CASPIAN DRY CARGO STATE STEAMSHIP COMPANY, MINISTRY OF THE MERCHANT FLEET

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• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Caspian Dry Cargo State Steamship Company,
Ministry of the Merchant r'leet;
DATE OF
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 193
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LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
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1. The Caspian Dry Cargo State Steamship Company (Kaspiyskoye Gosudarstvennoye
Sukhogruznoye Parokhodstvo-KaspFlot) was one of the. steamship companies administered
by GlavYuzhFlot and subordinate to the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet through the
Chief Directorate of the Southern Fleet. KaspFlot's administration was in Baku, #5
Ulitsa Dzhaparidze. KasuFlot's director was General Director MF third class Grigoriy
Ivanovich Tsibuzgin. Actually, Tsibuzgin was first deputy (chief engineer)of
KaspFlot, and was appointed acting director of KaspFlot. The second deputy director
was Captain MF first class (fnu) Sel uminov ? the third deputy director was chief of
the KaspFlot personnel section.
2. KaspFlot was organized as an independent steamship company in 1923 when the Caspian
Steamship Company (Kaaspiyskoye Parokhodstvo-KasPar) was reorganized and divided into
three independent steamship companies: KaspFlot, KaspTa,nker, and ReydTanker.
3. The task of KL.spFlot was transport of freight and passengers between the Caspian
seaports of Baku, Krasnovodsk, Ma;kha:ach Kala, and Astrakhan. Occasionally, transports
were effected to Pahlevi,..3and.ar Shah, Resht, and Lenkoran.
4. The main cargoes transported by KaspFlot were as follows:
STATE
ARMY
a. Raw cotton from Kra.snovodsk to Astrakhan and Baku. To Baku went mainly varie-
gated cotton;
b. Rock salt from Kara Bogaz Gol to Krasnovodsk, Baku, and Astrakhan. This salt was
used as raw material for the manufacture of fertilizers and for metallurgical processin,
c. Kitchen salt shipped from Elton and Baskunchak salt mines to Astrakhan and Baku;
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(d) Timber'from'Astrakhan (originating in the Kama region) to
Baku and Krasnovodsk;
(e) Foodstuffs, mainly fruit, vegetables, and wire from Kraenovodek
to Baku and Astrakhan, from Baku to Astrakhan and Kraenovodek,
and from Nakhach Kala to Astr h n;
(f) Maehinery'and equipment from Bak, aid Makhaoh Kala to Astrakhan
and Kraenovodek;
(g} Grain from Baku to Krasnovodsk;
(h) Drinking water from Baku to Kraenovodek.
KaspFlot maintained the following passenger transport lines: Baku-
Ast.rAkhan-Baku; Baku-Makhaoh Kala-Baku; Baku-Kraenovodek-Baku;
Makhach Kala-Astrakhan-Makhaoh Kala.
The 1951 transport plan for KaspFlot called for transport of four
million tons of freight with, the following breakdown:
,noomi, Cargoes
~IMIYIIMYI IM
Quantity Tot Tot Tot Tot
17-22 o Caro min on A " han MLkA&ob Kill KragniYods
Raw cotton
Machinery and
equipment
Timber
Rook salt
Kitchen salt
Grain
Foodstuffs
Drinking water
Total
0.6 0.2 0.4
0.8 0.4 0,1 0.3
0$0.3 001 0.1
0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1
0.4 o.4
0.7 0.7
0.4 002 0.1 011
0.2 0,2
4.0 l l 1.1
Q ing,,, ara~oee
Quart 4 Prams Front Front Prom:
TZrte of aaraea 11As jZ he Makhao Kalil Kraenovodek
1 J 9611, All
Raw cotton 0.6
Machinery and 0.8 0.5 011 0.2
equipment
Timber 0,3
Rook salt 0.4
Kitchen salt 0.4
Grain 0.7 0.7
0.5
0.4
0.6
0.4
'Foodstuffs 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.1
Drinking water 0.2 002
Total 4.0 1.6
1.0 0.3
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7. Thee T/O of KaspFlot administration was, as follows:
(a) Under the first deputy director (chief engineer) were the
following sections:
(1) Marine Engineering Ze;c':itice (Mekhaniko-Sudovaya Sluzhba) t
T/O 17 employees: chief,, ?;v,% senior engineers, four
engineers, four group engirt'?'fi'ti one chief engineer thermmo-
technician, two thermmo-technical engineers, and three thereto-
technicians. Maintenance and repair of the KaapFlot fleet
was done mainly at Parizhskaya Konmu ,a ship repair yard in
Baku.
(2) Designing 13ureau (Proektno-.Konstuictorskoye Byuro - PK,B) t
T/O 12 employees: chief, three senior engineers, four
engineers, two toolinicians, and one. archive clerk;
(3) Teohnioal supply Section: T/O 14 employees: chief, dsputy
chief, planning engineer, two economists who were experts
on metals, three buyers, one warehouse meager, and'five
warehouse receptionistas;
(4) Transport motor Pool: T/O 15 employees: three administra-
tive clerics and 12 drivers and stevedores j
(5-) Construction Section (Otdel Kapital tnogo Stroitel t stva) t '
T/O three employees: chief, one engineer, and one technician.
(b) Under the second deputyy (director-chief of operation) were the
following sections:
(1) Fleet Operation , er~-.i,6.e . , Sluahba Ek5ploatatsii a T/O l8
employees; chief, Captain P' ' third class (tau) Fayfer$
four senior dispatchers, four dispatchers, two senior
engineers, four engineers, two technicians, and one seoretaryj
(2) Commercial Section T/O three employees: chief, senior
economist, and economist.
(3) Maritime Inspectorate: T/C 11 employtee: chief, senior
inspector, two iniapeotoraa, four instructors, two deviators,
and one radio navigator,,
(a) Under the third deputy (director-chief of personnel) were the
following eeations9
(1) Personnel Section;, T/O eight employees t chief, deputy
chief, two senior inspectors* three inspectors, and one
secretary j
(2) Mobilization Sectiona T/O three employees; chief, senior
inspector, and inspector;
(3) Billeting Seotiona. T/O eight employees
(d) Directly under the KaspPlot director were the following sections:
(1) Office of the Director: T/O four employees: legal
advisor, technician, and two secretaries;
(2) Planning Section: T/O six employees: chief Son Lt
Administrative Service NP (fnu) Wisher,, one senior..
engineer, two engixeers, and - two e00nomiste3
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(3) Labor and Wage Section T/0 five employees: chief,, Sen Lt
MP Mariya'Oleshina (female), one senior engineer, two
engineers, and one technician;
(4) Accounting Office: T/O seven employees: chief, deputy
chief, three senior accountants, and two accountants;
(5) 'Finance Section: chief, 'ec on:,, mist, and cashier;
(6) Secret Document and Cipher Section: T/O seven employees:
chief, two senior inspectors, and four inspectors;'
(7) Administrative Section: T/O 14 employees: chief,
executive, registry-clerk, archive-clerk, mail-clerk, courier,
two typists, three drivers, and three cleaning women;
(8) Signal Sections T/O 37 employees: chief, senior engineer,
engineer, chief radio bureau, chief radio station, four
senior radio operators, eight radio operators, four typists,
three senior radio technicians, six radio' technicians,
three radio mechaanics, four auxiliary workers.
Training of KaspFlot personnel was effected by the company training
school of KaspTanker.
99 KaspFlot did not have an independent newspaper. There was a news-
paper, 8ol'shevik Kaspiy ,, edited by KaspTenker, which also serviced
K spPlot.
10. Maintenance and repair of KaaspFlot buildings was handled by the
RemStroyUohastok of KaspTanher.
U. The KaspPlot fleet was divided into the following eight basic groups:
(a) Three freight-passenger diesel ships with displacement of five
thousand tons, constructed in 1938 at Zavod Imeni Zhdanova. They
had two propellers, and two compressor-t a six-cylinder. MAN
diesel engines with a total capacity of.1606-2 00 120 rpm.
Their speed when empty was 14-15 mph; when loaded, 1 mph.
Their names were: !sta , Turkmenistan , Raairoy
(b) seven frei t-passen
er:dissel ships w1th displacement-of
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500.3000 ons, manu aotured in 19 -g at Mod 3meni Zhdanova
some were manufactured abroad) . They were equipped AM two.
co ressor-t e, Mix-cylinder MAN diesel engines w th a 6 : acit
Of 1500-1800, .1 0-150 rem. Thos r gnwwd^ ruw w 1 -r~ yoade
Eight fret t diesel shipps, with displacement of 100:0-1400 tons,.
constructed abroad around 1925. They were eqquipped with two 5X1
propellers and two Ballinder Deutz, or MAN diesel engines with
l0 otal capacity of 1000-1100 hp, 150 m Their speed was
Sixteen steam engine freighters with displacement of 800-1500 tans,
?marnufactured in 1908-12 in Sweden and Germany. They had mostly
two propellers and two steam engines of Compound make, total
capacity of 1000-1400 hp and 120-150 rpm, Their speed was 10 h
unloaded gad Seven amh loadod- F IF
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(e) 311 -16 eight diesel freighters wit1 dieplaoemeet of 800-1000 tons,
received afterWorld War II'.as reparations from 4ermsny. They,
ere equipped with single:German-make diesel engines of 640.800
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mph
ho's 200- Their-'speed was 14 .h unloaded and 11
loaded
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(f) Ten diesel tugboats manufaotured Lax 1946-48 at Zavod Vano Sturua
US"*. These were one-propeller type tugs with single eight-
AV l?inder'Washington-make diesel engines of 500 hp an m.
was 12 h unloaded and nine h loaded.
.(g) Ten to 12 barges acid lighters (old ships with engines removed)
with displacement of 1000-1200 tons
(h). Fifteen to 90 auxiliary, vessels: launchers, port-t s'
pleshkouti shallow barges) of various manufacture and types.
ii. $hsp personnel of XaspPlot consisted of two thousand peoplej-shore
personnel was approximately 150-200 people.
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