ENGINEER TRAINING CURRICULUM IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 166
• Publication Date: August 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
CLASSIFICATION SEC~6gT _
,CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGtNCY
INF4aRMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Et-gineer i'raining ~arrieultm in the U:;SR
25X1
PLACE
ACQUIRED
N0. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOWI
~., . ,..
1. In Dlerchant fleet educational institutes, tuo types of engineers,
technicr~? and A6a-technical, sre trained. Therefore, I s'ti911
group all subjects studied acr_ordi.ng to these tWO types of training.
2. At the present time Lsic-1954?7 i.n the Soviet Union, there are five
lferchant fleet higher educational institutions and three for ri-rer
transportation, not ?ncluding academies and scien~ific research
institutes. T.a the YJerchaat Fleet iasti~tutionr, engineers receive
technical training in the following specialties:
a. Ship mechanics, sge~ialists in steam, diesel, and
turbine engines.
b. Shipbuilding engineers, specialists in planning,
construction, and repair of ships.
c. lfechsaization ezperts, specialists in the me~iiani-
z3tioa an3 equipping of torts.
3. $Tdro-techai.cians, spacial~.sts in p3aauing, constrec-
tion, and exploitation of xaterways, ports sad bydzo-
technical constructions.
CLASSIFICATION S)~ftST
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
e. Ship repair engineers, specialists in the repair
of hulls and of sia~or and auillarT engines.
f. IIec.;,?ical engineers, specialists in ship sad
!ad arial electrical equipment.
g. Radio technicians, specialists in ship radio
equipment.
4. The institutes of the River fleet, train engineers in the following
technical specialties:
Besides, ?che lharchant fleet institutions train engineers in the follow-
ing non-technical specialties. '
s. 3lstes and masters of heavy ships
b. Bconamiets, apecisliste in the economy of steam
ship companies, ports and industrial enterprises.
c. hhxploitation, specialists in commercial exploitation
o! ships end ports.
a? Bhip engineers, specialists is the operation and
rapsir of ship engines.
b. hhech~aniration experts, specialists in mechaniution
and equipping of ports and docks.
c. hadro-technicians, specialists in the planning,
constrmution sad exploitation of water Ways and
2ydro-technical constructions.
d. electrical engineers, specialists in ship electrical
equipmnent Knd 'a particular, in diesel engines sad in
elretrisai equipment uaad in enterprises end hnlrc-
techaical canstrnetioas. The river traasportati?
institutions also train engineers in the follaring
non-technical epacialtiea:
1. hratea a~ aaaters of heav~+ river
ships {aostlJ passenger), diesel
electric ships.
2. Sconommieta, specimalistA in econcu~ics
of steamship conprumiea, ports end
iadus*.ria1 enterprimes.
3? hhxploitationista, 9pecial.iata in the
exploitation of ships and ports.
5? The educaticaai process in tlm~ lmigh~r institutie~ is brc~en Bova
as follows:
a. Lectures
b. rrscticm-1 work carried out in production. The
lectmm:es achec.uled fer each apecialt~ sae broken
mown .a foucn~a
1.. Ttte generr;l E a5Y^LS'F,10i: dale of
lecs;u~a
2, The ph~ical~mat;-,statical cycle
3? '!!~ general technical cTeie
4. !!~! special c~Cle.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
LJ/\ 1
6. Practical class work consists of the lecturer going over frith the
students aaterial lu has given is his lectures, and the solving of
problssls and yro~eeta assigned by the Instructor. Lb work ie
carried oa both independently and under the supervision o1 the
inat=vctor. Eo~e frock assists of re?vievizsg the lecture material
end solving psob].e~s and rorkiog out pro~ecta. The practical
production work is aaeig~ned in order to give the students an
opport~mity to relate their theoretical knowledge to their work.
I. brine Engineering Lraculty
?. The General Educational Cycle
1. Political Economics
2. Hasic Marziam-Leninism
3. Military Training
4.? Physical Education
5? E*_gl.iah Isnguage
1. Higher Math
2. Theory of Mechanics
3? Phyeies
4. Ch2mistz~
1. Ilescriptive ;eometry
2. l~chanical Drawing
3? Thermo dy~urmics
~. Applied Mechanics
5- Thu Strength of Materials
E. I~caiis of Y.schiwse and Lifting Mechanisms
?. General. Electrical Technology
8. HYdraulicR
1. Technolora~ of lhtale tiad `.trip Repair Materials
2. dip Steal Boilers
3? ship 3teaa Eoginee
4. Ship S'rxsa Turbines
7? Internal GaaDUatian Marine Ebginea
6. Marine Refrirzeratioa Pleats
7. Marine ~iliarv tanainea
8- 9htn Pr~+eiiere_ .. --
5? Thar T.conomica and 1lsEloitation of Hater
'L'ranepartat ion
10. 'lt~e Shchaelagy eon Organization of Ship
l0epair .
].l. Mrtal Norkixti 31:chiaes
12. ?le.-rs.l TraiLiag
1Z. i*3rs? f+i!;irii.ng Y~:ci~ui~uec
:!4. The Slectri.cal 1*,quipptng of wipe sad the
StudT o[ tilectric Ebgiaes for h~opelling
Ships
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
15- The Construction, Theory and Designing of
~ spa
16. Rules of Technical Exploitation of Ships
end Machinery
II. Ship Building faculty
A. 'fie General Educational Cycle
(All subSects same as in I.)
B. Physical-Mathematical Cycle
(All subjects same as in T.)
C. General Technical Cycle
(All subjects same as in I.)
D. Special Cycle
1. Technolop- of Metals and Ship Building Materials
2. Ship Shgines
3? Ship Propellers
4. Theory, Construction and Architecture of Ships
5? Ec:oncmics and Exploitation of slater Transportation
6. 1lrtal ilnrkirg Machines
1? Natal Training
8. lire lighting Z~chniquas
9. Rules for the Technical Esp].oitation of Ships
10. The B.lectrical Equipping and propelling of Ships
11. Ship S1e~stcr Mechanisms
12. Ship Statistics
13. Electric and Gas ilelding and Cutting Apparatus
14. Ship Planning
15. Technology of Ship i3uiiding
16. organisation of Shig 3uilding Production
17? Planutng and Placing of Ship Systems
18. Nesting cf Ship Construction
III. iAechanizatioa faculty
A. General Educational Cycle
(A71 Subsects same as II with the exception that
German is taught instead of English)
B. Physical-M%thesatical Cycle
(8e~ae ...., ~)
C. General Technical Cycle
(Same as II)
1.
2.
3?
~+.
5?
5.
7?
R,
S.
lo.
Technology of )7etals
Ship ffilgines
Metal wvraang Machines
Ifa~al Traiuing
fire Pi3hting Techniques in Ports
Cc+tv^,trnLi'_~:: 'I`heoi~r and ICrchitec.t~.tre of :~iFs
Ryes ci '1'erh.`tical r'~loitation
F'=rt ;;~i?~o Lifting Msebinea
Pert aar! Ship Machines of Continuous Onera6laa
iiLij~s+ragl ~1^..StiTYg ~.'I'812E'.S
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
sECRET
-5-
11. Rlectrically ~ai~ed. Port 1lachinee
12. The Betting of Technical liorss [or Loading
and Unloading varlt.
13? Transportation in Ibrte
14. ZbcbnologF and,Ox.ganisation of the Repairing
and ibstalling of Port lbchines and $uipaeat.
IY. Hydrotechnical faculty
A. ikneral &lucational Cycle
(All same as III)
B. Physical-Mathematical Cycle
(All same as III)
C. General 'technical Cycle
(All same as III xith the ezception that
Geodesy replaces Thermo-dynamics}
D. Special Cycle
1. Technology of Construction Materials
2. Ship Psngines
3?. Military Zraining
4. Fire Fighting Techniques
5? Electrical Technicalquipping of Hydrotechnical C=naht~ti~s
6. Construction
7? Hydrology and Hydrometrics
8. Wate? Research
9? Ports and Port Panning
10. Concrete and Steel Construction
11. Theory and. Basis of the Planning of Hydrotechnical
Equipment
12. The iltatistics and Dynamics of H;~drotechnical
Construction
13? The Fundamentals of Hydrotechnical Construction
]4. Hater WayF
15? Sluices and Dams
lE. Dredging
17. Dredges
18. a'he Straightening of Rfrers and the Regulsticn
of Current
19? Construction end Architecture of Water Transpor-
tation Buildings
20. Pilings
V, Ship Repair Facu:it'y
In the Ship reF,air focuity the samE ab~ects are studied
as i3 the Marine Engineering Faculty. The only difference
is t3st is the ship repair faculty the technology of
materials, the organization and technology of ship repair
and metal xorking machines are studied more intensively
thRII in the l~~.t.^.~ q.~a ,...._____
c-..==+iu~ is~uity. 1J11 asCOlInt Of
time anal greater emphasis placed on the above 3ub~ects
other subjects ar~? not studied in us pxeat a dEtail. The
students of the ship repair fac.~lty get most of their
practical xorl: in the ship repair enterpriaee. the
students ales st^h'+r s special snb,~ect en the lx~t. cold,
anti the thermeiic xorkinu c'.' ~eiais. `
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
VI. Tire Electrical &rgineering faculty
A. The Oeaeral Educational Cycles
(All cams as II zits the ezception that
Osrman is taught instead c;i English) (sl-
thou~ rece~ly English has beta introduced)
B. Physical-Mathematical Cycle
(All same as N)
C. General Technical Cycle
(All same ae IV With the ezception that Geodesy
and Electrotechnology are not taught)
Technology of Metals
The Technology of Electrical Materials
lire lighting Techniques
Theory and Construction of Ships
Electrical Equipping of Ships
Electrical Equipment and $dusti?ial
g4rterprises
Electrical EngineR for 8hipe
Electrical Propellers
Generators of Constant and Ua-interrupted
current
Ship Paver Plants
Repair of Ship Electrical Equipment
Ship Electric Stations
Rules for the Technical Ezploitati.on of
Ship Electrical Equipment
Naval Training
7ZZ. Radio Technical faculty
A. General Educstional Cycle
(All Sasae as VI ~-ith the ezception that English
instead of Gelman is taught)
B. Physical-!(athematicsl Cycle
(Same as VI)
C. General Technical. Cycle
(All same as in V'Z with the ezception that
mechanization details and hydr~~s.Tica are not
taught .
Technology of Electrical Materietcs
lire Mghting Techniquee
Theory and Construction o2 Ships
Electrotechnology
Electrical Rgt~ipment of a::ign
Electric Engines for Ships
Generators of Constant and Interrupted
Cmrrent
Repair of R~~.o SSuipaent
fleet Radio Com!nunica}ions
The Cans~iruction of Radio 7'rausmitters
Tt~p t~+natruc'. io~~ ,,f Radio Receivers
Slip Antenna?
Radio lk-vigation S'uiyient
'i'he C?'natructiinz of AccuauLtora
Rults for the Technical E:p]oitation
of Ship Radio Equi~eat
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
15,. Eavsl TraivSng
VIII. Rarigation tacnltf
A? General Educational Cycle
(!T1 sub~ecta ens ea VII with the addition of
El.atorical and Dialectical llaterialiam)
B. Ph~e3,ca1-Eathemstical Cycle
(LLi. sub~ecta same as VII xith the addition of
classes in letroneoU and Spherical Trigonametrf)
C. General 'Pechnical cycle
(111 subjects ease ae number VII xith the excep-
tion that $7draulics replaces Applied Mechanics)
D. Special Cycle
1.
2.
3?
k.
S?
6.
7?
8.
9?
10.
11.
12.
13.
14 .
lj.
15.
17.
18.
lq.
3(1.
Ship Dover Plante
xa~a7. ?raining
TtieOry, Comtrac:tion and Architectutr of Ships
1av~gatioq
eailiag Directions
Itrriae Practice
ivigational lstronoq
Oceanography
liethods of Preventing Ship Colliaiona wt 8es
Iderchaat Code of l~avigation
Cargo
The Econosica and ~loitation of dater
'Ps'anaportatioa
Electrical IfavigatAonal Devices
:radio lfavigational Devices
Organization of Strip xark
Rules of Technical E~loitation
li~osgerial ?ccountiag on Ships
Maritime Isx
ship lbrsonnel Rosters
~? fogineer-~leetric l^acnlty
A. General ]iducatiII~l Cycle
(Same ss VIII with the exception that German is
taught instead of S4iglish.)
B: PhVsicai-li-theasticai Cycle
1. Rigber Myth
2 ? Physics
3. Lbesdstr.
1.
2.
3?
4.
5?
6.
A?
Ship Porer Plants
Mt111t~ry Trwining
Ths lLsnn3Lg of iiort at Sea and in lbrts
TZChnlcal-ltc~~nomic 1'lanntag in 1laterprisea
Sec+nCe..iee of i*ater 74?z+asporta*ion
Ecnnrmi ~; cf T~dnetria: tmtorpripr
'1be.:7.e~nniog Of Oosts in ~d~ 9?i~aeaportntlan
Pl:~ning of roei;sc in Iadustrioi Prod~xtion
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2
9. Work Accounting in the Ports and at Sea
10. Wort Accounting in Industrial ffiuterprisee
11. Water Transportation Dookeeping
12. Credit Accounting Operations in Water Tran~-
portation
13? ll~nagerial Accounting in Water Transportation
lk. Transportation bax
15. 'rbs Setting of Taehnical Borne is Water
Transportation
16. Order and Directives of the Gomernsent Relating
to Water Transportation
E. iugineer-~loitation tacuLtt~
A. Oenarai educational Cycle
(Same u is Ixud.th the ezceptioa that English is
taught instead of Oerman)
1. Ship Porter Plants
2. ltilitar~ Training
3. Planning of Work at Sea sad in Ports
4. The E.^.oaomics and ~cploitation of Water
Transportation
`>. Planning of costa ie the Traas~ission of Cargo
6. Work 1rcounting at Sea and in Posts
7? llanagerisl Accounting in Water Transportation
8. The Organization of Shipping
9? The Organization of Work in ?orts
10. Z'aaaportatian Lax
11. Setting of Working Aorms at See and in Porte
12. Loading and Unloading C-perativns in Ports
13. Cargo
14. ThPOrr and Co:latn:ction of Ships
i5. Setting of ;iechnicel Borma for Loading and Up-
loading xork
16. bitting and Transporting 1(achines
17? Orders and Directives of the Qovernaent concerning
Water Transportation
X31,3 N
831.6 N
t56:,i; N
673.oi N
672.01 N
663.oi N
66;.5oi N
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/01 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060166-2