CREDITS SOVIET SPECIALISTS WITH STARTING LOCOMOTIVE PRODUCTION IN SOFIA PLANT

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• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
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• Publication Date: August 16, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Transportation - Rail
Economic - Locomotive construction
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 Jan 1951
LANGUAGE Russipn
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT 10
U. S C.. 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
CONTENTS IN ANY
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DATE DIST. /(. Aug 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CREDITS SOVIET SPECIALISTS
WITH STARTING LOCOMOTIVE PRODUCTION IN SOFIA PLANT
The first Bulgarian locomotive, a squat steam shunting locomotive, was built
in the "Georgi Dimitrov" Plant in Sofia with the aid of Soviet specialists.
Since then, the plant has produced three new steam locomotives and ten 17-
ton steam rollers of the Nasha Pobeda type for building roads.
In 1947 the Sofia Locomotive and Railroad Car Repair Plant was in poor shape.
Eighty percent of the production of the casting shop had to be classed as break-
age To many people the construction of a locomotive seemed an impossibility
when the plant was not fulfilling the state plan for repair of rolling stock and
when the organizational and economic system of the plant was in a state of chaos.
However, great assistance was given to the plant by Soviet specialists.
Engr Aleksandr Venediktovich Koval'skiy introduced casting under pressure in the
casting shops, created a new furnace charge mixture, and organized the production
of electrodes for cutting metal. Soviet Engr Ivan Grigor'yevich Sokolov helped
organize the production of a great quantity of parts which formerly were imported
from other countries. He worked out a technique for heat treatment of metals
and drew up all the technical plans for the manufacture of tools and parts for
locomotives and railroad cars.
Engr Slavko Stoyanov is chief engineer of the plant. Engineer Dmitri Petkov
is chief technologist.
STATE
ARMY'
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