MINING APPRENTICE SCHOOL NO. 28

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000300190012-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (U-,c- a?inian SSR)
SUBJECT Mining Apprentice School No. 28
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACQUIRED
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE
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Internal Passport, issued by the Passport Office, Kagarlyk Rayon.
b. Birth Certificate (metrika)
c. Education Certificate (svidetel'stvo ob obrazovanli:)
d. Family Status Certificate (svidetel'stvo o semeynom polozhenii)
No entrance examination was required for this apprentice school.
.The faculty of the Mining Apprentice School No. 28 consisted of
the following:
a. School Principal
b. Deputy for Education
c. Several instructors
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4. The school had an enrollment of 250 to 300 male students, 16 and
17 years of age (born 1931 and 1932), recruited mainly from Kiev
and Poltava Oblasti. The students were divided into four training
groups, as follows:
a. Timbermen (krepil'shchik)
b. Loaders (navalootboyshchik)
c. Cutters (zaboyshehik)
d. Drillers (buril'shehik)
The length of the course for all groups was six months.
foreman and specialist in the type of mining activity in which the
group was to be trained.
group was roken down into several platoons, with 15 to 20 students
in each one. Each platoon had a platoon leader who was a mining
all groups had approximately the same strength. Each
The first three or four weeks in the school were devoted to theore-
tical instruction in mining. This instruction consisted of a descrip-
tion of the types of coal, its quality, composition, the various
positions of coal layers, normal coal mining procedures, and the other
work done in coal mines. The school had several classrooms in which
this instruction was given.
6. After this initial instruction, every day the students were taken
7. The following was the daily
to Coal Mine No. 13 Bis, where under the supervision of the platoon
leaders, they performed the work they themselves had chosen to__d7 50X1
as training.
routine at Mining Apprentice School No. 28:
Reveille
0600
Breakfast
0700
Work in mine
o8oo
- 16oo
Shower
16oo
- 1700
Dinner
1700
- 1730
Free time
1730
- 2100
Supper
2100
- 2130
Free time
2130
- 2300
Taps
2300
8. The students had free billets in school dormitories; each dormitory
had many rooms, each for 8 - 10 students. The school also provided
uniforms, footwear, and underwear free of charge for the students.
The uniform consisted of a blue tunic (military type) and blue
trousers. As an overcoat a navy-cut black, double-breasted coat
(bushlat) was worn. A blue visored, military type cap was worn with
the uniform. A miner's insignia in the form of two crossed mining
hammers was worn on the cap. The insignia GPSh-28 (Gorno-promyshlennaya
shkola 28) was worn on the lapels of the bushlat.
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Food was also provided by the school and consisted of three meals
daily.
a. Breakfast: soup or borsch; tea and sugar.
b. Dinner: soup or borsch; one meat or fish course; potatoes,
macaroni, gruel, or the like.
c. Supper: gruel or the like; tea and sugar.
Four hundred grams of black bread was served with each meal, thereby
making the daily bread ration 1.2 kg. for each student. Food was
always sufficient in quantity and quite well prepared. The meals were
served by waitresses in the school's mess.
10. Wages were paid to the students on the basis of actual work performed
in the mine. The daily work norms prescribed for the miners did not
apply to the students. In other words, there were no minimum produc-
tion quotas prescribed for students; and there was no pressure put
on them to perform more work than they'actually wanted to do. In
the beginning, my monthly wage was approximately 250.rubles;'eventually
it rose to 420 rubles. Some students made even more than that.
11. Work in the school was performed six days weekly, Monday through
Saturday. Students could go to town or do as they pleased at the
school during their. free time on workdays and all day on.Sundays.
Discipline at the school was very lax; except for, having to go to
work regularly, the students could do anything they wished. Drunken-
ness, petty thievery, and outright stealing were common occurrences
at the school.
12. After completion of the six-month course, the.students received
certificates of training for specific miner's schools. As "compensa-
tion for education and the expenses borne by the government while in
the school, each student had to serve four years in a coal mine to
which he was assigned by the school administration. No choice of
assignment was given to school graduates.
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