MURMANSK STATE STEAMSHIP COMPANY- -MMF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000300340008-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
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.B. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
COUNTRY
USSR (Aa'ct Sea)
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SUBJECT
Murmansk State Steamship Company-.MMF
DATE DISTR.
30 April 1953
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1. The Murmansk State Steamship Company urmanskoye Gosudarstvennoye Morskoye
Parokhodstv7o , administered in Murmansk, was one of the steamship companies sub ors
dinate to the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet through the Chief Directorate of the
25X1A Northwestern Fleet Until 1940 it had been a part of the Baltic
Steamship Company, erea er it became independent. Its director, was General
Director 3rd Class (MF) Ivanov.
20 The company maintained freight and passenger service between the following ports on
the Barents, White, and Northern Sea route: -Murmansk; Arkhangelsk; port punkt
Kandalaksha9 port p .kt .Dhdinksport punkt Molotoysk; port. punkt (faotory) Narya i Mar;
Spitzbergen; Leningrad; and some foreign ports.l Main cargoes transported were:
lumber and timber; coal; machinery and equipment; mineral ores; construction
materials; and food stuffs. The companyes 1951 transport plan called for 4,000,000
tons of transported freight.
30 The organization of the Murmansk State Steamship Company vas similar to that of
other steamship companies of MMF. Leading personnel were the director, three
deputy directors, and a chief of the Political Department. The sections were as
follows:
a0 Marine Engineering: 15 employees.
b. Construction, three employees.`
c0 Designing: 10 employees.
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e. '..Transportation.: 20 employees and 8 trucks
f. Operations : 20 employees.
g.. Commercial : four employees
h Signal: ZO employees
i. Maritime Inspectorate : 12 'employees
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Mobilization:. four employees
Personnel: eight., employees
Billeting: 30 employees
Building Repair and Maintenance: 40 employees
Company Training School: three employees
Planning: six employees
Labor and Wages: four employees
Accounting Office.: 10 employees
Finabee: three employees
e Secret Documents and Cipher: eight employees
t. Administrative: ] employees
Political: ppl,yee,
Editor-14.1 Off, i6 d f the, ner paper
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w. Printing Office: eight employees
x. ]het&oohment of, the militarized guard. service i 50 employes
The comps r Fa fee t consisted of about:' 80 ships . Of. this
60 were steam and 20 were diesel ships. I ;do not have afry
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detailed,, information on the fleet The general breakdown, howe.ver,
was approximately, 10 ;follows:
a.. First Group: timber-chipping fleet, composed. of . appraxii' tely,
20 one-propeller type steaiships,: Series `III and I',am`
4afcaj~~~r,~d,1~~9tbe BaO~~~;ye,y Zavod ie ~~i~a~a~i 3 t5Q~Jp~~i4d~
3 Displacement of these Oran
They were. equipped with a triple-expansion steam engine
of .900 HP and. 120 RPM., They bad Scotch boilers with stead.
pressure .of 14 atm.. and over-heated steam temperature rip. to
275 C. In addition to'-this-they were equipped. with arteamt
over-heaters . of the Schmidt `.type The speed of tl eee ` snipe.
w,as 10 BFI. I know of three ships which belonged to this
,,group: ; YBYSIW, OLO.GAA and . XUOSLAYL
be . Second Group : coal shi ping fleet, composed of 8 to 10 steam
ships, ,displacement of k,500 to 5,000 tons.
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Third Group: :general cargo and passenger ships, composed of
several ships of various types and..makes . Iknow the
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following .ships whieh belonged to this group: CIA,. SOP iF
FIR( SKAYA, and the diesel freight-pas,aejager:ship-MARIYA
UL .CVA,, The ..last one was manufactured in 1927-1792:: at
the Battigskiy Zavod in, Leningrad and maintains a regular
transpor...t line on the Murmansk-Arkhangelsk.., run,
Repair and maintenance of this fleet was done at the lrrmansk Ship
Repair Yard, operated by alavlorParom. Emergency repairs were.
sometimes done at' the Zavod Krasnaya Kuznitaa in Arkbangelek which a1s
belonged-to GlavMorProm..
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le Comment.- the distinction between
a port punkt and a ac ory.and a report on this subject will be published in
the near future.
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