1. NUCLEAR ENERGY AND MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS IN AND NEAR SVERDLOVSK 2. PARTIAL CITY PLAN OF SVERDLOVSK

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• Publication Date: February 12, 1962
• Content Type: REPORT

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Nuclear Energy and Miscellaneous
Plants in and Near Sverdlovsk
2. Partial City Plan of Sverdlovsk
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Installations in General Area of Sverdlovsk
1. An atomic plant was located in a lake area northwest of Sverdlovsk, nea
Belorechka (see sketch below).
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The entire vicinity of this plant was restricted. The complex consisted
long buildings with high smokestacks equipped with filters. Because the p ant
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inhabitants of Sverdlovsk visited this area because it was such a ple
place. The plant had been located here as far back as 1950.1
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Kamensk-Uralskiy, south of Sverdlovsk. Not far from this plant was an area
in which children's homes were located. At the end of 1959, a large number
that the area had probably been covered by fallout from the explosion of
atomic reactor. All ;:hildren were removed from the area. No er
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many persons were killed in this explosion. Shipments of fish and milk were
recalled from the shops in Kamensk-Uralskiy. The entire population of a %__'~
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small-village in the vicinity was evacuated some time ago.3
A power plant was under construction at Beloyarsk, southeast of Sverdlovsk.
The construction was begun two years ago.
6.
Benzene, toluene, napthalene, and phenol were produced in the coke plants
at Nizhniy Tagil and Gubakha. They were also produced in the Kuznets basin
at Stalinsk Lnow Novokuznet/, in the Chelyabinsk coke-chemical combine,
in the Magnitogorsk coke-chemical combine, and in the Kemerovo coke-chemical
combine. There was no coke plant in Novosibirsk, but there was a chemical
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The Ural Chemical Machine Building Plant was located southeast of Sverdlovsk,
along the railroad ,to Chelyabinsk. The plant covered an area of about 100 by
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I actory produced ammunition belts for machine guns. During the war World
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7. A munitions plant, designated Post Box 79, and also called the "macaroni
$. Cryolite tiles were made at the cryolite factory LPolevskiy Cryolite Plantf/
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A copy of a Soviet map of the city of Sverdlovsk
The legend for the notations
1. Building site.
2. Sverdlovsk branch of the Academy of Sciences,
Street indicated on the map as Studeneheskaya ulitsa. The portion of the
street running south from Pervomayska till called
Studencheskaya (marked in blue pencil The portion of the
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Kovalevskoy (marked in red pencil) for the first woman to attain the
rank of professor.
4+. Polytechnical Institute /Ural Polytechnical Institute i/n S. M. Kirov
5. Munitions plant, known also as the "macaroni factory", and as Post Box 79.
6. Ulitsa Gagarina /formerly Kuzbasskaya ulitsa?,
7. Shoe factory.
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8. Military barracks.
9. Command staff for the Ural Military District.
10. Sverdlovsk military club,
11. Complex of officers= quarters.
12. Block of houses
13. Chemistry faculty of the Polytechnical Institute.
14. Philharmonic Lauditorium?7,
15. Agricultural Institute
16. Place where Nicholas I was murdered.
17. (not on map),
18. KGB building.
19. Penicillin plant.
20. VUKhIN - Eastern Scientific Research Institute for Coal Chemistry.
21. Radio center,
22. Factory for production of pharmaceutical articles fpossibly Chemical
Reagents Plant No. 3567.
23. Vorovskiy factory (products not known) LVorovskiy Equipment Plang.
24. Television studios.
25. Radar,
26. Plant for manufacture of electrical apparatus /Ural Electro-Mechanical
Comb in J.
27. Main building of URALMASH Ural Heavy Machine-Building Plan,
28. Suvorov military school.
29. Historical museum located in a former Greek Orthodox church,
30. Location of biophysical laboratory and Botanical Garden
Comment: This may be the gaseous diffusion plant in
Verkh-Neyvinskiy.
2. I Comment: Chelyabinsk-40 is believed to be located at
Kyslitym.
Sverdlovsk had no shelters for the civi ian popu a i.on.
atomic, chemical, or biological warfare
no measureswere being taken for protection against
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