EXCAVATORS, OTHER EARTH-MOVING MACHINES AT USSR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090143-2
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October 17, 1952
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/11: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090143-2 r CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CENTRALSECURITY IIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS COUNTRY USSR SUBJECT Economic - Technological, construction machinery HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspapers WHERE PUBLISHED USSR DATE PUBLISHED 20 May - 12 Jul 1952 LANGUAGE Russian REPORT CD NO. DATE OF DATE DIST. J7 Oct 1952 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. EXCAVATORS, OTHER EARTH-MOVING MACHINES AT USSR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS MANY MACHINES USED IN BUILDIi!:: CANAL -- Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 12 J?_l 52 In completing the Volga-Don Canal in the 4-year period, the builders used 185 excavators, over 500 scrapers and bulldozers, hundreds of dump trucksia veritable flotilla of suction dredges, seven automatic concrete plants, some large mechanized quarries, and other auxiliary plants. Esh-4-40 MODELS GO TO VARIOUS DESTINATIONS -- Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 22 May 52 On 20 May, the Novo-Kramatorsk Plant imeni Stalin shipped a 4-cubic-meter- capacity walking excavator to the Azerbaydzhan SSR, Leningradskaya Pravda, 29 May 52 The Novo-Kramatorsk Plant imeni Stalin has completed the assembly of an ESh-4-40 excavator for the Sredazgidrostroy Administration. In consideration of the conditions under which the machine will work, fans have been built into the cab, and all units of the machine have been covered with a special coating to guard against sand and dust. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 30 May 52 The ESh-4-40 excavator built on order from the Sredazgidrostroy Adminis- tration is the first such machine the Novo-Kramatorsk Plant imeni Stalin has turned oui; for that organization. STATE ARMY NAW A.IR B !!S F131 DISTRIBUTION Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/11: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090143-2 50X1-HUM Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/11: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090143-2 Moscow, Izvestiya, 20 Jun 52 The Novo-Kramatorsk Plant imeni Stalin is now assembling a series of ESh-4- 40 walking excavators, all destined for the Kuybyshev GES and the Volga-Don Canal projects. SHIP TEN MACHINES AHEAD OF PLAN -- Moscow, Pravda, 14 Jun 52 The SE-3 electric excavators produced by the Sverdlovsk Uralmash Plant have been widely used by the builders of the Volga-Don Canal and the Kuybyshev GES. During 152, the Uralmash Plant made ahead-of-plan shipments of ten more SE-3 machines to the construction projects. Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 24 Jun 52 The Sverdlovsk Uralmash Plant has shipped to the builders of the Main Turk- men Canal two 3-cubic-meter capacity Uralets excavators. Such machines have proved their worth at the Tsimlyanskaya GES project, where their daily productiv- ity was as high as 5,500 cubic meters of earth per day. NEW PLANT STARTS PRODUCTION -- Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 20 May 52 The first shops of the Machinery and Repair Plant of the Stalingradgidro- stroy Administration at Poselok Volzhskiy Stalingradskaya Oblast have turned out their first products. The plant has assembled seven electric excavators from the Urals. It builds equipment for high-voltage power lines and for water mains, and is now establish- ing production of electric vibrators for driving in metal pilings. MEET PLAN EARLY -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 21 Jun 52 The Dmitrov Excavator Plant completed the 5-month plan ahead of schedule, and turned out several excavators above plan. MANUFACTURERS, OPERATORS WORK TOGETHER -- Moscow, Pravda, 3 Jul 52 During the past 3 years, the Kovrov Excavator Plant has received and filled ahead of schedule 34 orders for earth-digging machines and their spare parts for the great construction projects. Excavators from the plant worked on the Volga-Don Canal. Kovrovets machines may be seen at the constrrction sites of the Stalingrad, Kuybyshev, and Kakhovka GES, and of the Main Turkmen Canal. Representatives of the plant nave been working closely with the construction workers to impro7e tht. efficiency of their machines. In the last 2 years, plant designers have studied the performance of over 200 machines. Conversely, opera- tors from the construction projects have come to the plant with suggestions for improiements in design, some of which have been put into effect. One result of the collaboration of construction workers and plant designers is the new experimental model E-507 excavator, which is now undergoing plant tests. -- N. Grechin, director, Kovrov Excavator Plant; and A. Nikitin, chief designer, same plant; both Stalin Prize winners. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/11: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090143-2 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/11: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090143-2 EXCAVATORS PERFORM WELL -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 12 Jul 52 Director Sereda of the Kiev Krasnyy Ekskavator Plant reports that the 26 excavators which the plant contributed to the builders of the Volga-Don Canal per- formed ideally. The plant is now designing some new machines for the great con- struction projects. SBIP OUT BULLDOZERS -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 31 May 52 The Chelyabinsk Plant imeni Kolyushchenko has shipped some bulldozers above the plan to the site of the Kuybyshev GES project. It has se.. s-se bulldozers and scrapers to the builders of the Volga-Don irrigation system, completing the order ahead of schedule. 0 Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 20 Jun 52 The Chelyabinsk Plant imeni Kolyushchenko has begun to produce four-bladed bulldozer-rigged rooters. Two such machines have already been completed for the builders of the Kakhovka GES. A4,F DITCRIRG MACHINES -- Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 12 Jun 52 The Minsk Udarnik Plant has completed ahead of schedule the assembly of a group of KM-800 ditching machines. The plant furnishes its machines to irrigation- farming areas in Central Asia, the Komi ASSR, the Buryato- Mongol'skaya ASSR, and to Bryanskaya, Veliko-Lukskaya, Gor'kovskaya, and Vladimirskaya oblasts. BUII.D 30 GRADERS -- Moscow, Pravda, 26 Jun 52 The Bryansk Road Machinery Plant racently shipped out 30 graders to the builders of the Kakhovka GES -- all above the 6-month quota. The plant filled ics 6-month quota of equipment for the Main Turkmen and Volga.-Don canals, and for the Kuybyshev GES project well ahead of schedule.