STALIN GUN FACTORY NO. 92 IN GORKIY

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COUNTRY : USSR (Gorkovskaya Oblast)
SUBJECT Stalin Gun Factory No. 92 in Gorkiy
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
"Stalin" Gun Factory
No 92 in Gorki
REPORT
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DATE OF CONTEN
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1. The "Stalin" Gun Factory No 92 in Gorki (56?20'N/44?00'0) was located 25X1
at the left bank of the Oka River, about 4 km from its entry into the
Volga River within the town section called Novoye Sormove. At the
northern side of the "Stalin" plant, the Sormovski Street led to the
west to the Sormovo town section. A refinery was located opposite of
the plant. There was a spur track branching off from the main railroad
line. Plant-owned locomotives and railroad cars were available. The
"Stalin" plant had also connection to the Volga harbor where plant-
owned dumb barges were available. 1
2. The gun factory has been erected in the early twenties and was engaged
in armament orders during World War II. Unimportant war damages had been
repaired in 1945. From mid-1946 to mid-1948, some new buildings had been
constructed and the machine equipment had been enlarged and modernized
by means of dismantling deliveries and reparation orders of Germany,
and machine deliveries from the USA, England, and Czechoslovakia
including machines constructed at the Walsmann Firm in Siegen, a firm
in Duisburg, and the Firm BAMAG-Kraene and Maschinen (cranes and machines)
in Stettin. PWs were employed mainly in. minor t?s, chiefly as construction
workers and only occasionally in the production procedure. PWs were
strictly forbidden to enter most of the workshops. In early 1949, several
new buildings have been erected in the southeastern section of the plant.
In 1949, the gun factory covered an area of about 4,200,000 square meters
with a length of 3,500 meters and a width of 1,200 meters. The sheds were
bricked up steel structures and without basements and had opaque wire
glass windows. Most of the workshops had kitchens, messhalls, offices,
and transformer stations, but in some cases, however, several sheds were
supplied with electricity by a transformer station. The auxiliary workshops,
storage sheds, administration buildings etc, were brick buildings. In 1949,
following installations belonged to the main sheds:. 1 forge, 2 foundries
with auxiliary plants, 3 hardening shops, 2 turning installations, 4
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workshops for the production of component parts, 1 rolling mill with
tube drawing installation, 1 punching installation, 3 mechanic workshops,
3 galvanic plants, 3 assembly plants, 1 large testing station, and 1;
welding plant. The auxiliary workshops included: 1 tool plant, 1
concrete works, 2 oxygen plants, 1 oil storage depot, 1 plumber's shop,
1 water tower, 4 joineries with sawmills, 5 storage depots, about 6
compressor plants, about 20 transformer stations which transformed the
current from 6,000 V to 380 to 440 V, 3 garages, 1 fire station, and 1
maintenance shop for locomotives with repair shop. Several administration
buildings, kitchens, one first-aid station, coal, iron, and wood stores,
and 3 new buildings belonged to the gun factory besides the workshops.
The roads of the plant were in good condition. Electricity was supplied 2
by a power station which was located 500 meters south of the gun factory.
4. Prior to mid-1946, guns, AT guns,,AA guns, and tank guns with barrels
between 1.5 and 15 meters long and with calibers of between 35 and 210 mm.
After 1946, naval guns, submarine engines, precision instruments, suction
and forcing pumps for submarines, petroleum pumps and boring heads for
rock drilling were manufactured at the Gorki plant besides wooden parts
and iron walls (sic) for dwelling houses, steel structures for buildings
and bridges, hearth plates, kitchen-pots, gardening fences and tools.
In 1949, the production of T-34 tanks (sic) and special weapons for the
infantry was mentioned.
Prior to mid-1946., about 450 AT guns of an undetermined caliber were
produced daily. In 1948, the plant had a daily output of about 140 AT
and AA guns with a caliber of 85 mm, and two petroleum pumps each with
200 tubes. Near Installation No 7, chrome-plated searchlight-shaped
disks with a diameter of about 30 to 60 cm abd cylinders with a diameter
of 10 to 12 cm and a length of about 50 cm for undetermined purposes were
produced in 1948. In 1948, the production of Installation No 7 included
various copper flanges and four boilers each with two flanges one of which
was fitted on the upper side of the boiler and the other was embedded in
several concrete layers. The purpose of these boilers was undetermined.
At Installation No 20a, tubes with a length of 21 meters were produced.
Short straight of funnel-shaped connecting pieces were welded in
equidistances to these tubes which were used at Installation No 7 for
undetermined purposes-.3
5. Raw materials, coal, timber, stones, cement, iron ore, and bauxite were
daily delivered by rail or ship on the Volga River. Stones came from the
Kazan area ~55?45tN/49?08'E) and coal came from the Stalinogorsk area
(54'04'X/38 15'E). Prior to late 1946, brass-like or bronce-like alloy
additives with a diameter of about 60 cm and a length of 70 to 80 cm
were delivered bJF the USA. These materials were provided with American
stamps.
6. The plant's management mainly consisted of military personnel. In 1948,
Yelan (fnu) who had the rank of a major general, was general manager. It
was said that he,was a relative of Stalin. Yelan had received a yearly
premium of 256,000 rubles. Tamara Gross, was chief
constructor at this plant.
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In early 1949, a German engineer with the name of Feigh, fnu worked
.at the factory and was relaased in 1949. He was given free movement
in the camp and probably belonged to German specialists who signed
work contracts for the Soviets. These specialists were mainly employed
at construction offices or assembling sheds, lived at Gorki and were
not permitted to maintain any contact with the German PWs. During the
period from 1946 to 1948, the total workforce amounted to about 20,000
to 30,000 persons, including about 30 percent male workers, about 40
percent female workers, about 20 percent male and female convicts, and
about 10 percent juveniles. In 1946, about 3,000 Pt's, in 1948, about
150 PWs, and in 1949 only about 80 PWs were employed at the factory.
While three shifts daily were worked including sundays, the PWs had to
work only one shift per day and they were better treated than-the Soviet
convicts. The PWs were employed in loading operations, at construction
sites, and very seldom as handymen in the production.
7. The gun factory was heavily guarded by soldiers and civil factory police
including women. The soldiers belonged to a battalion consisting of about
400 men which was detached for guard duty by an infantry unit in Gorki for
periods of eight weeks. The factory was surrounded by a board fence with
double barbed wire on top, and was illuminated at night. Watch towars
were located at intervals of about 100 meters and were occupied by guards
equipped with machine guns. Soldiers guarded all buildings while the
most important buildings had guards inside and outside. The guards of
the gates consisted of soldiers and factory police. All shipments were
performed at night because of strict security. No labels wer4 available
on boxes and trucks or electrical trucks. Each worker employed at the
factory had to be in possession of an identiy card which authorized him
to enter certain workshops. The plant had a fire department equipped with
six fire fighting cars. In 1948, underground air raid shelters, 50 x 20
meters, had been constructed outside the plant. Various installations of
the plant including the rolling mill were separately fenced-in.
1. I (Comment. For location sketch of the "Stalin" Gun Factory No 92,
see Annex 1.
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Comment. For detailed layout sketch of the gun factory, see Annex 2.
Comment. For sketches of working parts produced at the "Stalin"
factory, see Annex 3.
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Location Sketch of the "Stalin" Gun Factory No 92 in Gorki
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Layout Sketch of the "Stalin" Gun Factory No 92 in Gorki
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1 Six-story brick building housing the Main Administration
2 Five-story brick building with laboratories
3 Wooden main storage depot. In 1948, electric devices and other
instruments were stored there.
4 Mechanical workshop No 26 which was equipped in 1948 with 4 travelling
cranes and about 400 to 450 machine tools, designed for the testing of
gun barrels, elimination of defects, and mounting of bolt mechanism.
5 First aid station..,
6 Four-story brick building with offices, kitchen and messhalls
Large transformer station and distributing point
Installation No 17 with repair shop and garage where about 300 trucks
and 16 sedans were parked in 1948.'
9 Three-story guardhouse with detention rooms on the first floor.
guardhouse quartered the civil factory police in 1948.
10 Four-story building housing the fire department with billet rooms for
fire fighting personnel. In 1948, six Magirus-type fire fighting cars
were parked there..
11 Installation No 25 housing the tool section and the galvanizing
department for miniature parts which was erected in 1946/1947. In
1948, the installation was equipped with about 100 machine tools.
Gardening tools and spiral-shaped copper coils for laboratory purposes
with a diameter of 0.75 to 3 inches were produced there.
12 Old oxygen plant
13 New oxygen plant with American equipment which was erected in 1947
14 Compressor station
15 Oil dump, installation No 10, which was equipped in 1948 with five gray
painted oil tanks each 10 meters high and 15 meters in diameter and one
tank, 20 meters high and 20 meters in diameters. All tanks were
imbedded about 2 meters deep under ground. Pipes led to the individual
installations. The oil dump had siding tracks and was fenced-in by
barbed wire.
16, Installation No lla, which was under construction in mid-1948
17 Cast-iron foundry, Installation No 11, which was equipped with
two melting furnaces with oil burning. Gun wheels, hearth plates,
gardening fences, and kitchen-pots were produced at this installation.
18 Storeroom with two sections. Joints of all types, thin metal plates,
and gas masks were stored at Sectionaa, while electric instruments
and component parts for installation No 27 were stored at Section b.
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Coal dump belonging to the boiler house, installation No 12.
In 1948, an underground coal transportation plant was available
there.
20 Compressed air department, installation No.27, which was equipped
in 1948 with 3 to 5 boilers each with a capacity of 250 atmospheres,
1 drilling machine, and 1 turning lathe. Installation No 27
delivered compressed.air to the large forge, installation No 3.
21 Large forge, installation No 2, which was subdivided into five
individual,departments
a. This department was equipped with about three underground
(sic) annealing furnaces and forge hammers for the forging
of gun barrels.
b. This departmentswas equipped with 4 to 6 oil-fired annealing
furnaces and 4 small hammers. Unfinished parts for small
guns with barrels about 2.5 meters long and ingots,.about
80 x 60 cm, were forged there.
c. This'installation was equipped with 4 oil-fired annealing,
furnaces and 4 small steam hammers. Ingots, about 80 x 40 cm,
were forged there, presumably for breechblocks.
d. Six oil-fired annealing furnaces, 4 heavy hammers, two of
them of US make and two of German make, were available at
this installation, where unfinished gun . barrels.were forged.
A commercial sign of a Duisburg firm was mentioned.
e. Turning and grinding section equipped with-4 small oil-fired
annealing furnaces, 1 oil-pressure press, and about 50 to 60
machine tools. The press was used for gun berrel drillings
(sic). The gun barrels were about 1.5 meters long and had a
diameter of about 8 to 10 cm.
Departments a, b, c, d, and e were also equipped with travelling cranes
of all sizes and gripping devices.
f.- Stone smoke stack, about 60 cm high.
From the foundry the raw steel ingots were transferred to Installation
No 24, where they were subsequently brought to white heat and forged
to a length of about 4.to 6 meters and a diameter of about 25 to 30 cm.
After the first testing, the parts were poured over by a brown liquid
and than transferred for further processing to the turning section,
Installation No 16, where they were provided with bores and grooves.
Than the gun barrels'were transported to the mechanical workshop No
26 for testing purposes where they were also provided with breechblocks.
22 Boiler house, installation No 12, with basement equipped with
eight steel smoke stacks which jutted about 10 meters above.the
roof. A repair shop was connected to the boiler house. This
repair shop was equipped with about eight engines and a
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laboratory. ,Eight vertical high-pressure tanks for oil and
coal-dust firing were available in.1948. Each of the_ boilers
had three furnaces and two coal crushers which were installad
in the basement. The coal was transported from the dump on an
underground conveyer system of US make. The boiler plants were
of Soviet make. Steam was delivered by the boiler house to
Installations Nos-39798, 16, 259 and 27.
22a laboratory
23 Switchboard
24 Turning department, Installation No 16, which partly collapsed
because of faulty construction. In 1948, 180 to 200 machine tools
and about 8 travelling cranes were available at.this installation.
Machines with the commercial sign of the Walsmann Firm at Siegen
(K 51/G 25) were identified. At the turning department, gun barrels
were provided with bores and grooves in addition to the production
of pump component parts,, submarine engines, and crankshafts, 4 meters
lcng and about 20 cm in diameter, presumably scheduled for submarines.
Hardening shop, Installation No 6. In 1948, the installation was
equipped with some casehardening furnaces,, about.20 x 5 x 5 meters,
where casing heads and milling. cutters for, trial borings were
hardened. The individual parts of these workpieces were packed in
sand in iron boxes which were hermetically sealed and then transferred
into the casehardening furnaces where. they had to remain at a fixed
temperature. The following method, 'was used for the hardening of
unfinished gun barrels: About 5 to 10 such barrels were connected.
together by chains and were moved by a crane into the furnaces from
where they were removed after a predetermined time and set out on
the ground. Then they were transferred by cranes to the bore sights..
where they were processed by repeated rotating under hydraulic
pressure. In early 19481-acid baths were mounted with eight tubs,
each about 150 x 150 cm, which consisted of steel plates, about
2.5 to 3 mm thick. The tubs were lined with lead, of about 2.5 mm
thickness.
26 Installation No 38, hardening shop for tools. In 1948, eight small
oil firing casehardening furnaces, acid baths, and 50 to 60 machines
tools were available at this installation,\where tools and implements
27 Assembling shed,. Installation No 1, consisting of 4 to 5 sheds which
were separated from each other by pillars. In 1948, the installation
was equipped with 250 to 280 machines including 50 milling machines,
most of which had been manufactured at the Skoda Works, carpenter's
benches and turning lathes of Soviet, German, and US make. Gun
barrels had been. bored and the grooves had been milled at the
milling machines which were about 20 to 25 meters long. In addition,
petroleum pumps and submarine pumps had been assembled and submarine
engines were tested at a special test stand. All kinds of shafts,
spindles, handwheels, bolts, and plate disks had been produced at
Installation No 1.
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28 Turning section and grindery,.Installation No 21.-In 1948,-the
heaviest parts of breechblocks, petroleum pumps, lift and delivery
pumps, submarine engines., and casing heads of rock-drilling
plants were processed and bolts, nuts, and all kinds of screws
were manufactured. at this installation. A total.of.280 to 300
machines were available there.
29 Test stand for lift and delivery pumps, about 42 meters high, 6
meters long and 6 meters wide, with a wall thickness of about 1.5
meters. The test stand had been erected between January and March
1959. The constructor was paid a special bonus of 6,000. rubles
for the fact erection of the test stand.'
30 . Installation No 50; about 220 x 150 x 20 meters, for the.production
of individual parts. In 1948, 180 to 200 machines were available
there, 50 of which were Wanderer-type automatic lathes which had
been assembled in 1947. Gear wheels and bevel gears for traversing
gears were produced at this installation.
Installation No 34, about 70 x 20 x 15.meters, housing an electrical
laboratory and an armature coil department.
32 Garage connected to Installation No 34.
33 Tool department, Installation No 9, where tools for the entire plant
were produced. About 400 to 500 machine tools were available there.'
34 Installation No 2 equipped with about 300 machines for the production
of smallest accessories including parts for petroleum pumps, lift and
delivery pumps, and submarine engines. These accessories were
transported for further processing to the galvanizing department.
35 Galvanizing department, Installation No 5, where the smallest
accessories were chrome- or nickel-plated. A tool section with 180
machines was also available at this installation.
36 Installation No 23. Smallest accessories including parts for
breechblocks were manufactured there. A transformer station which
belonged to Installation No 23 also supplied current to Installations
Nos 7, 8,-and 23. Offices, construction bureaus, and the office of
the plant's manager were located above the transformer station in
1948.
37 Galvanizing department, Installation No 7. An iron footing, about
5 meters wide, led through the basement. Six brick basins each,
about 14 x 12 x 1.5 meters which were lined with lead, about 8 cm
thick, and one travelling crab each with a lifting capacity of 1.5
tons were-available there. At this installation, the heavy parts
for petroleum pumps, lift and delivery pumps, and submarine engines
were nickel- and chrome-plated, and pressure tubes, 3 to 4 meters
long and with a diameter of 12 to 20 cm, various tube parts, copper
tubes,'curved copper tubes, copper flanges, and-sheets were zinc-
plated. About 100 machines including turning lathes, milling machines,
drilling machines, buffing machines, and grinding machines for internal
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and hollow grinding were installed at the first floor.
Between 1948 and early 1949, rings with a diameter of about 3
meters and a'width of about -2 meters with ribs on the inner
sides were available at Installation No 7. These rings were
believed to be used for,the construction of submarines and
torpedos. Ball shaped working parts with a diameter of-2 meters
were also available there. These working parts were packed into
cotton or gray felt and sent on small cars with rubber-tired wheels
from installation to installation. It was said that these ball-
shaped working its were scheduled for chrome-plating. Installation
No-7 had been erected between early 1946 and the winter of 1947.
Work started in December 1947
Installation No 8 with testing station and technical laboratory.
The building had been erected between the fall and the spring of
1946. The windows were provided with camouflage painting. All doors
and every second window were guarded. The test pieces, probably
submarine engines,\;were packed into boxes without designation and -
arrived and left the installation only at night. This installation
was ordered to manufacture tubes, 21 meters long and 1.5 inches
thick. -A distance of 8 to 10 cm,' short flanges sockets, 10 cm long
with a diameter of 0.5 inches,?and provided with valves with hose
connections were mounted to these tubes. Other tubes with a diameter
of 6-'inches and a length of 21 meters were also manufactured for this
installation. Funnel-shaped parts were welded onto these tubes in
distances of'8 to 20 cm. The funnel-shaped parts were about 15 cm
high and had a diameter of 4 to 5 cm on the upper opening. Such
tubes were ordered to be manufactured if new engines or machines
scheduled for testing arrived at Installation No 8. Obsolete tubes
were then rejected. From the fall of 1947 to early 1948, four boilers
were installed, each about-3-5 to 4 meters high and with a diameter
of 3.5 meters consisting of steel plates 12 to 15 mm thick.
The boilers rested on concrete foundations, 5 x 5 x 1.5 meters. A
layer of coarse concrete, 25 cm thick,. was mounted at the bottom
of each boiler, covered by a layer of fine concrete, 12 cm thick into
which a tube with a diameter of 10 cm was concreted. Five layers of
gravel with a grain size of 2 to 25 mm about 150 cm high were placed
on the concrete layers. A cast-steel tube with a diameter of about
40 cm was mounted on top of each boiler.
38a Laboratory
39 Concrete works
a. *Dump of the concrete works
40 Installation No 35 housing the welding plant, the department for
welding rods, and a special welding plant for copper and brass where
aluminum containers with a height of 50 cm, a diameter of 50 cm, and
a wall thickness of 2.3 to 5 mm were manufactured. After completion,
the containers.were transferred to Installation No 7-
41. Plumberts shop, Installation No 19.'In 1948, the production included
electric heaters, sheet metal tubes for furnaces, and sheet metal wardrobes.
42 Wood-pattern joinery, Installation No 13, where molds for the molding shop
were manufactured.
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43 Foundry cleaning room, Installation No 28, equipped-with-20 to 25
barking machines in 1948.
44 Punching department, Installation No 14, equipped with about 20
large punches i1} 1948. Sections for petroleum pumps, lift and
delivery pumps, submarine engines, and breechblocks were punched
at this department.
45 Molding shop, Installation No 4, equipped with 20 to 30 molding
machines in 1948, where molds had been.produced.
46 Foundry, Installation No 24, equipped with eight open-hearth furnaces,
10 meters high and with a diamter of about 4 meters, which were erected
at. distances of about 10 meters. The foundry was also equipped with
two electric furnaces, each about 10 meters long, 6 meters wide, and
16 meters high, special magneto gripping devices of German make,
several.crane installations, and about 7 machine tools for repair
purposes. The-pieces were cast in iron chills, about 40.x 30-x 100 cm
and about 30 x 30 x 100 cm. The production included working pieces,
gun barrels, breechblocks, wheels with a diameter of 1 to 1.5 meters
and a thickness of 12 to 15 cm.-In 1946 and 1947, minerals were used
as admixture to the feeding. One of the minerals was delivered in
blue-green stony pieces which were so heavy that taro men could carry
not more than two shovels of this material. The other admixture mineral
was of lighter material and looked'like brick-red-ore. Each ingot was
drilled by. an electric hand drilling machine equipped with a special
bit. The borehole was about 1 meter deep and had a diameter of. about.
1 em.-The mat-gray iron dust which resulted from boring operations
was collected into small metal boxes and than tested at the laboratory.
It was observed in two different nightshifts that white heated metal
was taken with a ladle from an open-hearth furnace. Four or five flat
round pieces with a diameter of 4 to 5 cm were cast from this metal.
They looked like.aluminum castings but had a heavier weight than
aluminum and a ,lighter weight than iron. No information was available
on the purpose of these castings.
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Compressor station. where compressed air was produced for. Installations
Ojos .7, 8, 13, 14, 19, 28, and 35. -
Water tower, about 35 meters high, an iron container with a diameter
of about 10 meters, resting on a concrete base.
49 Boiler house No 5, equipped with four brick boilers and four metal
chimneys on the roof. The boiler house produced steam for the entire
plant..
50 Compressor station
51 Mechanical Department
52 Garage for tractors, Installation No 18, housing about 30 tractors in
1948-
52a Machine depot in the western section of the Plant's area. From 1945
to 1947 the machines the majority of which had come from Germany was
stored in the open and after 1948, the depot was provided with a
lean-to roof.
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53 Locomotive depot and repair shop
54 Coal dump
55 Prior to April 1949,-PW?Camp No 7117/5 was located there..'From
April 1949, about 2,000 Soviet convicts were imprisoned in this camp.
56 Boiler house No 7 with a metal smoke stack on the roof. In 1948,
one boiler with coal firing was available.there. Two further boilers
were scheduled to be mounted at this installation.
57 Lumberyards
58 Wooden building housing the joinery where molds for the foundry, doors,
and window-cases were produced.
58a New building for undetermined purposes,-erected in 1949
58b Mechanical OKS (sic). U-shaped building which had been finished in
mid 1949? Cranes of.all types had been produced and-repaired at this
installation.
58c Building under erection-in 1949 which was scheduled for the.
mechanical OKS (sic)
59 Storage depot No 5, a wooden building, where screws, nuts, valves,?wire,
nails, and cast pipes of-all kinds had been stored.
60 Sawing mill which was equipped in 1949 with1 large frame saw, 3 small
frame saws, about 15 circular and strap saws, and several planing machines.
Boards of various thicknesses had been produced there..One OKS (sic)
was also housed in the same building where-finished iron walls (sic) for
dwelling houses had been produced by means of a new pressing method.
60a Storage depot where paper,-protecting and winter clothes for laborers
had been stored in 1948.-
61. Installation No 37 housing the tube drawing installation and the rolling
mill. High-pressure tubes with'a diameter of 2.5 to 4 cm were produced
in 1948. Rolled-steel angles of various sizes, T girders, and double
T girders (sic) had been produced at the rolling mill in addition to
iron plates which had been produced since early 1949.
62 Special hardening shop for springs, Installation No 22, which was
equipped in 1948 with 10 electric-casehardening furnaces and several
yellow painted cylinders, 1 meter high. All workers were provided with
gas masks. Heating coils and Niltolon wire (sic) had been produced at
the hardening shop.
63 Installation No 20 including
a. production shed for various tubes including tubes, 21 meter long,
which were used at the testing station for engines, Installation No 8.
b. Structural-steel works
64 Kitchen and messhalls for military guards
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65 Boiler house K 60 with one metal smokestack, about 50 meters high.
In 1948, the installation was equipped with three horizontalfire-
tube boilers'of German make each-with two combustion accessories'
for coal firing. The boiler house delivered steam only to
Installation No 60.
66 Three-story building housing assembling shop No 1 where steel structure
parts were electrically welded together.
67 Compressor station
68 Installation No 60 with the department for the production of copper
parts, copper joints, and flanges of various types. In 1947/1948,
six special electric casehardening furnaces had been erected. These
furnaces were 5 .meters high, had a diameter of 1.5 meters and were
provided with double walls lined with*glass-wool?and a swing-out basked.
The walls consitted of steel plates, 3 mm thick.-Installation No 60 also
housed a laboratory and a galvanizing plant. This installation was
called a secret installation and was heavily guarded and was connected
with.Installations Nos 7 and 8. V
68a Laboratory
69 Installation No 15 with carpentdr's'shop and packing department
10
Storage depot. Screws, pins, nails, 'oils, and lubricants were
stored there in 1948.
71 Scrap dump containing old German tanks and guns and unfinished shells.
The scrap was loaded by means of a crane 20 meters high.
72 Works entrances
73 Kalinski gate
74 Works fence
75 Watch towers
76 Wooden fence surrounding the rolling mill
77 Works roads V
New construction after World War II
Transformer stations
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.Tabulation of Installations and the Corresponding
Figures of the Legend
Installation No Corresponding Figure
1
27
2
34
3
21
4
45
5
35
6
25
.7
37
8
38
9
33
10
15
11
17
lla
16
12
22
13
42
44
44
15
69
16
24
17
8
18
52
19
41
20
63
21
28
22,
62
23
36
24
46
25
11
.26
4
27
20
28
43
34
31
35
40
37
61
38
26
50
30
60
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Sketches of Parts Produced at the "Stalin" Gun Factory in Gorki
Legend.
1 Crankshaft which had been produced at the turning section
(Annex 2, item 24)
2 Tube with short flanged sockets, 21 meters ling, used at
Installation No 8 (Annex 2, item 38) and at Installation No 20a
(Annex 2, item 63a)
Tube with welded funnel-shaped sockets, 21 meters long, used
.at Installation No 8 and at Installation No 20a
Sheet iron boiler which was produced during the period between
the fall of 1947 and early 1948. The boilers were used at
Installation No 8
b. Fine concrete layer, 12 cm thick
Coarse concrete layer, 25 cm thick
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CENTRAL. M:9.NC RAP
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SUBJECT .
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE. OF
USSR (Gorkovskaya Oblast)
Stalin (u F'actozy No 0 92 in'Gbrkiy
Ot THE UNITED STATES, WHIR THE UEA111130 OF TT MC O. SECTfd13S 703
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1:. PEORIRIT'ED DY LACi ICIL' EiEPRODUCSTOR OF T'liu CORD iS Pt`~I3tfItTEFl.
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DATE OF CONTEN
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PAPFP~ pZjpN ngj;ppq 6g,,o R. -n,,p'=T 3 sketches on. ditto, with legends
IRE IARIKS
1 The "Stalin" Gun Factory No 92 in Gor'S.i (56?2o11df44o0010) was located
at the left- bank of the Oka River, about 4 km from its entry into the
V'ol=;a River within the town section called Novoye Sormovoo At the
northern side of the "Stalin's plant, the Sormovski Street led to the
west to the Sormovo town section. A refinery was located opposite of
the plant e There was a spur track branching off from the main railroad
line a Plant-owned locoi:iotives and railroad cars were available. The
"3talin" plant had also connection to the 1Tolga harbor .There plant
otrmed dumb bares were available. 1
2. The gun factory has been erected in t;' : early twenties and was engaged
in armanent orders during; ? orld ';:ar Ill. Uriimpoitant war damages had been
repaired in 19145- i?'rom raid-l9446 to aril-l94-8, some new buildings had been
constructed and the machine equipment had been enlarged and modernized
by means of dismantling, deliveries ani reparation orders of Germany,
and machine deliveries from the USA, England, and Czechoslovakia
including machines constructed at the i?alsmann Firm in Si.e,en, a firm
in Duisburg, and the Firm BAi G--Kraen'e and ';isschinen (cranes and machines)
in Stettin. P'?':'s were employed mainly in minor task., chiefly as construction
workers and only occasionally in the production- procedu_ce. 11'.4"" were
strictly forbidden to enter most of the workshops. In early 1949, sever&l
new buildings have been erected in the southeastern section of the plant
3. In 1949, the gun factory covered an area of about 49200,000 square meters
with a length of 3,500 me hers and a width of 1.200 meters. The sheds were
bricked up steel structures and without basements and had opaque wire
glass windows. i1ost of the workshops had kitchens, rnesshalls, roffices,
and transformer stations, but in some cases, however, several sheds were
supplied with electricity by a transformer station. The auxiliary workshops;
storage sheds, administration buildings etc9 were brick buildings. In 194.9,
f ollowin.y installations belonged to the main sheds s- 1 for? e, 2 foundries
with auxiliary plants, 3 hardening shops, 2 to nin installations, 4
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workshops for the production of component parts, 1 rolling mill with
tube drawing,- installation, 1 punching installation, 3 mechanic workshops,
3 galvanic y;lints, 3 assembly plants, I large testing station, and 1
welding plant. The auxiliary work-shoPs included: 1 tool plant, 1
concrete works, 2 oxygen ~-lants, 1 oil storage depot; 1 plurrnber?s shop,
1 water tower, 4 joineries with sawmills, 5 storage depots, about 6
compressor plants, about 20 transformer stations which transformed the
current from 6,000 V to 380 to 440 V, 3 garages, 1 fire station, and 1
maintenance shop for locomotives with repair shop. Several administration
buildings, kitchens, one first-aid station, coal, iron, and wood stores,
and 3 new buildings belonged to the gun factory besides the workshops.
The roads of the plant were in good condition. electricity was supplied 2
by a power station which was located 500 meters south of the gun factory..
4. Prior to mid-1946, guns, AT guns, AA guns, and tank guns with barrels
between lay and 15 meters long and with calibers of between 35 and 210 mm.
After 1;46, naval guns, submarine engines, precision instruzients, suction
and forcing; pumps for submarines, petroleum pumps and Loring heads for,
rock drilling were manufactured at the Gorki plant besides wooden parts
and iron walls (sic) for dwelling houses, steel structures for buildings
and bridges, hearth lates, kitchen-pots, gardening fences and tools.
In 1949, the production of T-34 tanks (sic) and special weapons for the
infantry was mentioned.
Prior to mid-1946, about 450 AT guns of an undetermined caliber were
produced daily. In 1946, the plant had a daily output of about 140 AT
and IL ~;u ,s with a caliber of 85 mm, and two petroleum pumps each with
200 tubes. Near Installation No 7, chrome-plated searchlight-shaped
disks with a diameter of about 30 to 60 cm and cylinders with a diameter
of 13 to 12 cm and a length of about 50 cm for undetermined purposes were
produced in 1948. In 1948, the production of Installation No 7 included
various copper flanges and four boilers each with two flanges one of which
was fitted on the upper side of the boiler and the other was embedded in
several concrete layers. The purpose of these boilers was ndetermined.
At Installation No 20a, tubes with a length of 21 meters were produced.
3hiort straight or funnel-shared connecting" pieces -,:ere welded in
equidistances to these tubes which were used at Installation No 7 for
undetermined purposes. 3
5.. Ravw 2aterials, coal, timber, stones, cement, iron ore, and bauxite were
daily delivered by rail or ship on the Volga Riv..r. Stones came from he
r:azan area ~55?4591./49?08 ) and coal carne from the Staliraogorsk area"
54?g4asstf3s 15" ). Prior to late 1946, crass-like or bror_ce-like alloy
additives with a diameter of about 6"J cm and a length of 70 to 80 cm
were delivered by the USA. These materials were provided with American
stamps.
6. The plant9s management mainly consisted of military personnel. In 1948,
Yelan (Thu) who had the rank of a major general, was gen::ral manager. It
was said that he was a relative of Stalin. Yelan had received a yearly
premium. of 250,000 rubles.
constructor at this plant.
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In early 1949, a ;e. rian engineer with the name. of y'eigh (fnu) worked
at the factory and was released in 1949. He was given free movement
in the camp and probably belonged to German specialists who signed
work contracts for the Soviets. These specialists were mainly employed
at co.,struction offices or assemblin; Nheds, lived at Gorki and were
not permitted to maintain any contact with the ;legman 1'';'s. 3urin the
period from 1946 to 1948, the total workforce amounted to about 20,000
to 30,000 persons9 including about 30 percent male workers, about 40
per.sent female workers, about 20 percent male and female convicts, and
about 10 percent juveniles. In 1946, about 3,000 P'-7s, in 1946, about
110 and in 1949 only about 80 P:0's -w --re employed at the factory.
ile three shifts daily were ,corked including sundays, the 1''s had to
work only one shift per day and they were better treated than the Soviet
convicts. The P"is were employed in loading operations, at construction
sites, and very seldom as handymen in the production.
7.
The gun factory was heavily guarded by soldiers and civil factory police
including nromen. The soldiers belonged to a battalion consisting of about
400 men which was detached for guard duty by an infantry unit in Gorki for
periods of eight weeks. The factory was surrounded by a board fence with
double barbed wire on top, and was illuminated at night. 'match towers
were located at intervals of about 100 meters and were occupied by guards
equipped with machine guns. Soldiers guarded all buildings while the
most important buildings had guards inside and outside. The guards of
the gates consisted of soldiers and factory police. All shipments were
performed at night because of strict security. No labels were available
on boxes and trucks or electrical trucks. Each worker employed at the
factory had to be in possession of an identiy card which authorized him
to enter certain workshops. The plant had a fire department equipped with
six fire fighting cars. In 1948, underground air raid shelters, 50 x 20
meters, had been constructed outside the plant. Various installations of
the plant including the rolling mill were separately fenced-in.
1 o Co: ;r,.ent . Por location sketch of tno "Stalin" Gun PL' ctory No 92
,
see Annex 1.
Por detailed layout sketch of the jun factory
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-,e ends
1 Six-story brick building housing the 1.1ain Administration
2 iiveastory brick building with laboratories
3 ooden main storage depot. In 1946, electric devices and oth,2r
instruments were stored there.
4 ,ilechanical workshop No 26 which was equipped in 1948 with 4 travelling
cranes ax about r.:00 to 450 machine tools, desi.>ied for the test-in,,; of
gun barrels, elimination of defects, a --.d mounting of bolt mechanism.
5 First aid station
6 i our-story brick building with offices, kitchen and mess:hralls
7 Large transfo?mer station and distributing point
6 Installation No 17 with repair shop and garage where about 300 trucks
and 16 sedans ,,ere parked in 1,948.
9 Three-story guardhouse .:pith detention rooms on the first floor. The
guardhouse quartered the civil factory police in 194610 Four-story building housing the fire department with billet rooms for
fire fighting persora'el. In 1948, .mix ;;;agirus-type fire fighting cars
were parked there.
11 Installation No 25 housing the tool section and the galvanizing
department for miniature parts which eas erected in 1946/1947. In
1948, the installation was equipped with about 103 machine tools.
Gardenin ; tools and spiral-shaped copper coils for laboratory purposes
with a diameter of 0075 to 3 inches ;were produced there.
12 Old oxygen plant
a3 iiew oxygen plant with We rican equipment which was erected in 1947
14 Compressor station
15 Oil du p, installation No 10, which was equipped in 1948 with five -ray
painted oil tanks each 10 meters high and 15 meters in diameter and one
tank, 20 meters high and 20 ;.peters in diameters. All tanks were
imbedded about 2 meters deep under ground. Pipes led to the individual
installations. The oil dump had siding tracks and was fenced-in byr
barbed wire
16 Installation No lla, .kith was under construction in avid-.1948
17 Cast-.iron foundry, Installation No 11, which was equipped with
two moltin furnaces with oil burning. Gun wheels, hearth plates,
?ardeni.ng fences, and Kitchen-pots were produced at this installation.
16 Storeroom with two sections. Joints of all types, thin metal plates,
and gas masks were stored at Section; ;a, while electric instruments
and component parts for installation No 27 were stored at Section b.
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19 Coal dump uolonging to the boiler house, installation No 12.
In 19489 an underground coal transportation plant was avai.lablo
thero0
20 Compressed air dopartment 9 installation No 279 which was equipped
in 1948 with 3 to 5 boilers each with a capacity of 250 atmospheros9
I drilling machine, and 1 turning lathe0 Installation Igo 27
delivered compressed air to the large forge, installation No 30
21 Large forgo, installation No 2, which was subdivided into five
individual departments
a0 This department was equipped with about three underground
(090) annealing furnaces and forge haw-mere for the forging
of gun barrels 0
b0 This department was equipped with 4 to 6 ,oil-fired annealing
furnaces and 4 small hammors o Unfinished parts for small
guns with barrels about 205 meters long and inngots9 about
80 z 60 cm9 were :forged there.
Co This installation was equipped with 4 oil-fired annealing
furnaces and 4 small steam hammers. Ingots, about 60 xx 40 om9
were forged there, presumably for breechblockao
d0 S x oil-fired annealing furnaces9 4 heavy harmers, tbro of
them of US make and two of German makes were available at
this installation, where unfinished gun barrels were forged0
A commercial sign of a Duisburg firm was mentioned.
00 Turning and grinding section equipped with 4 small oil-fired
annealing furnaces, I oil-pressure press, and about 50 to 60
machine tools0 The press was used for gun barrel drillings
(sic). The gun barrels were about 105 maters long and had a
diameter of about 8 to 10 cmo
Departments a, b9 c9 d9 and e were also equipped with travelling cruses
of all sisoo and gripping, devices.
f. Stone smoke stack, about 60 cm high0
From the foundry the raw steel ingots were transferred to Installation
No 24, where they were subsequently brought to white Mat and forged
to a length of about 4 to 6 motors and a diameter of about 25 to 30 cm0
.6"fte? the first testing, the parts were poured over by a brown liqu .d
and than transferred for further processing to the turning seaation9
Installation No 169 where they were provided with bores and grooves 0
Than the gun barrels were transported to the mechanical workshop No
26 for testing purposes where they were also provided c7ith breechblocks 0
22 Boiler house, installation No 129 with basement equi,,ped with
eight steel smoke stacke which 'Jutted about 10 me ;ors above the
roof. A repair shop was connected to the boiler house. This
repair shop was equipped with about eight engines end a
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laboratory. ',j.ght vertical high-pressure tan. s for oil and
coal-dust f >ring were available in ? 9460 Each of the boilers
had the ee furnaces and two coal crushers which were installed
in the ba ement a The coal was transported from the dunp on an
unr? ergro%md conveyer system of US make o The boiler plants were
of Sovi''t make. Steam was delivered by the boiler house to
Inotai.'ati.ons 'Nos 3,798, l69 25, and 27.
22a Laboratory
23 &,a.4 tchboard
24 Turning, department, Installation to 169 which partly collapsed
because of faulty eonstruotiono In 1948fl 160 to 200 rzachine tools
and about 8 travelling cranes were available at this inetall,a.tioxn0
:,;achines with the cormrie?civil sign of the alsmann Firm at Siegon
(K 51/0 25) were identified. At the turning department; gun barrels
were provided with bores and grooves in addition to the production
of pump component pmts, submarine engines9 m d c?ra ~shef s9 4 meters
long and about 20 cm in die-me ter9 presumably scheduled for submarines.
25 Hardening shop9 Installation AD 6. In 19489 the ."installation was
equipped with some casehardeniag furnaces, about 20 i 5 ac 5 meters,
where casing heads and milling cutters for trial borings were
hardened. The individual parts of these workpiecos were packed in
sand in iron boxes which were hermetically sealed and than transferred
into the casehardening furanaced vhere they had to remain at a fizzed
tein?eratureeo The following method was used for the hardenin of
unf?Lniahed gun barrels-. About 5 to 10 such barrels were connected
together by chains and were moved by a crane into the furnaces from
where they wore removed after a predetermined time and so~ out on
the -round. Then they were transferaed by cranes to the bore sights
whuro they were processed by repoate? rotating under hydraulic
pressure. In early 1048, acid baths were mounted with eight tLhbo9
each about 150 x 150 cm9 which consisted of steel plates, about
2.5 to 5 mm thick. The tubs were lined with lead, of tout 2.5 mm
thickness
26 Installation No 38, hardening shop for tools. In 1948, eight small
oil firing casehardening furnaces, acid baths, and 50 to 60 machines
tools were available at this installation, :whore tools and implements
were hardened
27 Assembling shed, Installation No 1, consisti g of 4 to 5 shads which
.lore separated from each other by pillars o In 1948, the installation
wise equipped with 250 to 280 machines includin; 50 i li ing machine.,
moat of which had been manufactured at the Skoc! w V'ioricsp carpenter" s
benchea and turning lathes of Soviet, German, d US Aiekeo Gun
barrels had been bored and the grooves had been. milled at the
mil-ling, machines which were about 20 to 25 meter., long. In addition,
petroleum pumps and submarine pumps had been asseubled and submarine
engines were tested at a special test stand. All ;ands of shafts,
spindles, handwheels, bolts, and plate disks had been produced at
Installation No to
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28 Turning section and ;rindery, Installation No 21 o In 1948, tho
heav .est pagrts of br? cchblooks, petroleum pumps, lift cnd delivery
pumps, submarine en, ines, and casing heads of rocl -E ri :':
plants were pro ;essed and bolts, nuts, and all kinds of Sorevs
were manufactured at this inn talla?tion. A Dotal of 280 to 500
machi.xbes were ave fable there.,
2 Test stand for lift and delivery pumps, about 42 meta'e h:5-h, 6
mete rs long and 6 meters wide, with a wall eh`? cknees of about 1.5
meters e The test stand had been crested between J ,.nua. y an harsh
Ie49 The constructor vas paid a special bonus of 69000 rubles
for the fact eroction of the test stand.
30 Installation No 50, about 220 x 190 c 20 meters, for the production
of individual parts. in 1946, 160 to 200 machines were nvr'ilablc
there, 50 of Which were "anderer-type automatic lathes which had
been assembled in 1947. Gear wheels and bevel ge s for t~raverrs jn
gears wore produced at this installation.
31 Installation No 34, about 70 x 20 a 15 meters, housing,
laboratory and an armaturo ccii department o
32 Garoe connected to Installation No 34
33 Tool departmment, Installation No 9, where tools for the entire plant
were produced. About 400 to 500 machine tools were available there.
34 Ins tallaUon No 2 equipped with about 300 machines for the oroductioan
of smallest ^. cessori.es including parts for petroleum pumpa, lift; and
delivery pirmps, and submarine enaineso These ec6essoriss were
transported for further procoaoing to the galvanizing dap-i,,, into
35 Galvanizing department, Installation No 5, where the smeileot
accessories were ohromea or nickel-A 1a:.at d 4 A tool ace;tio with 160
machines was also avail able as this install ation
36 Installation No 23. Smallest accessories including, parts for
breochbloc ks were manufactured there o A transformer station which
belonged to Installation No 23 also supplied currant to Installations
Nos 7, 8, and 23 Offices, construction bureaus, and the office of
the play t?s manager were located above the transformer qta.t-i.on in
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37 ia?alvanizing department, Ins allatio'n No 7e Ln ix-on cot n , `bout
5 meters wide, led through the basement o Six: bPick basing cash,
about 14 a: 12 x 105 meters which were lined with lead.. about 8 cm
thick cr4 one travelling crab each with a lifting capae ter of 105
tons were available there. At this installation, the heavy paz'ta
for petroleum pumps, lift and deliver pumps. and subs ?ins en Ines
were nickel- and ehromeaplated, and pressure tubes, 3 to 4 (meters
long and with a diameter of 12 to 20 cm, various tube parts, copper
tubes, curved cop._ er tubes, cops~er flanges, aund sheets Lore zinc-
plated. About 100 machines includin turning lathes, milling nacdaine,;,
drilling machines, buffing machines, and grinding machines for interne?
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Between 1948 and ei,rly 19499 -rings with a diameter of about 3
meters and a width of about 2 meters with ribs on the :.sner
sides were available at Installation No 7. These rings c were
believed to be used for the construction of submarines and
torpodos a Bull shaped working parts with a die: eter of 2 meter s
were a? so available there. These working parts were parka in!(;()
cotton or gray felt and sent on email care with rubber -.t sue. od wheels
from installation to installation. it was said that these ball-
shaped working, prts were scheduled for chroa e~l~lar ix o Installation
No 7 had been erected between early 1946 end the winter of 1947
Work started in December: 19470
38 Installation No 8 with testing station and technical. i borato.ry0
The building had been erected between the fall and the spring of
19464 The wrindo:-rs were provided with camouflage paintirg, ASll_,ocrs
and every second window were guard( d o The test pieces x'obr rol y
submarine enginesv were packed into boxes without dosignat .oz and
arrived and left the install e.tion only at ni.ghi a his installatio n
was ordered to manufacture tubes, 21 meters lo.a:nd lay inches
thick o A distanne of 8 to IC cm9 short flanges sockets. 10 c.m long
with a diameter of Oo5 inchesfl and provided with valvess with hose
connections were mounted to these tubes a Other tubse with a diaaaeter
of 6 inches and a length of 21 meters were also man~?act?ce~ for this
Ins ta,lla,tion, . unneldshapod parts were welded onto there ~~4'bc s in
distances of 8 to 20 cm. The funnel=shaped parts were about 15 cm
high and had a diameter of 4 to 5 cm on the upper openi~rg~ Such
tubes were oL~dered to be manufactured if new enu?i.nes or machines
scheduled for testing arrived at Installation No 8. Obsolete tubes
wer then rejected.. Prom the fall of 1947 to early 19489 four boilers
were .installed, eaych about 305 to 4 meters high and with a diameter
of 3.5 meters consisting of steel plates 12 to 15 an thloko
The hoilero rested on concrete foundations, 5 x 5 a 1.5 neterso A
layer of coarse ooncrete9 25 cm thick, was mounted at, the bottom
of each boiler, covered by a layer of fine concrete, 12 cm thick into
which a tube with a diameter of 10 cm was concrotedo Five layers of
gravel with a grain size of 2 to 25 am about 150 cm high were placed
on the concrete layers. A cast-stool tube with a diameter of about
40 cm was mounted on top of each boiler o
38a Laboratory
39 Concrete works
ao Dump of the concrete works
40 Installation No 35 housing the welding plnt9 the department for
welding rods, and a special welding plant for copier and brass where
aluminum containers with a height of 50 cm, a diameter of 50 cm, and
a wall thickness of 2.3 to 5 rm wore manufactured, After completion,
the containers were transferred to Installation Lo 70
41 Plumber's shop, Installation 34o 190 In 19459 the production included
electric heaters, sheet metal tubes for furnaceo, and sheet metal wardrobes.
42 "Vood"pattern joinery, Installation No 139 where molds for the molding shop
were maneac{iuredo
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Fou adry C caning room, Installation k k) 289 equipped with 20 to 25
barbing ma-chino in 1948 0
44 PLachixag depar' one .t;fl Installation No l4,, oauyppecl with about; 20
u s so v lift 7
IZlt~t3 in t
1err3.,, pF o Sactlons for petroleu~?
+c
deli sery pa ps, ; a.bx 'ine en inee axed breechblecks vivre puncrae .
at this Uepart~zwrato
45 r;bolwi.ns- ehop9 Installation No 4v eQuipped with 20 to 30 molding
ma-d rae- in 1946, whale molds had been produced
46 `oundrjv Insta11atio:a sso 24, quipped with eight oponUhoa_rth furnaces,
10 meters high and with a diu ;er of about; 4 iicter en which were erected
at, d:? st; cos of abou b 10 me tees 4 The s onadry was also cutui. ped with
6 o electric furaaace:39 each about 10 meters lonzL~2 6 meters cuidev and
16 n20-tore high, stscial mg?ne o grippi n devices of German make,
e,?a a ins4allations9 :-.sad about- 7 machine tools for repair
puzpoeeso The pieces t:ero cast in iron chills, about 40 x 30 x 100 cmn
rind about 30 30 zr .100 cm The product on included working pieces,
gun barrels, breechblocks, wheels u th a diameter of to soy meters
and a thickness of 12 to 15 c.i0 In 1946 and 1a47v mixsraaln were used
as ~~d ~iTa uro to the `ceding. Dine of the minerals 7"s delivered in
binae-green stony Nieces which were so heavy that t:to men could car
not more then two ehwels of his raatexrlil d The other adiarixstur=e minera
srac of lighter mater: &I and 1 ate?red like brick-red ore o 1 a h ingot was
drilled by an electr c head &fillirxg machine equipped i!it;h a special
bit , The borehole wa. ~ about I meter deep and had a dieter of about
1 ono The mat-gray i won dust ',rhich resulted . rom boring operations
was collected into e nail meta. boxes and the "sa tested at thr. l aborts toryo
7t- cT obse ve -t t2 Zero different night, shifts that white heated metal
was taken with ala,d.. e ~yfrom ^'a openr~he4 /s: th Ifuurnac~~e 4 Poux o.-.- flat
round p.Pseee with a hamster Of 4 to 5 cm LJex e cast f'r'om thin- megl 0
They looked like ala;ninum castings but had a heavier weight than
aluminum and a light .e weight than iron. No info .ration uao available
on the purpose of th. use vas ti:2gs 0
47 Compressor station L: acre compressed air was produced for ine%cUlatioac
goo 7v 8v 139 149 19, 289 and 350
48
Water tower9 about f .i meters ;31.,Shq 1t iron container with a diameter
of about 10 meters, .,.-eating on a eoncrene base.
49 Boiler house YO 5, equipped- with four brick hollers and four metal
chirnov o on the roof The boi?.er house produced steamy for the entire
plant, 0
50 Comiresso r station
51 :iechanir al Depas t=men ;
52 Gave o for tractors9 Installa.ion bdo 189 housing about y0 tractors in
1948 0
52a z; achine d ;pot in the rres tern ection of the Plant a s area. Prom 1945
to 194' the machines the majo:rity of ahich had come from Germany was
stored in the open a:id after -9489 the deiot was p ~ovided with a
lea.=to roof
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53 Locomotive depot and repair shop
54 Coal dump
55 a rior to April 19499 Pi> Camp No 7117/5 rae located there- .son
April 194.9, about 29000 soviet convicts were im rissonet' in this ca ?po
56 Boi lca house No 7 with a metal smoke stack on the roof. In 1948,
one boiler with coal firing was available thereo `. ti:o further boilers
erer scheduled to be mounted at this i nno tallatl+ on o
57
58
Lumbe2 jarde
Wooden building housing the joinery where r,-molds for the : ounndry, doors,
and window cases were produced o
58s New building for i nde?~ermined purposes, erected in 1949
58b l ttcha ca?. OKS (sic). U-ehapod building which had bee a F n