PROCUREMENT AND HANDLING PROCEDURES FOR INDUSTRIAL EXPLOSIVES

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• Publication Date: January 19, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
114ORMATION REPORT
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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 unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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Procurement and Handling Procedures
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Acquisition, handling, accounting, and safekeeping of explosives and
detonating equipment (Vzryvohatyye veshchestva i sredstva vzryvaniya
? -VV and SV) for industrial purposes in the USSR were governed by very
? strict regulations issued on the highest level by MGB authorities.
In accordance with these basic regulations, all ministries using explo-
slimes and detonating equipment regulated the procedures to be followed
by their subordinate agencie6 by detailed directives. Stiff penalties
were prescribed for irregular possession, handling, or safekeeping of
VV and SV. For the territory of the Ukrainian SSR these regulations
were contained in the foll,owing unclassified manuals:
a. Use and Handling of Explosives and Detonating Equipment (Pravila
?upotrebleniya i Obrashcheniya s VV I SV),
?b. Technical Safety Rules: Explosives and Detonating Equipment
(Pravila tekhniki bezopasnosti vzryvehatykh materialov-VM), Both
manuals mere. published by the Mining Inspectorate.(Gornaya inspek-
niya) Ukrainian SSR, Kiev,
2. All correspondence connected with explosives and detonating equipment
was classified secret and kept in safes. Three abbreviations were
commonly used in this correspondence:
a. VM (Vzryvohatyye materialy). Under this term were placed explosives
and detonating equipment (devices, wiring, etc.); in short, all
materials used for blowing and shooting.
b. VV (Vtryvchatyye veshchestva). This term was reserved strictly for
explosives.
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c. SV (Sredstva vzryvaniya). This term was used for all materials
and equipment used in connection with explosives, but not in- ?
eluding explosives themselves. VM was actually VV and SV.
3, Requests for VM by quarries had to be forwarded to the Trugt of 50X1
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Industrial Enterprises, Chief Highway Directorat three
months in. advance, Such requests had to contain justification for
the quantity or materials requested supported by an exact descrip-
tion of the work planned. The Trust of Industrial Enterprises would
answer with an indication of the source from which VM were to be
obtained. This would be.either an explosive dump of an enterprise
of the Trust or it would be a plant manufacturing VM. This authori-
zation obtained, the technical administrator of the quarry or his
deputy would take it in person to the appropriate oblast mining,
inspectorate (Oblastnayt .gornaya inspektsiya) where he would be
issued a document called 7Authorization-for Acquisition of VM"
(Razreshitelrnoye svidetelistvo na priobreteniye VM). 27A-nnex g
This was the legal document which permitted the purchase and trans-
port of VM. The authorization received from the mining inspectorate
contained no indication as to the place where the VM were to be
obtained, and it represented the approval only of the mining author-
ities, Final approval was given by the oblast militia headquarters.
A special form entitled "Enterprise Request for Acquisition and ?
Transport of VM" (Zayavka predpriyatiya na priobretehiye I perevozku
VM) had to be filled out and presented in person to the oblast
militiS headquarters in order to obtain this approval. The com-
plated form had to contain the following diata:
a. Place from where VM were to be drawn.
b. Place where the VM were to. .be 'stored.
c. Person to be in charge of the VM storeroom or dump.
d, 'Peron to be in charge of the VM transport.
el. Transportation means.
If rail transportation was contemplated, no further information
about transport was necessary. However, if it was intended to use
motor vehicle transportation, the form had to contain the license
numbers of trucks which would be used for transport, the names and
vehicale operator license numbers of the drivers, and the names of
the guards who would be used for guard duty during transport. All
such personnel had to be screened in advance and authorized by the
oblast militia headquarters to handle explosive materials. A list
of persons so authorized was kept on file at the oblast militia
headquarters, and the names on the Enterprise Request Form were
checked against the list in the Militia headquarters. When VM were
drawn from plants, the plants always sent them by rail and supplied
their own guards. After approving the Enterprise Reg-lest, the
oblast militia headquarters issued a special permit ZAnnex .67 to
the enterprise for acquisition and transport of VM. These permits
were always prepared separately for: l-VV, 2-Bickford and detonat-
ing fuses, and 3-primers, because each of these types of materials
had to be kept apart and transported separately. If the enterprise
requesting the explosive materials was to handle the transport, the
permit was issued to it in a single copy. If the VM were to be
supplied and transported by the plant or manufacturer, each permit
was prepared in duplicate, one copy to be used for documenting the
sale and the other copy for transport. The first coupons (stub)
were always retained in the militia headquarters.
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4, When the enterprise received this it would proceed as follows:
a. If it was to draw the VM from a VM dump of the Trust of Indus-
trial Enterprises, it would dispatch the adequate number of
trucks and guards to this dump and provide the person in charge
of this transport with militia permits. Except when it was only
a question of a very small quantity of explosives (not more
than a few hundred kilograms), three separate trucks had to be
dispatched, one for VV, one for fuses, and one for primers.
Having issued the VM, the issuing enterprise (dump or storeroom)
would retain the last perforated coupon of the permit as docu-
mentation of the issue. The middle coupon was retained by the
officer in charge of the transport and served as the transport
document.
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b. If the VM was drawn from an explosives plant, the requesting
enterprise would mail all six permits (two copies each of the
VV, fuse, and primer permits) to this plant or manufacturer.
In shipping the VM, the plant or manufacturer would return with
them the six middle perforated coupons Lgee Annex .47, retain-
ing the six last perforated coupons for the documentation of
issue and transport. The permits were mailed in accordance with
the standard regulations for classified secret correspondence.
5. In order to obtain authorization to use VM for industrial purposes
an enterprise had to have proper storerooms or dumps constructed
and protected according to regulation. I do not remember the exact
title of the regulation in question, but I know that this regula-
tion was very detailed. In addition to all technical qualifica-
tions, such storerooms or dumps had to meet the regulation that
specified exactly how close to inhabitated localities, railroad
lines, plants, and workshops such storerooms could be. The planned
locations of storerooms and dumps had always to be approved in
advance by representatives of the oblast mining inspectorate and
oblast militia headquarters.
6. Seven types of VM storerooms and dumps were permitted by the Mining
Inspectorate for all mining enterprises ffee Annex 27% According
to their needs, every enterprise had asked for authorization and had
constructed adequate storerooms. In. maintaining these storerooms
the enterprises were governed by two contradictory aims:
a. To keep in the dump the largest possible quantity of VM in
order to avoid short-term requests for purchase of VM and the
bureaucratic difficulties connected with such requests.
b. To reduce the administrative personnel and guard details for
the operation and protection of the dump.
The first problem could be solved more or less easily, providing
the enterprise had sufficient financial means to acquire a large
dump. The Mining Inspectorate and the Trust of Industrial Enter-
prise, Chief Highway Directorate, had not put any limits in this
respect upon individual enterprises, so far as I know. The second
problem, however, was much more difficult to solve, since regula-
tions in this respect were very strict and enterprises could not
avoid complying with them. Therefore, a middle way was usually
taken as the solution, and each enterprise tried to keep its dumps
with a six-month supply of VM.
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7. There were maximum limits on the quantities of explosives, primers,
electric primers, Bickford fuses, and detonating fuses to be stored
in each type of VM storeroom. In storerooms of Class I, II, and
III annex all types of VM could be kept in the same building,
but They ha to be kept in separate rooms as follows:
a. Explosives room
b. Primers room
C. Fuse room.
8.
Dumps of Class IV and up had to consist of special buildings for
each one of these groups. Any of these types of dumps, regardless
of its size, coullibe constructed either on the surface or under-
ground, but because of the harmful influence of underground mois-
ture, the recent tendency in the USSR has been to construct the VM
dumps on the surface, Types of VM storerooms and dumps and organi-
zation of guard service is presented in Annex qj
a. 221:2111lian Ob1ast
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VM dumps in the USSR:
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Class IV Dump of the Chief Highway Directorate o Ukrainian5w
SSR, in'Kirovo, near Mukachevo 48-26, E 22-4g72-
(2) Claie V Dump of the Highway Administration, Ukrainian SSR,
in Kirov?.
(3)
Class VI Dump of the Ministry of Coal Industry in Berezinka,
six kilometers southeast Of Mukachevo.
(4) Class VI Dump of the Ministry of Coal Industry in Ilnice,
30 km. east-southeast of Mukachevo.
Class III Dump of the Ministry of Coal Industry in the
village Radvanka, two kilometers southeast of Uzhgorod
5:48-38, E 22-117.
(6) Class III Dump of the Ministry of Coal Industry in the
village of Kamenica n.1L, 10 km. northeast of Uzhgorod.
b. Dumps belonging to the Trust of Industrial Enterprise, Chief
Highway Directorate, located outside of the Carpathian Oblast
Class III Dump in Oltshanitsa, Kiev Oblast (I do not know
the exact location of Oltshanitsa).
(2) Class III Dump in the town of Rakitno, Kiev Oblast.
(3) Class V Dump in the town of Gayvoron, Odessa Oblast.
(4) Class III Dump in Kamenets Podol'sk? Kamenets Podollsk
Oblast,
Class V Dump in Skolle, Livov Oblast.
(5)
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C. Base Dump in Shostka, near Moscow, but I do not know the exact
location. This dump was probably subordinate to some such
ministry as the Ministry of Heavy Metallurgy.
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The Andesite Stone Quarry in Kirovo
supplies fiicom Plant #56. All corre
simply the 'address, "Plant #56" (Zavod No.
to find out what plant it was and where it
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received its VM
ith this plant used
56) and I was never able
was located.
Annexes:.
A. Authorization for Acquisition of VM
H. Special Permit Issued by the Oblast Militia Headquarters
C. Types of 'Storerooms for Explosive Materials and Organization of
Guard Service
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ANNEX A:
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AUTHORIZATION FOR ACQUISITION OF VM
NO. 041011110111
Issued to: (name of the enterprise)
Quantity:
a. Explosives (type and quantity)
b. Primers
c. Fuses
Purpose: Mining works at (name of the quarry and location)
Dump where VM are to be kept: (dump # and location)
Person in charge of the dump: (first, second, and family name of dump's
manager)
Issued at
Date .
Official stamp
Signature
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