SOVIET DEFENSE PLANTS, INDUSTRIAL PLANTS, AND MILITARY RESEARCH INSTALLATIONS IN SVERDLOVSK, LENINGRAD, AND MOSCOW

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• Publication Date: January 17, 1958
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SUBJECT Soviet Defense Plants, Industrial PlantfATE DISTR.
and Military Research Installations in
Sverdlovsk, Leningrad, and Moscow NO. PAGES
17 January 1958
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data on 15 Soviet factories
producing military end items or components of such items and on two military
research institutes. Three of the factories were in Sverdlovsk, four factories
and one research institute were in Leningrad, and one institute and one factory
were in Moscow. Some of this information dates from before 1950. One
attached annex gives a 0 sketch of an explosive rifle bullet produced
at Cartridge Factory #3 in Ulyanovsk.
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SOVIET DEFENSE PLANTS AND MILITARY RESEARCH INSTALLATIONS;
OTHER INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
Introduction
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approximately 17 plants and institutes in the USSR. It is written in the style
of an order of battle report. Thirteen plants produced military end-items and
the two institutes were engaged in military research.
1. Possibld lrttillank, and Ammunition Plants
Unit Desig- Subordl
nation nation
Location
In all cases9
Remarks
The Eighth Ministry of N/A SVERDLOVSK
Artillery Industry
Factory
Director was unk.
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The factory occupied an area about
two kilometers square. The foundry
shop was located in one large build-
ing approximately 15 to 20 in high
which contained four or five casting
machines an electric furnace and a
kiln. 7:7 ~ 30 or 40
workers were on the day shift in the
foundry shop at the time he was there.
nothing about the quantities
Kirov Ministry N/A LENINGRAD Director was unko
Factory of Trans- this factory, which produced an un -
port Ma- dentified tank, for one-half a day
chinery
Construction
Factory Ministry N/A LENINGRAD
Bolshevik of Mili-
#232 tary In-
dustry
of and products produced or total
persons employed. This factory was
located in the city properF_
in 1955.
estimated 30 to 40 unidentified tanks
in the factory.
the factory was of stone and about
This factory occupied an area about
li x`2 km and contained three foundry
shops. One was in a large red, stone
building approximately 40 x 250 x 12 m
in size. The other foundries were in
smaller buildings. The fence around
three meters high.
Director was unk.
It pro-
duced long, unidentified gun barrels.
estimated to be five to eight meters
long and 220 mm in bore diameter.
they were for naval guna
because they were so large
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Unit Deaig- Subordi-
nation nation
subsequent usage.
Cartridge ? Ministry N/A KUNTSEVO The director from 194,4 to 1947 was
Factory of Mili- (N55-44, (fnu) FORSIRO
#314 tary In- E37-27)
duatry
h s factory pro-
duced ammunition for the "TT" 7.62 mm
pistol until 1947, when it was changed
The factory occupied an area about
750 x 1500 m and was composed of six
or seven 3-story stone buildings with-
in the area.
Cartridge Ministry N/A ULYANOVSK
Factory of Mili- (N54-20.,
(Volodareky) tary In- E48-24)
#3 dustry
the factory
was on Novyi Obyert Ulitsa. The
house across the street from the fac-
tory was #69.
ammunition (see below)
This factory
produced several sizes and types of
and was still Producing ammuni-
Location
tion in 1952.
I Ithis factory produced
the following sizes and types of ammu-
nition. All components except powder
were made here and the rounds were
filled with powder and assembled.
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Unit Dssig- Subordi-
n tci.S naliam S ti
12.7 mm AT,-traceiw, incendiary and
armor-piercing ammunition.
14.5 mm armor-piercing ammunition
(not AA) used by aircraft uns only
7.62 min tracer, armor-piercing,
sniper explosive, and ball ammunition.
The round with explosive bullet was
called the M.D.Z. (Mnogoso Deystvia
Zabechina).
7.62 mm "TT" pistol ball ammuni-
tion.
The 7.62 mm sniper round. This
had an ordinary bullet, but the shell
was not completely filled with powder.
this factory occupied
an area approximately 2 x 3 km and had
more than 30 shops. There was.a wort-
era' village adjacent to the factory.
25,000 to 30.000
workers were employed in this factory.
The guards were women wearing uniden-
tified civilian-type uniforms.
Cartridge Ministry N/A PODOLSK Director was unk.
Factory of Mili- (N55-23,
#710 E37-430)
the Central
Design Office #3, furnished
assistance to both Cartridge Factory
#314 and Cartridge Factory #710. This
factory then produced 7.62 mm caliber
It was located on the MOSCOW- TULA
highway but within the city of PO-
DOL3K.
It occupied an area approxi-
mately 1 x lj km and consisted of
three or four large 3-story buildings.
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Unit D sig- Subordi-
nati nation
Locatian
ly 80 x 130 m in ground dimensions.
There were about 29000 to 3,000 em-
The administration building was a
3-story building about 15 x 40 m in
ground dimensions, and there were
an unknown number of buildings seven
or eight meters high and approximate-
ployees in this factory.
Artillery Ministry N/A PODLIPKI
Factory of Mili- (N55-55,
(Possibly tary In- X37-49)
#8) dustry
2. Military Research Institutes
Scientific Ministry N/A LININGRAD,
Research In- of Defense Paradnya
stitute No.13 Industry Ulitsa
(Nauchno- Dom 13.
Isledovatelski
Institut - MIU)
factured unidentified artillery nieces.
The Chief Metallurgist in 1956 was
(fnu) PROZHORIN.
armament. One laboratory
ament. It had about 20 laboratories,
each one working on different problems
dealing with a certain material for
lurgy for unidentified artillery arm-
it only on pro ems of metal-
springs
This institute occupied about
12 buildings of various sizes, most
of them being three or four stories
high and of atone. The entire insti-
tute area was approximately 150 x
200 in in size.
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Unit Delia- Subordi-
nptic ~._... n#.Ui i t=
The Scienti-
Ministry
1/A
fic Research
for Technical
Aviation
of Avis-
tion In-
dustry
MOSCOW
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uniform.
wore an unidentified civilian-type
the institute. The institute guards
The director from 1947 to 1956 was
Basil Vasilovich BOITSOV. The factory
was on Petrovka Ulitsa #23.
here.
2,500 to 3,000 workers were employed
institute.
metal testing laboratory officially
called the . 11th.. laboratory... This
institute occupied a 2-story-stone
building approximately 30 x 50 m.
There were 17 laboratories in this
3. Battery and Optical Instruments Plants
Battery Ministry N/A IZRINGRAD Director was unk.
Factory of Slsc- or three dayshere,in 1955 studying
(possibly trical the factory's casting machines. This
#223) Technical factory produced two or-three types
Industry
of lead batteries which
this factory was,
approximately 400 x 400 m and employed
from 600 to 1,000 workers.
F
of the machinery in
these shops was old. (Possibly 10
percent of the machines were new.)
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This factory was located adjacent to
the Kirovaky Factory. Its exact ad-
dress was unknown It was
surrounded by a wooden fence approxi-
mately two or three meters high. The
guards were women wearing an unidenti-
fied civilian-type uniform.
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vnib &+wsa;- 0UDRQ7,-
nation atiaa. Iocatian *ks
Battery
Factory
(Leninskaya
Iskra)
Ministry N/A T. INGRAD
of slec-
trical
Technical
Industry
Director was unk.
vatelsk#y Akumlyatorskiy Institut)
was located in this factory in 1955,
factory made
alkaline s the ochnyye batteries.
the Scientific Battery
esearc Laboratory (Nauchniy Isledo-
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Optical Ministry N/A PAVSHINO
Instrument of Defense (a small
Factory Industry town about
#392 30 km NW
of MOSCAI,
address
Unhaews to
Source).
Director was unk.
This
factory made various sizes of uniden-
tified lens for apparent but unknown
military usage and cameras.
lens in..siaes from 300 an to
0. mm while he was in the factory.
they were
making the "Zorki" type civilian ca-
mera. this was the
only part of the factory that was not
engaged in military production.
several shops on one
floor of one long building, in small
rooms on both sides of a long corri-
dor. All floors of the long building
had similar shops, which were arranged
in the same way
= The building was
three or four stories high, of stone,
and approximately 22 x 300 m. Trtre
were at least eight large buildings
in the area, but they were somewhat
smaller than the one described above.
The fence surrounding this factory
was of atone and approximately four
meters high.
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4. r_ 1_amt~ PradnMum 13rnlanss, iad lirulane Parts
Unit Desi.1
9n 11
nation
nation
atic
Airplane
Ministry 1/A 1D3CC1t The direc
tor in 1948 was (fnu) KOMOROiV.
mine
of Avia-
1 this fact
Faetory
tion In-
#45 ,
dustry
Iwas possibly in the
vicinity of Simyonovsky square. This
factory made unidentified jet air-
lane motors as an end produc
Airplane
Factory
#23
Airplane
Motor
Factory
#29
Ministry 1/1 FILI
of Avis- (155-45,
tian In- 337-30)
dustry
Ministry 1/A ZAPORZHU
of Avis- (147-49,
tion In- 135-10)
dustry
it produced unidentified air-
plane motors.
This factory had made air-
plane motors in 1935
5. Other Plants Known to Source
Rubber Tech-
nical Pro-
ducts Factory
(ltesino-Mek
lanichesky
I#dei3j-a
YYabrika)
Ministry 1/A SVIRDIAVSK
of Chemical
Industry
However, in 951 it was muc ar?er.
The factory produced all types of
special rubber products.
of no military and items
several rubber cases, each
approximately one-half meter in dia-
meter.
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The fastsrr fins, at the entrau, was
^ado of white stoao about two asters
high. Tlr. futoer was bested in the
city proper
+he sdirsss
Ural QmAsal Ministry I/A /*DLOM
Muslims, Tw- at Ma-
tory (Trs3r- shins asi
khinnash) &ppliama,
Consituo-
ties
Cwsrats
this fut.
produsad industrial chemical
=shines and rarisms unidentified
rubber produots
II factoarjes,which were
XLUIW or had s prodtc military items had
military i~st s in them.
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