NORTHERN STATE STEAMSHIP COMPANY-MMF

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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Northern State Steamship Company-MMF
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The Perthern State Steamship Company /7evernoYe Gosudarstvennoye Morskoye Parokhodstvo---
SGME7 was Subordinate to the Ministry-Of the Merchant Fleet through the Chief Directorate
25X1A of the Northwestern Fleet . The company's administration was in. Arkhan-
gelsk,. Ulitsa Pavlina Vinogradova. The director was General Director 3rd Class (MF)
Bakhvalov. BakhValov had three deputies whose names I do not recall. This steamship
company was one of Russiats oldest. It had been nationalized in February 1918 and follow,.
ed the same pattern of reorganization as all .other MF steamship aompanies. The Northern
State Steamship Company maintained freight and passenger transport lines in the North,
White,- Barents, Kara, Laptev, E. Siberian, Chukchi, and Bering Seas and the Sea of Okhot
Ports-of-call were aS follows: Murmansk, Spitzbergen, Kandalaksha, Dudinka, Molotovsk, Ma
zan-Mar, Vladivostok, and several factories located at the mouths of the Ob, Yenisey, Lenab
indigirka, and Kolyma RIverp. In addition to the domestic lines, the company maintained
transport lines with some foreign ports, mainly in England- (export of timber), aweden and
Norway (imports of machinery and steel). The company's navigation period did not last
more than. 51-. months annually, 15 May to the end of October.
2. Principal cargoes transported by the Northern Steamship Company were: timb3r and lumber, ,
coal from Pechora region to Murmrnsk and other ports for local use, food stuffs, fish
to Murmansk, machinery and equipment. to the East, and construction material to almost al]
Eastern ports. In addition to freight,the company carried large passenger transports con-.
sisting mainly of slave labor camp inmates. The 1951 transport plan for the Northern
Steamship Company called for transport of 4,000,000 tons0 have no details of the plan.
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The administration of the Northern State Steamship Company WAS
similar to that of the Baltic Steamship Company, However, there
was. no fourth deputy director and the number of administrative
personnel was 25% less than that of the Baltic company.
The company's fleet consisted of about 120 vessels. The largest
part of these were, old steamships. Only about 30 vessels were
diesel-powered. The steamships were mostly of the one-propeller
type, equipped with steam engines of Compaud make provided with,
economizers. Boilers were of the Scotch type provided with steam
Overheaters Of the Schmidt make, releasing steam pressures of 8 to
16 atmos heres he over-heated steam had a temperature of 250 to
300 C. following groups of ships belonging to the company:
a. Approximately 1.5 to 20 one-propeller freight stkaiships up to '
30500-ton displacement 'manufactured in 1927-1929 at the
BaltlysittrZamod in Leningrad. They were equipped with Steam:
engines, capacity of 900 hp, 120 rpm, They had two Scotch ,
type boilers of 14 atm. steam pressure and over'-heated steam
temperature of 250...C. The speed of these ships was 12. mph,
25x1c the following ships of this group: VYATKA, KIROVOGRAD,
4.61) VORONEZH. . The last .ship Was quite famous in the
USSR as a speed-record holder iTekhnicheskaya Skorost27, and was
often mentioned in Various articles published in magazines
and the newspaper lonicloiLLIs5 and even in Pravda. .
b. Approximately 15 timber-transportingdiesel ships? with a dia..
placement Up to 4,000 time. 25X1C
SEITZAPLES? DVINOLES? and KUZ
. Approximately 60 general freight steamships of various makes .
from 3,000 to 10,000: tons' displacement the f0116$4tbg
shiPs 'belonging to this group: SERGEY KIROV? ROSHALi,
imam SELENQA? SURA, UNZHA? KHOZE DIAS, YUSHAR, LENA,
LAKHTA, BliODENNYY0 MIKHAIL KUTUZ0V, ARKTIKA 004' tAn2it4
VINOGRADOV.
d. Approximately six to eight steam tugboats up to 600 HP. I.
know of the NORD and PURGA.. All of these: tugs ,were equipped
With a :steel ice-breaking belt, one meter wide and 10-20 MC
thick.
e.. Approximately 15 diesel ships of various makes and types.
Because of Specific operating conditions in the northern sea,
such as ice conditions and the subsequent over-loading of engines,
the 'average life of, the company's diesel ships was short., usually
'not. more than ,12 to 15 years. Repair and maintenance was done at
the following ship repair zolardsi ArkhangsWtiy Ship Repair yard)
elonged to cflavMorPromk and Za.vOtr KrasnaA
So1omh440 , "ailtkre diavMoi,Proni'
plant.
. The Northern State Steamship Company had its own newepapera
rorayk Sffivera, which was published in Arkhangelsk* It sold for
L',IppokS.,i and hada circulation of 3,000.
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