THE CASPIAN FISHING INDUSTRIES

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• Publication Date: July 9, 1952
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION 3ECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR.
SUBJECT The Caspian Fishing Industries
DATE OF 25X1C
INFO. 1951
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DATE DISTR. 9 July 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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1. The Chief Directorate of Ca7:)ian is
subordinate to the Ninist f 1,1,e 2
directorate is located in As ura an.
fish processing operations in the re
of two fishing trusts, canneT-ies, 710
construction and repair yardf Cor fL
scientific research center s,:ecieaa
Volga. (See End l A).
-a= Industries (GlavKaspRybProm) is
isling Industry (MinRybProm). This
responsible for the fishing and
-YIen, The chief directorate is made up
7,oxlzed fishing stations (MRS), and
itna craft, In addition it controls a
In the rauna of the Caspian Sea and the
2. The two trusts are called th,, Volga-Caspian Fishing Trust (VolgoKaspGosRyb-
Trest) and the Ural-Caspian 1ishir.ig Trust. (UralKaspGosRybTrest). Both are
located in Astrakhan, but finn,nr, the ':Lshing season the field office of the
Ural-Caspian Trust is moved no 1:;?Lnyu,3Hdilo (6-36N9 49-16E) on the Caspian
coasts, some 80 km east of Astrakhan, The trusts are both broken down into
fishing kolkhozes and fish plants (:1,71J(J7.aved,7). The latter are mostly
floating installations9 aIth,Jugh some -iants are on shore, where the catch
is cleaned and submitted to irst staen -,.:rocessing? such as salting and
smoking. The floating fish jants are installed on double-deck wooden barges
which are 100 meters long i meters ,77.-ude9 and 10 meters above the waterline.
They are not self-propelled, Altoe-eher uhern are
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dome 3) fish plants,. ?- ca7,ch directly , ?
? from the fishin ^ p:-T.--ocessing, These
. installations w.st 'Three or four days to
avoid spoilage of fis- occurrence, -
3. The pocegv.n.g -..-%ow as herring, Is .
-completed n ;he sent? directly -
to the -fish diPT;r:LIJI: Th better
.grades of factories and the ?
-Rviar7baly -7 -o,ssing., 213alyk is
dried sturgeOlc ? Yhert,., two r!,P,71neries in Astrakhano
the I/N. ad the
.priedrioh )1 are anned fish of.
all klnde fc0 export red?fish- There.
..are also spelal .balyk
4. ,.-The bestf'1,..shins' ?cy:y-f,,,,!n-,ratc,?.1 in the north and
northwest rot7,1ons of t"tic. .in fat, these are
the.rl.chest ? who-le USSii?,
.give the following on i,E;a-J,-,Loal.a.r areas:
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a) Between Atg74.18.1-, ",".;h.E.'ea, is rich- in salmon.
a'..Ad.ir,;12geon
? '.711? East,of
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;) 8;outhwept; of and herring is caught,
f,CA) The Volga and both e..3..Cellent fishing
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,e)? The eerla yields only small catches. -
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t T the-i? ;..,-.E=; a well-developed crab
field but it Wa6 ? exploited for commercial.
purpooe in.
There are fir3hei in ? and southern areas of. .
-1 20eaopaylw of the.hief AirectOrate,"
'^ ;riet8 between two motor ?
boats. The 6ath ;Izvco HA..:r boats and taken to the. .
fish plantsIn..-aallota On Aol..-wAd-the mouth Of the Volga
two tugs are-used to .34..-tnd -,;,ow. the: small flthing boats
Oyudarkat). At tim loo of these boats. are .taken in.
one tow by one .of h71 Amplte stacks on all -
fishing vessels are painci.wite, a red band near the
top.
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There are two ftshtng: Apil to June, and from .
August-to No7ember 1,JF; 4:aosed- for spawning .
,and the winter ;:c4y tmpostible. -
There are about. four. -::Acjuanct -.JeopIe working In the-?
fishing .rleeta, not .u41,7.iyed In the kolkhozes.
.The norms- of the f?A.441,-HHt -;-;n that In thefall the
oreWs must dam?:.7 on 74)77:.: bad. sason. The result:.
:L that many Am1.1 73darica...type are 1(340.-
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to ReydTanpira ----Tit.A81.1-11:97714Ag?C
are engaged In, :030-U.E.:1 -LTA Ilowing the floating. ..
fish plants In-; 6 tho,
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T. The fishing fleets-of both trusts an be dIvided into two
operational groups, the river fleets and the sea or salt-
water fleets. The river fleet of the Volga-Caspian Fishing
Trust Ss stationed along all the branches of the Volga River
from Astrakhan to Olya at the isr4terr end of the delta.
All the settlements in this area are fishing kolkhozes. The
vessels used by the river fleets are the following:
(a) The budarkas or fishing boats, form the main component
oT thse-rlid-fleet.. These 0.idarkas are about five
meters long, usually equipped with oars, occasionally with
sails.
(b) A few motor boats are assigned by the motorized fishing
stations (MRS) to the fishing koIkhozes,; These boats
sre.of an older 'type, with a 154'ip Balinger engine,
using crude oil. This 'enginehas a bulb which must be
heated for -about 30 minutes Until it is red het before
being in operating condition
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The river fleet has also about 100 motor launches, manu-
factured in the Shipyard I/R Kirov in Astrakhan. This
craft,made of steel plate, is about 15 m long, three
meters wide, and has a speed of eight to 10 km per hour.
There is also a newer model which has a speed of about
12 los per hour.
(d) The medium-sized (SRT) trawler which is used in the Far
East and in the Murmansk area does not operate in the
Caspian.
8. The saltwater fleet has the same types of craft as the river
fleet but in addition it has several other types of vessels,
as follows:
(a) Seiners: Around Astrakhan there are about 40 wooden
seiners of 70 to 80 gross tons with a square stern. They
are 30 m long, six meters wide, and use combined sail
and motor propulsion. The engine is the Balinger type
of 35 to 40 hp, with a speed of two to three kilometers
per hour. The exhaust is on the side of the vessel.,
which has no stack. The crew consists of about 10 men.
Since 1949 some new wooden seiners of the same size have
been added to the fleet. These have the conventional
sloping stern, two masts, and are equipped with Diesel
engines, or tractor engines operating on kerosene, Which
gives them speeds of about eight km per hour. The crew
is 10 to 12 men. 'about 20 seiners of this 25X1
type.
(b) Tugs: 'There are 30 or more wheel-type tugboats,. all
or 50 years old. They vary in size from 20 to 40 m
in length; they have 100ete 200-hp engines with a speed
of some eight km per hour. They burn fuel oil (topochnyy
razut) and have crews of 25 men. The largest tug is the
40-yearso1d Tkaph Petr Alekseyey , with a 400-bp steam
engine. It is a wheel-type tug, 50 in long, 10 amide,.
which makes about 10 km per hour. Its crew consists of
25 men. This tug, as well as most of the others, has
a two-way radio station, equipped with P-1 type receivers,
and uses the Morse code but no cipher.
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I The floating fish plants have the
, radio equipment as the tugs.
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) Is an CTit: ertalialifInt id.p (KA :Lk'irokhod.) ?th?
(..0'371f whch tray Is among the fish plahts wit
?"-istiiraiY*6.7i11 movies , it is a former Volga River
asenger vessel with two decks,
(4) ebreakers:
to ao.4 real icdbreake is the 40-year614:-..;
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Serfp Ordzhoniktd&e, which belongs to the Chief DIrectOrate.::
Ot-thevagoicihing Indm3tvics? It is 60 m long and
10 mwide? has two propellers and two steam engineS,' each-
of 200 hp,, it lo not a reliable ship and requires
.2requent ropairs. ..12n addition there are two tugs of. the.
V'yuga tYPe4J' ahich have been transfq411041-44d::
30metimes um-td as ,Loebreakers, Each has a trreeto
wides'';i;eel belt, eight to 10 in thiek arr-arouttd:..
'qte ship's body -.;r1 -p6-.4tiftt operation aa icebrealcorS.'.They
have diesel. enc;Aesan can make 1? an per hour_., These
o tugs belong i another organization, the Dix torate:
of Roadstado Todhnica7,.. Rey4TekhFlot)0
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r thRt they were obtained after the
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9. The clei ireotorat,3, has its own airfield in Astra:Khan and abput ?
five dane of the tyde IJT-;:!, These planes are used primarily...:
for azT..r r onnaissance to locate schools of fish or stranded; -
fishingcraft, In special cases the planes serve for it4181bh
betwe!,,n e agencies of the directorae,
? 10. The d.-:,ref_rt:orate s repair anl construction facilities donsist
of several repair basos for seiners and the Shipyard 1,41 Kirov..
orf,7-2,:ai,It :Location a.:,* this sha_pyard see USAF Complex Mosaic '
b?er1e 7 Agtrakhan,, 140 0248-9999-2-25W; Center of Target ..
11099-;Y?06g Thls ship7paz-ti builds about two motor boats a month
of the type c.--zosorlhed above, 1ee paragraph 7c7 Most of them.
? are for the ,IAler liroctorate;? although at times such boats are
sold to other organizations,. The engines are not manufactUrdd*
in th--,,Tard but come probably f'romt
Gorki, any -rate from sOMO place on the Volga,. The steel
? plate u Ni in the building of these motor hots Ln shipped
to th! i,:ihip:trard from some unia2o3pin place -
11. The Shjp-jad :i,64.1 Kirov has the following Installation
launching platforms o which the boats are built
the nra4:thiner:i installed before launching,'
A boiler shop with two medium-sized steel rolling machineS
sed for the shaping of steel plate in making the hUlls.
hull Ehop (Sudo-Korpushyy Tseldt)1 equipped with oven
..t4or heating the steel plate, and welding and rlveti
tcpparatnn assemY,ling 1,,he hulls. Rive ng and
011ly done by hand,
chl..x.e. bop vdhere the steel plate Is finished
()Illation oil he 4,(1,u,'Ipmert used in this shop,:..
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* forge and pipe shop, equipped-with four steam hammers, ,
each weighing two or three tons, and a pipe bending machine,
The pipe is filled with sand for the latter operation,
(f) An assembly work shop which handles everything except the
work on the hulls and the engines. In this shop there
are a number of machines such as lathes, filing machine04
planers, and vises.
12. In this shipyard there are about 400 workers Who work in one
shift, eight hours per day and 48 hours per week. The average
wage is 500 to 600 rubles per month. All these workers live
in a common housing project which includes a mess, a club-
houses: and a library. The whole projects surrounded by a
wooden fence two meters high, iA continually under the
surveillance of a militarized guard. .
13. There are numerous repair bases (Rembaza) which handle the
seiners. A large part of the repairs is done by the crews on
the individual vessels. One of the most serious difficulties,
however, is the shortage of oakum used in caulking. The BAlvir
Shipyard does not normally do any repair work,
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where the seiners 'are built; it mem be in a
shipyard at Mordovshchikovo 27532N-4212g7and I
the Ministry of Shipbuilding is buildfing seiners somewhere on
the Volga.
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Shipyard I/N Kirov was only used by the Directorate
of Caspian Fishing Industries but that it actually
belonged administratively to the Ministry of the
River Fleet,
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