ECONOMIC - WATER TRANSPORTATION

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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 167
• Publication Date: October 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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MAR 1952 51-4%
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Water transportation
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 28 May - 20 Aug 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1953
DATE DIST. /9 Oct 1953
NO. OF PAGES 5
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR LAUNCHES NEW VESSELS, EXTENDS SERVICES;
MANE RIVER CRAFT TRANSFERRED TO VOLGA-DON FLEET
STATE
ARMY
Yalta, and Sevastopol'
28 May 53
NEW VESSEL CONSTRUCTION to MOSCOW -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 11 Jul 53
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 16 Jul 53
The first of a new series of ships has been launched from the Moscow
Shipbuilding Plant. These vessels, called "molochnik," are designed to carry
milk from areas not accessible to railways and highways.
Outwardly, the molochnik resembles the Moskvich-type ship, but the in-
terior is of special construction. In the compartments which house the passen-
gers' lounge on the Moskvich type, two cylindrical tanks have been installed
with a total capacity of 20,000 liters. Special layers of insulation and a
cooling system protect the milk against spoilage, The upper decks can be used
for carrying passengers if benches are installed.
The ships have a speed-of 15-17 kilometers per hour..
NAVY
AIR
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NEW REFRIGERATOR SHIP PUT INTO SERVICE -- Petrozavodsk, Leninskaya Znamya,
14 Jul 53
On 12 July, the diesel refrigerator ship Gruziya made her initial voyage
on the Dnepr River from Kiev to Kheraon. The ship's holds are insulated to
maintain a temperature of minus 8 degrees.
VESSEL TRAFFIC AND LAYOVER IN THE FAR EASTERN BASIN -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport,
20 Aug 53
The motor ship Kuril'sk is running fish from the coast of the Okhotsk Sea
directly to Komsomol'sk-on-Amur.
The vessels Ivan Zemnukhov, Sozh. Ob', Rybnovsk, Akademik Krylov, and
Professor Popov have also been assigned to fish-shipment points along the
Okhotsk coast.
The steamships Shaturstroy and Goncharov have put in along the Okhotsk
shore, and the motor ship Sergey Tyulenin has put in on the eastern shore of
Kamchatka. All were loaded with food products (flour, wine, tea, sugar) and
manufactured goods (clothing, footwear, fabrics).
The steamship Kiev has arrived in the western corner of Kamchatka with a
load of coal, and the vessels Mirgorod and Uglich are towing timber rafts in
the area.
All these vessels are to be reloaded with fish products after unloading
cargo in order that they may continue to Far Eastern Basin ports. However,
this turnover is being delayed.
According to established norms, the ships Ivan Zemnukhov, Sozh, and
Rybnovsk should be able to unload and take on fish products in 4 days. One
ship, the Rybnovsk, has already stood idle 11 days, and the Ob' 7. The
steamship Goncharov was unloaded in 25 days instead of 4 as planned. The
motor ship Akademik Krylov lay on the coast of western Kamchatka more than a
month instead of 12 days as planned.
NEW INLAND PASSENGER SERVICE -- Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 18 Jul 53
The new diesel passenger ship Rassvet, with a carrying capacity of 255
passengers, will be put into service on the Tsimlyanskaya Reservoir.
Leningrad, Leningradskaya Pravda, 6 Jun 53
The Northwestern Steamship Company has announced regular passenger traffic
between Leningrad and Medvezh'ya Go;a. The passenger ships Volodarskiy and
Uritakiy will make the trip from Leningrad to Medvezh'ya Gora in 3 days, going
by way of Lake Ladoga, the Svir' River, and Lake Onega.
Stops will be made at Petrokrepost', Sviritsa, Lodeynoye Pole, Podporozhiye,
Voznesen'ye, and Petrozavodsk.
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VESSELS C(I NDED FOR OUTSTANDING WORK PERFORMED .-- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport,
18 Aug 53
The Ministry of Ocean and Inland Shipping and the VTsSPS (All-Union
Central Council of Trade Unions) have commended the following vessels for out-
standing work performed:
The icebreaker Mikoyan, of the Vladivostok Arctic Sea Steamship Company
his is the first press mention seen in FDD of this shipping compan]; the
Kril'on and Sovetskaya neft', of the Far East Steamship Company; the
steamships Yaroslavl' and Narva of the Sakhalin Steamship Company; the motor
ship Korsakov of the Kamchatka-Chukotsk Steamship Company; the steamship
Kokkinaku of the Moscow-Oka Steamship Company; the motor ships Marshal
Voroshilov, Anatolyy Serov, and Admiral Nakhimov, of the Volga Freight and
Passenger Steamship Company; the ST-30 of the Sheksna Steamship Company; the
steamship Pozharskiy of the Western Siberian Steamship Company; the motor ships
Sukhumi and Irkutsk of the Danube Steamship Company; the steamship Mius of the
Port of Odessa; the Livadiya, Fanagoriya, and Krasnodon of the Azov Steamship
Company; the steamships Pestel' and Lermontov of the Black Sea Steamship
Company; the Baku, the UKN(b), the Agamali-Ogly, Valeriy Chkalov, Chimkent,
Fioletov, Besstrashnyy, Boykiy, and Kamyshin of the Caspian`Steamship Company;
and the steamship Bakinets of Reydtanker..
SEVASTOPOL, IN SERVICE FROM LENINGRAD TO FAR NORTH -- Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya
Litva, 18 Jul 53
The steamship Sevastopol' has departed from Leningrad with 1,000 tons of
food and manufactured goods for delivery to settlements in the Far North.
[As far as can be determined from a picture accompanying the above item, the
Sevastopol' mentioned is not a liberty ship and therefore not the steamship
Sevastopol' which was identified by NIS 26, Section 36, as the former US Line
vessel De Witt Clinton,7
RIVER SHIPMENT OF GRAIN FROM THE NEW HARVEST -- Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva,
18 Jul 53
The motor ship Tatariya under the command of Captain Sharov has completed
the voyage from Krasnoarmeysk to Gor'kiy with 2,175 tons of grain from the new
harvest. Her average speed during the voyage was 10-15 kilometers per hour.
The steamship Molodaya Gvardlya has arrived in Gomel' from Kakhovka with
grain from the new harvest,
Moscow, Pravda, 21 Jul 53
The Volga Freight Steamship Company is currently engaged in the transport
of grain from the new harvest. The motor ship Belorussiya has arrived in
Yaroslavl' from Krasnoarmeysk with 2,800 tons of Kuban wheat.
The Volga Freight Steamship Company is using both steamships and barges
to transport grain.
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MOVEMENT OF RIVER CRAFT BOUND FOR VOLGA-DON FLEET -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport,
15 Aug 53
The new lake diesel ship Przheval'skiy has successfully towed river craft
across the Black and Azov seas for delivery to the Volga-Don fleet.
Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 30 Jul 53
The towing of river craft across the Black and Azov seas is continuing.
Passenger vessels, cargo ships, tugs, and barges have been dispatched from
Odessa under tow by seagoing tugs bound for Zhdanov; the final destination is
Rostov-on-Don, from which point they will be delivered to the Volga-Don fleet.
The towing vessels Toros and Cherncmor have alone delivered ten tows of
river steamers, diesels, and barges.
The present navigation season marks the first use of the lake tugs Admiral
Makarov, Nevel'skoy, Przheval'skiy, and Malygin. They have delivered 5 tows of
river craft across the Black and Azov seas.
On 29 July, the Toros arrived in Zhdanov with a tow of 12 river craft
including the diesel-electric passenger ship Gruziya, nine river tugs, and two
barges. The same day the tug Nevel'skoy delivered five river craft.
DEEP WATER TIMBER RAFTS IN THE FAR EAST -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 15 Aug 53
The steamship General Panfilov has taken a timber raft of 2,000 cubic meters
in tow from the port of Sovetskaya Gavan' to Kamchatka. This is the 16th raft
dispatched in the last 2 months.
EXTEND USE OF PUSHING METHOD OF BARGE PROPULSION -- Moscow, Vodnyy Transport,
15 Aug 53
The dispatcher on the lower Irtysh Steamship Company line has increased
the use of the new pushing method of barge propulsion. In May, 63,000 tons of
freight were carried by this method in 11 self-propelled and 42 powerless
vessels. In June, the freight carried by this method was twice that of May,
with 22 self-propelled and 72 powerless vessels being used.
Moscow, Vodnyy Transport, 28 Jul 53
The success of the pushing method of barge propulsion has aroused con-
siderable interest among shippers in the small rivers of the Krasnoyarsk region.
In the present navigation season, the pushing method has been instituted in the
upper reaches of the Chulym River.
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The first vessel to attempt this new method was the 90-horsepower motor
launch Tomich. The results of this trial indicated excellent possibilities:
a reduction in fuel consumption from 162 to 108 kilograms per hour, and a
saving of 2 kilograms of oil.
The steamship Podarok Rodine has made the voyage from Achinsk to the
village of Sekretarka and back using the pushing method with good results.