June 15, 1962
Order from the USSR Minister of Defense, R. Malinovksy, and Acting Chief of the General Staff, V. Ivanov, to the Deputy Minister of Defense, Chief of the Rear of the Armed Forces
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TO THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE - CHIEF OF THE REAR OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Copy: TO THE CHIEF OF THE MAIN OPERATIONS DIRECTORATE
OF THE GENERAL STAFF
Be guided by the following when organizing the material and medical support of the troops being sent abroad for the “Anadyr’” operation:
1. By 1 July 1962 prepare [the following] stocks of materials for dispatch:
- automotive gasoline – 5400 tons, diesel fuel – 2000 tons, B-70 gasoline – 180 tons, aviation fuel – 400 tons, T-1 aviation fuel for fighter aircraft – 1200 tons, for mine-and-torpedo aircraft – 1200 tons, ship fuels – DS fuel – 5000 tons, and bunker fuel oil – 16000 tons;
- food – 6500 tons and non-perishable food – 18000 tons.
Fill out the food stocks, taking into consideration the supply of high-quality food and the conditions of a hot climate.
For the trip create food supplies for the length of 25 days. The travel food stores are to be supplied with food ensuring the personnel are fed high-quality hot food three times [a day].
Send 5000 heavy tents, 400 sets of USB [medical ward tents], and 500 sets of UST-56 [standard medical-technical tent].
Deliver fuel for three months for the preparation of food and baking.
Send the war reserve of medical equipment of the combat list and consumable medical equipment for six months with the field mobile hospitals.
Prepare all the materials for dispatch by sea. Send it according to the schedule.
2. Supply the troops with stocks [of]:
- missile fuel for the entire quantity of missiles in the units, allowing for a 25% reserve;
- automotive and tank fuel – 1.5 refuelings, aviation fuel – 14 refuelings, T-1 aviation fuel for fighter aircraft – 17 refuelings, for mine-and-torpedo aircraft – 10 refuelings, ship fuels – 1 refueling;
- food – a mobile minimum supply of 5 days and a 15-days’ rations of a landing reserve.
3. Personnel going abroad are provided with food according to peacetime norms.
Generals and officers [are fed] according to the norms of a soldier’s ration free of charge with the issue of an additional officer’s ration (per 1 person per day – 40 grams of butter, 20 grams of biscuits, and 50 grams of canned fish).
Workers and employees of the Soviet Army and Navy are supplied with food free of charge according to the norms of a soldier’s ration.
Conscript and extended service soldiers and sailors, sergeants, and petty officers and also workers and employees are given a tobacco allowance according to the [following] norms: army cigarettes – 20 packs and matches – 3 boxes a month. Do not pay monetary compensation for the tobacco allowance.
Officers, generals, and admirals – 25 first-grade cigarettes a day and 10 boxes of matches a month.
4. Feeding of the personnel en route is to be organized from field kitchens and ship’s galleys, giving them the necessary supplies of technical equipment of the food service, equipment, and implements. The field kitchens being installed on the ships are to be carefully disguised.
5. The personnel of the troops being sent abroad, except for the Navy, are to be supplied with clothing of the model adopted for the Turkestan Military District. By 10 July prepare, send to the ports, and issue a set of civilian clothing to all servicemen of the Soviet Army and Navy leaving on ships of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet.
All personnel of the troops are to be supplied with bedding items and special clothing.
Steel helmets are not to be issued to the personnel or sent with the military depots.
The troops being sent abroad are to be supplied with stocks of clothing items according to the articles of the main set in the amount of 25% of the number, repair materials, and detergents for 6 months and authorized equipment according to wartime tables.
6. Personnel are to be subject to a careful medical examination. The physically weak, sick, and those in need of treatment or dietetic food, and also those who have had typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever in the past or dysentery between 1961 or 1962, are not to be sent abroad. When selecting personnel be guided by USSR Ministry of Defense Decree Nº 275-1961.
7. Set up medical aid stations with isolation wards for two infections on all ships for medical support of the personnel during the voyage. Have men and equipment at all medical aid stations to give immediate medical aid.
At medical aid stations create an emergency reserve of medical equipment according to wartime norms and consumable medical equipment for three months.
Do not send individual skin decontamination kits, sets, and bags of first aid equipment abroad.
8. All the work for the preparation and dispatch of rear units, institutions, and materials will be performed in strict secrecy under the pretense of the cover stories which have been developed.
After the publication of the directive about preparing units, institutions, and material for dispatch abroad cease correspondence and further orders, and instructions to clarify the measures are to be issued verbally and in exceptional cases in cipher in the part that concerns them.
Give no information in the copy for intelligence.
Ensure the concealment of equipment and cargo when they are being sent from the place of deployment to the ports of loading.
9. Submit a report about the readiness to send material resources with an attachment of lists by messenger.
USSR MINISTER OF DEFENSE
MARSHAL OF THE SOVIET UNION
[signature]
R. MALINOVSKY
ACTING CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF
GENERAL OF THE ARMY
[signature]
V. IVANOV
[handwritten: 15] June 1962
Nº [handwritten: 79655]
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MEMO
Prepare [the following] stocks of materials for dispatch by 1 July:
- gasoline – 6.0 refuelings | - 5400 tons |
- diesel fuel 3.0 refuelings | - 2000 tons |
- B-70 gasoline 3.0 refugelings | - 180 tons |
- Aviation fuel – 10 refuelings | - 400 tons |
- T-1 aviation fuel for fighter aircraft – 12.0 refuelings | - 1200 tons |
T-1 aviation fuel for mine and torpedo aircraft – 6.0 refuelings | - 1200 tons |
- ship fuels – a three-month supply according to the norms: |
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- DS fuel | - 5000 tons |
- bunker fuel oil | - 16000 tons |
- food – 90 daily rations | - 6500 tons and |
- non-perishable food for for 1 year | - 18000 tons |
[The following] are sent with mobile field hospitals: the emergency reserve of equipment of the combat list, including kits of specialized medical aid;
- an additional reserve of equipment of the combat list based on 2500 people for a hospital;
- consumable medical equipment for 6 months.
sent by DVA copy
drafted by Muzychenko
typed by Gukina
14 June 1962
Nº 5/2834
[several illegible signatures with late November/early December dates. One identifiable name is Colonel Sakharov]
An order from the Minister of Defense Rodion Malinovsky and Acting Chief of the General Staff V. Ivanov detailing the material and medical support to be sent with troops on the Anadyr' Operation. The order includes information about fuel, food, cigarettes, clothing, and medical supplies.
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