CASPIAN DRY CARGO STATE STEAMSHIP COMPANY, MINISTRY OF THE MERCHANT FLEET

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 31, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
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SUBJECT Caspian ' Dry Cargo State Steamship NO. OF PAGES 5
Company, Ministry of the Merchant Fleet
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1. The Caspian Dry Cargo State Steamship Company (Kaspiyskoye
Gosudarstvennoye Sukhogruznoye Parokhodstvo - KaspFlot) was one of
the steamship companies administered by GlavYuzhFlot and subordinate
to the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet through the Chief Directorate
of the Southern Fleet. KaspFlot's administration was in Baku,
#5 Ulitsa Dzhaparidze, KaspFlot's director was General Director
MF third class Grigorly Ivanovich Tsibuzgin. Actually, Tsibuzgin
was first deputy. (chief engineer) of KaspFlot, and was appointed 50X1
acting director of KaspFlot. The second deputy director was
Captain MF first class (fnu) Selyuminov; the third deputy director
was chief of the KaspFlot personnel section.
2. KaspFlot was organized as an independent steamship company in 1923
when the Caspian Steamship Company (Kaspiyskoye Farokhodstvo -
KasPar) was reorganized and divided into three independent steam-
ship companies: KaspFlot, KaspTanker, and ReydTanker.
The task of KaspFlot was transport of freight and passengers
between the Caspian seaports of Baku, Krasnovodsk, Makhac:h-Kala,
and Astrakhan. Occasionally, transports were effected to Pekhlevi,
Bandar Shah, Resht, and Lenkoran.
The main cargoes transported by KaspFlot were as follows:
(a) Raw cotton from Krasnovodsk to Astrakhan and Baku. To Baku
went mainly variegated cotton;
v(b) Rock salt from Kara Bogaz Gol to Krasnovodsk, Baku, and
Astrakhan. This salt was used as raw material for the manu-
facture of fertilizers and for metallurgical processing;
Kitchen salt shipped from Elton and Baskunchak salt mines to
Astrakhan and Baku;
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(d) Timber from Astrakhan (originating in the Kama region) to
Baku and Krasnovodsk;
(e) Foodstuffs, mainly fruit, vegetables, and wine
B A A from Krasnovodsk
to aku t
an
k
(f)
s ra
han, from Baku to Astrakhan and Krasnovodsk,
and from Makhach Kala to Astra.han;
Machinery and equipment from BakL. ,P,md.Makhach Kala to Astrakhan
and Krasnovodsk;
Grain from Baku to Krasnovodsk;
Drinking water from Baku to Krasnovodsk.
KaspFlot maintained the following passenger transport lines: Baku-
Astrakhan-Baku; Baku-Makhach Kala-Baku; Baku-Krasnovodsk-B
k
a
u;
Makhach Kala-Astrakhan-Makhach Kala.
6. The 1951 transport plan for KaspFlot called for transport of four
million tons of freight with the following breakdown:
Incoming Cargoes
Tom of Cargo
Quantity
min ton
To:
Baku
To:
Astrakhan
To:
Makhach K
l
To;
K
a
a
rasnovodsk
Raw cotton
0.6
0.2
0.4
Machinery and
0.8
0.4
0.1
0
3
equipment
Timber
0.5
0.3
0.1
.
0.1
Rook salt
0.4
0.2
0.1
0.1
Kitchen salt
0.4.
0.4
Grain
0.7
0.7
Foodstuffs
n h
0.2
0.1
V 0.6
Drinking water
0.2
0.2
Total
1
1.1
U7.
77.
Outgoing Cargoes
Tie of Cargo
Quant.j.ty From:
(min one)
.
Fro m?
Astrakhan
From?
.
Makh
h K
l
.
F ro .
m
,
ac
a
e.
Krasnovodsk
Raw cotton
0
6
.
0.6
Machinery and
equipment
0.8
0.5
0.1
0.2
Timber
0,5,
0.5
Rock salt
0
4
.
Q.4+
Kitchen salt
0.4
0.4
Grain
0.7
0.7
'Foodstuffs
0.4
0.2
0.1
0.1
Drinking water
0.2
0.2
Total
4.0
1.6
1.0
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7. The T/O of KaspFlot administration was. as follows:
(a) Under the first deputy director (chief engineer) were the
following sections:
(1)
Marine Engineering Sectic.,.,,, (Mekhaniko-Sudovaya Sluzhba) :
T/O 17 employees: chief, senior engineers, four
engineers, four group engin~.~-.-s, one chief engineer thermo-
technician, two thereto-technical engineers, and three thermo-
techanicians. Maintenance and repair of the KaspFlot fleet
was done mainly at Parizhskaya Korramuna ship repair yard in
Baku.
(2) Designing Section (Proektno,-Konstuktorskoye Byuro - PKB) :
T/O 12 employees: chief, three senior engineers, four
engineers, two technicir as, and one.archive clerk;
(3) Tee ,hnical Supply Section: T/4 14 employees: chief, deputy
chief, planning engineer, two economists who were experts
rani metals, three buyers, one warehouse maanager, and five
warehouse receptionists;
(4) Transport Motor Pool: T/O 15 employees: three administra-
tive clerks and. 12 drivers and stevedores;
(5) Construction Section (Otdei Kapital'nogo Stroitei"stva) :
T/O three employees: chief, one engineer and one technician;
Under the second deputy (director-chief of operation) were the
following sections:
(1) Fleet Operation Section (Sluzhba Eksploatatsii . T/O 18
eLnplo,yee s-. chief, Captain MF third o lase (fnu) Fayfer,
four senior dispatchers, four dispatchers, two senior
engineers, four engineers., two technicians, and one secretary;
(2) Commercial Sections T/O three employees: chief, senior
eu'~,Huc~rl st,, and. economist.
(3) Maritime Inspectorate: T/O 11 employees-. chief, senior
inspector, two Inspectors, four instructors, two deviators,
and one radio navigator;
(c) Under the third deputy (director-chief of personnel) were the
(1) Ferr,3onnnei Section-, T/O eight employees: chief, deputy
chief, two senior inspectors, three inspectors, and one
eecre f;ary;
(2) Mobilization Section: T/O three employees: chief, senior
inspector, and inspector;
(3) Billeting Section: T/O eight employees;
(d) Directly under the KaspFlot director were the following sections:
(1) Office of the Director: T/O four employees: legal
advisor, technician, and two secretaries;
(2) Plannnng Section: T/O six employees: chief Sen Lt
Administrative Service MF (fnu) Kalisher, one senior
engineer, two engineers, and two economists y
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(3) Labor and Wage Section: T/O five employees: chief,,Sen Lt
MF Mariya Oleshina (female), one senior engineer, two
engineers, and one technician;
(4) Accounting Office: T/O seven employees: chief, deputy
chief, three senior acco.:atants, and two accountants;
(5) Finance Section: chief,'econ'mist, and cashier;
(6) Secret Document and Cipher Section: T/O seven employees:
chief, two senior inspectors, and four inspectors;;
(7) Administrative Section: T/O 14 employees: chief?
executive, registry-clerk, archive-clerk, mail-clerk, courier,
two typists, three drivers, and three cleaning women;
(8) Signal Section: T/O 37 employees: chief, senior engineer,
engineer, chief radio bureau, chief radio station, four
senior radio operators, eight radio operators, four typists,
three senior radio technicians, six radio technicians,
three radio mechanics, four auxiliary workers;
Training of KaspFlot personnel was effected by the company training
school of KaspTanker.
KaspFlot did not have an independent newspaper. There was a, news-
paper, "Bol'.shevik Kaspiya", edited by KaspTanker, which also serviced
KaspFlot.
10. Maintenance and repair of KaspFlot buildings was handled by the
RemStroyUchastok of KaspTanker.
11. The KaspFlot fleet was divided into the following eight basic groups:
(a) Three freight-passenger diesel ships with displacement of five
thousand tone, constructed in 1938 at Zavod Imeni Zhdanova. They
had two propellers, and two compressor-type, six-cylinder, MAN
diesel engines with a total capacity of 2600-2800 hp, 120 rpm,
Their speed when empty was 14-15 mph, when loaded, 11 mph.
Their names were: Dageetan","Turkmenistan", "Bagirov".
(b) Seven freight-passenger diesel ships with displacement of
2500-3000 tons, manufactured in 1926-28 at Zavod Imeni Zhdanova
(some were manufactured abroad). They were equipped with two
compressor-type, six-cylinder MAN diesel engines with a capacity
of 1500-1800 hp, 120-150 rpm. Their speeds were 14 mph unloaded
and 10 mph lauded # ' 50X1
Eight freight diesel ships-with displacement of 100.0-1400 tons,
constructed abroad around 1925. They were equipped with two
propellers and two Ballinder, Deutz, or MAN diesel engines with
a total capacity of 1000-1100 hp, 1.50 m
10 mph unloaded and eight mph loaded,
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(d) Sixteen steam engine freighters with displacement of 800-1500 ton50X1
manufactured in 1908-12 in Sweden and. Germany. They had mostly
two propellers and two steam engines of Compound make, total
capacity of 1000-1400 hp and 120-150 rpm. Their speed was 10 mph
unloaded and seven mph loaded.
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(e) Six to eight diesel freighters with displacement of 800-1000 tons
received after World War II as reparations from Germany. They
were equipped with single German-make diesel engines of 600-800
hp, 200-230 rpm. Their speed was 14 mph unloaded and ii mph
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(f) Ten diesel tugboats manufactured in 1946-4+8 at Zavod Vano Sturua
in Baku. These were one-propeller type tugs with single eight-
cylinder Washington-make diesel engines of 500 hp and 200-230 rpm.
Their speed was 12 mph unloaded nnr3 ninA .,,,,i, 50X1
(g) Ten to 12 barges and lighters (old ships with engines removed)
with displacement of 1000-1200 tons;
(h) Fifteen to 20 auxiliary vessels: launchers, port-tugs,
plashkouts (shallow DL.ges) of various manufacture and types;
12. Ship personnel of KaspFlot consisted of two thousand people; shore
personnel was approximately 150-200 people.
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