BOLSHEVIK MACHINE PLANT AND KRAANYY EXCAVATOR PLANT IN KIEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040027-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: April 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL/SECURZi'r rr~~ ~tzrnamrnnr
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC'f
INF?Of;MRTION F~EPORT
DATE DISTR /~ Apr 1953
SUBJECT Bolshevik Machine Plant and Kraanyy F,XCBYa?.or N0. OF PAGES 2
Plant in Kiev
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The Bolshevik Machine Plant ie located on the "Brest-Litovsk Cheuaee" and ie
approximately five kilometers from the center of Kiev and about two kilometers
from the Kiev Polytechnical Institute.
2. The entire establishment, including freight sad storage yards, occupies
approximately four square kilometers.
3. The bulk of the buildings ie constructed oP steel-reinforced concrete and brick
~e .+ai i a of vl+i ~h ar abo ~ 0 5 *~ or 1 bri cks i n thickness .
6. Normal employment t+as about seven thousand T+eranna_
The entire area is surrounded by a 1.8 meters high fence, built of furnace slag
sad ceme:tt.
4. Principal products manufactura3 at this plant (1935-1937) were:
e. Stationary steam engines up to 600 p.s. (h.p.).
b. Steam pressure kettles h-220 up to 500 square meters working pressure,
p-13 to 15 atmospheres.
c, Steam condensing and vacuum equi~ent for chemical and suer industries.
d. Pumps (piston and diaphragm type
e. Filtering equipment for chemical and sugar industries (of 100 square met=re
preesuxe in one aggregate)
f. Centrifugal equipsent for sugar and graphite industries (without electric
arotora~.
5? T'uia factory also hsd a large and modern mechanical sad meta'lurgical 7.aboratory.
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7. The factory could easily be converted to produce armaments (about 24 hours).
8. The principal manufacturing `of tha ICrasnyy Excavator 1'].ant coaeihxed of road
b?~zild;,ag rurschinery; machinery for building construction, each as ~crapere,
bulldozers, sad carryalls; and mechanical carriers for factory tra~sportatioa,
such ae lift sad fork trucks, electrical hand trucks, and mechandcal conveyors.
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