SOVIET UNION MILITARY - ECONOMIC REPORT

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• Publication Date: March 8, 1943
• Content Type: REPORT

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During the Second World War the German Signal Intelligence
Control Center of the Staff of the Chief of Army SignalService
(HNW, LNA) issued a series of reports to show the USSR mili-
tary-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 1945. Eig1! QIt a of these reports have been transla-
ted and issued by
It is planned to issue a complete set of translations of the re-
ports, beginning with the most recent a 62Eh backward,
but omitting those already translated by The
numbering of the items was added by the translato3FQL3&e
FQhIri s 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 deter-
mine the original Russian term wherever possible. This is fa-
cilitated by the Russian fondness for abbreviations. In these
translations into English the probable meaning of the abbrevia-
tion will be given in parenthesis the first time it occurs in each
report.
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The Soviet Union
Military-Economic Report
(Based on domestic radio traffic)
8 March 1943
More Important Reports
(1) The frequent onion transport in recent times to NKRF-Gurev is explained by a
wave of scorbutic illness which was reported in a message with onion demands,
(2) In a message from Stavropol to Moscow, Central Committee of the Party, the
responsible leader of the Party Central Committee reports that the damage which the Ger-
man troops have caused by destruction of telegraph and telephone systems as well as radio
central amounts to some 50 million rubles in the North Caucasus. Also he reports that
military communications units of the North Caucasus Front have been assigned a share of the
reconstruction work. A few inter-city telephone connections have been re-established, for
instance between Stavropol -Nevinnomyskaya-Budennovsk-Aleksandrovsk, Mozdok-Krapotkin-
Budennovsk. Likewise repair of telegraph lines Stavropol-Moscow and Pyatigorsk-Moscow
is already in progress.
Food Situation
~3) Tiflis. The Georgian NK for Trade reports distributing 10 tons of tea in the first
quarter.
(4) The Directorate for Food Supply received for January:
Alcohol 24000 liters
Vodka 5970 liters
Wine 2470 liters
The total value of this shipment amounts to 6389000 (?) rubles; nothing was delivered in
February.
(5) For delivery there were prepared:
Potatoes 7612 tons
Dried potatoes 34 tons
Sauerkraut 456 tons
From 1 January to 1 March there were procured:
Honey 0. 151 ton
Wax 0. 331 ton
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(6) The confectionery industry received no sugar in the first quarter so that the
plants stopped and can not deliver 200 tons of confectionery in March. A maximum increase
of the fat allocation is requested,
(7) The NK for the Aviation Industry reports that of the stock for the first quarter
there was received on 1 March:
Meat 22. 3 tons
Fish 29
Butter 1. 1
Vegetable fat 0.4
Confectionery 14.8
Salt 9
Eggs 10 cases
There was no sugar or tea.
(8) The representative of NK for the Meat and Dairy Industry of the USSR is asked
for a free delivery of at least 500 tons of meat which has been seized.
C9) The Armenian NK for the Food Industry requests the shipment of 33000 liters of
alcohol which was allotted for the first quarter.
(10) Stavropol asks the NK for Meat and Dairy Industry to approve the processing of
200 head of cattle by the Meat Trust.
(11) The Chief Directorate for Tobacco in Stalinabad delivered 2 carloads of tobacco
to Stalinabad Special Trade.
(12) For the workers occupied with ice-breaking, additional supplies must be distri-
buted in Gorkij:
Bread 400 grams
Meat 100
Fat 20
Groats 40
Vodka 200
(13) NKRF-Kujbyshev must deliver to Vladimirovka cut beans 44. 6 tons
Astrakhan cut beans 50
Kamyshin cut beans 50
Metal Supply
(14) NKRF-Osetrovo in Irkutsk Oblast' received from West Siberian trade
Steel hawser 19x22 mm. 3000 m.
Ships ? rope 5 tons
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Chemical Supply
(15) NKRF -Gorkij sent 832 carboys of oxygen in February.
(16) From Sverdlovsk Autogenous Plant No. 3 in the first half-year, the NKRF-
operational office of the Ili Waterways received
Acetylene 1152 cbm.
Acetylene 3982 cbm.
(17) NKRF-Blagoveshchensk received from the Chief Directorate for Chemical Sales
in Khabarovsk in the first quarter:
Sulphuric acid 0. 03 ton
Battery acid 0. 1
(18) NKRF-Barnaul received from Varkovsk-Starch Trust in Murom:
by 20 March Dextrin 0. 4 ton
by 15 April Dextrin 0. 2 ton
(19) The factory of the Dubitel Trust in Balakhinsk is to deliver to NKRF-Barnaul:
by 20 March Sulphite liquor 0. 35 ton
by 15 April Sulphite liquor 1. 05 ton
Oil Supply
(20) NKRF-Pravdinsk will receive 50 tons of oil in March.
Coal Supply
(21) The ship repair yard in Khabarovsk will receive 50 tons of Suchan coke in March.
The ship repair yard of the Lower Amur Steamship Agency, a branch supply office of NKRF
in Khabarovsk, will receive 36 tons of Suchan coke. The ship r epair yard "Lenin" of the
Upper Amur Steamship Agency in Blagoveshchensk will receive 14 tons of Suchan coke.
Production
(22) NKRF-Kujbyshev built 2 tugs of 400 h. p. in the first quarter of 1943.
(23) NKRF-Vladimirovka reports that the tug boats 730 and 243 need a general over-
hauling which can not be carried out because of the lack of wood. The estimated cost for the
overhauling amounts to 190000 rubles. On 1 March three boats are being completed in
Vladimirovka. Because of the lack of wood, no more boats can be built.
(24) NKRF-Chistopol must repair the dock equipment of the Krasnoarmejsk yard by
the beginning of navigation period and send it to Stalingrad.
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Transport Situation
(25) On 1 March the following transport arrears of NKRF were determined:
Rybinsk
Gorkij
Oats 2102 tons
Tow nets 13
Misc. 217
Hay 9 tons
Cotton 8
Bread grains 1371
Total 1388 tons
Wood 2637 tons
Bread grains 599
Metal 884
Chemicals 467
Metal products 327
Cotton 77
Paper 93
Spinning material 62
Complex (?) 172
Special freight 125
Misc, 730
Total 6408 tons
Iron 381 tons
Ore 278
Brick 180
Misc. 103
Total 942 tons
Arkchino Hay 178 tons
Expenditure
(26) For the reconstruction of Stalingrad-Harbor, NKRF-Ilijsk reports an expenditure
of 32822 rubles and receipts through obligations of 63100 rubles.
Miscellaneous
(27) For exceeding the economic plan with regard to wood cutting, NKRF-Omsk
received a bonus of 25000 rubles and NKRF-Irtysh for exceeding planned overhauling of
agricultural equipment 45000 rubles.
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