of equipment was brought to the
MTS for complete
overhaul.
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3. The MTS maintained eei'vi:.e' on
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large tarp,ll manufactured by ljabias ctory
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andthe balance were of the spiked wheel Kharkov Tractor Factory 3 .uforkuwa the (~ ~ In addition, rep air work was
done on plows, combines and other farm machinery. The ws,had or QAZ (Gorki, Automobile use about 30 4. 'Manufactured ory)e half and 1 ton on trucks which
trucks were
manufastured by o five-ton ZIS (Stalin Factory) in Gorki,.. In addition, each kolkhoz
had its'
own trucks.
5? The 1Q'S automobiles,. one for the director and one for the chief
agronomishtdand two the updrvisors
political worker. Others had only horses and
small carts, about 10 horses being maintained; fq;V,~t ;purpose. There appeared
to be an unlisr,ted&supply of tools and equipment.
Personnel
6. The MS employed about 600 Ukrainians. all of whom lived in Vosnssensk. They
worked on a year 'round basin, eight hours a-day, six days a'week. No
transportation wee provided for the workers and they either walked or rods
bicycles over a narrow dirt road which, during the rainy season, was a
sea of deep mud.
Or cation
7. indicated on the organizational chart (see sketch I),