High Command Organisation of the Rear

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In 1943, in accordance with the Decree of the ГОКО № 3543s of 9 June 1943, the order of the NKO № 0379 from 12th June 1941 carried out further improvement of the organizational structure of the central apparatus of the Rear of the Red Army. Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army was abolished. There was a Chief of the Rear of the Red Army - Deputy People's Commissar of Defence of the Rear. Now the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army commands the Staff of the Rear of the Red Army and the Personnel Department. Chief of the Rear of the Red Army controls:
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Directorate of Personal Account of the loss of younger officers and other ranks of the army and pensions families ( Управление по персональному учету потерь младшего начальствующего и рядового состава действующей армии и пенсионному обеспечению семей);
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More accurately "....losses of privates and non-comissioned officers". Note that the Main Directorate for Cadres directly under NKO was responsible for keeping rosters of officers and registration of their losses. So there were two agencies keeping records of personnel losses - one for officers and another for other ranks.

[Art]

Also, I think, it would be illustrative - an organization of the Red Army central apparatus in June 1941, from an older post:

A. Peoples’ Commissar for Defense – marshal S.K.Timoshenko
B. 1st deputy commissar – marshal S.M.Budyonny, controls Main Intendance Administration, Sanitary Administration, Veterinary Administration, Material Funds Department
Deputy commisars:
Army general G.K.Zhukov, Chief of the General Staff, also controls POL Supply Administration, Signal Administration, Main Antiaircraft Defense Administration, General Staff Academy
Army commissar 1st rank A.I.Zaporozhets controls Main Political Propaganda Administration, Military Publishing Administration, Military Political Academy and political schools etc
Marshal G.K. Kulik controls Main Artillery Administration, Chemical Defense Administration, and Artillery Academy
Army general K.A.Meretskov controls Combat Training Administration, Military Educational Establishments Administrations, Inspectorates also oversees training of all arms except air forces
Marshal B.M.Shaposhnikov controls Main Military Engineer Administration and Military Construction Administration

C. 1. General Staff
Chief of staff – army general G.K. Zhukov
1st deputy chief of staff – lieutenant general N.F.Vatutin
2nd deputy – LG V.D.Sokolovsky
deputy chiefs:
corps commissar S.K.Kozhevnikov
LG F.I. Golikov

Administrations:
a) Operations – LG G.K.Malandin
b) Intelligence – LG F.I. Golikov
c) Organization – MG N.I. Chetverikov
d) Military transportation – LG N.I.Trubetskoy
e) Mobilization – MG N.L.Nikitin
f) Supply and rear services organization – MG P.A.Yermolin
g) Troop staffing – colonel A.G.Karponosov
h) Military Topography - brigade engineer M.K. Kudryavtsev
Departments:
a) Fortified regions – M.G. S.I. Shiryaev
b) Military history – colonel N.A. Talensky
c) Cadres – colonel V.I. Chernyshev
d) Utility - colonel P.A. Golofeyev

2. Main Political Propaganda Administration – army commissar 1 rank L.Z. Mekhlis (appointed in place of A.I. Zaporoshets on 21.6.41)
3. Main Air Forces Administration – LG P.F. Zhigarev
4. Main Artillery Administration – CG N.D. Yakovlev
5. Main Automobile&Tank Administration – LG. Ya.N.Fedorenko
6. Main Military Engineer Administration – MG L.Z.Kotlyar
7. Main Intendance Administration – LG A.V. Khrulev
9. Main Antiaircraft Defense Administration – CG N.N.Voronov
9. 3rd Administration – major of state security A.N. Mikheev
10. Combat Training Administration – LG A.N. Bakhtin
11. Signal Administration – MG N.I. Gapich
12. Military Chemical Defense Administration – MG P.G. Melnikov
13. POL Supply Administration - MG P.V.Kovyrzin
14. Military Educational Establishments Administration – LG I.K.Smirnov
15. Cadres Administration – MG A.D.Rumyantsev
16. Sanitary Administration – brigade doctor Ye.I.Smirnov
17. Veterinary Administration – brigade veterinary doctor K.I.Barkovsky
18. Administration for Affairs – ?
19. Financial Administration – MG Ya.A.Khotenko
20. Stud Farm Administration - ?
21. Military Publishing House Administration – colonel P.F.Kopylov
22. “Red Star” publishing and editorial office – corps commissar V.N.Bogatkin
23. Defensive Construction Administration – colonel V.A.Butylev?
24. Airborne Troops Administration - ?
25. Material Funds Administration - ?
Inspectorates:
26. Infantry – LG M.P. Kovalev
27. Cavalry – CG O.I.Gorodovikov
28. Artillery – LG A.K. Sivkov
29. Automobile&tank troops – MG B.G. Vershinin
30. Air Forces - ?
31. Engineer – MG I.P. Vorovyev
32. Signal – LG I.A.Naydenov

So supplies, logistics and services were handled by several agencies. In the general staff administration for supply and rear organization exercised general control over supply matters, while military transportation administration handled railroad and waterways traffic. Some other administrations (directorates) were responsible for specific type of supply and services, namely Main Intendance Administration (food, clothing, generic items), POL supply (self-descriptive), financial (salaries and contracts), sanitary (all medical activity) and veterinary administrations. Other could agencies supervised certain items of supplies as well: artillery administration - weapons, ammunition, optical instruments, automobile&tank administration - spare parts for motor vehicles and tires, engineer administration - engineer instruments and materials etc and so on. No single man or body organized concerted efforts relating to supply, logistics and services. A lower level headquarters (fronts, military districts, armies) were organized in a similar way - several independent offices dealing with supply&services. As described above on 1 August 1941 this organization was changed and general Khrulev was appointed to command all services and control several formerly independent directorates.

[Der Alte Fritz]

What I find impressive is that after the confusion of June and July, once the reforms are accepted in August there is little change from then until the end of the war. This demonstrates to me that the Rear was functioning pretty well almost from its inception which when you realise that the Red Army underwent a huge expansion and changes through this period and the wide range of responsibilities covered by the Rear is pretty remarkable

[Der Alte Fritz]

Practice logistical support of combat operations of the Red Army against the Japanese troops have Khalkhin Gol and the Soviet-Finnish war testified that the Rear needed to have an independent controlling body.At the same time,before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the optimal solution in the structural organisation for controlling the Rear was not found.
On the eve of the war the control of the Rear was still performed by the General Staff. The General Staff had the headquarters unit for the Rear and Supply, in the headquarters of military districts (fronts), armies and corps - logistics departments in headquarters of divisions - and in the rear headquarters of the regiments - Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rear

Direct management of main and central departments of the central link The Deputy People Commissar of Defence of the USSR, and in the associations and connections has been the position of deputy chief of staff for logistics on which immediately became isolated departments and branches of the rear

At the beginning of the war the main difficulty in organising a reliable rear command system, was the fact that the General Staff and the staffs of combined-arms armies, were respectively, responsible for effective organisation of the Rear, the overall planning of material support and organising transport, could not specifically affect the provision of troops.This dictated the need for a more efficient centralized management of the entire system of logistics support troops.

Exactly for the sake of this on the 1st August 1941 was signed the order of People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR № 0257 of the Main Directorate of the Rear organisation of the Red Army, a part of which included the Headquarters Staff of Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army, the staffing № 1 / 183 - 1941 year.In the fronts and armies was a similar structure to the Rear Headquarters were established organisation and planning departments, which were due to a sharp increase in the workload of the Rear a decree of GKO by 19th May 1942, was to reorganise the Rear Staff into two divisions: the organisational and accounting Rear troops and planning of road and air transport. Later were formed by the Central Directorate of the Rear for the Military Air Force - in August 1941 the Military Naval Fleet - May 1942 and in military districts - in May 1944

Initially, according to the above establishment of the Staff of the Rear the departments were: the planning of material supply of existing forces and formations; Planning of rail and road transport: the organisation of apparatus and institutions of the Rear; evacuation, personnel and general department. Its total number was 163 people, including 140 soldiers.

The first chief of staff of the Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army, he was appointed Major General P. Utkin and his deputies, Major General M. Milovsky and P. Drachov. In September 1941, replacing the General P. Utkin, chief of staff of the Rear has been appointed General M. Milovsky has been in this position during the rest of the Great Patriotic War.

Since the beginning the Staff of the Rear had to perform more tasks.

In 1942, in the refinement of the structural organization of the rear controls, headquarters of the Rear were significantly reduced.According to the Establishment № 01/209, approved 16.05.1942, it counted 86 people of whom 48 soldiers and 38 officials. The structure consisted of five departments:
operational logistics,
organisational,
material accounting provision for new formations,
planning and accounting rail transport
planning road and air transportation,
as well as the secret-encryption units,
administrative and economic department.

Due to the increasing workload of the bodies of the Rear KA 12th June 1943 NKO Order № 0379 the Central office of the Rear of the Red Army was reorganized and strengthened.The Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army was abolished, and management that were included in its composition, have become become responsible directly to the Chief of Rear, whose office was called - Chief of the Rear of the Red Army - Deputy People's Commissar of Defence of the Rear.

Headquarters of Chief of the Rear of the Red Army as it became known was strengthened in the main divisions organising the supply of material resourcesIn the new structure of certain establishment № 01 / 398-1943, it had the following departments:
operational organisation;
supply fronts and individual armies;
supply of reserve armies and formations, military districts, marching reinforcements and military echelons;
rail and waterway transport;
road and air transportation;
mandative and regular combat training;
administrative and economic department
Secret cipher department.

Chief of Staff of Logistics received the rights of the Deputy Chief of Logistics of the Red Army.

In the future staff of the Red Army Rear Services, along with issues logistical support of the army and its units, it had to perform tasks such as the creation of organs for the rear billets of material means from local resources; organization of the terminal stations at the junction of the railways of the Union and the Western European gauge; assistance to local authorities in the recovery of the economy in the liberated territory; organization providing the guerrilla groups, the creation of bodies trophy service; provision of Soviet citizens liberated from Nazi captivity; provision of foreign forces; acting in concert with the forces of the Red Army; The supply of the liberated towns and villages.

State N ° 01 / 397-1943, as amended in 1944, the number of staff of the Rear of the Red Army was 181 people, of which 116 were soldiers and 65 officers.Organizational and its members began to enter the 9 departments: organizational and mobilization; Supply fronts and individual armies; material security compounds newly formed and displayed on the formation; rail and waterway transport; road and air transportation; mandative and staff;In 1944, in the staff of the Rear Department also established which studied the logistics activities in operations, preparing and publishing a special collection of materials;The rear of the Red Army in World War II

In 1945, the structural organization and strength of the staff of the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army was establishment N ° 01/521 - 1945, introduced by the directive of the General Staff N ° ORG / 6/837 from 14.04.1945, and amounted to 211 people, including 138 soldiers and 73 administrators..In its composition the Rear headquarters had 12 departments: Rear division; Supply of fronts and districts; ensuring organisational activities and reserve connections, rail and water transport; road and air transportation; organisational and staff-administrative; combat training;for prisoners of war, internees and repatriated; collection, transport and return of spec, capping; on experiences of war; on the use of the trophy and national economic assets; secret and administrative-economic part.

Other organisational- staff changes in the Staff of the Rear was not until the end of the war -. Doc.№ 37.

[Der Alte Fritz]

12. On the eve of World War II planning, organization and implementation of rail transport, recovery and implementation of railways was in charge of the Office of Military Communications (UP VOSO) Red Army, in the districts (fronts

)and the armies - VOSO Department subordinate to the central link of the General Staff, in the operational commands - Combined Arms staffs.

The organisation structure of the military transport service directly at the front during the war largely remained as it was in the past two or three years.UP VOSO Red Army contained at this time by Establishment № 1/1, approved 3rd August 1940 onwards, and was composed of 154 soldiers and 25 employees.

Organizational management VOSO KA consisted of nine divisions, in composition which included 16 branches of a specific direction, operated by divisions of specific tasks: Training Department of railway troops and authorities VOSO with two offices; departments: operational transport consisting of five offices; resupply flights, consisting of four offices; water transport; transport and VOSO service; mobilization training of the railways; the construction of railways; supply of railway troops and military acceptance, consisting of five divisions and financial and legal.Subordinate to the Chief of the UP VOSO Red Army existed at each Chief of rail travel of troop movements on special services and implementation of centralized traffic.

Head of Department of VOSO in the prewar period and the beginning of the war was Lieutenant-of General N.I. Trubetskoy, who removed from office for disruption of military transport during the first days of the war,After this time the service VOSO simultaneously headed by the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army General A. V. Khrulev.

With the onset of World War II due to the new challenges and increased workload service VOSO undergone some restructuring.However, the transition of the VOSO organisation to a wartime structure was difficult due to the fact that the Staff Office of VOSO Red Army and departments of VOSO of the Fronts had not been developed before the war.The situation was complicated by the fact that had nominally - the organizational structure of certain organs VOSO was supine and useless in this situation.

The first reorganization UP VOSO spacecraft was carried out16 on July 1941, with the transfer of its temporary staff strength of 239 soldiers and 24 officials.In this establishment 12 departments were created (instead of nine) in UP VOSO.Management of all types of transport has been allocated in a separate department.By reoganisaing the departments of resupply, personnel, appeal and dismissal, it was possible to create three separate divisions:
transport of ammunition, fuel and military equipment;
Quartermaster property;
transport for bringing up to strength and evacuation.

In order to centralize the management of the Rear and eliminate the disorganization which existed in the performance of military transportation, in accordance with the resolution the GKO № 300 of 24 July 1941 and the order of the NKO number 0257 on August 1, 1941 the service VOSO in the center of the fronts and armies had been withdrawn from the General Staff and the combined arms staffs and transferred to the newly created Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army, directly subordinate to the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army and Heads of the Rear of the Fronts and Armies.As a result</a> , the situation with the organisation of communications and military transport was straightened out, operational and supply transports were carried out in a comprehensive and planned manner.

Between July 1941 and 1943 UP VOSO of the General Staff, and then TSU VOSO Red Army ЦУП ВОСО (Central Directorate of Military Transportation) led the military engineer 1st Rank (in the following years, Lieutenant General) IV Kovalev.

Later, during the war, there were several organizational refinements of the VOSO KA management structure. On August 7, 1941, when it was a part of the Red Army Rear Services, UP VOSO transferred to a new number 1/189 staff numbering 320 soldiers and 34 officers.This staff provided 14 departments instead of the previously available 12.Due to the transportation traffic control department in each department dispatching department were created at the expense of the State department of transportation of petroleum and lubricant products (ГСМ) and technical materials ( ВТИ), a separate department of petroleum products transport was established, also set up were a separate department of personnel anda supply department for purchasing equipment of the railway troops purchasing department</a> .</a>

In connection with the growth of traffic of sanitary evacuation General Management directive № 539 834 of 4/6 September 1941 to the current UP VOSO structure includes a new department - the health evacuation traffic, numbering 13 soldiers and one employee at the expense of other departments.

In late December 1941, pursuant to an NKO order № 517 from 29 December 1941

to guide the work of the Commander of the landmarking service, a landmark service department was created, numbering 11 soldiers and one employee.And in February 1942, in connection with the transfer of the railway troops GUVVR (ГУВВР) of the NKPS (НКПС), the command of VOSO was again transferred to the Number 1/289 with a new staff of 267 soldiers and 31 officials.This reorganisation mainly touched three departments in the railway troops and leadership work on the restoration and establishment of the railways.Instead of 10, 11 and 12th divisions of existing staff have been provided new: Railway Troops and universities inspection department; Department of Defense new railway construction, oversee the preparation of railways and regain control; rail armament department.

In May 1942, UP VOSO was again reorganized and partially transferred to the state number 224, approved May 18, 1942, numbering 204 troops and 73 employees, and in February 1943 in Central VOSO Management (renamed by the order of NKO 076 from 31 January 1943 ), was added to the 17th Division - the overall planning department numbering 14 soldiers and 3 officers.In the same year, in the month of November, introduced to the staff of TSU VOSO an 18th Division of Air Defence PVO (ПВО) Division ― 7 officers and one employee.

20th Division - - traffic trophy and the purpose of planning and transportation management at the introduction of the Red Army on the territory of neighboring states in the management staff chief VOSO was incorporated 19 - Carriers department for repatriation, numbering 10 soldiers and 3 officers and 21 March 1945 national economic assets, numbering 20 soldiers, 5 employees.

With regard to the enforcement of subordination VOSO, it is in the course of the war was changed, only once.This was done31 January 1943</a> the year , when the order of People Commissar of Defence No 076 was announced decision STAVKA (Ставки ВКГ) about their resubordination to the General Staff and the general staff.

However, this restructuring was not viable and has already been through 36 days canceled , as was broke responsible for the transport of troops and the supply of material resources and centralization of management by them.Organization of execution of military transportation required the joint efforts of many services that could unite only under direct supervision of the appropriate transport service of the Chief of the Rear.Therefore bodies VOSO in March 1943, were withdrawn from the authority of the General Staff and the combined arms staffs and handed over to the Red Army Rear Services (order NKO № 171 of March 3, 1943), where there were the post-war period up to 1949 and from 1961 to 1992 .

The Chief of TSU VOSO Red Army from 1944 to 1962 and was General V. Dmitriev, who led the organization of military transportation in the final stage of the war, as well as transport, carried out during the strategic regrouping of forces in the Far East

[Der Alte Fritz]

A good website devoted to the study of logistics of Russian (Soviet) armies with plenty of original documents.

For instance 1st August 1941 ПРИКАЗ НАРОДНОГО КОМИССАРА ОБОРОНЫ СССР ОБ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ ГЛАВНОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ТЫЛА КРАСНОЙ АРМИИ И УПРАВЛЕНИЙ ТЫЛА ФРОНТОВ И АРМИЙ № 0257
http://www.oboznik.ru/?p=2743

[Der Alte Fritz]

13. Until 1938 the year Motor Vehicle and road services were part of the Central Directorate of Military Communications of the General Staff of the Red Army, and were represented by a single department , consisting of three divisions : military transport, , road and motor transport .
In 1938 there was created in the General Staff 6 departments - department of motor transport and road service - an organisation department , composed of three divisions : motor vehicle , road and traffic control service .Division of TsUPVOSO (ЦУП ВОСО) transferred management of road maintenance and road transport troops and supplies. Subsequently , in May 1939 the year , such as the departments were created in the headquarters of military districts, fleets and armies .
According to the plans , developed in the prewar years , the leadership organization and operation of military roads in the fronts and armies was assigned to the Department of Motor Transport and Road Service .Mobilization deployment of Road Troops was provided to carry out along two lines. Defense Commissariat mobilisation of road maintenance regiments, and the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) formed a separate road-building and bridge-building battalion. For the management of these were often created field controls - the Main Directorate of Road Administration of the NKVD created administration at the headquarters of Fronts and main road departments at the headquarters of the armies. They carried out their orders for the construction and rehabilitation of roads and bridges.
The need for the rapid transportation of military cargo to the army and the implementation of major operational road transport, proved unsatisfactory
The situation prevailing on the roads in the initial period of the war, demanded urgent action.In the interests of the State Defense Committee adopted a resolution № 163 of 15th July 1941 ,;" On the organization of the road service on the highways, - the dirt roads and the formation of motor battalions"; .The regulation stipulated that the Motor Vehicle - Road Directorate of the Red Army and 29 on July 1941 was transferred to the subordination of the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army .The Directorate was established according to № 01 / 192-1941 and consisted of seven Departments: military transportation; road maintenance; technical maintenance, repair and evacuation of vehicles; construction and repair of roads; combat training; road forces; supply and material support; personnel and general units.The total number of the Directorate was 106 personnel , with . . 84 soldiers and 22 officials. .The Directorate had appointed as its Chief Major - General E.I. Kondratyev.In the fronts and armies were organized motor vehicle-road departments.This resolution provides for the formation of additional units and formations of the road and road troops.
During the war, it revealed a complete mismatch conditions of the combat situation is twofold - staff structure of road parts.In January 1942 , it was decided on the reorganisation of the battalions of , the Central NKVD Directorate of Highways , into the staff of the Peoples Commissariat of Defence .
During the fighting continuously increased the role of the military - roads.This was associated with an increase in traffic.Significant impact on the increase in traffic density has increased amounts of resupplying troops scale redeployment of troops during operations, evacuation operations, as well as a significant increase in the vehicle fleet.All these changes made ​​it necessary to strengthen controls at the Centre, in the fronts and armies.GKO decree № 1711 of 8 May 1942 entered into force by Order NKO № 0380 from 12th May 1942, based on the Motor Vehicle and Road Directorate of the Red Army and the Directorate of Military Road Construction from the rear of the Main Directorate of the NKVD Highways, was created Main Directorate of Motor Transport and Roads of the Red Army (GUADS KA)(ГУАДС КА) headed by Lieutenant-General E.I. Kondratyev.In the fronts corresponding directorates have been established ( UADS (УАДС) ) departments - in armies ( OADS (ОАДС). ).Organisationally, according to Establishment No. 01/225, adopted this 18.5.1942 Main Directorate had two departments: Roads that consists of seven departments and offices (road construction, technical maintenance of roads, road repair and reconstruction of machines and mechanisms, project, formation, staffing and training, financial and common parts); automotive, comprising seven divisions and departments (transport by road, technical operation to repair, inspection, of the formation, acquisition and training, VAD and Commandant of the service, financial and common parts); as well as five separate divisions: the Rear and implementation of funds, political, financial, personnel and common.The total number of the Main Directorate was 196 people , in t . H . soldiers - 125 officials 71.
A further increase in the number of road and auto-technical support operations, as well as military transport has revealed the need to separate the motor vehicle and road service.The creation of the objective conditions for their separation, at this time was that in the army there were more than 600 thousand motor vehicles, and for military roads, there were 294 separate Road Battalions, 22 military roads departments with 110 road commands, 7 military road directorates 40 road units, 194 draught transport companies, repair bases, bases for the production of bridge and road construction, educational and other institutions.GKO decree number 3543 on a 9th June 1943 order of the number of NKO № 0380 from
it was established the Main Road Directorate of the Red Army ( (GDU KA) (Главное дорожное управление Красной Армии (ГДУ КА) ), which is headed by lieutenant general - E.I . Kondratyev , and the Office of Military - Highways Rear Work of the NKVD was fully subordination to the NKO. . Chief GUSHOSDORA General - Major Fedorov became deputy chief GDU KA .
According to the State № 01/381, approved 8th July 1943 GDU KA organization consisted of two departments: Road Construction which has in its structure four divisions - construction and rehabilitation of roads, road network of the Union, design and mechanization of road works; operational management, consisting of
four departments - traffic control on the VAD, material and household maintenance, repair and maintenance of roads, protection and defense of roads and bridges; as well as six independent departments - organizational and planning, training, personnel, orders and the Rear, financial and general.The number of the Main Directorate was 197 - persons incl..including soldiers and 87 officials.
At the final stage of the war according to the state № 01/631 - 1945Main Directorate of Highways in its composition had three departments: road construction, consisting of five divisions (road network planning, recovery and barricades roads, maintenance and operation of roads, new road construction, design and technical); road maintenance, comprising four divisions ((Traffic control service, security and VAD (Military Highways), the organization of the milestone points, technical); bridge with five operational divisions (production, reconstruction and construction, technical, project, clearance and military river beds, as well as nine separate divisions: organisation and planning, combat training, mechanisation and works, orders and supplies, political, personnel, financial, learning and use of the experience of war, administrative and editor of the journal "Roads *.The total number of the Main Directorate of 292 person , including 169 soldiers employees - 123.
Problems in the organization of operational, supply and evacuation transport were assigned to the created Main Directorate of Motor Vehicles Red Army (GAU KA)(ГАУ КА), which on the basis of an order number of GKO № 2537s 24/11/1942 and NKO order of January 15, 1943 № 038 was subordinated to the Chief Rear of the Red Army.
Organizational under state number 01/2391 approved 03.12.1942 g .GAU KA consisted of staff from five divisions (orgshtatny, combat training, leadership universities and automotive spare parts, state staffing and mobilization of motor transport, general, universities and inspection motor vehicle fleet); supply management and motor vehicle reserve with nine divisions (planning, ordering domestic cars, import orders, supply of spare parts, tools, equipment and materials, rubber, electrical appliances, electrical equipment and batteries, reserve and trophy cars, warehouses); repair management with five divisions (planning, technical maintenance, repairs, field maintenance at the factory and in the workshops of the NKO, repair factories industry), as well as independent departments ― the technical, financial accounting.The number of GAU KA was 286 people , including . . Soldiers 179 officials 107.In this organization it was before August 1944.
Establishment № 01/404, introduced by the directive of the General Staff (ГШ) № 6/311/682 on 08.10.1944.GAU KA consisted of this organisation: the headquarters, operation and management of road transport, supply management; management of repair and supply of spare parts; Control and Technical Committee; financial department, human resources department and inspection.
Establishment in its composition had five departments (operational, organisational, combat training, staff & personnel, recruitment and pay of privates and sergeants, rail and water transport, as well as secret and administrative office).
Operation and management of road transport consisted of four divisions ( the organization of road transport , operation of motor vehicles , motor vehicle spare parts management , technical and supply , general and secret unit ).
Supply management is also consisted of four departments ( accounting and planning , orders of domestic machines , special machines and captured , imported cars , supply rubber , general and secret unit ).
Management of repair and supply of spare parts in its composition had fifteen divisions (organisation/planning and accounting, the military repairs means, workshops NKO, chief mechanic, repair foreign and trophy cars, technology and restoration parts, spare parts supply, machines parts for foreign cars, sourcing tool, equipment and supplies, electrical supplies, warehouse and transportation services, decentralized procurement, repair industry, supply repair technology of imported machines, as well as inspection , General and secret parts, labour and salary).
In addition , as part of GAU KA were available for inspection staff , the personnel department , the control - a technical committee and the finance department .The number of top motor vehicle control was in 1944, a total of 506 people, including 299 hours of servicemen, employees -.. 207, in 1945 - 526 persons, incl military -.. 317 employees - 209.
Chief of the Main automobile management until December 1943 he was Major General VV Belokoskov, and from 14 December 1943 until 1947, Lieutenant-General of Technical Troops IP Lyagunov.
In such organizational - staff structure completed the Great Patriotic War, Highway and Motor Vehicle bodies.Doc.№ 37.

[Der Alte Fritz]

In order to centralise the management of procurement processes to ensure troops in August 1940, is created the Main Directorate of the Intendant (GIU) ( Главное интендантское управление) headed by the Chief Intendant of the Red Army, (Главным интендантом Красной Армии,) which is subordinated to the control of clothing-equipment, food, household supplies, and billeting-operations.Similar in structure to the controls created in military districts and armies.
In 1941 GIU KA( ГИУ КА) transferred to temporary staff number 1/190, approved 17.08.1941 ,with the total number of 949 people , including military personnel - 646 employees - 303.Organizational and it consisted of : Directorate of the food supply NKO, ,Directorate of clothing supply NKO, , {0Directorate of marked-clothing (uniform) supply of the NKO and billeting-operations DirectorateIn addition, it consists of 9 independent divisions: the mobilisation of planning, organising, training, transport, trade in the Red Army, warehouses, evacuation Quartermaster property, warehouses Soviet eastern regions, receiving and sending parcels, as well as the inspection of boiler and fire protection , quartermaster supply services, secret and general ward.
In 1942, according to the state № 01/217, approved 18.05.1942, only three central directorates provides: marked-economic goods (equipment), billeting-operations.By the Decree of the GKO and order NKO No.080 6.2.1942 Department of Food renamed the Main Directorate of Food sUPPLY (Главное продовольственное управление) directly under the People's Commissar of Defense.At the same time, the food departments of fronts and armies remained subordinate to the Chief of Rear of these organisations.
In addition to the above controls in the GIU KA were the technical committee, the departments - accounting and planning, organizational, personnel, transportation, separation for invention, general, secret and exist in the same state of inspection.The total number of 701 people ( without the Chief produpravleniya ) in t . H . Troops - 377 employees - 324.
Staff № 01/0366, approved by 18.09.1943, the number of GIU KA is set at 680, incl military -.. 350 employees - 330 people.Its structure, in addition to changes in the abundance and other has not changed.
In 1944, GIU KA remains in the state number 01 / 366-1943 of the year,but its structure is returned to the Department of Food Supply,, the total number of GAU KA is set in 1160 SMI person incl soldiers -.. 654 employees - 506.The organisational structure of the GIU KA considering returning SC UPS in its composition , fundamental changes undergone ns .Additionally introduced the Trade Division, the Division for the distribution of gifts and invention called ― invention and Office rationalization.
In 1945, the Main Intendant Directorate KA remains in the structure and staffing organization in 1944 with the establishment of the total number of staff of 1302 in total of which 654 military personnel and 648 employees.
Chief Intendant ― Deputy Chief of the Rear of the Red Army and his Office had been abolished by order of the Minister of defence of the USSR № 139 of 20.5.1959 years (the General staff Directive No. ORG/8/72758 from 18.6.1959 years).The same directive of the General Staff Office of the food supply has been assigned number 1/905 staff, and management staff of the clothing supply № 1/906.The number of departments and organizational structure remained unchanged.Doc.№ 37.
After the Civil War until 1935, the management of the supply of rations was carried out by military and economic organs.In 1935, the year after a survey of the CPSU (b) and USSR military resources and discussion at the Army Committee (Bсеармейском) meeting, it was decided that its reorganisation.From the military - economic management was singled service food supply with its governing body.According to the directive of 20 January 1936 it was created the food supply management (Uprodsnab, state number 1/616-A), numbering 81 soldiers and 41 employee of voluntary employment, which in its composition had 7 departments: mobilization, food, hlebofurazhny, agricultural , financial settlement, warehouses
_ Scientific - technical and secret part.The districts were created departments of food and ration supply, and divisions - office.
In 1936 Control passes to the state number 1/816-A, number 91 servicemen and 15 employees of voluntary recruitment, with further in its composition included the military department and the warehouse department of inspection and control system for Glavvoentorga.
In 1940 g . During the transition to the state number 1/34 numerical control amounted to 91 soldiers and 32 officers .In addition, standards development department was created and nurtured the application of various products in peace and war and the separation of staff.
In the first months of the war (22.06 - 16.08.1941 r.)Main Quartermaster Directorate of the Red Army ( GIU KA ), had a population of 103 soldiers and 74 officers of voluntary recruitment .The Office comprises 8 departments (state 1/121): mobilization, planning and accounting, food, material supply troops, part-time farm, storage, financial and common part.
Under a separate State called control-receiving apparatus (kPa) in the amount of 65 people.
Since the second half of August 1941 g . Instead of peace , entered the wartime control staff ( number 1/190) strength of 129 military personnel and 99 civilian people .Management consisted of 10 departments: rations, delivery organisation, planning and training, fodder, field bakery, material supply troops, part-time farms and machine stations, financial, warebilleting and total part.
In winter 1941 - 1942 years . Service has worked in difficult conditions due to the reduction in inventories and the small volume of new supply of food to the food industry , were evacuated to the east .It requires higher centralized service management.
In accordance with the decision of GKO from 24.01.1942, № 1202 NGO order dated 06.02.1942, № 080 is introduced a new state № 1/224, in which instead of Uprodsnaba GIU KA created a separate Main Directorate of Food Supply (GUPS KA), number 323 military personnel and 208 civilian employees, consisting of 5 offices and 6 departments.Management: organisational planning, fodder, abattoir processing, grocery market.Independent departments : finance , transport , trade in the Red Army , dish - hardware , personnel , military and general inspection of the .
In the fronts and military districts food supply departments were transformed into management, and in the armies of separation - in the food department.
22 FEBRUARY 1942 g . On GUPS KA addition to the main works were entrusted with supervisory functions over the activities Head of Military Trade (Glavvoentorga) service officers of the KA food and trade .Staff of GUPS KA with the KPA has increased to 463 soldiers and 346 civilian personnel. August 28, 1942 (order number 261 NKO) as part of GUPS KA operational supply department was established, numbering 12 people.
In 1942, by order of the NKO 1942 № 0374 as part of GUPS KA was created food and bakery management in the amount of 53 people, Uprodsnabah fronts- departments, armies - branches with a small number of engineers.
In order to concentrate the issues of all kinds of Intendant supplies in a single organ GKO decree of 10.14.1943, № 432 management supply issues Red Army food was entrusted to the Chief Intendant, in accordance with these changes GUPSKA was transformed into a UPS GUI KA, in front - in departments and armies - branches.
The staffing number 01/366-D Control numbers were: 433 military personnel and 280 civilian, identified the following organization: Departments: Planning and Limit, organizational and accounting, hlebofurazhny, abattoir, groceries, fruit and vegetables, the troop supplies and bakery, military enterprises, procurement, agricultural, financial, warebilleting, dish-household products, military inspection; Branch: Transport, common part, the secret, the legal part.
In connection with the restoration of the UPS as a part of the Main Directorate Intendant KA, scientific - technical issues of the department of food and baking of UPS GUI KA were transferred to the Technical Committee of the GUI KA. The number of the KPA was 77 soldiers .
8 on April 1945 g in accordance with the directive of the General Staff of the KA No ORG / 6/83615 for food security prisoners and repatriated citizens of the Directorate GUI KA included a special department in the amount of 6 people .
By the end of the war the number of employees in Directorate GUI KA amounted to: in the management - 465 soldiers, 208 employees; in the control and the receiver unit - 145 troops, 145 employees, all - personnel - 512 persons, employees -. 353 people.Doc.№ 37.

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SNK USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) on 09.08.1935, № 0-39ss installed a supply system for clothing and equipment, a procedure for leave camp units, formations, districts, categories of clothing property located in military units, changed the system of accounting and reporting of the uniform allowances.NKO Order of 08.13.1935, № 0145 the structure of the Military and Economic Directorate of the Red Army was allocated service uniform-clothing supplies with its governing body - the Directorate of the Uniform-clothing Supply Red Army (Directorate Red Army Establishment № 1/516), composed of departments : organization and mobilization, clothing, leather, uniform, household goods and sports equipment, planning and finance, general and secret parts.
The Chief of this Directorate was appointed 13.08.1935 g . Corps quartermaster Dmitry losifovich Kosich who was replaced on 09.28.1937. Brigade Commander Ivan Ivanovich MarshalSubsequently, 15.07.1938, at the post of head of the department was appointed brigade commander, in 1940, Major General Quartermaster Corps, Vladimir Vlasov, and was released on 16.06.1940
In the future 28.11.1939, the changes in staff and management operated in the following organisations: the Mobilisation and Organisation Department, the departments - planning, textile and clothing, leather and footwear, baggage, mechanical workshops and metal goods, warebilleting service, repair and household goods, scientific technical.
Due to the fact that the Naval Forces in 1938 were isolated from the NKO system, on 1st January 1939 they were transferred to an independent supply uniform-clothing and equipment (Order of the UOVS Red Army on 18.4.1938 № 33).
NKOs of 19.02.1938 № 46, the bath and laundry service personnel of the Red Army passed to the jurisdiction of the Military-sanitary Directorate of the Red Army.
On March 1, 1940 from the Office of the uniform-clothing supplies two independent Directorate of the formed the Red Army: Directorate clothing supply the Red Army and the Directorate of the uniform and equipment supply of the Red Army (Directive Main Organizational Directorate of the on KA 26.02.1940).
The staff of the Directorate Clothing Supply of 150 people, officals - 68 people, the control-unit receiver - 247 persons...
On August 3, 1940 the Directorate of Clothing Supply KA transferred to the state of I / 21s, consisting of the departments of: the mobilization, accounting and planning, procurement and administration, the Rear, warehouse and transportation, technical, repair veshimuschestva, bath and laundry, finance, as well as inspection and general parts.
Head of Directorate of Uniform Clothing Supply was appointed on 08.07.1940, Major General Quartermaster Corps Pavel Ivanovich Drachov who served until 02.08.1941
In August, 1940Directorate is transferred to the GUI KA and became known as the "Office of the Chief Quartermaster Clothing Supply the Red Army (Order of UVC GUI KA from 19.07.1940№ 55).
In February1941 , the Office of the clothing supply GUI KA transferred to the new state number 1/121 from 15.02.1941 g., Consisting also of 9 sections and the common part .
But the department of storage and reception was renamed storage, department stores and transport was reorganized into the storage department, engineering department - is eliminated.Formed was a new department - the procurement and supply of sports equipment and household goods.The number of management was : troops - 127 civilians - 57 clerks team 22 people .In August 1941, the officals of the unit were disbanded (NKO Order from 20.08.1941 g.№ 37.
In August 1941 , the Directorate of the Clothing Supply GUI KA moved to a new state number 1/190 from 06.08.1941 g ., Consisting of 8 departments , inspection and general parts .Mobilization department and accounting - planning department will be reorganized into a single department - the organizational - planning and mobilization , and operation and maintenance department uniform property repair veshimuschestva department .The total number of control was 219 person , in t . H . 155 soldiers and 64 officers of voluntary recruitment .
Штат и личный состав отдела банно-прачечного обслуживания UVS GUI КА (4 офицера и 2 служащих) переданы в Главное санитарное управление Красной Армии. Order цК0№ 285, ordered by UVS GUI KA from 23.09.1941 g .№ 91).
Head of the uniform supplies in the period from 08.07.1941 g . On 13.11.1941 g . Was divisional quartermaster Nikifor Ivanovich Kutuzov .In the future, starting with 13,11.1941 year throughout the war and postwar years, many service led by Brigadier intendant, to May 1942, Major-General Quartermaster Corps, from May 1944 General Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps, Nicholas Karpinski.
In March 1942, the Directate of the clothing supply GUI KA moved to a new state No 1/290 A, consisting of 7 departments, the general and the classified section, sections - organizational planning, the Rear, procurement and supply of paper, reporting and sports equipment, storage facilities, for veshimuschestva repair, financial, general and classified section. The number of control consisted of 277 people , including 150 soldiers and 127 officers of voluntary recruitment .
With 01.01.1943 g . Established settlement - the accounting department ( Order of the GUI KA .06.1942 Number 0171). Directorate of Clothing Supply GUI KA moved to a state № 01/366 A, having the number of 264 person n troops - 136 employees -128.General and secret part divided into a general part and a confidential part. Directive of the General Staff number ORG / 6/83615 with on 04/08/1945 at UVS GUI KA included department POWs numbering 4 soldiers and 2 officers .In 1944 and 1945 years , until the end of the Great Patriotic War of structural changes in the hydrocarbon SMI SC was not , adjusted only by his number .Doc.№ 37.

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Independent operation of Quartermaster - operating bodies otno - i relates to the year 1924.In the order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR number 378/73 of 20 on March 1924 , it was stated : " ...Select from the Main Directorate of Military Engineering Department defensive fortifications and accommodation allowance for troops with relevant working I cells from other departments and the general form of these independent military-house management with direct his subordinate in all respects superior supply ...*. The first Chief of the Directorate was appointed YA. I. Vesnik, previously held the position of Assistant Chief of military engineering of the Red Army
However YI Vesnik presented to the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR instead of the Regulation on voennokvartirnom management, Regulations on Military-Construction management (VSU) of the Red Army, which was approved by the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR. Under this provision, billeting allowance was engaged 5th Department VSU RKKA that was called - Department billeting allowance for field troops.
In the January 1932 decision of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR reorganised the existing system of civil authorities. Formed separate Quartermaster Services Department of the Red Army KEU RKKA (КЭУ РККА) the chief is appointed M.C. Lesco (М.С. Лешко).The districts are formed billeting units.
Regulation KEU Red Army stipulated that it should be in charge of all matters quartering (other than the VMS), billeting allowance, accounting and maintenance of billeting stock and the warehouse fire protection of all parts of the Red Army.
KEU Red Army consisted of a project office, inspection and 11 sectors: mobilization, planning, financial, organizational and control of execution, quartering and construction planning, camp-landfill, operational, accounting, utilities, fuel, warehouses and workshops, quartering and billeting nachsostava houses and fire protection.Head KEU Red Army obeyed the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR . In a special relation to his subordinate chiefs Quartermaster - operational departments of military districts , armies , sea ports .
In August 1934, it was created by construction and house management of the Red Army, united leadership of the VSU Red Army and KEU Red Army. Head of billeting construction Red Army was appointed A. Levenson, then Corps Commissar AV Khrulev. Chief of KEU Red Army was to the end of 1934 MS Lesco and then II Shafranskii.
Order NKO of 15 on August 1937 , it was announced the position of the construction department of the Red Army , Quartermaster - operational management of the Red Army , their county departments and inspection of fire protection districts .According to this provision, construction - house control of the Red Army was divided into two separate departments: the Military - Construction of the Red Army and partment management - operational management of the Red Army .
KEU Red Army is the central body of NKOs, and the chief of the military commissioner who reports directly to the People's Commissar of Defence. It consisted of a technical committee, construction and technical inspection departments: Planning and quartering, design and maintenance, repair and maintenance, fuel, barracks, apartment and fire-fighting equipment, personnel, financial and common parts, as well as a secret compartment. Comprising a control on the state number 1/847, approved 29/09/1937 g , the total number of 64 military personnel and 128 employees .
Chiefs KEO districts reported directly to the assistants military commanders districts material support. Departments consist of offices: Plan and quartering, project design, operation, fuel, personnel, financial, general, secret.
Fire Protection Inspection stood out as an independent service of the Red Army.
In 1939, the residential-operational management in the organization of regular in 1937 was subordinated to the control of the Red Army Chief of of supply. And in refining the structure of the Central People's Commissariat of Defense departments in 1940, according to the People's Commissar of Defense of the order of 26 July 1940 Apartment Services Department of the Red Army was a part of the Main Quartermaster Directorate of the Red Army (GIU KA) headed by Lieutenant-General Quartermaster Corps AV Khruleva. Head KEU KA was General - Major Quartermaster Corps H A Naydenov...
It contained the new state number 1/47, approved by 25.5.1940 , the total strength of 92 military personnel and 152 employees .Organizational consisted of a technical committee and from and departments: the mobilization and fund accounting, quartering and planning of capital construction, technical, contracting, maintenance and repair, fuel, supplies, personnel, finance and accounting, construction, carried out by NKO own resources, planning and construction management NKO communication, as well as the private and general offices.
In February 1941, all design organizations both in the Centre and in the field have been transferred to the jurisdiction of KEU GIU Red Army from the Glavvoenstroya in SNK USSR
In the prewar period, a series of measures to strengthen the Quartermaster authorities - operational services , particularly its grassroots level - apartment - the operational part of the garrison , which played a positive role in providing troops with all kinds of billeting allowance during the war .
Since the beginning of the war: KEU GIU KA rebuilds its work according to the demands of wartime , and the KEO of the Fronts are moving to Commissariat Department establishment No 2/45, to which they belong .
December 13, 1941 Major General Quartermaster Corps NA Naidenov appointed to the post of Chief of the Rear of the Front, and was replaced as the the head of the KEU GIU KA by Major General Quartermaster Corps LS Carols.
On KEU GIU KA were assigned an unusual job for an agency building apartments, to help with the design and construction of airfields. This work, which began even before the war, continued throughout the period of the Great Patriotic War. Every time the government to carry out tasks created aerodrome department of KEU GIU KA, it was closed down after completion.
In the first months of the war: KEU GIU KA was on establishment number 1/47 - 1940, and from August 1941 to the temporary staff number 1/190, approved .17.08.1941, the total strength of 98 military personnel and 135 employees. It has not undergone any major changes in management organizational structure. Only functional areas and departments to change the number has been specified.
On 18.05.1942 , the billeting - operational management GIU KA is transferred to the state number 01/127 total strength of 70 military personnel and 91 employee .The following changes are made in the organizational structure of the newly formed departments - for construction management construction management in the Far East and Trans-Baikal Front, production and recovery, Local AA Defence (МПВО) department and camouflaging, the personnel office was reorganized into the department, the technical department is renamed Production & Technology. The remaining units are left unchanged.
Subsequent changes nominally - the organizational structure of KEU GIU KA implemented in 1943.Control is transferred to the state № 01/366 -B, the total number - 55 soldiers and 92 employees and consists of 9 departments, the quartering of troops and oiling of capital construction, engineering, construction contractors for the production of self supporting means, to direct military and construction management, manuals and repair, supplies, fuel, financial, accounting and personnel.
More fundamental changes in the organizational structure KEU GIU KA was not made during the Great Patriotic War. Doc. № 37.

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Fuel supply of the Red Army and the Navy until 1934 was carried out by non-specialized stocking bodies of the Armed Forces and arms of service simultaneously with the supply of technical equipment and operational materials.
Given the significant increase in the consumption of fuel and lubricants in connection modernisation of the Armed Forces, as well as the importance and specificity of providing them troops, the Revolutionary Council of the USSR 31 December 1933 decided to organize the Centre on the basis of the 6th Division of the General Staff Department of the Red Army with fuel supply, create a fuel supply departments in military districts, as well as to introduce the post of chief of the fuel supply in the infantry and mechanized corps. The infantry and cavalry divisions providing fuel were chiefs motor & armoured vehicles and road transport services, and the staff - assistant commander for the technical units.
However, a year later the old system to ensure fuel through the branches of the Armed Forces and the combat arms has been restored and the units of fuel supply despite the positive results of their work have been abolished .
In the mid 1930s , due to the threat of war , a reorganisation was carried out on the organizational structure of the Army and Navy. Given the importance of supply of the Red Army with fuel, the Council of People's Commissars of February 13, 1936 adopted a Resolution No 257-44s of the constitution of the People's Commissariat of Defense Office of the Fuel Supply of the Red Army, and February 17, 1936 was approved by the establishment No 1/641 (80 soldiers and 28 officals).
The Directorate of all kinds of fuel, oils, lubricants, special fluids, as well as technical means storage, pumping and filling was entrusted to the army supply in times of peace and times of war. The same resolution on material administration departments of the fuel supply in the military districts. Order of the USSR Peoples Commissar of Defence on 17 February 1936 No 024 the 6th Division of the General Staff was transformed into the Directorate of Fuel Supply of the Red Army (Управление снабжения горючим Красной Армии)
The Navy formation in 1938 of People's Commissariat of the Navy's Department of Fuel was created. The Air Force organised the Office of the Material - Technical Supply and in 1939 it was organized into the Department of Fuels and Lubricants.
From the very first days of the Great Patriotic War, revealed the imperfection in fuel supply system of the Red Army , revealed weaknesses in the organization of the service .The first days of work in the conditions of war have shown , that the organization - staffing structure of the Office of the Red Army fuel supply does not meet the requirements of wartime .Therefore, even 5 July 1941 staff number 1/147, entered the General Staff directive ГШ № ОРГ/ 6/5262 from 08.07.1941, the new organizational structure of the USG KA, according to which the number of Office installed 158 soldiers and 79 officals were approved. According to the order № 0257 from NKO 01/08/1941, decision GFCS number 300c of 31 July 1941, the Red Army Fuel Directorate was part of the Rear Services of the Red Army USG KA (УСГ КА ) and is directly subordinate to the Chief of the Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army. Organization in the new structure USG Red Army had 10 departments, organizational, planning, procurement and operation of fuel, supplies, maintenance and repair of tanks, pumping and filling means, operation of warehouses, industrial and technical, financial, human resources, inspection and Directorate, inventory accumulation and accounting fuel, coding and secret units.
In 1942, the Office transferred to the state № 01/226, adopted 18.05.1942, the total number 157 of 80 soldiers and 77 officials. Departments as it was still ten, but varies in part of their name and functional orientation: organizational and the personnel, planning and accounting, supplies of fuels and lubricants of the army, the supply of fuels and lubricants military districts, technical equipment procurement, maintenance depots and workshops, building warehouses, transport, financial, personnel, as well as four branches: industrial, technical, accounting and accumulation of reserves, secret and general.
In 1943 USG Red Army transferred to new staff № 01/374, adopted 18.09.1943 year (introduced by Directive GSH № ORG / 6/140087 from 03.10.1943,). Directorate increased to 14 departments: organizational, planning and accounting, supply air fuel, supply tank and tractor lubricants of the army, operation of warehouses and workshops, construction of warehouses, transportation, engineering for lubricants, industrial on fuel, storage of petroleum products reserves, financial, personnel, as well as inspection and coding and secret department and a general office. The number of Directorate 190, made up of 103 soldiers and 87 officals.
In 1944, according to state № 01/407, approved 3/23/1944, the fundamental changes in the structural organization of the Office did not happened. Instead departments of Supply Tank and Motor Tractor POL (ГСМ) of the army and military districts, were joined to create a single Department of Supply of Tank and Tractor POL. Instead of the technical departments for fuel and lubricants for industry, created one department - industrial and technical. POL Accumulation of Reserves Department renamed Department of Mobilisation Reserves of POL. The total number of USG KA 231 is set at 140 military personnel and 91 officals.
In 1945, the Directorate remains in the same state until the end of the war. Doc. Number 37.

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19. Since its inception and up to the mid-thirties sanitary service in different years was directly subordinate to the chief of the main army supply (in today's understanding of the Chief of the Rear of the central level). The reorganization carried out in the following years, led to the fact that a few years before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the medical service has been withdrawn from the Rear, and for health care to meet the relevant heads of subordinate commander (commander), and the management of the service in general was conducted by combined-arms headquarters.
At the same time, the military-sanitary service, headed by a Chief, and Directorate of Military Sanitation of the Red Army after undergoing military reform in the course of its implementation (1921 -. 1928) and in subsequent years continued to remain within the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR, the operational against submitting to the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs.
According to the state of 1/617, approved 26/06/1936, the structure of the Directorate of Sanitation of the Red Army consisted of 6 departments: organizational, personnel, medical, sanitary supplies and warehouses, procurement of medical and sanitary and household property, sanitary Air Service (introduced by directive number 174515 of the AMU (  АМУ) 19.07.1938), and 6 branches: scientific and technical, sanitary and chemical protection, sanitary-epidemiological, financial, accounting for the distribution of permits, general and secret parts. The total number of headquarters staff in 1936-1937 amounted to 75 servicemen and 63 officials, and in 1938-1940. - Respectively 85 and 66 people.
In 1940, a new state number 1/17, introduced by the directive of the General Staff number ORG / 6/106066 from 10.09.1940 year, the Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army consisted of 11 departments, having in its composition of 2-4 specialized sections: organizational-mobilization, personnel , medical, sanitary-epidemiological, military and medical schools, inspection of sanitary service of the Air Force, training, the Rear, procurement, spa and children's institutions, financial, and 4 branches – the journal of sanitary-chemical protection, secret and administrative-economic. The total number of Directorate consisted of 112 military personnel and 100 officials. In such structural organization of the Military-Sanitary Directorate of the Red Army entered the Great Patriotic War.
From the very beginning of the war revealed weaknesses in the organization of medical support, which is expressed in non-compliance of the organizational structure of the medical service requirements of tasks in the new environment.  In this regard, a number of important decisions and regulations that are directly related to its activities.  So the order of the number of NKO from the 0287 Sanitary governance structure has been cancelled 11.08.1941, the Red Army, a certain state number 1/17 - 1940 and the same order of the state number 1/117 introduced a new structure of the central health authority – Main Military Medical Directorate of the Red Army (GSVU KA)((ГСВУ КА) ), passed as part of Rear Services of the Red Army with the direct subordination of the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army. Chief of the Rear of associations and connections were subject to appropriate medical service agencies. The staff remained directly subordinate to the commander of a senior doctor. Number GVSU Red Army established 192 military personnel and 170 officials. The structure consisted of three departments: the medical-evacuation (departments – medical evacuation, statistical, information desk for the wounded and sick);  training and preparation (personnel departments, higher and secondary medical institutions, military training of medical staff and health training of troops), medical supplies and sledges, sanitary and economic assets (departments – organisation/planning, billets, supply finance);five independent departments: the organization and the formation of health services, sanitary-epidemiological, sanitary and chemical protection journal editorial and publishing, financial, and three branches - administrative and commercial, private and inspection on health services.
In this organizational structure GVSU Red Army lasted until May 1942. In 1942 and approved by the state № 01/216 GVSU Red Army is transferred to a new organization numbering 135 soldiers and 173 officials, consisting of four departments: medical evacuation, medical, medical statistics, information desk for the wounded and sick, and the four groups);  anti-epidemic and bathing and laundry (departments - the sanitary-epidemiological, bath and laundry-disinfection, billets and supplies), personnel and training (personnel departments, training and higher education institutions);  medical supplies and sanitation and economic assets (sections - organizational and planning, procurement, the Rear and warehouses), 4 independent departments and three offices, as envisaged by the previous staff, with some adjustments in their title.
Subsequent refinement of the structural organization of GVSU Red Army carried out in June 1943, with the reorganization of the structure of the central organs of the the Rear of the Red Army entered the People's Commissar of Defence order № 0379 from 12.06.1943, the Staff № 01/368 provided for the number of GVSU KA 147 military personnel and 278 officials. There was no fundamental changes in the structure of the organization except in the name of the Directorate, some of the departments, departments and groups. The "medical evacuation Directorate" introduced a new department - "the sanitary-resort", in the "anti-epidemic Directorate" instead of "Billeting Department" was created department "Food hygiene and water supply", the Directorate personnel created the third department - 'personnel records and assigning military ranks ". In the Directorate of Supply of Medical and Sanitary Eqipment a department was created on the basis of "Department harvesting of health materials" and "Department harvesting of sanitary and bathing and laundry equipment" and, in addition, a new department of transportation.
The new units were in separate departments: "Office of child care centers" and "Editorial Office publishing encyclopaedia - a handbook on military field medicine."
In the future, until the end of World War II, there were no structural changes in the Red Army GVSU. Specifies the names of some of the main structural units of the Directorate and strength. In 1944, it amounted to 159 military personnel and 280 officials, in 1945 - 175 military personnel and 282 officials.
Military Medical Service in the established organization and acting in a unified system of the Rear of the Red Army throughout World War II and during nearly 50 years in the postwar period, it is quite justified and operational-strategic and functional-specific terms. Doc. Number 37.

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20. Military Veterinary Service of the Red Army began to develop since the early days the organization of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army.Order RVSR on May 8, 1918 has been designated the College of Veterinary Administration, transformed in the same year to the General Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army, which was subordinate to the chief of the Central Supply Directorate (NOC) of the Red Army. In 1920, the Chief Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army is withdrawn from the jurisdiction of TsUSa and transferred to the subordination of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic itself.
After the military reform (1924-1945 years) at the Centre in 1926, was established by the Military Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army, which is subordinate to scientific institutions, educational institutions, the central veterinary depots, military and veterinary Directorate districts.
In 1939, the Red Army Veterinary Directorate passes to state 1/916 number (the number of 60 people, including 37 soldiers).
Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army was in the first months of World War II directly subordinate to the People's Commissar of Defence. In connection with the general reorganisation of the Directorate of the Rear, in August 1941, Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army Directorate reassigned to the Chief of the Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army.
Since the beginning of the war strength of the Veterinary Administration has been increased by 30% and amounted to 81 people, including 55 military personnel (staff number 1/118 - 41 g). Directorate had six departments: organizational, medical-epizootic training, the Rear and warehouses, procurement, human resources, as well as office and finance general office.
Before the war, as part of the Office was only one position of senior specialist Epizootology. In August 1941, the post of surgeon specialist, and in January 1943 - as a senior specialist physician. In August 1943, these positions were renamed in office - Main Epizootology Red Army, Chief veterinary surgeon of the Red Army and the Chief Veterinary physician of the Red Army.
With a Chief of the Veterinary Directorate and under his presidency was the Scientific Council, composed of four sections: the epizootic, surgical, therapeutic and veterinary chemical protection. The Academic Council consists of eminent scientists of the country.
At the Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army under the separate state kept Directorate and the receiving unit of military representatives ( "military representatives") in the amount of 6 people, carrying out reception from industry and non-harvested veterinary property.
In 1942, 1943, organizational and staff structure of Directorate has not changed.  Contain it statewide № 01/227, approved May 18, 1942 with a total population in 1942, 76 people in 1943 - 78 people.  In the years 1944-1945 the Directorate structure has not changed, only slightly adjusted its numbers.  Doc.  Number 37.

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21. In clarifying the structure of the Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army under the approved state № 01/209 from 16.05.1942 years (introduced by Directive GSH number ORG / 6/785039 of 06.01.1942), in the rear part of the Red Army entered the department of material assets, operating statewide № 01/232, approved 05.18.1942 year.  At the department entrusted with the task of planning and implementation of funded goods, equipment, materials, and worthless and do not need armies of property and collecting scrap metal.
Staffing department consisted of 5 departments: mobilization-planning, planning and implementation of equipment, products and goods, planning and implementation of ferrous and nonferrous metals, hardware tools, planning and implementation of timber, building materials, chemicals, implementation of worthless and unnecessary property and collecting scrap metal, and a general office.  The number of the department was 8 soldiers and 29 officials.
In 1943, due to further development of central bodies of the Rear of the Red Army, according to the state № 01/304, approved 05.02.1943, replacing the Department of NKO material assets, was created Directorate of Material Assets numbering 19 soldiers and 31 officials. Organizational and it consisted of 6 departments: mobilization and planning, scheduling and distribution equipment and cable products, planning and distribution of metals, orders commissariats of local industries and co-operatives, the stock of assets and of scrap metal and general department.
In subsequent years, until the end of World War II NKO Directorate Material Assets remained as a part of the the Rear of the Red Army without changing the organizational structure and strength.

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22. Order of People's Commissar of Defense number 214 from 25.03.1942 of the year as part of the rear of the Main Directorate of the Red Army was formed Directorate for the collection and use of captured weapons, equipment and scrap metal.
The Organization, in accordance with the approved state № 01/231 from 18.05.1942, the Office consisted of two sections: on the organization of the collection and use of the spoils: for the collection of ferrous scrap and the total and the classified section.  The number of card sets within 22 military and 15 civil servants.
In this part of Directorate subordinate to the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army it was before April 1943.  NKO Order number 0238 from 07.04.1943 year (Resolution number GFCS 3123s from 05.04.1943, the) Directorate for the collection of captured weapons, equipment and scrap metal was taken from the Main Directorate of the Rear of the Red Army and sent the trophy Committee GFCS.
The rapid advance of the Soviet troops in the offensives led to the capture of major trophies.  In this regard, in 1944, the trophy of the Red Army service was reinforced, and in February 1945 with a view to more efficient use of power and funds captured service, according to the state № 01/513, adopted 02.28.1945, the formed main captured Directorate of the Red Army that decree;  State Defense Committee number 7563 from 02.21.1945 year, announced by the order People's Commissar for Defense number 039 from 02.28.1945, the transferred to the direct subordination of the Chief of the Rear of the Red Army - Deputy People's Commissar of Defense for the Rear, dialogue changes as the fronts and armies.
'The same order at the headquarters of the Chief of the Rear of the fronts (armies) were disbanded departments for accounting and use of captured the national economic assets.
When the chief of the rear satellites, the rear of the fronts (armies) were left to the position of deputy to guide the work of captured bodies.
Directorate of Captured Materials of the Red Army consisted of three departments: Directorate of captured the national economic assets (departments - dismantling businesses, transportation, maintenance and protection, taking into account national economic trophies);  captured weapons Directorate (departments - accounting and planning, weapons and ammunition, heavy weapons); Directorate of scrap and removal of military equipment (departments - scrap, dismantling of equipment and spare parts).  In addition, it is composed of 8 independent departments: organizational planning, combat training and staffing, transportation, the Rear, quartermaster, personnel, financial, administrative and economic, as well as the inspection and a secret compartment.  The number of General Directorate was captured 219 soldiers and 120 officials.  Doc.  Number 121.