BLACK SEA PETROLEUM STATE SHIPPING COMPANY, MINISTRY OF THE MERCHANT FLEET

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• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 6 February 1953
State Shipping Company, NO: OF PAGES 4
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The Black Sea Petroleum State Shipping Company (Chernomorskoye Gosudarstvennoye,
Neftenalivnue Parokhodstvo-SovTanker) was one of three petroleum shipping companies
(KasbTanker, ReydTanker, and SovTanker) subordinate to the Ministry of the Merchant
Fleet through the Chief Directorate of Petroleum Shipping Fleet-GlavNefteFlot.1,
The administration of SovTanker was in Odessa.4Abant it was Moved, in 1946 from
Tuapse.
2. Head of S,ovTanker was General Director MF third class (fnu) Rukin. Under Rukin
were the head of the political department and three deputy directors. The First
Deputy was chief engineer of SovTanker; the Second Deputy was chief of operations,
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3. SovTanker was established approximately in 1925, when the Black Sea Steamship Com-
bany (Upravleniye Chernomorskogo Parokhodstva-UChP) was reorganized and two in-
dependent steamship companies were created in its place: Black Sea Dry Cargo Steam-
ship Company and Black Sea Petroleum State Steamship Company.
4. SovTanker was responsible for the transport of crude oil and POL products on the
following Black Sea lines
a. Constanta - Odessa
b. Batumi - Odessa
c. Tuapse - Odessa
d. Novorossiysk - Odessa
e. Odessa Whale Fleet Slava (Kitoboynaya Ekspeditsiya Slava) operating in
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?The g0vTallker 1951 transport plan for oil and POL products called
for the ?transp4rt of 2.5 million tons of cargo as follows:
(s) COnstanta Odessa
(b) 7 Odissa
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(d) Novorossiys,k 7 Odesda
(4) Odessa Whale Fleet Slava
From Constants to Odessa transport was mainly of crude Rumanian oil
fro* the Flyeitil.egiOn; ?fron Batumi, Novoroesiysk, and Tuapme
10404port Was of,POL,prodicts of various types.
The detailed organization of SovTanker was as follows:
(a) Under the First Deputy Director, SovTanleeris Chief :Engineer,.
were the following sections:
(1) Wine-Engineering VQ:miribl *khanik9-Od0V4711 SlushhaYi
PersOnnell 8 - 10 engineers and several technioliss
(2) Designing 8UreaU .4 (Froektn0-XonstruktorehoYe BYure)..
Six engineers and technidiani.
(3) ,Oonstruction SectiOn. Three engineers and techniaians.
(,) Technical Supply licStion. Eight emPloYees.
(5) Transportation Section, Four admaietretive 00,1427$64 and
12 drivers and stevedores.
(b) Under thm Second Deputy Director, Chief of SovTankeria,Operations,
were the following 'motions:
.(1) Operation, Twelve engineers, dispatcher :Aland technicians.
(2) Oommersial Section, Three employees.
110 Maritime InSpectorate. Sin aPPloriel, inelUdiRS on.
captain411structor and two milObanicsiiinstrnotOres
Under the Third Deputy Direotor, Chief of Personnel, were the
following sections:
(1) Personnel Section. Six employees.
(2) MobilizatiOn'Section. .Three emploYeee.
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(3) BilletingSection (Zhilishohno-Kommunal nyy Otdel).
TwelVe employees.
) Directly under the Director of SoVTanker were the following
fractions:
.(1). Office of the Director. This officeL was composed of a
legal advisor, technician, secretary, and stenotypist.
00 Signal Section. There were six employeee in the adMinictra-
ti6o.and approximately 30 in field offices (radio station,
repair shop, etc).
1.0 million tons
0.8 million tons
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oott million tons
0.02 - 0.030 million tons
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Planning Section. Five employees
Labor and Wage Section. Four employees.
Accounting Office. it nmployeeen
Finance Section. Three amployeseao
Secret Document and Cipher Section.
(8) Administrative Section. Ten employees.
Under the Head of the Political Department there was a political
section with approximately 15 employees. SovTanker did not have
its own newspaper. The newspaper Chernomorski Moryek? edited
by the Black Sea Dry Cargo Steansh1oay,n Odessa,
serviced both companies.
Repair and maintenance of SovTanker buildings were taken oars of by
the appropriate agenoiss of the Black Sea Dry Cargo Steamship CoMpanN.
dollanker had the following; regional steamship agencies:
(o) Constenta, This agency was oomposed of the agency head, deputy
head, two accountants, four engineers, two technicians, eight
dispatchers, eight dispatcher ...receptionists, four workers
(typists, office cleaning detail, etc).
(b) Odessa. The agency was located IR Peresypf, which is a suburb
Of Odessa. It was composed of the agency head (SlaVMerAgent),
deputy head (morAgent), three dispatchers, four dispateher
reeeptionists, and six laboratory personnel in charge of anima
analysis of incoming POL products transported by the MovTanker
fleet.
(a) Batumi. Exact location of the agency is unknown It was 25X1
composed of a OlavMorAgent, two MorAgents, two engineers, one
aoeountant, six dispateher-reoeptionists, four laboratory
workers, and four radio operators.
(d) Tuapse. do osed of one MorAgent, three dispatchers, four
dispatcher -receptionists, two laboratory workers, three radio
operators, one technioian, and one cashier.
) Novorossiysk. Exact location unknowns Composition: one
NOrAgent, three dispatchers, four dispatcher-receptioniete,
two laboratory workers, three radio operators, one technician
and one cashier.
Sonankerls fleet was composed of four basic groups of tankers,ae
follows:
(a) Three large diesel tankers manufactured in the late thirties.
They were each equipped with two diesel engines of total
capacity 1800 - 2100 hp, 120 rpm. Their speed empty was 14 mph,
loaded 10 - 11 mph. These were:
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Diesel tanker Moskva 0 displacement eight thousand tons;
Diesel tanker losif Stalin , displacement five thousand
tons;
Diesel tanker Eremli , displacement five thousand tons.
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Teti tiddle'size diesel tankergi with displacement of three
thousand tons, built in the twenties. They were each equipped
With,two'diosel engines of total capacity 1200 -,1300 hp,
120, = 150 rpm. When empty, their speed was 12 mph, loaded:
IO-Aph. the follmding tankers belonging to this
group* Sergo Pamir , Ararat , Tendra
Three small old diesel tankers with displacement of 1500 tons,
equipped with one diesel engine pf 752_12,2_,_1511_rpm. Their speed
was 12 Mph empty and 10 mph loaded. I Ionly one tanker
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with two propellers,
1600 hp, 120 rpm, and
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tankers with displacement of five thousand
the early twenties. They were equipped
two steam engines of total capacity of
two Scotch type boilers of 14- 15
One of these tankers was tumid fthp
In addition to tankers, SovTanker had about six lighters with
displacement of three to four thousand tons (old steamships
of which the engines had been disassembled), used as petroleum
barges,
10. Repair and maintenance work on SovTanker ships was done mostly at the
Dx0rzhinskiy ship repair yard in Tuapse. This shipyard belonged td
GlatMorPram. Sometimes maintenance and repair work was done at the
010MorProm ship repair yard Andre Marti in Odessa.
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