RUBESHNOYA CHEMICAL COMBINE

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• Publication Date: October 7, 1953
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Rubcz133nalL Rh3.r_ Jr.cribinat (Itubezhwys. Chemf.:eal Combine) in Rubc,z1Inoye
was 'coated on tie double-t:-...a.ck railroad lino vihich nassod
throw?h the area o:: ?:;hE? Combine anti led northuest :,ouard. Kun anek
\ and south, via Lisichansk, to Dobaltsevo 1.?he
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highuay leading to Kupyanslc and. pozalieling the railroad line also traversod
the nlant groun.ds. The, Rubezhnoye railroad station was near the Combine to
the southeast.
2. The Combine t-m Civi1jd in half by the railroad line. The northwest ,art. an
old plant section, W13 called 'IonetzkIrZavod. ;he south nart, Foy() Donetskiy
Zavod. A net; nlant in the northeast nal.; of the Combine was designated
ro. 14. The plant trim founded in 1;114, uith Gernaa fir-is and experts employed
IA the construction. In 1926, the llant vas cx-vnded by American experts and.
w'ith Anericar 1-mchin3:y. The most innortant installations uere evacuated dur-
ing World uai in and -)art of the buildings desroyed. aeconstraction and
exnansion of the plat was started in 1944 B03.1naing in 1945, nroduction
t:as gradually. resume in the difforz.nt parts e ",:ho plant.
3. The Combine covere,!. -a area of about 1 x 1.7 km. Only a small -part of the
oziginal equinment uls used in the restored denartlents. Diemen-tied German
elutement vas used 11 re-equipning the plant. '111 apparatus ex?osed to cor-
rosive chemicals tiers made of German VA (chrome nickel) steel. 1)ismantled
Gernan installations used. for restoring the nlant included installations from
the lacuna plant the von Reyaen plant in Radeboal, and the Agfa plant in
Uolfen. Poucr MS generated in nart by the nlan itself and partly by the
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4. Lie Combine mainly nrodlwee intermediate produets of coal-%as ds/oz, including
ritraniool awl phthalic acid -nhylricle an
uell as finicHea kt6s uhith include thioindigo (inligo
In 1951, lazscale experinents tic re carried out for the process nu
rrovenent of 7roduction netnot3.an4 4chedules "remarations were being made
for the proaction of arr1nosa1tgyIic acid , used as a50X1-HUM
coal-tar dye inter:IT:into nroduct rnd an antY-tu6ecu1ar miidicine. Production
figures uere not oroilab:o.
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:aphthalene was the best known raw material processed in the plant, It
was supplied, as crude naphthalene in lumps, by other plants. The Combine
also received nitric acid supplias for nitrating purposes and pyrites for
its sulphuric acid production, CoaA supplies for the two boiler houses
came from the hard coel minas lo:ated on the right bank of the Donets laver.
6. In early 1949, the Combine had al-,out 2,000 adult workers and 250 KomsomoltsY,
who had to attend courses tw...) or three times weekLy. L;orkers were mainly
Ukrainians. In n:dition, up te 1,000 Fs ware employed in the reconstruction
of the plant- The following jerfan experts did compulsory work in the Combine:
Or, ,:erner he1lcr Or, Heinrich Chlendorfp Dr. Heinz 5chuster, Dr. Alfred
3nuechtel, !Jr.. Ulrich Dreyer, Graduate Liv;ineer .erich Brinkmann, Dr. hrnst
Ln;elmann, Dr. karl Brodersen, Dr. Otto Hoffp,an, Dr. Alfred Turm, Dr. Nax
6caulze, Dr. :.7,cttfried Hail, Dr. eolfang aichter, Dr. Adolf Hichter, Dr.
Hermann ,:olff, Frofessor Dr, lafred aieche, Er, Gottfried Caro, Dr, Johannes
,iu.-,zke, Or. .erich Aratz, Jr, audclf Fuchs, .:Agineer Franz aank, and Dr. Hans
teeler-Bode. Some of the experts returned after mA-l951. These experts
were assined to improve tile current production p:-ocess and to develop methods
for the production of new dyes.
7. The entire area of the Combine was surrounded par'.,ly by a wire fence and
partly by a wall, ' Guard dul.,y weni done by plant militia clad in blue uniforms
and armed with automatic weapons. There was also a plant fire brir;ade, the
members of which wore red epaulets, :iome of the Liards made their patrols
with watchdogs.
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1- Rubez44c:,:.. railroad
2. Lisichansk-aubezhn05o 'Wpyansk railroad line.
3- Rubezt,ne'ye-Kupyansk highway.
4. Ulitsa Lenina (Lenin Street) passing through the town area of Rubezhar.
to Varvarovka.
5. Rubezhanzi: town area.
6> Streets in the plant area.
7. Spur tracks.
8. Suspension cableway coring from the coal-mining distract around
Belogorovka across the Donets River,
9. Sewage ditch leading to a swampy pond.
10. Swampy pond or settling basin.
11. Swampy area. .
12. Entrance gates with small guard house.
13. Plant enclosure, partly a wire fence and partly a war.
14- Building, housing technical desining offices and a mess hall.
15. Administration and management building of the Combine.
16. Hosrital and first aid station.
17. Office building,
18. Telephone switchboard.
The items 19 through 25 are the Novo Donetskiy Zivod plant section.
19. Nitranisol factory.
20. Warehouse for the technical eqv.rmen,..; of the cheTical departrents and
for the storage of clericals.
21. Six tanks for methanol, each 5 !eters in diamete,:. and 8 reters.hizh.
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22, Viopik experimental departments housed in two foar-story brick structures,
There were eight agitators, each 2 meters ir dianeter. equipped with
steam heating worms. All e:_uipmLnt in these departmens was rade of
V2A steel. The pressure in the nlosed agitators as allegedly 5 atmospheres
during operation. The e4niprent of these departrents .1.so included
several containers rade of V2A ;teel, each measuring 2 x 1.2C x 0,60
meters. The containers warn par,,itioned with per?oratcd plates.
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23, Laboratory.
24. Garage.
25. Coal dumr surrounded ly a wall.
Items 26 through 42 ere the Donetskiy Zavod plant
26. Old boiler house equipped with installations for 3
It was a solid brick structure of 40 x 4C x 22 me:
large hard-coal-fired flue boilers. Several metal
the roof. The boiler house was connected with the
inclined elevator.
section.
eng distance heating.
ors. There were 5
smokestacks were on
coal dump by an
27. Conveyor installation for boiler slags.
28. Slag dump.
29. Oxygen producting installation.
30. Carpenter's shop.
31. Forge and lockaAthli shop with small depot of comonents.
32. Thioindigo factory, consisting of some old brick structures which
were partly destroyed and have, meanwhile, been reconditioned. The
equipment included agitators of 2 meters, 2.20 meters and 2.30 meters
in diameter with ramified pipe lines. All equipment was made of V2A steel.
33. Warehouse,
34. Concrete silo with artex.
35. Unidentified new buildings.
36. New stone building, covered eith Eternit slabs (asbestos cerent). Its
equipment included. 2C to 30 stear-heated autocJaws.
37. Small building with a horizontal rotary drying drtm.
38. Central laboratory, a four story brick structure, about 30 x 17 meters.
The constniction of tke building started befoee tJe war, but was stopped
when in rough brickleork. It was completed after the war. Equipment
consisted of dismantlees. German material including a laboratory of the
Deutsche Sprengstoff (Garman Explosives Corporation) in Silesia.
The laboratory was uesd to suppoet the production of the Combine, to
modernize obsolescent production ?7etbcds, and to cevelop new products.
The laboratory had a lrge German library. In Atctst 1949, about 80
people vere employed in the different laboratories including 23 German
experts who did compulsory work.
39.
First-aid station.
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40. Pyrite-roasting installation.
41. Department for the prcduction of sulphuric acid.
42. Six verticalsraphuric acid tanks, each 5 meters high and 4 meters in
diameter.
43. Lumber dump.
44. Scrap dun:p.
45. Foundry for spare parts.
46. New locksmith's shops.
47. First-aid station.
48. Old locksmith's shop.
49. Office building.
5C. Forge.
51. Carpentry with pattern-making shop.
52. Three large warehouses.
53. Warehouse for materials used in the workshops.
54. Guard station.
55. Fire department, an old stone building, equipped with three fire engines
with ladders and fire hoses.
56. Gasoline depot.
57. Kennel for watchdogs
58. Bath.
59. Department for the preduction of coal-tar dyes. Equipment included four
steam-heated agitators. After being processed in the agitators, the
products were dried in a drying chamber and pulverized. They were then
dispatched packed in cylindrical drums.
60. Water pumping station with well and filtering installation.
61. Naphthalene depot.
62. Monument.
63. Phthalic acid anhydride factory, an old brick structure with steel frame
roofing covered with inmber and roofing felt. It 4az reconditioned and
put into operation in 1948. It vas equipped with 18 autoclaves with
ventilation shafts. In addition, there was an electrically heated apparatus
for recrystallizing. The final nroduct was not submitted to further
processing in this factory but taken away In trucks.
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64. Warehouse for materials.
The buildings indic0,e1 in items 65 and 66 belong to Object No 14.
66. Unidentified four-story building, about 6C x 3( n.tt,r?i, with low
workshor annex. Its eAuiprent included containors and rurps.
66. Three new buildings not; eluipped in 1-te 1914.
67. Two small ress hall buildings.
6E. Ruins of a building. At the south side there was , sn-,11 annex where
carboys filled with tulphuric acid were stored.
69. New workshop b.,-Ilding rquipped with 12 containers 1m-de of V2A steel
taken fror disffamlec Gernan installations.
7C. Workshop building, port3y reconditioned, a11eged1; used for the
production of a fruit preserving agen;.
72. New powcr plant.
72. Coal durip.
73. Storage site for disn-3ntled Gernk:u apparatus.
74. lime sandstone factory.
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