DOSARM ORGANIZES PVO AND PVKHO TRAINING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2011
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• Publication Date: February 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET C,FPDI[ 9
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
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PVO (Antiaircraft Defense) training is one of the principle functions
of DOSARM (All-Units Volaateer Society for Cooperation with the Army), accord-
ing to its recently adopted charter. The DOSARM All-Union Council, at its
first session it August-September 1949, stressed the importance of PVO train-
ing and directed that all DOSARM organizations take measures to improve mass
PVO activities among the population. (1) The Central Committee of DOSARM
USC, during the 10 December 1949 regular cession, approved the 1950 plan
for mass development of PVO training in DOSARM organizations (2).
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PVO study groups in all DOSARM organizations. Each primary organization 13
directed to set up a PVO study group which will meet PVO eta,,dards and tc
hold regular training practice and competitions.
The plan calls for the enlistment of tens of thousands of PVO instructors.
At present only half of the instructors enlisted last year are continuing their
work in DOSARM PVO training. This means that local committees are not bring-
I% in instructors trained under Osoaviakhia and that the training of new In-
structors is inadequate.
Study groups, PVO teams, and self-defense groups are composed chiefly of
women. Women who were trained previously as commanders of PVO groups and
detachment commanders and, especially, those who were in self-defense groups
which participated in actual combat during World War II are to be utilized as
PVO instructors.
PVO sections are to be revived in all DOSARM rayon and city committees.
They will work in close collaboration with local PVO organizations and apart-
ment-house management administrations (administratsiya domovogo khozyaystva).
The practical experience of DOSARM primary organizations in Moscow, Lenin-
grad, Ivanovo, and the Tatar ASSR has shown the possibility of training
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demobilized army officers, doctors, and instructors to train DOSARM PVO in-
structors. (1)
General-polkovnik V. I. Kuznetsov, chairman of the Central Committee of
DOSARM USSR, pointed out in August 1949 that there had been a marked develop-
ment of PVO within the society (3). The Moldavian SSR DOSARM has formed
groups to train Voroshilov marksmen and to study automatic weapons and i?\Mo
(Antiaircraft and Chemical Defense) (4). Fifteen-day courses were held in
Yerevan to train leaders of self-defense groups. The trainees came from in-
DOSARItiI Organization Bureau and of staff workers of the Yerevan MPVO (Local
Antiaircraft Defense) conducted examinations. The w, jority of trainees were
aids with its own funds for PVO training. (6)
r,~s !xsef ,tic-re competitions showed ti.t c?rganizntiona in which membea3 red
lerly studied in PVO study groups, met PVO standards, and increased their
experience provided hundreds of well trained teams at PVO competitions. ,his
was true especially in the case of organizations in the Tatar ASSR, Moscow
and Leningrad, and Gor?kiy Oblast. Conversely, large organizations in Sverdlovsk,
Kuybyshev, and Stalingrad oblasts sent less than 50 teams to the PVO competi-
tiore. The PVO team from the DOSARM primary organization at the Mint in
Petrcgradskiy Rayon, Leningrad, prepared extensively fox the competitions.
As a result, this team was in full combat readiness and well equipped and took
first place in the competitions. (1)
The Central committee of DOSARM USSR announced on 10 December 19119 that
the next PVO competitions will be held in April-May 1950 (2).
1. Voyennyye Znaniya, Vol XXV, No 10, Oct 49
2. Patriot Rodiny, 11 Dec 49
3. Patr'ot Rodiny, 4 Sep 49
4. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 10 Sep 48
5. Koumunist, 22 Oct 48
6. Voyennyye Zmaniya, Vol XXV, No 12, Dec 49
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