CENTRAL DIRECTORATE OF THE NORTHERN BASINS - MRF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000100560005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
SUBJECT
USSR
Central Directorate of the Northern
Basins - MRF
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an un.uthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
30 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Central Directorate of Northern Basins (Tsentralrioye, Upravleniye Severnykh
Basseynov) was 'a central directorate (TsUpr) of the Ministry of the River Fleet
subordinate to the MRF minister through his third deputy minister. There were 50 to
60 people working in this directorate; of this number 30 were engineers. The dir-
ectorate was in charge of the organization of river transport in the USSR northern
regions and was composed of six steamship companies, as follows;
a. The Northern Steamship CompaFiy (Severnyye Parokhodstvo), whose central directorate
was in. Arkhangelsk, operated on the Severnaya Dvina River from Kotlas to Arkhangelsk.
The company's transport capacity was 4,000,000 - 5,000,000 tons per navigation year
(May - November). The main cargo of this company consisted of timber transported to
Arkhangelsk.. The transport fleet comprised 120 self-propelled ships and 40 barges,
The self-propelled ships were mostly tugboats of the old,,. wheel type, equipped with
steam engines which used wood as-fuel. The barges were of wooden-hulled construction
,end had a capacity of 1,500 to 3,000 tons; The company's ship repair installations
were located :in Arkhangelsk; the 1951 quota of these installations required production
equal to 40,000,000 rubles.
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to Nar' yon Mar ( formerly the capital .,of tae Saffi?yed -Republie,
Which is press tly called emzy instead of Samoyed
y.) The
transport capacity of this company was 2,500,000-3,000,00 tone
per navigational; year. Cargoes consisted mainly of coal,
timber, furs, slave . labor, food products, and-. ens r' goods
The fleet comprised 50 :self-propelled, ship's and 60 ba -g s..
These self-propelled ships were mainly propeller-type, stem
eng ,ned tugs, which :;used wood as fuel Ship repair- facilities
wer'e'. located in :Nar'yan Afar, Ust'tUnya, and
Xlhari a. they were
as gned a 1951 prodnetion. quotas equivalent to 20,000,000 ruble
The Mbo$a : $teaa h p 0 , any (P@ehorskoye Ptrok edst a)
aperate:d on the Peeh?ra iver and'. its tributaries fromi IIst-"gaya
ale3el ,an steam.. enginea, the lat.ter.Using wm?daa lei
Ship repair facilities for. this company were located in
Povemete and Belommo'rek;their 1951 production equaled
5,?QOQ, 0@Q rm'bl.ee
Self-propelled ships were generally propeller=type, tt~ge with
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