LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION OF KITCHEN-FACTORIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: November 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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big Kitcb@m-,
'(1) Kit henmFaoto y of the Vyborgsky District in I nizen .,
Kltc:ben-fact ,a;y of the indtui triaJ_pl nt oll m sic
i _is extra large
(3) Kit asen- ,story on Novokuznetsky Street, a few blocks f~tom
the tspsky Market in Moscow;
Kitehen-Factory of the Qorkovs , Molotov ?s A4ut bile Plant
on t Volga River a
Thtre are sm Ler d it .en.-?Fa?tories in Poltava,
They do not call them Kitchen-Factories but Rea taurtmts9but &,~ta icy
they ere the amt.
(1) Kitchen-Facto y at the industrial plant "Metal" located a
few block fc the Kiev Railroad Station, Poltava;
(2) Kitchen-Factory at the Spimaing Ca bizat, between the Kiev
Railroad Station and the military Airport
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(3) Kitchen-Fa-tory at the military base at the Airport,, Poltava,-
(4) Kitchen-Factory at the Locomotive Depot at the ilroM
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tJ a the cue nts .for cleaning ve etables had one to fmur s
g whine
fo`a' pota,'toeb one to twee machines for cutWmg a bbage, beets,
had o?3 g ~ tir potatoes ~ The, ~~t de ent
eta The bi Factoriehad conveyers gr ndi lorg Iii chen ,
st` to `fir big machines es foa meat i o In the e t
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Factories , teats of tozL ir~~ate Fats; 'bu er. and vegetables" canbe stored.
8o a imee the D zector~s of the large Ktchen Factories were engineers but
usu ,ly the engineers work at the Tryst and are responsible for all the
Kit act. ?ies$ and Restaurants of their pa icular Tausto
All, Kitchen-Fa,ctories bad. a bookkeeper (u. uaUy highsa hool, education);
a std a epeor? (usually elementary educatioan.)_ who was the secretary of the
local Ccam-nittee of the C u at Party; a chief cook (u al elementary
eduction) who almost never was a Party member and usually opposed to the
gave a at a As a rule, all the erectors and. storekeepers were dishonest
and, could not be trusted.
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As a rzle,. the. Kt?tc enDFactories are located in industrial districts and 50X1-HUM
sew a number of ineta ,bons, or they are located just inside an
industrial plant and supply the workers of that plant only. Practically
every big plant has its own Kitchen -Factory. Towns like Moscow or
Leningrad have many-Kitchen-Factories and several huge Eitchen.mF-
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The plan of-the Iat neffi 4actories is More or less standard. If it is a
one story bidIdjng; the distribution of the shops would be as shown on
the attached sketch. However., there :La no law of standardization and.
there can be' 3s ' deviations. If it is a two or three story building,
t be food storage department is in the basement, or on the first floor,
it there is no basement, and. the working shops, kitchen, and eating
hal~l.o are above the storage rooms and the administration and the
l 'b~aratory on the top floor 0
The room for storage of meat and milk products have refrigeration in
the Kitchen-Factories in the large towns like Moscow, Leningrad, and
Gorki. The -cooling agent armed is amtaonia0 The Factories in Poltava
did not have any refrigeration at all but they did use ice when they con
The kitchen always had a very large range burning coal or wood, and, from
three ? to 10 s iaa-~heattd pots bolding ' 003.500, rya a
q a? 're: were - a 7 V ys several "reserved" pots in ti kitchen which
could be used for feeding soldiers in. the time of warn !Fn e kitchens yen
also equip d with d .sh hing' mach s
The large Kitchen Facte
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,sly have fps a two to-five eating hall e,
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each sea'ting up to 200 people o
personalities engaged in Kitchen
l) D actor of .tchen-Factory at C Must Poltava was ? ed
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3:ef cooks:
SteiW= 8 ? tikov Depot, Poltava..
urn ' ltavao
of these, i:ndi' id l,s were members of the C st Party.
ey art of 0M 1, 1i.vin in Poltava and working as cooks o
the
Kit sn s~ ts~ries in one town are under, a central. nag ent called
"T
at."
.in turn, is other the Town or District Trade Council. The
supplies
t
ss all the foods to the Kjtchen'Factoriea o . They obtain meat
from the slaughter house, silk and milk products from the.dairy, and
vegetables: f rim the Trade. Council which buys them at the, Collective Farms
No ache Fa tort' is allowed ~ o.
n ' , to buy anything from private citize
foods. er s sed, to be inspected before they a sent .to the
?] itc en?F cto~ries, ff?o~a. the. slaughter houses, dairies, etc.. ter, iva,l
;. Ki chh* ;,YYcto,ry they are usuaUy ell eked by the storekeeper and if
he, not~:oes awrtbl~g s picious, he ,notifies the Sanitary, tor. Very
frequently, the Kitchela-Factories. accept foods which are ctically
moiled beca~u~ae they. do not expect to obtain bet-ter foods or, there; ,;.
B 3va Cages for the key personalities of the Factory. . S times the
food spoils at the . Kitchen Factory for Lack of refrigeration.
laboratories..asxe intained to prevent food poisoning outbr . . Every
town and each district of the town has a Sanitary Inspector whose duty
is `to 'ohegk the foods .and dri*ing water. Usually a technician of the.
Sanity Laboratory comes to dhe kitchen-Factory unexpectedly. This'
happens about once a mouth. If he finds bad foods, his duty is to destroy
them. But he must be. eztre eiy careful, for if he destroys food without
sufficient cause, he. might be sent to a concentration. tpo The report
concerning the destroyed foods is signed by the Technicians the Director
of t .Kitchen: Factory, the chief cook or the store ro
The laboratories of the Trusts usually are one for a small town or one
in a district of a loge. tow,. It is usually located. in one
of the
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Kitchen ;ctoriea o The head of the laboratory is usually a chmic l
engineer. These laboratories do about the. same work as the Sanitary :
Inspectors o . Not every. t `rust has a laboratory.
For XA1W yes gol ara bad ;no laboratory a the
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In spite of.all the
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nib, e. are many cases of food poisoning for the laboratories
do not ,.h ve. ssufficient workers for thorough inspections o When they do
find spoiled food., they often do nothing about it for fear of a
concentration comp.
ENCLOSURE
(A) A sketch thawing the d .a rihr , .on, of
the . Departments or s, o ne ya Cory Kit hey y 's. f:,o y,
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