ORGANIZATION OF SOVIET STATE MINING INSPECTION

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• Document Release Date: October 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 219
• Publication Date: December 1, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENT ~I DEN~'!AL
SECURITY INF0 N
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY
USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION
1947
SUBJECT
HOW
Political - Administrative
DATE DIST.
I Ds-1951
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
Collection of USSR government decrees
Moscow NO. OF PAGES
2
DATE
PUBLISHED
13 Nov 1947
LANGUAGE
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REPORT NO.
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Sobrani a Postanovlenly I Rasporyazheniy Soveta Ministrov SSSR, No 9,
Item 1Io 15 , 1 ' .
The Main Administration of State Mining Inspection under the Council of
Ministers USSR was formed on 17 October l947 by decree of the Council of Ministers
USSR. The purpose of the State Mining Inspection was to be the conseroati,n of
mineral resources, control over proper exploitation of mineral deposits, and
guarding against wastefulness and lo.se6 in mining. The new administration was
authorized to supervise accounting of mining operations and the distribution of
reserves of mineral resources; to issue permits for working mineral deposits; to
confirm zones for.the constructioh of buildings and installations on the areas
of mineral deposits, and to Issue permits for this purpose; to supervise the
proper performance of geological prospecting operations and mine surveying; and
to supervise mineral raw-material bases of existing mining enterprises, as well
as mining enterprises under construction and planned for construction.
The Main Administration of State Mining Inspection has the right to impose
fines on or remove from office persons who are-responsible for improper conduct
of mining or prospecting operations, and to hold criminally responsible, through
investigative crCans, persons guilty of malicious violations of work rules,
thereby causing material losses to the government.
The individual ministries conducting mining operations retain the control
of safety techniques in mining.
The following officers of the Main Administration of State Mining Inspection
were appointed on 17 October 19117. K. K. Kartashev, chief; F. S. Popovin and
A. A. Sergeyev, de ut chiefs:
The chief of the State Mining inspection must submit regular reports to
the Chairman or First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers USSR concerning
violet''-.)ns of work rules in mining and geological prospecting operations of enter-
prises, departments, or ministries.
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The chief of the State Mining Inspection must work in close contact with the
Ministry of Geology. He is allowed to receive from the Ministry of Geology
materials on geological prospecting which are necessary in carrying Qut the work
of the State Mining Inspection.
The function of the State Mining Inspection includes the formation of min-
ing okrugs.and corresponding mining rayons.
The personnel of the Slate Mining Inspection include highly skilled mining
experts, technical mining inspectors, and geological prospecting specialists,
recruited from personnel lists submitted by various ministries'. At the time
the State Mining Inspection was formed, these ministries included the Ministry
of Coal Industry of the Eastern Regions, Ministry of Coal Industry of the Wedt-
ern Regione Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy, Ministry of Nonferrous Metallurgy,
Ministry of Petroleum Industry of the Eastern Regions, Ministry of Petroleum In-
dustry of the Southern and Western Regions, Ministry of Chemical Industry, Minis-.
try of Construction Materials Industry USSR, and Ministry of Geology.
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