ORGANIZATION OF QUARTERMASTER SERVICE

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• Publication Date: January 15, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SUBJECT Organization of Quartermaster Service
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS IN M A T 1 0 N A F F E C TINO THE N TIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED 9TATES~ WITHIN TIDE MEANING OF TITLE I.I SECTIONS 799
AND 794, O F T H E U.S. C O D E S A] AMENDE O. ITS TNANSM ISSION OH SEYE.
CATION OF IT] CONTENTS TO OP AE ['.EIPT SY AN UN A0THOAIOND PERSON IS
AROHISITOD NY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS POSH IS PROW SITED.
DATE DISTR. L5 Jan 1953
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATI51)X1
There is in the USSR one single quartermaster service, which sappliee
all. Soviet; armed forces, without exceptions. However, this unit exists
only on the top level of organization. Below this level, the unity is
broken, and the various services have separate quartermaster corps. The
channel of command operates as follows.
2. Attached to the Defense Committee of the USSR is the chief of the quarter-
master service, General of the Army ley. All the meterial resources
of the country needed for the quartermaster's supplies are under his juris-
diction. Khrul.ev has or had under him an agency called the it Adx r.inz.s-
tration of Supply, which is divided into a number of suubTadrO astrations .
This administration includes: Uprodenab, (Sub-Administration of Food
Supplies), which deals with the people's coamnissariats of agriculture,
meat and dairy industry, and other commissariats concerned with food
supplies. The main administration includes also sub-administrations
for clothing, transport supplies, kitchens, kitchen inventory, tarpaulins,
tents, stretchers, field hospitals, and other property. There is a sub-
administration for fuel and lubricants called GSM, and several other such
sub-administrations. There are also special supply divisions for the
ground forces, the navy, and the air force, which are also completely
subordinated to the chief of the main administration.
3.0 These separate supply sections handling specific categories of supplies
receive reports on the receipts and expenditures of quartermaster supplies
from the quartermasters at the front or in military districts. It is only
in the Supply Administration that the unity of the quartermaster service
exists. Each of the major services maintains separate quartermaster corps,
organized in accordance with their specialties or branch of service. Sep-
arate quartermaster corps exist for the ground forces, the navy, and the
air force, -very one of these forces has its own quartermaster specialists,
and eve.::. iua own star. y,ds for equipping its personnel, which are quite
cliff .: ;;_~ t from on,.,aA another.
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The next level below the straacture of Ilse Main Administration of Supply is
the depat,y com .nailer of the front or of a military district (okrug) in -charge
of the rear services. He ha.s a Tar ter ,ster who, in turn, is a deputy com-
mander of the rear services a Subordinate to the guarteraaraster? are separate
sections similar to those of the Main A.4m1ni.strtatinization Section, who is also deputy ti the deputy commander of the a:::mfr
division in charge of the rear.
$. The rsgtmae ets are not supposed to maisaa re,.iCn 5eauppffi.y rases, with the exception
of small regimental s toc?ks of food rations sufficient for several days and
* small supply of linen,, fuel, and other small items. They have, however,
a regimental deputy commander in charge of the rear who has no pl.ammi,ag and
organization section chief
g. The deputy ce anier of a regiment is subordinate to the regimental commander
in every respect except the e s tera3ter supply service, for ririnh he is
responsible to thp~ deputy commander of the army division in charge of the
rear. To the re g i.m rni 4.1. deputy com ae r in charge of the rear, are respon-
sible the chief of the regimental food. Euppiies,, the chief of the: regimental
4QOVS?9 lotbin z & Transport Secti:oj, ti:e chief of the 9?GSMBB ff i & Lutri-
caant Seaticn7 end the techtical assistant
10. The quartermaster personnel of a section is responsible to the deputy com-
mander of the army division in charge of the rear, but the latter has no
'right to issue orders to the financial Aaubj section on the State Bak
section in the army division despite the fact that its personnel is assigned
to the rear staff.
11. The deputy ceder of a division in charge of the rear is subordinate to
the division cc ander? in all respects, except quartermaster's supplies for
which he is responsible to the deputy commander of the army in. charge of
the rear.
120 All the quaLrter ,ster sections, corps deputy cinders, and. deputy cow an-
dere of army dlvi.sio u and brigades are responsible to the deputy commander
of the Army In charge of the rear. He, in turn, is responsible to the army
commander in all respects, except quartermasters supplies, for which he is
subordinate to the deputy commander of the front, or of a military district
in charge of the rear. The deputy commander of the front, or of a military
district, is subordinate to the commander of the front or military district,
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The next level below the structure of the Main Administration of Supply is
the deputy comets viler of the front or of a military district (okrug) in charge
of the rear services. He his a grter_,ster who,, in turn, is a deputy com-
mander of the rear services. Subordinate to the quartermaster are separate
sections similar to those of the lain Administration of Supply, for example,
the Section of F?. ?od Supplies for the Front, the Quartermaster Supply Section,
which. handles clothing; and transport equipment the `yGSMBe, Bakeries Section,
Motor Vehicles Section, Stockpiling Section, Construction Section, Sanitation
Section, Constr -.-tlon Section and others, such *a the Field Mail. Service,
Financial, Field State Bank, Tank Repair Shops, Automobiles, Weapons, etc.
5. The next lo,,sr level is the deputy commander of' the army in charge of the
rear, with the same divisions as those at the front or in a military district.
6. Next comes the d p4ty corps com nde r of the rear who does not manage quarter-
master supplies, And bs no departmer~aaa Eris staff consists of two inspecting
officers ` So e duty it is to supervise the army divisions which make the
corpse They watch over the re,:oeipts a.d the expenditures of quartermaster
supplies and see to the timely and coact distribution of food and supplies,
according to quotas, among the personnel of thee army divisions.
7. Subordinated to the deputy corps comoa der of the rear are the deputy division
commanders of the rear with the same type of sections but no quartermaster.
The duties of tb latter are fulfilled : y tts chief of the Planning and Or-
ganization Section, *rho is also deputy to the deputy commander of the army
division in c r?ge of the rear.
8. The regiments are nut supposed to, u iinta.in supply bases, with tb exception
of small regimental stocks of food ratL:one wutficient for several days and
* small supply of it ian,, fuel, and other small items. They have, however,
a regimental dep?sty commander In charge of the rear who has no planning and
organizatisn section chief
g. The deputy co. a ader of a regiment is s s bard hate to the regimental commander
in every respect except the q?terauet:r supply service, for which be is
responsible to deputy commander of the armor division in charge of the
rear. To the regimental deputy c der in charge of the rear, are respon-
sible the chief of the regimental food :supplies, the chief of the regimental
"On" ~ loth~ing & Transport Section, the chief of the ?0G?wWffuei & L abri-
c t Sectku&, a ad the technical assistant.
10. The quartermaster personnel of a section is responsible to the deputy com-
mander of the army division in charge of the rear, but the latter has no
right to issue orders to the financial O section on the State Bank
section in the army divisions despite the fact that its personnel is assigned
to the rear staff.
11. The deputy commander Df a division in charge of the rear is suhordir.ate to
the division com .nder in All respects,, except q1aartirmaster ? a supplies for
which he is respdnsi'hle to the deputy commander of the army in charge of
the rear.
l All the aly,srterm ster sections, corps deputy ccmmaanders, and deputy comman-
ders of sly divisions d. brigades are respon ihle to the deputy ccmmiander
of the Amy in charge of the rear. He, in turn, is responsible to the army
commander in all respects, except quarterster' supplies, for which he is
subordinate to the deputy commander of the front, or of a military district
in charge of the rear. The de arty commander of the front, or of a military
district, is subordinate to the commander of the front or military district,
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except with regard to quartermaster supplies, for which he is responsible
only to the Main Administration of Supply, i e to General of the Army Khrulev.
The chiefs of the front rear services, of military districts, and of the army,,,
organize and dir. ect the construction of roads of the military cr-an:toi ments,
underground installations, storehouses, smithies, military repair shops, etc.
They direct the dismantling of their own enterprises and those In occupied
territory and the transportation and export of the dismantled enterprises.
They organize establishments for .nedical treatment.- hospitals, sanitation
battalions Lianba7, infirmaries etc a All this is done, of course ac-
cording to a strict State plan and on instruction from Moscow.
1l 4 They organize and control such enterprises as flour mills., slaughtering
stations., refrigerators, depots, bread-baking plants, and other enterprises
supplying the ax ro They have their own personnel sections, and they select
personnel for the corps, groups, regiments., etc a They organize military
educational institutions for re=training the officers' staff and the various
specialists. They have the right to appoint and remove quartermaster workers
154 The matter is different in respect to the chiefs of the corps rear echelons;
these chiefs are subordinate to the corps commanders, except that they take
orders on quarter?master matters from the chiefs of the Army o s rear services.
They are control organs which supervise the execution of instructions of
the Army and front at the lower levels, in divisions and regiments. They
themselves can do nothing in the way of encouragement or punishment at
workers in the divisions and regiments o In such cases a they can only apply
to the chief of the Army's rear services, and the latter decides whether to
take into consideration the suggestions of corps rear echelon chiefs
16. If an Army deputy ender in charge of the rear orders a division commander
or his deputy to carry out some measure, say to detail a company or a platoon
of soldiers for work or to attach them to another division, if only , por-
arily, his order will not be obeyed., because the division com4riander p, sub-
ordinate only to the Army commander,, and without the latter's order the
division c antler is not required to.carry out the orders of the chief in
charge of the rear of an ar o
1'7 a The chief in charge of the rear of a front or an Army has the right to
appoint., remove, encourage., punish, and to try before a military tribunal
only the quar?termaster personnel of the Army or front
1a. The deputy commander of a front has no right to remove an Army deputy com-
mander of the rear even if the commander of the front is agreeable to it.
In order to remove the rear commander of an Army, the approval of the Min-
ister of Defense USSR and that of General Khrulev are necessary. Also,
the rear commander of an Army has the right to remove, transfer, or put in
reserve a divisional rear commander only with the approval of the military
council of the Army and the rear commander of the front
l9. The pr?osecu:tia magistrate of a front or Army has no right to institute
proceedings against the rear commander of an Army or front, the latter
may be sunned for interrogation or brought to trial only by the prosecuting
magistrate of the USSR, with the consent of the Minister of Defense USSR
or if the Army prosecutor is commissioned by the prosecutor of the Soviet
Union to conduct the investigation.
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