CHIEF HIGHWAY DIRECTORATE-GLAVDORUPR, UKRAINIAN SSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: July 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
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SUBJECT Chief Highway Dire
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Ukrainian SSR
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The,Chief Highway Directorate (G2aVnoye Dorozhnoye Upravleniye
GlavDorUpr) of the Ukrainian SSR was a government agency responsible'
for the construction and maintenance.of all oblast and rayon roads
in the territory of the Ukrainian SSI. Organized sometime before
World War'II, it was directly subordinate to the Council of Ministers,
Ukrainian SSR, and had its offices at 77'Saksoganskaya Street, Kiev.
(in.Carpathian Oblast, which was incorporated into the USSR at the
and of World War II0 rayons were still referred to as okrugs;
regardless of the fact that they were normally much larger than rayons,
the Carpathian okrugs were considered rayons,in all administrative
respects.) Responsibility for construction and maintenance of All
Union and Ukrainian Republic highways lay with another organization
which I believe was called the Highways Administration 50X1
2. GlavDor r. 5Enclosure A7 worked .through 17 Oblast road administrate
tions nclosure at ached'to the oblast executive committees
(i-spol For. of the Communist Party. These obiast.administrations
in turn,had their subordinate agencies at the rayon executive
committee,level of the CF. Requests for construction or repair-of
oblast or rayon roads were always sent for study through official
channels to GlavDorUpr, which approved, disapproved, or revised
them. Approvgd projects were forwarded to the Council of Ministers,
Ukrainian SSR, where-.a final approval. was granted and the necessary
funds appropriated,'.
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Except for the small number of technicians and skilled laborers, the
Oblast and rayon road administrations did not normally have any
permanent road construction units or brigades. Common labor for
road construction and repair was usually-supplied by the kolkhozy
through whose territories the roads went. These workers were
requested from kolkhozy by the responsible oblast and rayon executive
committees of the CP, and they were paid by the kolkhozy themselves.
Construction materials were supplied by the Trust of Industrial
Enterprises a subordinate agency of the Chief Highway
Directorate in charge of all stone quarries within the Ukrainian SSR.
The jorganization of GlavDorUpt Enclosure 0 was as follows:
a. Chief of the A-drninistration was Eng. Mikhail Feodorovich DOVGAL';
his First Deputy was Aleksey IVANOV; Second Deputy, referred to
as Chief Engineer, was Eng. Ivan Andreyevich KOBERNECHENKO.
b. Subordinate to the First Deputy were the following sections:
(1) Organization Section (Or$anizatsionnyy Otdel), employing
about 30 persons. This section was responsible for all
organizational matters within the Chief Highway Directorate
and subordinate regional oblast and rayon administrations.
(2) Planning Section (Planovyy Otdel), employing about 25
persons. This section was charged with preparation of
annual, quarterly, and monthly production and financial
plans for construction and repair work, as well as super-
vision or compliance with these plans. It was also respon-
sible for setting the work norms and registering the work
hours.
(3)
Accounting Section (Bukhgalteriya), employing 16 persons.
This section was responsible for all ace:ounting work
connected with payments for materials used by and work
performed by subordinate road administrations
The section
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had ' several inspectors who were sent periodically to the
oblast road administrations to check their financial
activity and accounts; from time to time similar 1_nspections
were carried out by the state control (GosKontrol'' )
inspectors from Moscow.
o. Subordinate to the.Second Deputy (Chicle Engineer) were the follow-
ing sections:
(1) Technical Section (Tekhnioheskiy Otdel),'which employed
about 10 persons. This section was responsible for tech-
nical planning, construction and repair, and technical
supervision. At the same time this section supervised
the utilization of road construction machines assigned to
the various oblast road administrations; it was responsible
for initiating actions for acquisition of new machinery,
requests.for which were submitted through the Supply and
Sale Section, aragraph 4d (3) be1o to the Council of
Ministers, Ukrainian S$R.
(2) Geological Research and Exploration Section (Geologo -
Razvedoohno - Izyakatel'nyy Otdel). Chief of this section
was (fnu) SHWARZMAN. Most of the seet,iones 25 - 30
employees were engineers and technicians. The section
worked in close cooperation with the Technical Section and
was responsible for all geological research and exploration
connected with road construction. It was charged with
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surveying, and laying out roads, determining soil. types,
calculation of earth works, and suggestions as to technical
objects (bridges, tunnels,,viaducts, etc.) to be.constructed
on the road.- In addition to all of this, the section
conducted research and exploration work for all new stone
quarries to be organized within the Trust of Industrial
Enterprises, Chief Highway Directorate.
Projects and Estimates Section (ProektDor). Headunkno
to me,, had approximately 10 engineers and technicians,
working in this section. On the basis of data received from
the geological research and exploration section, this
section prepared final plans for construction and repair,
all technicaldrawings and blueprints necessary for construc-
tion.
d. Directly subordinate to the Chief of the Chief Highway Directorate
were these additional sections:
(1) Personnel Section, Chief of which was Mrs. (fnu) LEVITSKAYA.
About seven employees worked in this section which was in
charge of all personnel matters of the Chief Highway
Directorate and oblast administrations.
(2) Labor and Wage Section, which employed five or six persons
who handled all matters connected with the organization of
labor and wages.
(3) Supply and Sale Section (Otdel Snabzheniya i Sbyta), which
had five'to seven employees and was responsible for
supplying oblast road administrations with all technical
materials and machinery, and with organizing the sale of
construction materials to oblast and rayon road administra-
tions by stone quarries subordinate to the Trust of
Industrial Enterprises.
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a er a s and equipment from this depot. Payments were
effected through transfers of funds at the 'state bank or onia nf' i ti
on aterials, preLabricated bridges, steel bare
and plates, pipes, cement, asphalt, road construction machinery,
truokg, motor vehicles, spare parts, and machinery and 'equipment for
stone quarries. The oblast road administrations and stone, quarries50X1
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In addition to supervising the 17 oblast road administrations (one
for each oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) and the Trust of Industrial
Enterprises, the Chief Highway Directorate also had under its juris-
diction an agency called the Road Construction Materials Supply
Depot of the Chief Highway Directorate (Ukrainskoye Dorozhrnoye
Snabzheniye Glavnogo Dorozhnogo Upravleniya -- UkrporSnab GG]Dj)..
This depot was located at No. 2 Pecherskiy Pereulok in Kiev and was
made up of several warehouses and outdoor stockpiles containing
various constructs
a. DIS-147 scraper with a bucket capacity of seven cubic meters.
As prime:xwr for this scraper a Stalinets-S-8o tractor was
used'. The DIS-147 scraper had appeared for the first time in
1950, when, so I heard, it was first manufactured. There were.
also several older types of scrapers with which I was not
familiar.
I remember the following types of machinery as having been used for
road construction by the Chief Highway.:Direotorate:
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,Self-propelled, OM-201 excavator with a bucket capacity of one
cubic meter. This was a pre-World War II type excavator. There
were also several other types of excavators, bulldozers, concrete
mixers, and other machines.with which I was not at all familiar.
a. Trucks used for road construction were mostly self-unloading;
there were the 4-ton ZIS-150, the ZIS-151, and the ZIS-152, and
the self-unloading li-ton GAZ-93. In addition to these, quite
a number of the conventional ZIS-150, 151 and 152 trucks were
used for the transportation of construction materials.
Enclosures:
A. Organizational Chart Chief. Highway Dire.ctorste at ' the Council of
Ministers, Ukr. SSR.
B. Regional Road Administrations of the Chief Highway Directorate,
Ukr. SSR.
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