TRACTOR PLANT AND SHIPYARDS AT LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLLG.ENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT
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DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
'raactor Plant and Shipyards at
Leningrad
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The Kirov Tradtor Plant, formerly referred tto - as the Putiltva r Za,od etas
located on Proe..ekt Gaza ddj6iiiTn the Zhdanov Shipyards in 25X1 A
25X1 X Leingradn who worked "at the shipjrard during ;World war
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manta "'riiig-the war and inanufectu&ed Tm3 tanks, VA:ft+er World +ar 'II9'part of
the' plait was turned"over to Oi lia~n' actininiotrstion and manufactured among 25X1 X
other Chi a ~in~T2cf.timthe~e r~.cteti~~ c nr ~trilevoch traktor), I _ believe
.., . .,( s.. _.. that
the lant began from tract opera-25X1
ng on Svir 2 Construction Pro ject 25X1 A
tors works ~ . ... '. _ .. _ ... .., . ,.he
the first KT-12 tractors arrived at Svir"'for experimental tes s n 9 and that
englneers'from. the iirov Plant had 5.nquir?ed a ,bout tir de ndabilitt and perform-
ainoe, Several shops of the 'Kirov Plaint remained under the M n3.atry of /armaments
in the postwar 'per?iod_ -_1n '1950'1 hea kT from -friend that _the_-e _plant 'was still
maki g apart,a. several ahopsn the plant were restricted. However
friends were Tpoi tine that- tangy xere riot "asie ] d. at the print and 'Chas? the
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there were shipped elsewhere in the USSR for assembly.
2... The Baltic Shipb'uil di r g Tard lat. Leningrad built cruisers fors the-'S
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The Marti-:Shipyard (Sudostroitel, Zavod Marti) in-Leningrad also 25X1
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~- s - r a wamle DWOUtpour across the bridge over"Obvodnyy Kanal, I have-seen the
grounds of the Marti Shipyard with several cruisers in its docks.
I-remeznber_clearly that in 1950 there were three cruisers
aonstruction_in the Marti Shipyard.. i 25X1X
know. al3o that several hulls for destroyers, which had beet manufactured
in 1943-and 1944 at the Zhdanov Shipyard, were taken over and
completed by Marti, which then turned out fully equipped destroyers
the next year,
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