MANUFACTURE OF ALUMINUM GOODS IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600020141-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 141
• Publication Date: May 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/SEA:;URITY INrGRPiAi'ZO'!P
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IIVFORMA'TIOIV REPOR'~
SUBJECT rlanufacture of aluminum Goods in the USSR
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. 7 ~ pla,r 52
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
1. In 1949 Soviet factories started :production of large :luantities
of kitchen utensils manufactured from a metal which was alum-
inum or an alloy .Jith a large percent of aluminum. Since that
date, I noticed that pots, saucepans, frying pans, cups, plates,
pitchers, teapots and coffeepots manufactured from this metal
have become much more plentiful in shops in large Soviet cities.
There has been a definite trend in the USSR to replace old-
fashioned enamelware by this new kitchenware. I believe also
that t}:e price of this kitchenware has been going down. In
19lr9 I paid 90 rubles fora 3~ liter pot; today the~same
type costs Ia0 rubles.
2. T~ is lci?~chenware does not carry a trademark by which one could
identify tl:e factory where it was manufactured. During the
first post-war years I remember seeing aluminum kitchenw~.re
ir}-ich carried t!-e trademark "Odessa...." TYe use of overt '
manufacturer's i:rademarlcs }gas been discontinued and replaced
by a system of three or four letters which do not identify t},e
manufacturer.
3. I have never heard, and I doubt very much, if this lcitchen-
wr.ire is manufactured in aircraft factories. I am more
ir:clined to believe that it is made in various kitchenware
L'actories. Considering the direction from which these goods
are shipped to Astrakhan' I believe that these factories are
located in oblasts in central USSR, es, f~]oscow, Kharkov,
Alovtorod, Gcrki~r. (I have also heard rumors to this effect.)
I might add that in addition to kitchenware, many "aluminum"
chilclz~en's toys have appeared on the r~:arket, recently.
14. I don't know to what extent aluminum has been stockpiled iii
the USSR. -end-
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