LABOR CAMPS AND INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS IN THE NIZHNIY-TAGIL AREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 23, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information aHectiag the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Lava, Title?
18, U.B.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Sverdl
ovsk Oblast) REPORT
SUBJECT Labor Camps and Industrial InstallationsDATE DISTR. 23 March 1957
in the Nizhniy-Tagil Area
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NIZHNI~TAGIL:
1. The City of NizhniY-Tail. It is a large town of about one million
inhabitants. It has many industrial installations,
2. SHII3POTREB. In the northern part of the city, near Camp #1,
there was a large factory complex.
A high fence completely surrounded it.
The area covered was about 4 x 4 kilometers
cement had been completed,
600 prisoners and many free workers were employed there
under the supervision of free engineers.
this complex, called SHI_RPOTREB, was designed for the manufacture of
consumer goods: spoons, cloth, and other household utensils.
3. Other Installations.
southwest part of the city there
was a coking plant It had not been completed.
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worked there doing various kinds of chores such as cleaning windows,
carrying wood and brick in the unfinished party.
a cement factory and an iron works which had tall smoke stacks. There was
also a railroad car factory
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4. Camp #1 in Nizhni~Tagi,h -~ac~.,>a hospital with about 60 beds.
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soners in the hvs~itni
10 of whom had TB, Four to five prisoners occupied each room.
5. Near Camp #1 was a larger hospital called "Mezhduoblastnaya bol-
uitsa," It was made up of four, one-story, wooden buildings, each about
35-40 g 15 meters. They were all alike. One was for internal diseases,
one for surgery, one for TB, and one was used by the invalids who worked in
the hospital, Each building had one Chief and some specialists. all the
Soviet doctors were women.
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BARISHOVA, AI~XANDROVA, BASING, and MICHELSEN.
Two of the prisoners were doctors: One was a German 25X1
named ISCHTAM (EichbaumY) who had only one leg.
The other was a Soviet named Yuri V
was also a Russian Jew, "SHAPIRI,"
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in internal diseases. ~jhe hospital was well equipped, had X-ray machines,
and other equipment,. It was quite clean, and the sick each had a mattress
and two blankets. However, food was insufficient--only about 500 grams
of hraac] nar d2.v.
6, in the camps with criminals, everybody, including
the internal guards, was afraid of the "vori." Of ten the overseer (nadziratel)
worked with the criminals, sharing their loot. For instance, when new pri-
soners arrived, they were robbed of their clothes and the nadziratel was the
only one who was free to ~o tip