ECONOMIC - AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 428
• Publication Date: December 6, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/29: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
f
LANGUAGE
CLAA SIFICATION CO;IID1i;F1tL
CNTRAI INTFL.LICENCE AGE '.7.Y
INFOI
FOREIGN DOCUME
=am
COUNTRY usm
SUBJECT Eoonca is - Autcactive Production
HOW
PUBLISHED pcriodioal
WHERE 11Decow
PUBUSHED
DATE
PUBLISHED 25 February 1548
DATE OF
INFORMATION Jq -ry
DATE DIST. 6 Dec 1948
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
q??....~
00 011011 001 1 11110t1IIInQw amps "I AmAno rlo "
"D o
:no. 1`*Ptllrw
OI :11 9 ZMA ntWY T' wuriwd Or vffloa", ?ct o
a m in l~eY THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
a. wtuoe,.uwurwww; tluwalraowm %Anovl
:wso ~ Ax txw+
w.00wll * ntYa 1101 r,o- USE OF TRAINED INTELUGEf4CE ANALYSTS
Iwl 1 wf ,ur- ~IrPOMooII o0 11Uw tb.0 ?ppl0 It00I$ nun*
w :yp So Yw NwT W tw6 NI?w Mar Cw tlnuum
ne~wurr TOO 100010110 swncv.
SOURCE IDENTIFICATION ~- bu' p o a~`~ NO 1, 1948. (Yaformatian
s+eque
PIM PJfi A ?'M PBODWTIoN Iff 1948
Autembile pr~:ction in 19'3 7 ves up 30.4 percent in cc'.parison vrith
1946. The 2.5-ton Oa-51 truck. the Pobeda passenger oar, the ms-154
bug, osld the e?s11-diepdscamct flookvich oar vent into aerial prcduction.
The prc uctio-i cf Diesel angina for care began in 1947. The first
oonoigumato of th! :iev 4-ton I MS-150 truck, and the 5 - 7 ton IhA? -200
truck vero delivexcd during the last quarter. .
The first motels of the keavy dmg4na truck based on the TaAZ-200
were built at the Minsk Autc xbile Plant. 'Mm first conaigtment of
Cm -PA 1;',-ton trrnke were assembled at the Mlyanovak Automobile Pant
from parrs supplied by the Oo 'kiy Automobile Plant.
The output of treatore in 1947 In the traotcrr plants of the Ministry
of Arumobilo ans. Tractor iMuetry mae up 78.5 percent over 3946.
The woc net.yaoted. btalit>grad and Lmarkov Tractor Plante have turned
t: the rroes production of traahara. The Stalingrad P'-ant achievnll its
.940 level in the last quarter of 1947- The ffitarkov Plant tripled
prroduotion in the cow ee of 194't .
The A3.tsy amid v'Adit>tir Tractor 2innta, built during the war, exceeded
their planned cutput in 1947 for the first time. The Altay Plant doubled
its pr duction in 1,47, and brought out a new-type Diesel tract's. It
produced Ito 1 ,000it trwtor in Poveber. The P3editnir Tractor Plant
turned out its 5,C30th in Itcr .beoc'.
On the vho3o,'however, the autoaobilo and tt'aotor industry did not
fu3.fl-ll Ito 1947 obligations. The Ocr'kly and Tral iutcnnbtle ?'lants aid
the Lipetek Tractor Plant failed to fulfill plow.
CLASSIFICATION OULF31UN .AL
BATE K~yp -.%%" 4- DISM113U. Opt
REPO
CD N
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/29: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/29: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
1
1TIAL
Autamobil.e oraauotic : in !94P- newt be 1.5 timed tl:nt -' i .1 h7, and
tractor output must be almost doubled to campiete th? Five-?oar plan.
The !,scow Automobile Plant imam Stalin must get the irov ZI8-15o
truck Into production during the first quarter of 1948 without cutting
down currant outputs. Developewntal vo$'c on the ME-151 truck 9bou34 be
finished c the truck put Into production during 1948. no lose important
Is ing the design of the Z38-1516 bus, and the creation of an
embulamoe.
'.lire vbr'kiy:Autcabbile Plant must increase Its output 1.5 times In
1948. Production of tee ME-51 must be Increased three times, and that
of the Pobeda 10 tIcs. The plant must get the testes' GRZ-53 truck into
production. It must also finish developmental wort ant make taste on the
faster 0AZ-69 passenger oar, ant a new bus, and improve the Pobeda.
'Th? Tareslavl' Automobile Plant must get 6-aylliAer Diesel motors, adl
the 3 -20O beavy truck into regular production. Corgp1etion of
develcapme9atal worts east be hastened on a faster 3-axle truck based an
the hAZ-2OO.
The bkal.Autapobilo Plant, In ocnnsotlon with the oonvereicn of the
Moscow Autcpnbila Plant to production of the 7M-150 automobile, will
beccm the main plant fc%- candtwtute of the 3-ton ZS-5 trunk. 1't must
Incr am its-output or the Z78-5, ant get a c.1i'oa rate of production.
The ,o, brake vbich the plant vosftd out for the ZIB-5 must be put
in Woduotiom In 19118. liqually impartent I. the modernizing of the
gas gaper stow autamabIle output,
Normal operation- of the Oor'kiy Anto?otile Plant,dependa on a
large extent on the Q1'yanovsk Automobile :Plant's epeu.Ing into production
the OAZ.M automobile, which the Oor'kiy Plant bas to make at the
present tins along with new types. At the be~ of 1948; tie
possibilities of orgeniziag the production of the OAZ,AA In oocperation
with the Oor'kiy Plant should be ogploited. Me collective of the
dorlkly ?lent should n ar assistance In this respect to the Ul'yanovek
Plant. Designers at the 8l.'yancvet Plant have the Important task of
develop a 1-ton tn'a*k. The plaint cwt achieve a definite place In
the 00tmts7's motorization as a plant producing small trucks*
The job of the collective of the Minsk AuUmbile Plant is to get
a bean./ diming truck Into production In cooperation with the
Z ras3avl.' Antcaobils Plant. 3h 1948, the construction of a maebar of
pradnotioa shops (chassis, press, aid others) will be capleted at the
Xinsk Plant. it Is essential that the tastailation aid setting up
of production lines In the new shops be rapidly ccapleted.
The Moscow Automobile Plant free smalldisplaoeeant. can should
unease its output of the lbekvioh seven time over that ck 1947, and
get a 1loaCviob atatica agora Into serial production.
t%e output of lueping tru&aa gee-g n rator Ctrs an i tractors
suet be oonsidsrabLy :aoresssd. actor output should be double that
of 1947. One of the meet Important tasks of 1948 is to gat the 1m-35
tractor Into production at the '.ipetak Tractor Plant.
CONFIDENTIAL
50X1-HUM.-
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/29: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/29: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
J
ON
FRW
IAL
50X1-HUM
The aieaemiffition of nev tec niquee moat be itmMoeed. In the
Aor"kt7 Automobile Plant, for tnataz e, isn eloot +othermio forgistg
pmoeaa using ct rent o oamueroial frmuo lee for beating ineUnd
of gene or on curneoeN vea iatrodusmd. This van not a&opted by other
plants as it should baee been.
The saientifio-aeeeasah Automobile amt Automotive Institute (NM(t)
most van* out aerv er 2ae dresisde faz? VmmabnPr autos, a dommestio
e1oot bile with a 3.oo -oarr73xe caj aity of 0.5 - 1.5 tcaaa amk
a domestic, steam trwok in 1948.
no eaient fie-toe ab "emator Imtitute (KATI), besZtte i alas
the eslatiaw tam of taaetora, of vhicab the D-35 to the most important
s set to wool[ an a 244raepower Diemael tractor for the R'ledindr
Tractor Plant, wffi a 32-boe+rel+aaer traotoAr for tr oak snsdem-ing.
The ruat3.tttto of llutcemobil. T?e0hnolagy of the Org%vtcW m frgeni-
aatiom of the Autc obit. t uitrie7 it ooopowate in teohn,ical matters
iuo7.vt tattoduotlon of now aaso!im tools, ve3Liaog am forging woooaaes,
.dl 0e nme of um OLIXqu ant metals.
ft'lilq~?Mfxli~.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/29: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600200428-6
"