SOVIET UNION MILITARY - ECONOMIC REPORT

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• Publication Date: March 25, 1943
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SOVIET UNION MILITARY-ECONOMIC REPORT
Translated from the German Report
Dated: 25 March 1943
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LAW 513, 81ST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION. ITS TRANS-
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During the Second World War the German Signal Intelligence Control
Center of the Staff of the Chief of Army Signal Service (HNW, LNA)
issued a series of reports to show the USSR military-economic
situation as reflected in Russian internal plain language traffic.
These reports appeared at short, irregular intervals, usually six
per month, for the period October 1942-March 1943FOlAhBoi -three
Fc(DIa reports have been ;ranslated and issued by
It is planned to issue a complete set of translations of the reports
beginning with the most recF)l AgNavorking backward, but omitting
those already translated by The numbering of
the items was added by the translFiQIAbaae the Germans did this
only in the last eighteen reports, inclusive. Since
the original material was in Russian, an effort has been made when
translating the German to determine the original Russian term
wherever possible. This is facilitated by the Russian fondness for
abbreviations. In these translations into English the probable mean-
ing of the abbreviation will be given in parenthesis the first time
it occurs in each report.
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Military-Economic Report
(Based on domestic radio traffic)
25 March 1943
More Important Reports
(1) In radio communications of the Civil Air Fleet, a message of 22 March
from Kazan to Moscow mentioned an Ob. Division ("Obskij Detachment"?). It
could not be determined whether this was a flight unit.
(2) In a message of 24 March from Novosibirsk (?) to Moscow, a Chuzov
Group was mentioned for the first time.
(3) In a message of 22 March from Moscow to Irkutsk, a 407 Aviation
Repair Base with Railway Station Mstera (270 km. ENE of Moscow) was men-
tioned on the Gorkij Railway Line.
(4) The addressee of a message of 22 March from Moscow to Irkutsk (?)
confirmed the location of Flight Group Mazuruk as Yakutsk. (Compare Daily
Report 26/2).
(5) A conversation between Alma Ata and Aktyubinsk indicates that an
organization of women-tractor -brigades is planned.
Personnel Situation
(6) Omsk NKRF is not fulfilling the plan for the training of personnel.
Only 35. of 60 captains and mechanics' helpers took part in the training.
(7)
NKRF Krasnoyarsk is assigning for practical training:
Ship machinists
Ship motor pilots
50 men
90
Radio service managers
60
(8)
Mobilizations are being carried out in the second quarter for logging
operations. These include :
Enisej Steamship Agency 300 men
Shipyard in Pridivinsk 70
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($) Ulan Ude NKRF is assigning for practical training
Ship machinists
40 men
Pilots
40
Blagoveshchensk NKRF:
Ship machinists
35 men
(1.0) Mobilizations were carried out in the second quarter for logging
operations including:
Chita NKRF to the Upper Amur Steamship Agency
95 men
Khabarovsk NKRF to the Upper Amur Steamship Agency
80
Lower Amur Steamship Agency
60
Food Situation
(11) Ust-Usa NKRF. The delivery offices are obliged, for timber procure-
ment and floating operations, to ship by 25 March feed grain, food and industrial
products from the first quarter allocation and 25%a of the second quarter allocation.
(12) For management personnel of Chardzhou NKRF 53 additional noon
rations have been established in the second quarter.
(13) Barnaul NKRF will receive 600 kilograms of flour in March.
(14) Ulan Ude NKRF will receive 150 kilograms of dog food in March.
(15) By suitable measures NKRF Yakutsk is to prevent the spoilage of 80
tons of grain which became wet from the sea.
Material Supply
Tiflis
(16) In April Plant "Generator" will receive 12 carloads of airplane parts
from Sverdlovsk.
(17) On 15 March the Chief Directorate for Aviation of the NKVD received
an order for 1, 000 tons of cement. The deliveries have not yet taken place.
Metal Supply
(18) River Fleet Supply in Gorkij is to ship 500 kilograms of galvanized
roofing sheet to Moscow NKRF.
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(19) Gorodets NKRF will receive 20 tons of cast iron.
(20) Novosibirsk NKRF will receive 47 tons of sheet metal from an NKRF.
plant in Molotov and 20 tons of sheet metal from an NKRF plant in Kuznetsk.
Oil Supply
(21) Only 50 tons of mazut instead of the required 350 tons were authorized
for the electricity plant in Ordzhonikidze. The electricity plant and industry had
to discontinue work.
Coal Supply
(22) Instead of Sangar coal Yakutsk NKRF is to receive for the 1943
navigation period 3, 000 tons of coal from "Zagokhaisk" and 20, 000 tons of coal
from "Aldansk. "
Textile Supply
(23) Krasnodar Grain Procurement requires tar paulin-tilts to cover the
grain from the burnt-down granaries, and 50 units each are required for Armavir,
Kropotkin, Tikhoretsk and Krasnodar.
(24) Ilijsk NKRF cannot deliver 3 1 /2 tons of rope because of the lack of
hemp.
(25) Chardzhou NKRF will receive 15 tons of rope and 20 tons of hemp
Chemical Supply
(26) Gorkij River Fleet Supply will receive 1 ton of caustic soda from
Chief Directorate for Chemical Sales in March.
(27) Sverdlovsk NKRF, River Fleet Supply,
Omsk NKRF
Novosibirsk NKRF
Krasnoyarsk NKRF
Semipalatinsk NKRF
will deliver additionally to:
solid caustic potash
is 11 to
Amu Darya Steamship Agency "
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(28) The combine in Noril will deliver to the Enisej River Fleet:
Ammonal-explosive (?) 13 tons
Detonators 13, 000 units
Firing tape 6, 600 meters
Production
(29) The Timber Industry in Erivan requires material and parts for the
building of 5, 200 two-horse vehicles in 1943.
(30) The March distribution plan of electric current for Power Sales in
Yaroslavl:
Output in kw. Quantity in 1, 000 kwh.
Lock in Rybinsk
15
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Wharf "Volodarskij"
285
35
Dock Rybinsk
30
9
Dock Yaroslavl
20
6
Fishery Harbor
30
20
Workshops in Yaroslavl
20
15
(31) A plant "Lenin", which manufactures spare parts for tractors, was
mentioned in Blagoveshchensk.
Transport Situation
(32) The Transcaucasian Railway is obliged to make the following cars
available in March:
Chemical Factory Kirovakan
22 cars
Distribution of cars
Kazan
5
Ryazan-Ural
4
Kujbyshev
3
Omsk
3
Tomsk
2
Perm
2
East Siberia
1
Transcaucasus
1
Kaganovich
1
To Carbide Factory #1 in Erivan
4 cars
Distribution of cars
Far East
1
Ural
1
Kujby sh ev
1
Kazan
1
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