DATA ON PRE-WAR CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00926A002400010054-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: July 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Data on Pre-War Chtia]....Industry
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2. Match Factories - There was one factory in Riga, one in Liepaja (Libau). Both
produced 79 million boxes for local consumption only.
3. Rubber Plants - There were three plants, all in Riga. In 1938 they used 789 tons
of raw caoutchouc (imported raw rubber). They produced;
432,813 pairs
438,472 pairs
867,073 pairs
188,923 pieces
176,297 pieces
.90,076 meters
404,980 pairs
and other products mostly for
-- galoshes - overshoes
-- boots
-- !'rubber shoes
-- cycle tires
-- cycle tubes
-- rubber hose
-- rubber heels
inland market.
4. Wax Cloth Production: 72,223 square meters
'Impregnated textiles -- 30,715 square meters.
Dermatin -- 9,239 square meters
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S and Candles - In 1938 there were 33 1arge
in Riga. 7-ye-se 33 factories produced in 1938:
2,919 tons ---Laundry soap
825 tons -- soft soap
267 tons -- toilet soap
13 tons -- cosmetic soap
14 tons -- medicinal soap
Six factories produced 281 tons candles.
soap factories, of-which 30 were
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Vegetable Oils - Out of 14 largest plants, seven were .in Riga. The 14_Tlants
and produced:
11, O43 tons linseed
2,556 tons soya-beans
529 tons palm kern
1,667 tons copra
;Thomas dour 21,151
Thomas phosphate 1,203
Super Phosphate 119,675
one fertilizers 732
Potassium fertilizers 20,551
Witro phosca 2,052
Chile and soda
nitrates 6,223
Calcium nitrate 12,489
Toni nitrate 1,838
,,Ammonium sulphate 6,14o
.8. Compressed g .ses were produced in five factories:
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Keroseng
Gasoline
Mbi;r, oil
Gas oil
Mazout
Lubricts
ParaffiAe
Raw oil ~rude7
Imported. Products
10,310 tons
Locally refined
from imported crude
29,120 1,167
16,847 1,397
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5,110 635
266 528
2,006 3,536
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Oil i Cakes
Linseed
7)'458 tons
Soybean
2,091 tons
Palm
238 tons
Copra
642 tons
Oil in Bulk
3,001 tons
402 tons
236 tons
375 tons
Fertilizers - Fertilizer production in 1938 was:.
115,167 tons super phosphate
1,203 tons - Thomas phosphate
1,994 tons - bone fertilizers
The 1,994 tons of bone' fertilizer were produced in three plants in Riga out
of 3,901 tons of bones (All Latvia produced about 16 to 20 thousand tons of
bones.) Super phosphate was produced at the factory in Milgravis (Muhlgraben)
near Riga.
Consumption of Fertilizers - Latvia - 1938 (tons)
plus 16 tons imported casein. 82 tons of artificial horn were produced in 1938.
_Carbonic acid 180 tons
Oxygen 84 tons
Acytelene 16 tons
Casein:WRS,produced-in one factory at.Riga.. 826 tons out. of the 2,009 tons
of new ci+se in- supplied by 90 dairies.. The. plywood plants used 960' tons of casein
Consumption of Oil. lRefiniAg Products - Latvia - 1938
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11. Lac uii Industry -..Three factories in Riga. One factory In Liepaja.
Pro..uc ion in 1938 was:
Varnish 1,526 tons
Oil lacquer 82 tons
Nitro cellulose
lacquer 61 tans
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