SOVIET UNION MILITARY - ECONOMIC REPORT

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• Publication Date: March 26, 1943
• Content Type: REPORT

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SOVIET UNION MILITARY-ECONOMIC REPORT
Translated from the German Report
Dated: 26 March 1943
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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 1943. WWathree
F6tAbBese reports have been translated and issued by
It is planned to issue a complete set of translations of the re-
ports beginning with the most recent Fa.QLAkin
omitting those already translated by
ing of the items was added by the trans
this only in the last eighteen reports,
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 fond-
ness for abbreviations. In these translations into English the
probable meaning 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)
26 March 1943
More Important Reports
(1) The following were identified in radio communications of the Civil
Air Fleet: In a coded message of 15 March from Gur'ev to Moscow and Kujby-
shev, the Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet in Baku was mentioned for the first
time. The double addressee confirms the presumption expressed in the daily
report of 23 March that a part of the Chief Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet
has its headquarters in Kujbyshev.
(2) In a coded message of 16 March from Kazan (?) to Sverdlovsk, the
207th Flight Division was mentioned for the first time.
(3) In the NKRF office in Khabarovsk, several members received a
bonus in the amount of a month's wages for good performances.
(4) According to plan, the NKRF Directorate in Krasnoyarsk has to
float the following quantities from its own timber procurements:
During the entire 1943 navigation period
100, 000 cubic meters
Including in the 2nd quarter
60, 000
To be transported on rafts in the entire
navigation period
60,
000 tons
In the 2nd quarter
30,
000 "
To be transported in April
5,
000 cubic meters
In Krasnoyarsk Oblast' 300 workers are being mobilized for this work.
(5) The NKRF Directorate in Khabarovsk has to float the following
qua ntitie s
During the entire 1943 navigation period
23, 000 cubic meters
Including in the 2nd quarter
15,000 to
to
To be transported on rafts in the entire
navigation period
10, 000 tons
In the 2nd quarter
8,000 4
bic meters
000
To be transported in April
cu
,
In the 2nd quarter a total of 60 workers is being
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(6) According to a government decree, the NKRF offices received
permission to use the entire fish catch for its own needs. In Ulan Ude the
Baikal Fish Trust illegally seized the fishing equipment and 70% of the fish
catch from the NKRF enterprises. Moscow warned the Fish Trust to dis-
continue this measure immediately and return the seized fish and equipment.
Personnel Situation
47) The following numbers of students were transferred to the following
NKRF offices for practical training:
NKRF Office
Trade
Number
Transferred From
Ust Usa
Ship machinists
20
Ship motor pilots
20
Kujbyshev
Radio technicians
176
Technical School,
Gorkij
Radio technicians
95
Technical School,
Kazan
Ulan Ude
Ship machinists
40
Local trade school
Pilots
40
Local trade school
Krasnoyarsk
Ship machinists
50
NKRF Trade School
Ship motor pilots
90
N KRF Trade School
Radio operators
60
NKRF Trade School
Blagoveshchensk Ship machinists 35
Local trade school
(8) In accordance with the order of the State Defense Committee, a
shipyard school for 200 students is to be erected at the shipyard in Baturino.
(9) For logging operations in the 2nd quarter 230 persons are being
mobilized for the NKRF in the Kujbyshev and Ulyanovsk Oblasti. These include
80 men assigned to the Middle-Volga Steamship Agency.
Food Situation
Tiflis
(10) As of 15 March, the Georgian Vegetable Trade dried 44 tons of
potatoes and 28 tons of vegetables.
(11) The distillery produced 20, 000 liters of alcohol in March.
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(12) In March the procurement office in Krasnodar procured:
Wheat
5, 318 tons
including burned
1, 700
Barley
including burned
1,323
150
Sunflowers
8, 512
including at the oil
plant
300
Maize
64 "
Millet
230 "
Oats
51 "
Castor bean oil
752 "
Soya
50 "
Flax
11 "
Total 11, 311 tons
(13) The Mill Directorate in Stavropol set up the following plan for
the 2nd quarter:
Flour 55, 000 tons
Groats 1,260 "
Oil 20 to
(14) For the first quarter Gur'ev NKRF is to receive 450 tons of fish
from the Fish Sales.
(15) Barnaul NKRF will receive 2 tons of feed grain from the local
grain procurement office for March.
Metal Supply
(16) Plant "Teplokhod" in Gorkij is to receive 1 1/2 tons of wire in
March from the Sales for Metal Industrial Products.
(17) Kujbyshev NKRF requires for March cast iron, 50 tons, copper
plate (for the manufacture of diving suits) 820 kilograms, brass plate (for the
manufacture of diving suits) 350 kilograms.
(18) Irkutsk NKRF requires 10 tons of assorted iron.
Oil Supply
(19) In February Uralsk NKRF received only 15 tons of fuel oil instead
of 100 tons. The March allotments, on the whole, are not being delivered.
(20) In March Oil Sales in Stalingrad will deliver 2 1/2 tons of petroleum
to Stalingrad NKRF.
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(2 1) Krasnoyarsk NKRF will receive 9 tons of automobile gasoline
for the February limit from the Chief Directorate for Oil Sales.
Timber Supply
(22) In April Gorkij NKRF, Chief Directorate for Timber Supply, is to
ship:
To the ship repair yard "Teplokhod" in 5 carloads sawdust packing,
Mkhovye Gory
To the ship repair yard "25 October" in 4 carloads sawdust packing
Ufa
(23) For April 9 carloads of sawdust packing are scheduled for Ufa
NKRF. Ufa itself is to guarantee its requirements for March.
Clothing Supply
(24) On 22 March Tiflis Shoe Trade had an inventory of 4, 152 pair.
(25) According to a decree of the Chief Directorate for Textile Sales
in Baku, two carloads of sewing thread (including 75, 000 rolls of shoe thread)
which were destined for the Chief Directorate for Textile Sales in Erivan
were stopped and transferred to the factories in Baku. This order was a
mistake in routing on the part of the Textile Sales. The carrying out of Army
orders was consequently delayed.
(26) The Armenian Tobacco Industry in Erivan requires for the 2nd
quarter the authorization of 40 tons of yarn instead of binding thread.
Chemical Supply
(27), Gorkij NKRF is to deliver 2 drums of carbide to Plant "25 October"
and 1 drum to Plant "Karl Marx. "
Production
(28) Gorkij NKRF is behind in the delivery of ships which have been
repaired.
(29) Novosibirsk NKRF will receive for the erection of an electric
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From Blagoveshchensk 1 locomobile
1 generator
From Moscow 2 portable generators
From the Steamship Agency 1 motor #17
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