INDUSTRIAL PLANTS IN THE USSR (EUROPEAN)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 13, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Industrial Plants in the USSR
(European )
DATE OF
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REPORT
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13 August 1958
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fragmentary. information .on the following:
1. Azovstal Metallurgical Plant in Zhdanov.
2. Kirov Machine Tool Plant in .Odessa.
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3. Kiev: a large brick. plant. in the suburbs,.housing .constructon:_sites
using the prefabricated. brick blocks, a plant for the production
of prefabricated .units.
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COUNTRY: USSR~Poland
SUBJECT: ~l. Azovstal Metallurgical Plant in Zhdanov NO OF PA4ES: 3
2. Kirov Machine Tool Plant in Odessa
3. Other Industrial Establishments in Kiev
and Moscow
Azovstal Metallurgical Plant in Zhdanoy
1. The Azovstal Metallurgical Plant was located on the Sea of Azov and occupied
an area approximately 2 x 5 kilometers. The plant had its own harbor with
necessary installations for unloading the iron ore which was brought by
sea; it also had its own railroad sidiazg.
2. Azovstal was an old metallurgical plant whic had
ahead been reconstructed modernized and a ended three times
no new construction in
progress. The plant had a yearly prodaa.ation of about 2,000,000 tons of~
stee :. Azovstal employed about 10,000 employees, including its own railroad
and-shipping transport services. ,
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the following departments:
Azovstal had
a. Blast Furnace Department, which had five blast furnaces. Three of the
furnaces were each of abo~t 700-800 m3 capacity while the other two
were each of about 1300 m capacity. They produced about 1,500,000
tons of pig iron yearly.
b. Steel plant, which had between 16 and 20 open-hearth furnaces pro-
ducing about 2,000000 tons of steel.
c. Electric power plant, which had a production capacity of about 100?
MGW.
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d, Rolling mill, which was the most modern department. and was located
in a building about 1,000 meters long, about 300 riieters wide, and
about 8 to I0'meters high. Its total production Sias about 1,000,000
ons of.sueh products as railroad rails; thick steel plates from
12 mm upwards; structural steel beams of Various profile; thick wire
for production of :steel reinfore,ed concrete; and water-proofed wall
sections used for construction of foundations for the hydraulic
constructions.
e. Coke .chemical plant, which consisted only of some coke batteries.
It was planned that the plant would be expanded.
the Azovstal"Plant received anthracite and coke necessary-for the
production of steel.
young Chinese engineers and technicians.
between 25 and 30. years of age at the Azovstal Plant who had been under-
going training for one year. altogether there were about
50 of these. Chinese trainees, among-them 10 diploma engineers.
Kirov .Machine Tool Plant in Odessa
The Kirov Machine Tool Factory was located in the center of Odessa. It was
completely rebuilt after World War II at the same location where it had
existed formerly; however., because of limited ground space the plant could
not be greatly expanded.
The plant employed about 1+00 persons, and lit had the
best management and most skilled workers of all similar. plants in the US$R.
,The Kirov Machine Tool Plant produced various machine tools, such as very
large dri113.ng machine tools; it also produced spare. parts for machine tools
and precision steel plates.
7. The plant had its own designing bureau as well as a large laboratory which
employed about ~40 outstanding specialists and engineers, among them leading
scientists., professors and lecturers of the Odessa Polyteehnicial Institute.
high level of scientific know- '
They were above the average Soviet standard.'
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the laboratory was in the final stage o a pro~eet 25X1
for remote control.
and machinin^ of s are arts by induced electrical current.
le a of the engineers and scientists
they had good working .conditions and most of them were very enthusiastic
about their fobs. the Kirov Plant distinguiished
itself by good wages and good care of its employees and the people in Odessa 25X1
regarded employment~at the'Kirov Plant as an honor. The director, an
engineer about 70 years ald, had been in e.harge for several years and he 25X11
permitted every scientist and engineer in the plant to carry on scientific
research and experiments.
during seven years work up to 1956, the construction 25X1
ureau teacart a oratory worked out a new method of very ~reeise drilling
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Other Establishments 1.n Kiev and Moscow
a. A large brick plant located in the. suburbs which was the,fYrst one in
the USSR to introduce a new semi-dry method of pressing c1a~r. The
.plant had new "Melia" type presses for brick production which were
good but were, complicated and had been forced into use in the USSR
by Khrushchev.
b. Several housing construction sites, some of which used the prefabri-
cated brick blocks (wall sections) about 1.5 x 1.6 x 0.35 meters in
size.. They were introduced for the first time in the USSR in Kiev
and were either produced in brick factories or on -the building sites
in .sheds. The use of these,briek blocks permitted the construction
of buildings during the winter months because they were produced in
heated shelters and also did not require skilled bricklayers.
only women were employed in the production of these brick
c. p plant for roduction of refabricated units, which was under con-
struction. this was a copy of the`Lubertsy Plant 25X1
in Moscow which started production in 1955 and was the largest of its
kind in~the USSR: The new plant under construction had a.180,000 m'3
yearly production capacity of reinforced concrete elements, including
poles, ceiling plates of about 3:60 x 5 x 0.20 meters (which covered
one room), lintels, strings and treads for stairs.- The production of
this plant was to be entirely mechanized.
10. In Mosco
which
was Pesehanaya;
a new residential district, the name of
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