CLASSIFICATION OF NAVIGATORS AND MECHANICS IN THE MERCHANT FLEET

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• Publication Date: December 5, 1952
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Classification of Navigators and Mechanics in
the Merchant Fleet
DATE DISTR. 5 December 19.152
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AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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Navigators
1. The USSR Merchant Fleet Code classifies navigators into six groups; these navigators
hold the following positions with the Soviet Merchant Marines
a. Navigators of vessels u to 200 register tons (Sudovoditeli Malomernykh. Sudov do
200 ton Nosivosti are referred to as Dvukhsottoniki. The minimum educational
requirement is completion of a company training school (Uchebno-Ifursovoy Kombi.nat),
b. Coastal shipping navigators (Shturman Malogo Plavaniya) must have completed a
navigation school or a company training school. They are authorized to hold the
position of 2nd Assistant Captain on coastal shipping vessels up to 3,000 tons and
on overseas vessels up to 1,500 tons. According to the code regulations,they may
not occupy the position of skipper on any vessel. Because of the shortage of nav--
igators,some unofficially hold skipper positions, especially on coastal lines.
c. Navigators of overseas shipping lines (Shturman Dal)nego Plavaniya) must have
attended a higher or an ordinary navigation school and have had 24 months'pr?ac-
tical experience as a sailor, 18 months as a navigator on coastal shipping lines,
and have held a skipper?s position on overseas shipping vessels up to 4,000 tons.
On larger overseas ships these navigators perform the duties of a 1st officer.
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(d) Captain of coastal shipping lines (Kapitan Malogo Plavaniya).
captain must have the same educational requirements as a
navigator of overseas shipping lines and several years
practical experience in lower positions. He is authorized
to.hold the position of captain on all coastal and overseas
: vee$els up to six .'thousand tons. .
Captain of overseas lines (Kapitan Dal'nego Plavaniya). To hold
this position the Idivi ual must have attended a higher or . an
.ordinary navigation school and have had many years of practical
experience in lower positions. He is authorized to hold a captain
position on all vessels, regardless of tonnage.
Ca.- .with high diploma, more recently called {'Engineer
must have attended a higher navigation school or-the Leningrad
Engineering Institute of Water Transport and have had considerable
practical experience. He is authorized to hold the position of
captain on all ships. He is automatically promoted according
to his practical experience?
ap a n (Kap tan s V yse im Diplomom or Inzhener Sudovoditel' )
2..? In order'to be promoted to the next higher group, all personnel listed
required for this position. A marine mechanic second class must
also have had practical experience for 12 months as a stoker,
12, months in a ship repair yard, six months as an engine operator,
and '12,months in the position of mechanic third class. A member
of this groupie authorized to hold the position of operator
of steam and Diesel engines up to eight thousand hp or be second,,
third,or fourth class mechanic on ships with'engines of more than
eight thousand hp..
omp e on o .a ?g error an ordinary navigation school' is.
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above, except a captain with a diploma*must go before a special
examining board composed of port authorities and a group of
specialists from the nearest navigation school. Diplomas are granted
by the office of first class port captains; Baku on the Caspian Sea,
Odessa on the Black Sea, and Leningrad on the Baltic were the only
ports, which were considered first class.
Marine Mechanics
3.. The USSR Merchant Fleet Code classifies marine 'mechanics into four.
groups:
(a) Mar.t.ne Mechanic 3rd C.1.asa (Sudovoy Mekhanik III razryada). This
group s su v ded InTo Diesel engine mechanics (motorist) and
steam engine mechanics (machinist). Mechanics third class must
have completed, a course in a higher navigation. school, an
ordinary navigation school, or a company training school. They
are also required to have had l2 - months" practical experience
As stoker, six months?experience as a steam engine operator (or
Diesel motorist),,and six months experience in ship repair yar6a
for steam or Diesel engines. They are authorized to hold
positions as operators of steam and Diesel engines up to two.
thousand hp (indikatornykh loshadinykh sil) and positions of
second,, third, and fourth class mechanics on ships with engines
up to six thousand hp.
(b) marine Mechanic Second' Clara (Sudovoy Mekhanik t2 .r.,asrya.da)
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o) Marine Nechanic..'irst Class (Sudovoy Mekhanik I razryada).
A mechanic of this rank is required to have the same education
as a..Marine Mechanic Second Class. In addition, his practical
experience rust include 12 months as a stoker, six months as an
engine operator, 24 months in a ship repair yard, and 12 months
as a Marine Mechanic Seed Cla..gs : He is authorized to operate..
all' ship engines and Diesels : re. ar le o their power ,
Marine Engineer (Inzhener Sudomekhanik).. He must have attended
a b1per navigation school or the Marine Engineering Institute in
Odessa. He is required to have had. the same practical experience
as. a Marine Mechanic First Class, and is authorized to hold the
..same positions.
To be promoted., all mechanics, except a marine engineer, must pass,
the examinations given by a board similar to that set for
navigators. The examination for promotion for Mechanic Second. Class,
in the Diesel is very difficult because of the detailed theoretical
knowledge published,on Diesel engines used in the Soviet Merchant
Fleets .
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Czechoslovakia
Construction of an Air Raid Shelter in Prague-
DATE DISTR. 12 December 1952
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1. A new underground shelter is located in Prague-Nusle between the Belohradska
trida and Folimaxka park. Work was begun on it in 191+9"and has been continuous
since then. In addition to being an air raid shelter, the construction is
expected to be suitable for an ammunition storage area or military telephone
exchange.
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entryway. The left. branch passage runs about SO m. in a westerly direction. The
depth to which thelassagoo descend is not known. Viewed from the outside i s"s=
left branch appears to descend to about 30 m. and the right branch to about 20 m,
below the:surf&?e. Other. entrances A*M the one described are not visi e.1
From the'outside.-of the shelter one can see two openings 2 m. x-2 m. which appear,t.)
to be ventilator shafts.
locations. The labor corps Imm been completely changed several times. This
precaution is said to have been exercised each time a section was completed, and
it ")roved effective in maintaining secrecy.
The entrance to the shelter, which is 2 m. wide, 1.70 m, high and secured with isn
iron grille:, isclose to the strfttcl,r atop on the Belohradska trida. Behind
the entrance -a-..passageway runs for 10:m,,terminating at a blank wall. Steel
plate doors to:the left and right of this point open onto extensions of th
2. Access of laborers to the construction has been-limited to their own work
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coxiento There may be o or more additional entrances fro the shelter
Institute. All three of these were marked with a and cross during the y
last war,
4164M some ding in the neighborhood. Buildings which might be considered
alrel; the Children's Hoapitalj the Anatomical Instituted and the Universit
LComnt. as of mid-August 195250X1-HUM
that air rra Viere pia been built under the Children's Hospital at 50X1-HUM
the southwest corner of Karlova Square.
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"JEhe. old -~J`'i.vohrady ramparts
h . t.dr r~. Q s playground and pool on 'K rl.ova Square
'erJ,iiatjo:ra. openings ahove the shelter
Belohrad,ska trida
Stre -tcar.? stop Pod Karloven.
Erit:rence to the shelter
St,ret t' Pod Kariovem
The S]l tation A for control of a small, area
Nar-: r foc1t,pe .h
Sa:.vage eolll.ec tlon. poi..:n tg wooden but and. wire fence
S'ajevska street,
Vege t,dbi e garden
Bo t:i:c stream
Sekani.novo Emhan1me.rit
,?, o, ks of"; buil .n.gs in :Nusle
Wooden bridge :fo.rn pi dest,ri.aris
Foi.?xka Park, ir. which buildings have been pulled down. and children$s playgrounds
are beiy 1.&Y tl putt d
oundari, s of the hill. Pod Ka i ovem
Approximate area of the underground shelter.
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