STEEL-TUBING FACTORY NEAR SVERDLOVAK

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: April 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION Rr1 T
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title l8,,Sectiona 793 and 794, of the V.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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COUNTRY USSR (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
SUBJECT Steel-Tubing Factory near Sverdlovsk
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
21 April 195+
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1. The Jechow Steel-Tubing Factory is located in a woods about 45 km.
northwest of Sverdlovsk (N 56-50) E 60-3$) and about five km. west of
the Sverdlovsk-Kirovgrad (N 57-27, E 60-035 railroad.' (See sketch on
p.3.) A branch rail line runs from this railroad to the factory. The
factory was built after the war in August
1952'was under construction. Production started in the spring of 1953,
but the factory was still not completed in the fall.
2. The factory produces seamless steel tubes with diameters up to eight on.
They are used as races for ball bearings for tractors and tanks of
various unknown types. The plant also produces ball bearings varying
in width from two to six: cm. Actual output is unknown but it fluctuates
greatly. Raw materials arrive by rail from unknown origins. Three or
four freight trains of twelve to fifteen cars each arrive weekly with
raw material. These trains takeaway the finished products to unknown
destinations.
3. The director of the factory is Molchanov (fnu), an engineer. There are
2,500 to 3,000 workers, including PWs and convicts, working in two shifts.
A large proportion of the Soviet workers are convicts.
4. The factory is enclosed by a barbed wire fence about two and a half meters
high. All buildings are made of stone and have flat roofs. There are no
watchtowers, but 25 MVD factory guards act as sentries at the entrance
from the road and at the point where the railroad enters' the factory.
The sentries are relieved at 1300 hours. The guards come from a settle-
ment located about 500 meters west of the factory.
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Comment: Jechowl
7a-duld-b6 Yekhov;or Yezhov.?Nofactory tith a.sin lar
name,or engaged in this type of production, has been identified
at the location given. Pipe mills have been reported, however,
in Pervouralsk, which is approximately the same distance north-
west of. Sverdlovsk but near a different railroad. Also, there is,
a Yezhova(N 56-29, E 58-06) in Sverdlovsk Oblast, but it is not
at the location specified nor is there any record of the production
mentioned in this report.in that place.
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Key to Lay-Out Sketch of.Facto
1. Guard building.
2. Administration building with two stories. The ground floor is
occupied by factory administration and the first floor by the
design and planning offices.
3. Electric power station. The building houses boilers and power
generators. The factory was not connected with the long-distance
electric grid. Just north of this building was a dump with about
2,000 tons of hard coal.
4&5.Halls, 350 x 80 m. each, with travelling cranes overhead. Steel
tubes were made here and worked up into races for ball bearings.
No details about machinery are known.
6. Hall, of sine dimensions as 4 and 5, still under construction in
the fall of 1953.
7.
Store of materials; partly in sheds and partly in the open air.
out 1500 m...-
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Lay-Out of Jechow Factory
About 5 km.
To
Sverdlovsk
To Sverdlovsk
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