KRASNOVODSK PORT ORGANIZATION

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• Publication Date: May 11, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
DATE OF INFO.
USSR
Krasnovodsk Port Orga.nization
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DATE DISTR. 11 May 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The Caspian pea port of Krasnovodsk (N E 53-00), situated at the
southeast edge of town, had its administrative building located in the
southern part of the port. Krasnovodsk Port was constructed at the end of
the last century. In 1917 the port was nationalized and subordinated to the e
CaspiareSteamship Company (Kaspar). In 1923 the port administration was
reorganized and the port subordinated to the Chief Directorate of the Southern
Fleet (GlaffuzhFlot) of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet.
2. Kraanovodsk Port was composed of two sectors:
a. Sector. I, which was located in the eastern part of the port, close to
the railroad station, had. six or seven piers with landings numbered
from 1 to 12. This sector was mainly used for loading and. unloading
raw cotton and grain.
b. Sector II, located in the southwest part of the port, included 12
landings, numbered from 13 to 21I, This sector was used for loading and
unloading timber, lumber, food, drinking water, and for passenger traffic.
The organiiation of Krasnovodsk Port followed the standard pattern for almost
all Savlei nlitritime ports. The administrative personnel of KrasnovodSk Port
were the port commander (nachalnilk norta),Captain 1st Rank KF Aram
FIARTIROSOV (until 1948 port commander of Baku), and his assistants, the chief
port engineer and the chief of the port Operation Section. The Krasnovodsk
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Port T/0 is as follow?,
a. Directly under the port commander were the following
sections:
(1)
(2)
(3)
Office of the Port Commander, which comprised
the commander, a legal advisor, a technician,
and two secretaries..
Planning Section (five employees) - one chief,
one senior engineer, one engineer, and two
economists.
Labor and Wage Section (seven employees)- one
chief, One senior engineer, two engineers,,and
three technicians.
(4) Accounting Offiee (11 employees), one chief
acctiuntant, one deputy, three senior accountants,
four acdountantsand two bookkeepers.
Finance Section (four employees) - one chief,
one senibr economist, and two cashiers. .
(6) Personnel Section (nine employees) - one chief,
three senior.inspectors, fOur:inspectors and
one secretary. ?
(5)
(7)
Mobilization Section (three employees) - one chief,
one senior inspector, and one inspector.
(8) Secret Document and Cipher Section (seven employees)
- one chief, three senior inspectors, three
inspectors.
(9) Billeting Section (approximately 35 employees)
one chief, one engineer, one bookeeper, one
cashier, two housekeepers, two billeting clerks,
approximately 25 workers, and three to six cleaning
maintenance laborers.
(10) Administrative Section (10 employees) -one chief,
one executive, One clerk, two typists, two clean-
ing women, one archive clerk, one messenger, and
one driver.
(1.1) Technical Supply Section (15 employees) -one chief,
one executive, one senior technical inspector, two
technical inspectors, two buyers, three senior ware-
house managers, three warehouse managers, one senior
accountant, and one accountant.
b. Indirectly subordinate to the port commander, and directly
under the Chief Engineer, were the succeeding sections:
(1) Maritime Engineering Section (Mekhaniko-Sudovoy
Otdel)(eight employees) - one chief, two senior
engineers, two engineers, and three technicians.
(2) Loading and Unloading Equipment Section (Otdel
Mekha-Nizatsii) (11 employees) - one chief, two
senior engineers, four engineers, and four tech-
nicians.
(3)
Construction Section (Otdel Kapital.!npgo
Stroitel'stva)(three employee) - one chief, one.
senior engineer, and one engineer.
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BatIdi;gMainteuance Section (approximately 65 em-
ployee) - one ehief, two engineer constructors,
one warehouse re,cager, one warehouse receptionist,
one agent-buyer, oee technician, and50-60 construc-
tion workers.
a. Also indirectly subordinate to the port commander, and
directly under the if of port operation, were the fol-
lowing sections:
(1) Operations Section (15 employees) - one Chief, one
chief dispatcher, four senior dispatchers, four dis-
patcher's, One senior engineer, two engineers:peed
two technicians.
(2) Commercial Section (seven employees) - one chief,
one senior economist, two economists, one senior
tariff expert, and two tariff experts.
Signal Section (30-32 employees) - One chief, one
senior engineer, two engineers three senior radio'
technicians, three radio technicians, three radio
mechanics, four senior radio operaters, three typists,
and six to eight auxiliary personnel.
(4) Harbor Master Section (Kapitan Porta)(15 employees).
Administratively', the Harbor Master '3 office was
subordinate to the port commander- however, the
harbor master received operational directives from
the main Inspectorate of Harbors and Navigation,
MMF. The Harbor Master Section (15-emp1oyees) was
copponed of the harbor master, two assistant harbor
masters, three senior maritime inspectors, three
maritime Inspectors, one radio navigator, and two
-deviators* (special technicians trained to elimi-
nate compass deviation). A subordinate part of this
Section the Navigation Sub-section, was composed of
one senior compass mechanic, one compass mechanic,
And one chronometer mechanic. (There was a great
shortage of radio navigators, deiriaterg*imed-elme-
trotTradia_nevigatexi in the USSR Merchant Fleet.
The onl course for training this type of personnel,
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a e Le Higher Navigation School. The
course lasted nine months; approximately' 25 tech-
nicians attended from all MF steamship companies.
allise et Merchant Fleet captains
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were unable to eliminate compass na)fUnctions theywere greatly handicapped by the lack:of techniciana
trained in this field.) _
Attached to both Port Sectors I and II was a Sector Processing Group
(I and II Proltvodstveinyy Uchastok),which was responsible for load-
ing and .-unloading vessels the storage of freight, and the organisa-
tion of passenger transport. Although the freight traffic was great
at Sector I? there was little variety of cargo there; Sector II, how-
ever, _handled a larger variety of cargo but a smaller total tonnage
than Sector I. This explains why some of the Sector I processing
sections were larger than the equivalent sections in Sector II, and
viee versa.
(3)
Each Sector Processing Group was composed of several sections which,
although attached administratively to SeCtor I-or II, were directly
subordinate to either the chief enginer or the chief or Port Opera-
tion Section.. The T/0 and subordination of these Processing sections
was as follows:
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(1) The Me ?Anized ul ment Section which was attached
to Sector I employ. d approximately 110 people: one.
chief, one senior engineer, two engineers, three sen-
ior mechanics, six mechanics, three-electro-mechanics,
20 senior crane operators, 30 crane operators, 15
diesel motor operators, 20 electricians, and 10 workers,
(2) The Mechanized Equipment Section attached to Sector
II employed approximately 100 employees one chief,
iffenior Technical Lt (fnu) EIPARJr? one senior engi-
neer, two engineers, three senior Mechanics, three
mechanics, three electric mechanics, two senior crane
operators, 25 crane operators, 15 diesel motor opera.-i
tors, 20 electricianssand 10 workers.
(3) The Transporter (transportable conveyers) Section
serviced both Sectors I and II, and comprised approx-
mately 50 employees: one chief, three senior mechan-
ics, three electric mechanics, and approximately 40
skilled workers.
(4) The Truck Section contained approximately 60 employees.
The chief of this group was a civilian,(fnu) ALSHEROV;
the remaining members were the three dispatchers, one
accountant, three motor vehicle technicians, and 52 .
drivers, skilled wOrkerstand common laborers.
(5) The Workshop Section was composed of 30 to 40, admin-
istrative personnel and 200 to 240 Workers; 1..main-
iptined ship repair and loading and unloading equip
ment repair shops.
b. The processing sections under the chief of the port Opera-
tion were the following:
(1) The Loading and Unloading Section attached to Sector
' I employed 72 persons - one chief (also chief of the
Sector I Processing Group), one deputy ohlef, one
engineer, three dispatchers, 18 senior freight'recep
tionists, 36 freight receptionists, three senior
tariff experts and three tariff experts, one .englneer,-
(who counted the time periods and the work accomplish-
ed within them), two technicians-work checkers, and
three operators.
The Loading and Unloading Section attached to Sector
II (65 employees) one chief (also chief.Of the Sec-
tor Il Processing Group), one deputy chief, three
dispatchers, 15 senior freight dispatchers, 30 freight,
receptionists, three senior tariff experts, six tariff
experts, one engineer-work checker, two technicians?
work checkers,And three operators.
The Freight Warehouse Section attached to Sector I
employed 48 persons - three warehouse managers, six
Senior freight receptionists, 12 freight reception-
lets, six senior weighers, 12 weighers, six markers,
and three freight cashiers.
(4) The Freight Warehouse Section attached to Sector II
comprised 59 employees - four warehouse managers,
eight senior freight receptionists? 16 freight recep-
tionists, six senior weighters, 12 weighters? 10 -
markers, and three freight cashiers.
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The Penger Transport Section (Morskoy Vokzal)
serviced both :Sectors I and II; it was composed
of 44 employee - one chief, one executive, three
senior operators, nne operators, six comptrollers,
two freight cashiers, two passenger cashiers, and
20 workers.
Kra novodsk Port used the following loading and unloading equipment:
*. Thirty-five to 40 cranes: five traveling gantry cranes
weighing 5 tn., four ttaveling gantry cranes weighing 10
tn., six derrick cranes weighing 15-20 tn., and five grab
cranes weighing 10-12 tn. The remaining cranes were of
various types, with capacities of three to five tn.
b. Seven to eight cranes of three tn capacity which were
installed on special ZIS-50 trucks.
0. Approximately 40 moveable transporters, each with ,a step
? of 10 in. Of this number, approximately, eight transporters
were used for boxed goods.
Four stationary electric conveyers, each with a step' of
30m.
os. Twenty-five trucks, mainly the GAZ-AA theLZIS-5
(3 .tn.),. the ZIS-150 (4 tn.), and the GAS-61 types.
f. Three freight car platform scales of 100 tn. capacity.
g: One-grain scraper (Podgrebatel.'), of 18 tn. production.
per hour, which was provided with an electric Motor of
2i-kw.
h.' Twelve to 15 fork-lifts of 1 tn. capacity.
i. Eight prime movers of the TMA-3 type.
J. Twenty-five electro-cars (very similar to railroad sta-
tion passenger luggage carsi) of ?2i, tn. capacity.?
The KrABnOvodsk Port Fleet consisted of the vessels listed below:
a. Two old freight steamships of 1000 tn. capacity each;
they were equipped with compound steam engihes of 750 HP
at 140 r4p.m.)one Scotch boiler with a steam pressure ' of
eight atmospheres. The speed of these ships wai eightmgsk
The vessels were used for local freight transport within-
,
the port.
b. Eight tugs. These were old, two-propeller tugs equipped
with Compound steam engines of 600-800 HP at 220-240 7.04m.,
and one Scotch boiler with .a steam pressure of eight at-
mospheres. The vessels' speed, when empty, was 12 m.p.h.;
loaded, six-seven m.p.h.
0.- Four diesel launches of 60 to 80 HP, with a speed of 12
to 15 m.p.h.
d. Ten old steel-h11ed barges of 500-800 tn, capacity.
e. The diesel ship ALMAZ, constructed and presented by the
Germans to the Iranian Shah before World War II. The ship
was eventually taken over by the SOviets and assigned'to.
Krashovodsk Port. This ship's length was 30 in.; width,
6 m.; depth, 2 m. The ship was equipped with a Deutz
diesel engine with six cylinders, capable of 600 Hp. at
10 m.p.h. All deck constructionson this ship were steel.
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Loading and unloadl, srgo ,.:.one almost entirely by mechanized
equipment in Krasnovodc Port, Ninety-five per cent of the incoming
and outgoing freigrei: was proc07,2-sd by mechanical equipment in 1950.
In 1951 the average producticy. of a crane in Krasnovodsk Port amount-
ed to 40 tn. per hour. Although the maximum theoretical output of ,
a crane was 50 to 55 tn per hour, the actual output achieved in
Other USSR ports (less mechanized than Krasnovodsk) was 20-25 tn
per hour. The difference bc,twenn the theoretical and actual output
Of a crane was caused by the work delays in the ship's holds, where,
in most cases, work was performed menially.
The 1951 Cargo Processing Plan of Krasnovodsk Port called for the
following schedule of production (figures are expressed in million
tons):
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The first two columns of figures, representing the cargo actually
transported, totaled 2,500,000 tn. The remaining two columns)
showing the amounts of processed cargo (RR Track-ship-and Ship-
'RR Track), totaled 2.5 x (2.3 x 0.75) LI 4,230 *000 tn. The num-
ber OM is the freight processing index number applicable to all
calculations involving processed cargo in Krasnovodsk Port."
10. Krasnovodsk Port employed approximately 32 brigades of stevedores
(there was a slight fluctuation from year to year). Each brigade.
numbered 12 to 15 stevedores. Twelve brigades were assigned to ?
Sector I, and 20 to Sector II. Stevedores made at least 800 rubles
. monthly; in certain cases, they earned up to 1500 rubles per mouth.
.Their hourly wage was as follows: 2.27 rubles x 1.35 (1;35 is ,the
sptiid Zone tariff wage index figure) in 3.088 rubles. Crane opera-
tors in Krasnovodsk Port earned approximately the same wages as
? stevedores,i.e., 900-1200 rubles a month.
11. Krasnovodsk Port also employed, as did all other Soviet MaritiMe
Ports, a group of ship's boatswains and a group of shore sailors,
who were responsible for tying up of vessels to piers and landings.
The port used 18 such boatswains and approximately 60 sailors.
12. The Militarized Guards Detachment, attached to Krasnovodsk Port,
-consisted of approximately 190 men (a 100-man fire-fighting com-
pany, an 80-man guards company,and.a 10-man guards detachment ad-
ministration). This military detachment was subordinated to the
Main Administration of Militarized Guards Service of the NNF in .
Moscow.
13. The political Administration of Krasnovodsk Port was the responsi-
bility of the Caspian Steamship Company (KaspFlot)..
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? Krasnovodsk Port w obtaLle through the Krasnovodsk regional:
agency of TorgMorTrans.
1! Repair and maintenanee of the Krasnovodsk Port Fleet and loading
and unloading equipmert, aa well as the emergency repair of Incom-
ing ships, was done as thP 74.7rasnavodsk.Port Ship Repair Shops.
'The_ 1950 production plan for these .
repair shops called tor a groes: production equivalent to 3,000,000.
rubles. The Krasnovodsk Ship Repair Shops employed approximately
? 40 administrative' personnel and 250 workers. These work shops Per-
? formed the following functions,:
a. Machine Shop. This shop performed overhauls and even manu-
TiTiliFe-d-some machine parts. Personnel: one shop manager,
one foreman, two mechanics, one technician (work norm set-0
ter), and 30 workers. Machinery: several lathes of the
DIP-200, DIP-300 types, one boring machine, several
horizontal and vertical milling machines, several grind-
ing machines, drilling machines, horizontal planing and
shaping machines, and one sharp electric moving crane of
three tons capacity. The largest part of these machined,
except lathes which were manufactured at Zovod Kraanyy
Proletariy, in Sverdlovsk, were of German and American
manufactUre, and were received partly as Lend-Lease equip-
ment and partly as war booty and reparations.
b. Assembly Shop (Slesarno-Montazhnyy Tsekh). The hand tool
processing of machine parts and the assembly of the mae
Chine or parts was done in this shop. Personnels one
shop manager, one foreman, to mechanics, one technician,
one work norm setter,and about 40 workers. The shop was
equipped with several vises and one electric moveable
Crane of three tons capacity.
c. Metal Sheet Shop (Kotelnyy Tsekh). Cutting, shaping, etc.,.
70717,iTir-ihiet was done in this shop. Personnel: one
shop supervisor, one foreman, two mochanicS,and about 30
workers. Equipment: two Mazut Stoves, several sheet met-
al cutting machines, and one crane of three tons' capacity.
d. Forge Personnel: one shop supervisor, one foreman, and 30
workers. Equipment: two electric hammers of one ton, one
electric Hartman hammer weighing 0.5 tn., four heating
stoves, one Poisson electric press weighing one ton, and
one moveable electric crane weighing three tom, which was
used in the shops.
e. Electric Shop. The repair and overhaul (including elec-
trical welding) of electric equipment was done in tiiis
shop. Personnel: one shop foreman, two mechanics, and
25 workers.
f. Wood Processing h2R. Personnel: one shop foreman one
.mechanic, and five workers. This unit was equipped with
the normal equipment of a carpenter shop.
g.
Instrument Shp. The' repair of navigation instruments
as done here. personnel: one shop foreman, 10 workers.
h. Tackle Shop:(Takelazhnyy Tsekh). This shop was sometimes
referred-to.as ship salvage shop (SudopodYeriney,T.,7,r)... Per-
sonnel: one shop foreman. and 25 workers:.
. Electric Power Plant. The power output of this plant was
-07.37?cw:i- if; -Was operated by a. Deutz. diesel motor of 300'HP
Approximately 10-12 electro-mechanies and motor operators
worked in this shop.
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In addition addition to the skilled -workers employed in the above shops,
there were approximately 20 anxinary -workers employed in various
odd jobs.
16. Legend to the sketch of Krasnovodsk Port; sketch is on page 9.
A. Ship Repair Shop
B. Passenger Transport Section (morskoy Vokzal)
C. Railroad Spurs
No. 1 to No. 25 are landings of Krasnovodsk Port, with the following
breakdown:
No. 1 toll" 12 landings of the I Sector;
No. 13 to No. 25 landings of the 11 Sector.
No. 17 and. No. 18 are passenger landings;
No. 10, 11, and 12 are used for loading and unloading of raw cotton;
No. 140 15, and 16 are used. for loading and. unloading of timber.
Loading and. Unloading Equipment:
Landing No. 5:
Landing No. 10:
Landings No. 11
Landings No. 14
Landing No. 15:
Landings No. 17
17. Legend to the
two gantry cranes of 10-ton capacity;
two gantry of 5-ton capacity;
and 12: three gantry cranes of 5-ton capacity;
and 15: four derrick cranes of 15-to 20-ton capacity;
two derrick cranes of 15-to 20-ton capacity;
and 18: two gantry cranes of 10-ton capacity.
Organizational Chart
of Krasnovodsk Port, on
page
10.
1. Port Captain or Commander
2. 1st Deputy, Chief Engineer
3. 2nd. Deputy, Chief of Operation Section
4. Marine-Engineering Section
5. Loading and Unloading Section
6. Construction Section
7. Buildings Maintenance Section
8. Exploitation Section
9. Commercial Section
10. Signal Section
11. Harbor Master's Section (Kapitan Porta)
12. First Sector Mechanized Equipment Group
13. Second Sector Mechanized. Equipment Group
14.
Transporter Group
15. Truck Group
16. Workshop Group
17. First Sector's Loading and Unloading Equipment Section
18. Second Sector's Loading and Unloading Equipment Section
19. First and Second Sectors' Freight Warehouses Section
20. Passenger Transport Section
21. Planning Section
22. Labor and. Wage Section
23. Accounting Office
24. Finance Section
25. Mobilization Section
26. Secret Documents and. Cipher Section
27. Billeting Section
28. Technical Supply Section
29. Personnel Section
30. Advdnistrative Section
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