PATTERN OF PREWAR SOVIET SULFURIC ACID PRODUCTION

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• Document Release Date: July 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: November 9, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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PATTERN OF PREWAR SOVIET SULFURIC ACID PRODUCTIAN
At the outbreak of World Flar II, sulfuric acid was mainly produced in the
central region of the Etu?opean USSR, in the Urals, Ukraine, and the Leningrad
area, while the Caucasus and West Siberia played a comparatively small part in
the broduction,
The following table gives the planned geographical distributipn of thg sul-
furic acid production for 1937, thus indicating the prevailin pattern of re-
gional allocation of that period. The shift of industrial activities dso the
East had already started prior to World War _TI and was, of course, accelerated
during the war, A series of plants, especially those located in the Ukraine
and iu the Leningrad area, were tz?ansferred to the Urals and Siberia. It has
been assumed that a part of these installations hae.returned to their original
location, while the capacity of the remaining eastern plants would sabsequently
be increased.
CLASSIFICATION SECRET ~~!~~~
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM ,
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Chemical industry
HOW
PUBLISHED Typewritten manuscript
WHERE ?-
PUBLISHED Berlin
DATE
PUBLISHED 17 Jan 1944
LANGUAGE German
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOUkCE The Sulfuric Acid Indust in the USSR, published by Wirtschaftsgruppe
Chemische Industrie Industrial Group Chemical Industry), (GbIDS Document
No VII-66-c-12-44/292).
Dioscow area
24
Sverdlovsk area
21E
Ukraine
1$
Leningrad area
11
West 'Siberia
5
Transcaucasus
3.
Tatar ASSR
3
GorPkiy area
3
Remainder of RSFSR
3
Ivanovo area
2
Northern Caucasus
2
Tne volume of Soviet sulfuric acid production can only be estimated. The
1939 output was to reach 2 million tons of sulfuric acid (calculated on the
basis of 100-?percent sulfuric acid) snd by 1942 was to have increased to 4 mil-
lion tone, of which 2,5 mi7.lion tons were to have been produced by eaiati'ng
plants whereas the rest was to be obte.ined from newly cbnstxucted plants. Dur-
ing World War I2, the production was estimated to be between 2 and 3 million
tons,
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The Soviet sulfuric acid industry always has had difficulties in the pro-
curement of its raw materials. Their main sources are the iron and copper py-
rites in the Urals, as well as to a smaller degree the pyrites of the central
Volga region and Glauber's salt (sodium sulfate decahydrate) from the Caspia._+
Scc an3 :,aka Aral, Frior to the war, the pyrite production amounted to about
one million tons per year. Since most sulfuric acid plants are rather distant
from the raw material deposits, the latter had to be transported over distances
up to 2,000 kilometers. On the other hand, the shift of plants to the Urals,
Caucasus, and Siberia was to improve the situation,. since waste gas of the met-
allurgical plants of these regions was to be processed for the production of
sulfuric acid.
In addition, local raw materials, as coal pyrites in the Donets Basin and
Moscow lignite basin and pyrrhotin on the Kola Peninsula, were to be used as
raw materials.
It can, however, be assumed that, of these plans, only the transfer of in-
dustrial plants to the East has been materialized, while the problem of trans-
portation of raw materials 1'or the plants in Central Russia and more western
regions still prevails.
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