SOVIET METALLURGICAL PLANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040616-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 616
• Publication Date: October 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRETI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Soviet Metailurgical Plants NO. OF PAGES
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In the Soviet Union there were, and probably still are, special planning
organisations which designed and constructed new metallurgical plants, as
for example, 'Oiprostal' j$tate Institute for Planning Steel interpri;e .
During the period of the thirties there were .,raanizatlone Imam as
ORB's ffaverimental Design Bureaus] attached to tL OPT which also deelped
plants. These OKB's used imprisoned Soviet engineers'vu their projects. The
1,100 mm blooming mill for the Dierthynskiy plant was designed by this = No 3
attached to the OWJ.
Them, too, there vas the example of the place for the 900 sa blooelog sill of
th! Zaporoshi steel plant which were drawn up by Soviet emgineIrs working
for the Design Bureau of the Ishorskiy plant with the assistance of three
German consulting engineers frca the fire of "Deaag".
The Stalingrad Tractor Plant, vhicb later (according to rumor) manufactured
teaks, was deui3ned, constructed and equipped with a great deal of help
frees 118 time.
machinery for the Moaning mills do a skews was Me" at
? Ishorskly Plant- After the lar4o , tishas il' ad nmslwW
plants ware eaMtrrctal, (all tasigaad for the aaaetruatica st heavy =mum)
the main prodtistioa of a9ta1iurgioal euipasnt was cascantrated is these
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Imports of all types of equipment were very large in the early thirties, but as
mastered, the imports ceased and all spare parts and machinery were made in
Soviet plants.
oreign asslet,n0s, such as engineers, consultants, adjustors, assembly men,
tc, were used during the so-called 'starting period". After this period
ended, no foreigners were allowed in.the Soviet plants.
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The plant had two Mannesmann rolling mills, and rolled tubes measuring from four
inches to 12 inches in diameter, mostly for.the oil industry, locomotive plants
plant had the following shone:
1) Two open-hearth shop,; an old one with four furnaces each having
a cssacity'of'40 tons And a new shop with three furnaces each
having a popacity of 75 tons.
2) Ibres tubs-rolling.shops, two of which produced welded pipes and the
third, seamless pipe (Mannesmann). The welded pipes were ferrous and
galvanised, designed for gas and water supply.systeas..
3) A thin-sheet rolling shop producing roofing tin.. 4) A sheet-rolling shop, with two mills, making plate for ship building,
boilers, armor-plate, etc.
5) A rim-rolling mill producing rolled, railroad car and tender rigs, as
well as rims for street cars, rollers and stall locomotives (stall
diameter rise).
Tires Only. Beemless wheels and wheels cast in a single piece (rim, together
with bob and disk) are not used very widely in the Soviet Union because they
are uaseonamical.
no production figures on the Taganrog plant.
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