OPTICAL PLANT NO. 393 IN KRASNOGORSK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007500230005-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 9, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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?9atbjkc,' op 1cai Plant No,, 393 in Krasno ;or?ssk
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DATE OF
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CLASSIFICATIO
- Comma nta 1 t . I n para o 2 s "areal" should probably read "aerial".
2., Tn para., _6F, "for terristical purposes" should xiaad for use on the groun& v
3. z n para.. l3>r "i3ella. . tiou l" should probably read "Bell. and Howell"
4, The Professor Brobishev referred to in para. 19 is probably Fedor V. 25X1
frobyshev.
50 The following are the full names of some of the German scientists
mentioned in the report
Hans Illgens, Herbert Korthun,, Wilhelm Kaemmea er, Johannes Mahler, Willi
itoegera Gerhard Lenski,, 'Willa. ilackeroth, Hermann Schrumpf, Helmut Scharfenb :rg,
Walter 113eist,, Paul Goerlich, F' If d Krohs, Karl Gundlach, Harald Straub-a19
Joachim Ehrhardt, Kurt Erler, Rudolf Reindl, P l Gaens win,, Wilk-1. Hoffmann,,
Werner Tiedeken,, august S onnefeld, and l!erner Notni,
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~. Op%f,eai Plant No 393 in Xraenogorak (550499 N/3?o322E) .ka ~aox~ : ?o11e d
Icy "~hc: Ministry of Prner to in Moscow. In 1941, the product io a
deper- rents of the plant v-iws evacua~tceed to No9oeibir k ~7zTC.. o mass
production of optical irstr nen`te is still being continu o `rho plant
cectione -uhich had repined in K ea ger ask and i-iiiic-h were a the
Old Plant after 19411, became a r eseach and development e~,atlon for
optical ins r umente. After the way., the Iraenogerek plant was
co sideeably enlarged with equipment from the New Plane.l' -:t
Nove)eib1xek and, in early March 19499 mass production Lso r: esumad the eo1
2, he tb -ee main fields wave gad by Optical Rant No 393 inc1: u~ ~d a4^+ zl
photo uipmexeb as used fo photegra=otx y ca a a for t ~ n
pa'poees and military e ui. wnt each ae range finders and ei! ghting
dewvtces - The plant also pk educod optical. precision ine ru;,en'te for
lab`ora%oriee which were even produced for onp rn; ? 'ter the fail of
1950.
3 - Between Nov nb = 1946 and about Matt-, 191,.9, Sk a eh;.nsk,1 or Star hinelii
(fnu) was plarrIC directs .=., He was replaced by Solovvi (fthu) the died
in the spring of 1952 a 5 uelov (fnu) uao chief engineer until about
1947 t7ha he was rep-laced by tm- igin a ao 9 in turn ; Wa ir'anst~t d Y a
early 1952 and probably b~ea~ c a professor at the Optic4.l #n- Ituto
in Moscow there he had previously been a guest professor r., In 1945 at
1946 both engineers had been an nbars of the Soviet corml_ss.lua
sup?rvising the d iomant ii g of the Zeiss .Plant it n J exaa ~
4, C-pical Plant No 393 had one designing office for photo g ,':^ & otr?iw
and military instr ents one designing office for o as: aoa and an
additions central designing office, the so call 1 Z110 or ShO3 for
developing and designing work ~ Soviet engineer Belsysv (Thuu) as
chief of the designing office for pho no-x .ammstrv and Derr- -a'r.
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i.:.` to .f ~ students ) t4ho in e'"TYer .Jea worked, s ve.G1 b ''~oru;d,S adr LIP'
p.ia.r;t,, in t% le 'IcT- Tic o {t'' ss cr ?' e ti v? t
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of ': t'j`li, f'iz^:mun3.C. S'?:, 'is:,$..'E-' 7 diT,w o of f i3b4:;% ere , :. 4t"+o young ?' Ela?';yC:"ta.
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were 3e.-en at lihc:' ji.La-int- , d3.t_ u' s r 4 %o1
.t; Cr3 an 657`'"~%'Eii?.`t:'I.L.Cr h+n.t
i. T.r'a~ 1ngorek f.ror: 'AInL''f. the; students '.Ce rC..adii E C ~, t?:
t '@ ti:si?4en.. The. of` it;n labb 3t -lee and. t(w{ e tc d->Ype"~.?i: z?u'a
ye AfSC's_{.i.y of ked one ^.`..:'3 tt `r,'.'(7iS.st ps' der 1/1.rlt'U 030V-:. `U : equflrer,t nt,s had heeu it led
:r: late i952, when Soviet. r....ro's^t'`-..,P.`Zs seen at the vel.es
'~:1Lv ~'?{ted that th\i?w e :3.215'`.;:r4, r'e:i'ta, esnecia t l.tij an Wrso
c irapa$ ztor.fis were iiU"tY available for r 3':por t;:,. ;'r.oii' '~. e 19't ,her rtd
UTpe of insirsrm-, nts delivered by late 3 I _0: it was .erc Ksr nex' ' by the German iridustry and the
Of these cameras, rm lor types nr ? the RI-0
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r k ott:a,,es; than ;?'b 50/3t~ 'filch was the most cor.no a tyre
s' r r .a^+.rt a :ict
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a.;;.;`U'p~.ea quy }
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: n() lr yet started,, the oaptared f. e. rt!ian ts YAfp?'"% ` mil-il k.'f" n ,R
nit :!or itcTn ,u and than "~E;r2' to v.".rdi us air- lo:S' l'3 ,: }
:dorkslhop for these ovarha-_-,Ii~ vas, insti l gar at U- ,a ' ovi ,A e xu.i"]rrien'b ...n this fiei=t t ran eithe
early` 1951..' and nlel~itPzlr '9 2y the plant `tms Gac 1.- in 1.hs
idC3'rr't', E o a.^. nt and con i ~ I ct Q'S1 cf b reconC1a.bs s a n c e E~Sic 'ei . I t W&j
.''l i.~ived t ,.'.v.: it had a focal. I en-th of 30 to :;v _w:' nn-i t,S o _cG?.lr,"
j
:.' i1:i,'ri.5, of 1"' x lty cri or of 24 x 24 Ca"11~ It
wac'.. '}i' rotx.'ca
cca era ore a close reset~i lance to the Y ~a ch .J.d.
or/and the !'gin lts'h. ''Tiiliteri,son e c:?1meras 0 it was tbo gh't tth
11-11a a i.ier'aJerepresented. .he latest Soviet 'ir Force equ puter~,,
especially for close recSY T 'issent purpoeseso
1C+, lo, early :1950, Optical rlrtnt No 39.3 started to overhaai axis rararfli e
so,-called "AskaniaP t & and top... ti? ':a e
'111.iem for utilization at target ranges and exp;ir entaa.t stations, In
late: 1930, cormle to sets of ct3nstriuc?ion records were prepare: d and
tyre production of these theodolites was initiated in as ly ic?5l,
The ffurst set produced by the 3ov. etc deviated rnm 'ne ,tskania lath
41 model which had a# shooting speed of 4 p, otos per co~:ond and r odl$ led
the "Gtr;. 20"r an '.skania type theodolite ? i h shoot xa sp sd ox' 20
photos per second., The : ov:L t i;.odel designated. Gtk 10j 209 was
adjustable 1:f` r eit:',,P 10 or 20 pletia-es ner second and was developed
for a focal length of either 1 mete' or 1.20 meters, 1"U, was still
undecided), hc+.,rever, which of these focal lengths would be finally
chosen 'bv the wovie"r,s