CHIEF DIRECTORATE OF THE PETROLEUM SHIPPING FLEET - MMF

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Chief Directorate of the Petroleum
Shipping Fleet - MMF
DATE DISTR.
26 March 1953
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DATE OF INFO.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Chief Directorate of the Petroleum Shipping Fleet (Glavnoye Upravleniye
Neftenalivnogo Flota - GlavNefteFlot) was one of the 10 chief directorates
(Glavks) of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet (MMF) , and was sub-25X1A
ordinate to the Minister through Deputy Minister (fnu Savinov. Head of this
directorate was Engineer Lt Commander (Navy) Lev Izrailyevich Serebryannyy.
Serebryannyy was very influential in the Ministry and, as an appointed member
of the Collegium of the MMF, had rights equivalent to the Deputy Minister of MMF.
As head of GlavNefteFlot, Serebryannyy had three deputies: First Deputy (chief
engineer of the directorate) was Sng Captain MF First Class Viktor Yevdokiyevich
Smyka, who was responsible for technical administration of GlavNefteFlot; Second
Deputy was General Director MF Third Class AleksandrIlyich Lennikov, in charge
of GlavNefteFlot operations; Third Deputy (chief dispatcher) was Captain MP Second
Class Pavel Rodionovich Kopylov, in charge of commercial utilization of the
GlavNefteFlot fleet, Although Kopylov was considered Third Deputy, his section
was subordinate to the Directorate through Lennikov. In this sense the relation-
ship of Kopylov to Lennikov was similar to that of Serebryannyy to Savinov.
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GlavNefteFlot was responsible for operation of the petroleum shipping companies
on the Caspian and Black seas: KaspTanker, ReydTanker, and SovTanker 5X1A
In addition to these three shipping companies, Glav
was responsible for operation of two ship repair yards: Zakavkazskaya Pederatsiya
in Baku (which serviced KaspTanker), and the Dzerzhinskiy yard in Tuapse (servic-
ing SovTanker),
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3. GlavNefteplot was organized immediately after 1917, when all Russian private steam-
ship companies were nationalized. Until 1945 GlavNefteFlot was referred to as the
Central Directorate of the Maritime Petroleum Shipping Fleet (Tsentrainoye
Upravleniye Morskogo Neftenalivnogo Plota - TsUMorNefteFlot). In 1945 it was re-
named GlavNefteFlot.
4. The 1951 POL products transport plan for GlavNefteFlot called for 18.5 million tons.
Although I left Astrakhan prior to the end of the 1951 navigation period, I heard
later in Germany that this plan was met and overfulfilled by two per cent, thus
amounting to almost 19 million tons.
5. Detailed organization of GlavNefterlot was as follows;
(a) Under the First Deputy, Smyka, were the following sections;
(1) Technical Sections T/O: 11 employees: Head -. Sng Captain MF Third
Class Mikhail Burkov, On duty with this section were four senior engineers
and six engineers. The main responsibilities of this section were: organ-
ization of the activities of ship repair yards; technical utilization of
petroleum shipping fleet; planning of maintenance measures for preservation
of petroleum shipping vessels; coordination of GlavNefteplot activities
with regulations prescribed by Maritime Register; and coordination of
policy on fuel consumption with pertinent regulations issued by the Fuel
and Energy Section of the Chief Technical Directorate, MME:
(2) Capital Construction Section (Otdel Kapitalnogo Stroitelstva): T/O: three
employees: chief _, Ishanin (fnu), and two engineers. Responsibilities:
organization of construction activities on behalf of petroleum shipping
companies ashore; this included buildings, port facilities, ship repair
yards, and dredging activities,
(b) Under the Second Deputy, Leanikov, there were the following sections:
(1) Exploitation, Section (Ekploatatsionnyy Otdel): T/O: 15 employees. Head
Kopylov, four senior dispatchers, four dispatchers, two senior engineers,
and four engineers, The sections responsibilities were: planning for
and utilization of the petroleum shipping fleet, operational planning,
accountability of oil transports, and issue of regulations specifying
transport norms for various POL productso
(2) Material-Technical Supply Section (Otdel Materi alno-Tekhnicheskogo
Snabzheniya): T/O called for three employees: head, planning engineer,
and commercial engineer.
(c) The remaining sections were directly under Serebryannyy;
(1) Planning and Economic Section: T/O called for five employees. Head:
Major Director Administrative Service Mr Zinovyy Ilyich Levit; one senior
engineer, two engineers, and one economist;
(2) Labor and Wage Section: T/O: three employees. Head: Eng Captain MP
Third Class Gurgen Setrakovich Dzhalalyanza one senior engineer, and one
engineers
(3) Accounting Office. T/O: four employees. Head - Major Director Admin-
istrative Service MF Vasiliy Vladimirovich Gavrilov; one senior accountant,
and two accountants,
(4) Finance Section. Three employees; Head - Senior Lt Administrative
Service Mr (fnu) Kabanov; one economist, and one cashier4
(5) Personnel Section. Head - Mrs Bragina (fan); one
Lt Mr Galina Nikitishna Shulika.
senior inspector,, Senior
(6) Administrative Section. Head, one secretary, one mail--clerk, and one
typist.
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