NEW BUILDING MATERIAL DEVELOPED IN UKRAINE; GENERAL BUILDING MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700130095-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: August 26, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATIOP CONFIDENTIAL
6 ECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
HOW
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DATE
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Eco!omic - Construction materials
Daily, semiweekly newspapers
USSR
2 Jul 1952 - 13 Jun 1953
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
NEW BUILDING MATERIAL DEVELOPED IN UKRAINE;
GENERAL BUILDING MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO PC3LIC IN MOSCOW
NEW MATERIAL GOOD HEAT AND SOUND INSUTATOR -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 7 Jan 53
Scientific associates of he Ukrainian. SSR have developed a new building
material called "mikroporit." The new material is light in weight but is a
good insulator against heat and sound. It is made in autoclaves from sandy
loam or clay mixed with sand and limestone. The water is removed from the
mixture by boiling in the autoclaves and by drying. The new material is used
primarily for partitions and as a covering material, as well as a wall stone
where conditions permit it to be covered on the outside by durable materials.
The sandy loam used in the manufacture of the material is found on the
surface in many areas of the Georgian SSR. The installation of uncomplicated
and Inexpensive additional equipment in Ukrainian silicate brick plants would
make mass production of the new building material quite possible.
STARTS PRODUCING INSULATING MATERIAL -- Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya, 15 May 53
The Kramatorak Mineral Wool Plant has started manufacturing mineral felt
which will be used to insulate buildings.
ESTONIAN PLANT PRODUCES CONCRETE MIXING ADDITIVE FROM CLAY --Tallin, Sovetskaya
Estoniya, 10 Apr 53
The ceramic plant of the Ministiry of Construction Materials Industry
Estonian SSR has started manufacturing a new building material called
"keramzit" gravel. It is a gray-colored p.r ous material which is so light
in weight that it does not thin out and is used mainly as an additive in the
mixing of concrete. The material is obtained from local Estonian fusible clay.
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MOSCOW GYPSUM PLANT FULFILLS QUOTA EARLY -- Moscow, Promyshlennost'
Stroitel'nykh Materialov, 13 Jun 53
The Moscow Gypsum Products Plant fulfilled its quota for the first 6 months
of 1953 ahead of schedule. During the first 5 months, it cut production costs
233,000 rubles. During the same period, it conserved 125 tons of coal and mo-,
than 7,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
KIEV PLANT ?RODUCES SLATE ABOVE QUOTA -- Moscow, Promyshlennost' Stroitel'nykh
Materialov, 9 Jul 52
During the first 6 months of 1952, the Kiev Slate Plant produced almost 3
million slate slabs above quota. It has been gperating efficiently and has
been fulfilling its monthly and quarterly quotas since 1950.
BUILDING MATERIALS SOLD IN MOSCOW STORES -- Moscow, Promyshlennoat'
Stroitel'nykh Materialov, 9 Jul 52
There are 'more than 40 stores and outlets in Muscow where the consumer
can purchase building materials. Some of the stores provide counseling
services. The consumer can now p.schase brick, cement, glass, alabaster, slate,
lime, and plasterboard.
TWO REINFORCED CONCRETE PLANTS TO START OPERATIONS IN MOSCOW AREA -- Moscow,
Vechernyaya Moskva, 31 Mar 53
Two large automatized construction materials plants, the Moscov and
? Lyubertsy plants, will soon start operations. Their annual capacity will be
240,000 cubic meters of sectional reinforced concrete structures and products.
KIEV PLANT SHIPS 66 CARLOADS OF PLASTERBOARD IN FIRST QUARTER -- Kiev, Pravda
Ukrainy, 15 Apr 53
In the first quarter 1953, the Kiev Gypsum Products Plant shipped 50
carloads of plasterboard to the Kuybyshev GES construction project and 16
carloads to Stalingrad.
CARBONIZED BLOC{ MANUFACTURING PLANT LACS IN 1952 -- Moscow, Promyshlennost'
Stroitel'nykh Materialov, 2 Jul 52
The Podol'sk Lime Plant, which started manufacturing carbonized blocks
in 1951, has not been operating efficiently in 1952. It fulfilled its quota
for the first 6 months of 1952 by only 52 percent. Equipment in the plant's
carbonized block shop is idle for considerable periods. One of the block
forming presses works at less than 50 percent of its capacity. Instead of
producingfrem 4,500 to 5,000 blocks per shift, its output if from 1,500 to
1,700 blocks, mainly because of the lack of a sufficient supply of cinders
and sand. Of the eight available gas chambers, only six have been working for
some time because of the shortage of 20 carts. Because the conveyer system
is 20 meters short, manual labor must be employed to deliver the lime and
gypsum mixture to the block shop.
Despite this, the Moscow Oblast Administration of Construction Materials
Industry, to which the plant is subordinate, has taken no steps to e'd the
plant in overcoming its difficulties.
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