URAL TANK FACTORY/CHIRCHIK CHEMICAL FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600050019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: November 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CE AULNCY REPORT NO
INFORMATION 'REPORT
DATE DISTR.Z O Nov 1953
SUBJECT Ural Tank Factory/Char. chik Chemical Factory NO OF PAGES 2
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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attalion wa mpose o officers and cc cans from Lenin-
grad and a number of Estonian enlisted men. Total strength of the
battalion numbered ap;rox+i tely one thousand men.
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from war-threatened fac'~ories in the west.roThecfactory consisted of
three large buildings, averaging from 200 to 300 feet in length and
of brick construction, as well as numerous smaller shops. Electrical
power was available as I noticed transmission lines being erected.
I heard reports from a number of technicians and officers employed
there that the ftictory was designed to manufacture tanks for the Soviet
army but that it could be converted afterJorld ":ar II to make farm tractors.
although most of the building, were
''U'.LeTea d~loads of machinery were being installed. Much of
the machinery which was brought in b
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2. Our hattal.ion, along with three other tructicn atta.iane and a
number of civilian workers, was eent +? +w 'l iii the vicinity of Chelyabinsk taing
this period we were engaged in During
The
factory was located near the village of Chebarcul which is about 70
kilometers southwest of Chelyabinsk and situated near the main line
of the Ufa-Chelyabinsk railroad. The factory itself was about five
kilometers northeast of the village of Chebarcul,and was connected
by several spur tracks to the railroad, being from one to two kilometers
south of the main line.
3. The factory was constructed on open ground in flat country and about
five kilometers southeast of the Ural foothills. Although it was sur-
rounded by +,. +, ..- -?-- _
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this plant is that when the wind came from the dir
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