URANIUM MINING IN THE JACHYMOV AREA: ORGANIZATION, ADMINISTRATION, CHIEF PERSONNEL, MINES, INSTALLATIONS

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• Publication Date: March 15, 1957
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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SUBJECT Uranium Mining in the Jachymov Area: DATE DISTR. 15 March 1957
Orgaiization, Administration, Chief
. Personnel, Mines, Installations NO. PAGES 1
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a report on uranium mining in the Jachymov area
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administration, chief personnel, mines, and installations.
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General Remarks
All the uranium mining areas, subdivided into various
for Mining Areas, are under the jurisdiction of the Central Directorate for Ex-
perimenis n ra, on e a ng to eavy Radioactive Minerals. This central
directorate also has jurisdiction over the Peoples Directorate for Construction,
while the central directorate itself is responsible directly to the government.
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Radioactive Minerals at Jac
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General Remarks
This directorate will be transferred to Prague in 1957 to become the
Ministry of Exploration.
Location
. It is housed in a 4-story masonry building with flat roof, 70 x 30 meters
in size, in the eastern outskirts of Jachtnov.
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nization for the Exploration and Exploitation of Uranium Ore Deposits (Sept, 1956)
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Subordination
It is directly responsible to the government.
Director
Czechoslovak engineer Arnost Schindler.
Technical Executives
Czechoslovak engineer Moschned.
Technician Nemec, assigned to the projects office.
Foreign Technical Personnel
Soviet engineer Milnikov.
Soviet engineer Manilov.
Soviet technical personnel were more numerous up to 1955, at which time
their number began to dwindle because of the possibility of the control of
uranium mines, established at the Geneva conference. The number of Soviet
technicians now assigned to the directorate is estimated at 10 percent of the
total number of the directorate's technicians,
Organization
The followinN offices are under the supervision of the director:
- Office of the Chief Accountant
- Administrative Office
- Office of Projects and Plans
- Purchasing Office
- Personnel Office
All the above-listed offices are located at Jachymov, except the Per-
sonnel Office, which is in Ostrov.
. Jurisdiction
The directorate has jurisdiction over the following:
1. People's Directorates for Mining Areas, located at Jachymov, Pri~bram,
Trutnov,. Horni Slavkov, and Zadrf Chodov.
2. The People's Directorate for eonstruction in Jachymov
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Funds
Each month the government gives the central directorate 2,300,000 crowns,
which the later apportions among its subordinate mininr, areas according to the
needs of each.
People's Directorate for the Jachymov. Mining Area (Sept. 1956)
General Remarks
It became a directorate in January 1956; it had been known previously as
an inspectorate.
It has jurisdiction over the local mines, and specifically provides for
the following:
- Working of the mines.
- Quantitative and qualitative check on the ores extracted.
- Hiring of personnel.
- Organization of security.
Location
It is housed in a 3-story masonry building (a former tobacco factory),
with a yellowish "half-vault" roof, located in the eastern outskirts of Ja.chy-
mov.
Subordination
It is subordinate to the Central Directorate for Expetnents and Exploration
Relating to Heavy Radioactive Minerals; located in Jachymov.
Organization
The following are under the director's supervision:
- Chief Engineer
Personnel Office
- Office of the Chief Accountant
- Planning Office
- Administrative Office '
- Transportation Office .(directly under the chief engineer's supervision).
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Personnel
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- Executive and technical personnel:
- Number of workers engaged in mining operations: about 15,000, 15 percent
of whom are political prisoners.
Only a few of the workers live in Jachymov; most of them come from Ostrov.
Workers Transportation
The workers report to their work sites on buses provided by the Mining
Area Directorate.
Work Shifts
Three daily shifts at each mine.
Office Haurs
0700 to 15:45
Production
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Subordinate Mines
All the mines in the area are individually named.
Bratrstvi, Panorama, Josef, Svornost, Nikolaj,
Eduard, Rovnost I, Adam, Elias, Rovnost II, Eva, Jeronim, Vychodni Abertamy,
and Barbora Vrsek.
Description of the Mining Area
1. Location of the Central Directorate for Experiments and Exploration
Relating to Heavy Radioactive Minerals.
Four-story masonry building with flat roof, 70 x 30 meters in size.
2. Location of the People's Directorate for the Jachymov Mining Area.
Three-story masonry building, with yellowish "half-vault" roof, formerly
a tobacco factory. Size unknown.
3. Location of the Secret police.
Three-story masonry building, with gabled tile roof, 12 x 8 meters in
size..
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4. Railroad station.
Masonry building, about 25 x 20 meters in size, with gabled roof.
The railroad line comes from Ostrov and terminates at Jachymov, with one
track.
The station has a fair freight yard.
5. Clinic ("Radium palace")
Two masonry buildings of unspecified size.
6. Secret police motor pool.
Masonry building, with gabled tile roof, 45 x 20 meters in size.
Two dark blue automobiles observed.
7,8. Sworn guards headquarters.
Two masonry buildings, each 25 x 10 meters in size.
9. Jach`ymov secondar,r school.
Masonry building of unspecified size.
10. Jachymov residential area.
11. Electric power transformer and distribution station.
Masonry building, 20 x 15 meters in size. It receives the current from
the Sokolov thermal-electric plant.
12. Fire station.
Masonry building with gabled tile roof, 1+0 x 20 meters in size.
13. Administrative office and assembly shop under the jurisdiction of
the People's Directorate for Construction.
Note; For detailed coverage, see the description of the people's
Directorate for Construction in a subsequent section of this report.
1I. Church.
15. Locataon of the People's Directorate .for Construction.
Note: Detailed coverage given in a subsequent section of this report.
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16. Electric power transformer and distribution station
17. Uranium washing installation.
A fenced complex of several masonry buildings, to which only the Soviet
technicians and a very limited number of Czechoslovak technicians have access.
18. Bratrstvi mine.
Located about one kilometer from the Central Directorate for Experiments
and Exploration Relating to. Heavy Radioactive Minerals:
19. Panorama mire
Located about 300 meters from the railroad station.
20. Josef mine.
Located about 600 meters from the People's Directorate for Construction.
21. Svornost mine.
Located about 20 meters from the People's Directorate for Construction.
22. Nikolai mine and attached "lager" (depot, camp).
Located about 1 1/2 kilometers from the S vornost mine.
23. Eduard mine.
Located about 500 meters from the Nikolaj mine.
2~ . Adam mine.
Located about 800 meters from the Eduard mine.
25. Rovnost I mine and attached "lager."
Located about 500 meters from the Adam mine.
26. Rovnost II mine.
Located about 500 meters from the Rovnost I mine.
27. Elias mine and attached "lager."
Located about 800 meters from the uranium ore washing installation.
28. Eva mine and attached "lager.
Located about 5 kilometers from the Rovnost II mine, right on the border.
29. . Jeronym mine
Located 1 1/2 kilometers from the border.
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30. Vychodni Abertamy mine,
Located about 1 1/2 kilometers from the Jeronym dine.
31. Barbora Vrsek mine.
Located about 1 1,2 kilometers from the Vychodni Abertamy mhe.
Electric. Power Supply
The electric power for the Jachymov mining area is supplied by the
Sokolov thermal-electric plant, and transformed and distributed by two local
stations.
Electrical Installations
Built under the direction of a Czechoslovak technician
who worked for 10 years in
and the USSR installing high-voltage power lines.
This technician went into retirement on 1 August.
Motor Vehicles
Yugoslavia
About 100 Czechoslovak-made, 10-ton Tatra III vehicles.
Uranium Transportation
By rail, on the Jachymov-Ostrov line.
Expansion Plans
such plans are under study and that they en1441
a considerable expansion of the Jachymov mining area, which is believed to be
the most important in Czechoslovakia from the standpoint of,dield.
Funds
From 600,000 to 800,000 crowns received monthly for the following pur-
poses: employees' salaries and wages; maintenance of machinery and equipment;
purchases of materials.
Balance Sheet
there is a deficit in this mining operation be-
cause there is no counter-i.tem for the uranium which Czechoslovakia monthly
hands over to the USSR.
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Hiring of Personnel
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On a monthly basis.
To be hired by the Mining Area Directorate, it is necessary for an appli-
cant to fill out 12 questionnaires giving his own and his relatives'
caPPiculum
vitae, his military status before, during and after the war, and the military
organization to which he belonged.
Employee Dismissals
Employees are dismissed for political reasons only.
Pay
Technicians: between 1,650 and ,OOO crowns per month (according to
position and seniority).
- Workers: between 3,000 and 9,000 [sic] crowns per month, according to
their degree of specialization (skill).
- Political prisoners: 1/the pay of other workers.
Overtime Pay Rate
Thirty crowns per hour.
Withholdings for Union Dues
One tenth of the employees' pay is withheld for R.O.H.
Workers Revolutionary Union).
Mess.
. 300 crowns used to be withheld from the pay for two meals (of
very poor quality) a day.
Surveillance
1. Within the mining area and inside each mine surveillance is carried
on by sworn guards armed with automatic pistols and dressed in dark green uni-
forms.
rifles.
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2. Surveillance outside the mines is carried on by sentries armed with
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Union and Political Meetings
Called periodically; the main theme is "Work and Peace."
Morale
Generally low. Czechoslovak workers like to
listen and talk but not to act [work].
Accidents
In July 1956, a shed containing electrical equipment and part of another
shed where some design were stored burned down. It was rumored that tDis was
considered to be a case of arson. However, no punitive action was taken against
the guards assigned to those sheds.
Elias Mine
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General Remarks
Ordinarily, access to the mine is denied to those who are not employed
there.
Subordination
This mine comes under the jurisdiction of the People's Directorate for
the Jachymov Mining Area.
Workers
There are about 1,000 workers, of whom 900 are political prisoners and
the remainder civilians. The political prisoners are housed in a "lager"
attached to the mine.
Work Shifts
Three.
Machinery and Ectu~ ipment Used
Drilling machines, Geiger counters, automatic pistols [sic], transporters
[sic], small railroad cars, and ordinary miner's equipment. Also, two hoists
with a capacity of 6 tons each.
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Production and Disposition Thereof
the amount of ore extracted daily at the mine.
the ore is brought by decauville railroad first to the crushing
installations and then to the washing installation, following which it is dried
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Once dried, the uranium is packaged, placed in boxes measuring 70x70x20
centimeters, and shipped by truck to the railroad station, whereit is loaded
on Czechoslovak 20-ton railroad cars.
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washing operation because only the Soviet personnel and very few trusted Czech-
oslovak technicians have access to the washing installation.
Depth
About 800 meters.
Underground Levels
Twelve.
Color of the Extracted Ore
Eighty percent, black; the remaining 20 percent, gray and light brown.
Workers' Protective Cloth
- Waterproof over-ails.
- Special rubber cape
only from dampness, not from the radiation emanating from the ore. In fact,
these items are intended to protect the workers
the workers are not issued protective gloves.
Medical Aid
Every six months the workers are given a thorough medical examination.
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General Remarks
This directorate received its present title in January 1956; prior to
that time it as known as an inspectorate. It has the same functions as all
other people's directorates for mining areas
in the north and west.
Subord mat ion
Location
The mining area is located northwest of Horni Slavkov. It borders on
the village of Leznice in the south and east, and on the Loket-Falknov road
It is subordinate to the Central Directorate for Experiments and Ex-
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ploration Regarding Heavy Radioactive Minerallocated in Jachymov.
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note: for detaias, see section on Jachymov directorate.
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k.the Horni Slavkov M
Description of the Mining Area
Mine workers mess.
Three-story masonry building, constructed in 1950, 15 x 10 meters.
The mess ball can accoflllmodate about 300 persons. The mess is open from 12:00
to 16:00 hours.
Organization
Work Shifts
Three at each mi"he.
Subordinate Mines
designated numerically.
ining Area contains about 20
some of these mines have been
deactivated because they cannot be worked, or because they have been depleted,
or because they are flooded.
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Location of the Horni Slavkov Mining Area Directorate.
A masonry building of average size
15 x 10 me tiers) .
3. Guard headquarters.
Average-size masonry building (about 15 x 10 meters).
Barracks of mining area guards.
Building of the same size as the above.
5,6. Administrative offices of Horni. Slavkov Mining Area Directorate.
Two buildings of the same size and characteristics as No. 3 above.
7. Location of the 2d Inspection Officer of the 9th Section of the
People's Directorate for Construction, with headquarters in Jachymov. Location
.of the 9th. Section of the People's Directorate fo.r Construction.
Building of the same size and characteristics as No. 3 above.
Note: For details, see the description of the People's Directorate for
Construction below.
8. Firemen's barrack and motor pool.
Wooden barrack of undetermined size.
9. Machine shop of the 10th Section of the People's Directorate for
Construction.
Old masonry building of undetermined size.
Note: For details, see the description of the People's rrectorate for
10. Central heating plans for heating of the newly built dwellings.
A recently built masonry building with attached closed shed equipped with
Construction below.
iron smokestack.
11. Group of recently constructed buildings.
These buildings are used to house the mine workers. They are 3-story
buildings containing.5 or 6 apartment units each. They constitute a small new
residential center. They occupy a square area about 700 or 800 meters on each.
side. .
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In the center there is a square and a central building containing a bar,
game rooms, reading rooms, and numerous stores selling goods of all sorts.
12. Wooden huts used as worker dwellings. They are torn down as the
masonry buildings mentioned above go up.
13. Barrack for the guards of the mining area and for S.N.B. Police per-
sonnel.
A masonry building of the same size and charact~ristica as building No. 3
this residential center is growing constantly.
above.
. 14. Mine No. 8-8A.
15. Mine No. 20.
16, Unidentified mine.
17. Unidentified mine.
18. Mine No. 3, also called Barbora Mine.
19. Mine No. 4.
20. Unidentified mine located 400 meters east of the
stop.
"LQgnize" railroad
Surveillance
The mining area is guarded by the following personnel:
- Guards of the Ministry of the Interior, who wear uniforms similar to
those of the army, kaki-gray in color, with blue cap and lavender shoulder
straps. Their task is to guard targets of special importance.
They are aided by.police dogs that are kept in a kennel located across
from the Leznice railroad stop.
- S.N.B. Police personnel, whose special tasks are not known
Firefighting Service
Handled by 5 or 6 firemen who have a fire truck and several respirators.
normally these firemen render first aid in case of
landslides or other accidents, but he never saw them cope with a fire.
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Accidents
During 1955 and 1956, there were several landslides in some of the mines,
resulting in a total of 4 deaths.
Mine No. 8-8A
General Remarks
This is a very rich mine consisting of two shafts: No. S and No. 3A,
both of which are under the same management, A "techr.-o1ogica1 complex" for
separating and rapidly sorting the ore is being experimented with at this mine,
Subordination
This mine comes under the Jurisdiction of the People's Directorate for
the Horni Slavkov Mining Area.
Description of the Mine
1. Guard house and gatekeeper's quarters.
A structure, about 12 x S meters in size, partly of wood and partly
masonry-built. It houses three mine guards who wear dark green uniforms and
are armed with pistols.
2. Warehouse for materials.
Wooden building of undetermined size.
3. Compressed-air tanks.
Metal tanks with a capacity of 15 cubic meters each, resting on concrete
bases. They are used to supply air to the shafts and to power the ore trans-
port system.
Q4.. Compressor plant.
Anew masonry building of undetermined size.
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5. Administration.
A 2-story building of undetermined size.
6. Equipment maintenance shop.
Masonry building of undetermined size, which contains 2 lathes, one
millling cutter, and one drill, Twenty-four workers work there in three shifts.
7. Blacksmith shop.
A small masonry shed of undetermined size.
under the jurisdiction of the equipment maintenance shop.
8. Shed under construction.
By early September, only the outer walls had been completed.
9. Administrative offices.
A wooden building of undetermined size.
lo. Abandoned shed.
No details available
11. Place for charging batteries.
A wooden building, 5 x 5 meters in size.
Description of ".Technological Complex"
it is
I. Masonry shed, containing the machinery which operates the Czechoslovak-
made electric elevators of shaft No. 8.
II. Masonry shed, containing the machinery which operates the Czechoslovak-
made electric elevators of shaft No. 8A.
III. Wooden storage tank.
It is 8 meters high and square-shaped (about 4 meters to the side). Made
-in East Germany. Within it tiicre i'
automatic selector."
Note: the operation of this selector will be discussed later.
Iv. Motor cabins.
Wooden huts, 4 x 5 meters in size, with concrete base. Each one contains
a Soviet-made LT. 3.5 electric motor which drives two dump-type mine cars, drawn
by a cable (counterweighted, aerial cableway system), which are used to. dump
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V. Electric power distribution station.
It provides electric power for operating the "technological complex."
Classification of the Ore
The ore is classified into seven categories, as follows: pure (smolka),
I, II, III, IV, V, and VI. The latter six categories are grouped by two's.
Means of Transporting the Ore
a. Small decauville train drawn by a battery-powered locomotive.
b. Technological complex.
Technological Complex
General Remarks
This is an experimental installation added to the mine to make possible
more rapid sorting of the radioactive ore and facilitate its removal to the
storage tanks. Its installation began in July-August 1955 and its test began
toward the end of 1956..
Operation
The openings of the two shafts are
surmounted by
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metal hors about 19
meters high. These hoists are used to operate the elevators and to support the
scaffolding of the technological complex, which rises a few meters above ground
level.
The ore is brought to surface {n small railroad cars by means of the ele-
var.
Once on the surface, the cars are automatically pushed to one side of the
scaffolding and placed on a track over which they are moved to a check point`
They stop here for 2 or 3 minutes while a
woman:-determines their radioactivity by means of special fixed instruments (a
sort of check board installed on a table).
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Cars containing ore classified as pure are driven over a track to a
funnel-shaped storage tank, from whence the ore is laden directly on motor
vehicles which remove it from the mine.
Cars containing ore classified as I, II, III, and IV are placed on other
tracks leading to two funnel-shaped tanks, each with a capacity of 20 tons.
I and II ore goes into one tank, while III and IV material goes into
the other tank.
From these tanks the ore is loaded directly onto motor vehicles which
remove it from the mine.
Cars containing V and VI ore srre placed on other tracks leading to a
Upon arriving here,
the ore is dumped from the cars on two rubber conveyor belts (100 meters long
and 65 centimeters wide, made at the Transporta plant in Chrudim, a locality
not shown on the map), to be carried to a tank used by both mine shifts. In
the tank there is an automatic selector, which, in revealing the radioactivity
of the ore, activates a lamel which can assume two positions.
In the first position, it allows the still radioactive ore to drop into
a collection tank; in the second position, it allows the discard ore to drop
revolving platform
into another tank
means of levers, by a person located in the place which contains the motor that
the ore to an unloading area. The movement of these cars is controlled;
The still exploitable ore is loaded on motor vehicles and removed from
the mine. On the other hand, the discard ore is loaded in small railroad cars
(each with a capacity of 1.5 cubic meters) which are drawn by a cable and carry
provides trac
Note:
tion power for the cars
the traction system of the cars which
carry the discard ore is caned "Terrikonik" and. is based on the aerial cable-
way traction system. the system used for separating.
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vi ore (still exploitable) from the ore to be discarded
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... Pay
Workers assigned to the shafts receive about 2,000 crowns
while specialized workers receias much as 5,000 crowns.
Work Norm
[per month,
Piece work performed in teams
Individual Equi lent
- Rubber over-ails
- Leier helmet
- Knee-high rubber boots
- Battery- or carbide-fed electric lamps.
Work Shifts
Three daily shifts of hours each, spent partly on duty underground and
partly above ground.
Medical Aid
None for the miners.
Motor Vehicles Used for Carrying Ore
The source observed the following:
- 10-ton Tatra-111 trucks
- 2-axle Skoda-706 trucks
roads, while the Skoda trucks were used on good roads.
the Tatra trucks were ordinarily used on rough.
People's Directorate for Construction at Jachymov
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The directorate provides the following things for its sections:
- Installation of mining machinery and equipment in the various mining
areas.
- Maintenance of the various installations.
- Repair of machinery in the various mining areas.
- Construction of workers' dwellings in the various mining areas.
. Installation of lighting, water, and sanitary facilities in the
dwellings being built.
Location
On the western outskirts
roof, 25 x 10 meters in size.
Subordination
S
of Jachymov, in a masonry building with the
The Jachymov People 's Directorate for Construction is subordinate to
the Central Directorate for Experiments and Exploration Relating to Heavy
Radioactive Minerals, with headquarters in Jachymov.
.Management Personnel
Director: Soviet engineer Martinov
Chief engineer: Vavra, a Czech.
Head of Personnel Office: Dlouhy, a Czech.
Head of Chief Accountant's Office: Logodny, a Russian.
Head of Administrative Office : Slezaceic, a Czech.
Head of Planning Office: Mikhaizhuskin, a Russian.
Heads of Transportation Office: Filatov and Grishenko, both Russians.
Organization
- Director
- Chief Engineer
- Personnel Office
- Office of Chief Engineer
Projects Office
- Administrative Office
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- Transportation Office (directly under the chief engineer)
- 1st Section, a building yard at Ostrov
- 2d Section, a building yard at Jachymov
- 3d Section, a building yard at Zadni Chodov
- 4th Section, a building yard at Pribram
- 5th Section, a building yard at Trutnov
- bth Section, a finishing shop at Ostrov
- 7th Section, a building yard at Horni Slavkov
- 8th Section, a sanitation installation workshop at Ostrow
- 9th Section, an assembly shop at Jaciaymov
- 10th Section, a machine shop at Ostrov
1st Sectionj(at Ostrov)
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It builds dwellings in Ostrov for workers of the Jachymov mining area.
It has a director, a chief engineer, a disbursing office, a chief
accountant ?s office, and a planning office
2d Section (at Jachymov )
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It builds dwellings in Jachymov for workers of the Jachymov mining area.
It is organized similarly to the 1st Section.
when not employed in construction they used to. be assigned to
do miscellaneous work at the mines (always above ground).
- This section is located in the same building as the People's Directorate
for Construction
3d Section (at Zadni Chodov) .
It builds dwellings for workers of the Zadni Chodov mining area.
It is organized similarly to the 1st Section.
When not involved in construction work, its workers used to be assigned
to perform miscellaneous work at the mines..
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4th Section at Pribram
It builds dwellings for workers of the Pribram mining area.
It is organized similarly to the 1st Section.
Its workers were employed similarly to those of the abovementioned sections.
5th Section (at Trutnov)
It builds dwellings for workers of the Trutnov mining area..'
It is organized similarly to the 1st Section.
Its workers were employed similarly to those of the abovementioned
sections.
6th Section at Ostrov (o k 10 '
It performs finishing work on dwellings which are built.
It has a director, a chief engineer, a disbursing office, a chief
accountrt's office, a projects office, and a subsection in each of the following
mining areas : Jachymov.. Pribram; mrutnov, Horni Slavkov, and Zadni. Chodov.
7th Section
at Horni_ Slavkov )
It builds dwellings for workers of the Horni Slavkov mining area.
It is organized similarly to the 1st Section.
Its workers are employed , sariy to those of the above-mentioned
building yards.
~;th Sect ion1(at Ostrov)_.. _~
It installs light, water, and sanitation facilities in dwelling which
are built.
It has a director, a chief engineer, a disbursing office, a chief
accountant's office, a projects office, and a subsection in each of the following
places: Jachymov, Pribram, Trutnov, Horni Slavkov, and Zadni Chodov.
9th Section at Jac mov)
It installas and maintains mining machinery and equipment in the various
mining areas.
It is located in the center of Jachymov, in a masonry building with
tile roof, 20 x 10 meters in s ize.
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Its management personnel consists of the following:
Director: Czechoslovak engineer Nebesar
Chief engineer: Soviet engineer Usenko
Head of Disbursing Office: Busta
Head of Chief Accountant's Office: Mergl
Head of 1st Inspection Office: Lopata
Head of 2d Inspection Office: Kolar
Head of 3d Inspection Office: Cizek
?A11 the abovementioned office heads are Czech nationals.
The section has the following technicians:
Novotny, head of Projects Control Office.
Mares, head of Construction Office.
Kozisek, head of Electrification Office.
Sramek, head of Telephone and Signals Office.
Svoboda, head of Technical Office.
?Burian, head of Materials Office.
The section is organized as follows:
a. Director, who has direct control over the following:
- Chief Engineer
_. - Disbursing Office
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- Chief Accountant's Office
- Projects Office
- 1st Inspection Office
- 2d Inspection Office
- 3d Inspection Office
b. Chief Engineer, who has direct control of the following:
- Projects Control Office
- Construction Office
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- E].ectrificbation Office
- Telephone aid Signals Office
- Purchasing Office
The 1st Inspection Office is located in Jachymov and has jurisdiction
over the Jachymov and Ostrov mining areas.
The 2d Inspection Office is located in Horni Slavkov and has jurisdiction
Instructions concerning work to be done by the subsection were sent
over the Horni Slavkov, Zadni Chodov, and Trutnov mining areas.
The 3d Inspection Office is located in Pribram and has jurisdiction over
the Pribram and Chotebor mining areas. Drillings were started bply recently
in this latter area.
The 9th Section has subsections at Pribram, Jachymov, and. Horni Slavkov.
Subsection at Horni Slavkov
This subsection installs and services mining machinery and equipment
Its technical personnel consists of chief technician Frye (for mechanics)
and chief technician Francisek Kohout (for electricians).
in the Horni Slavkov mining area.
For location of subsectio
by the 9th Section from time to time.
Planni
ag Office of the Assembly Section
immediate sbordinates were :
- A secretary-stenographer
- An employee of the Construction office of the 9th Section
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- An employee of the Purchasing Office of the 9th Section
Office hours were from 0700 to 1515 hours, with a one-hour lunch period.
T~ functions of this officer were :
- Estimating the operating expenses for the coming month.
- Preparing statistics on expenses incurred monthly, quarterly, and
semiannually.
- Requesting motor vehicles for the transportation of the ore on a
monthly basis.
- Examining excavation plans.
- Estimating the cost and number of working hours required for carrying
out each work project.
10th Section jat Ostrov)
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It distributed and services the necessary machinery and equipment
assigned to the various mining areas.
It has a director, a chief engineer, a chief accountant's office, a
planning office, and a subsection in each of the following places: Jachymov,
Pribram, Trutnov, Horni Slavkov, and Zadni Chodov.
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