PLANT NO. 25 OF THE NORIL'SK NICKEL COMBINE

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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 5, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Plant No. 25 of the Norilsk
Nickel Combine
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Plant No. 25 (Zavod No. 2515X1
of the Norilsk Ni
k
c
el Combine in Noril'sk
9- 0 E was nr ncipall concerned with the production of
oobat .
prow
mately 200 prisoners and 300 free workers were employed there; thexi
plant was operated, as were the other plants in the Nor 'sk N1 &r1
Combine, 24 hours a dav. seven (1Q fl *.oo,t
under military controlaandNthatSnooprisonersbwould bemempl yedpthere.
That art of Buildin A desi ated a
sketch of the plant layout of Plan No. 25 and Annex B or
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v.4VVi...G Y1'=i7, Luuxing nortnwara, of Plant
No. 2r%7 bad six or eight wooden cylinders, about 10 m. h1eh and about
4 m, n diameter, with some piping conne
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ons, acids were
heated in them. While working around these cylin ers, the workers
wore high rubber boots and special-protective clothing with asbestos
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woven into it. three sma1125X1
smelting furnaces or stoves .
many containers of chlorine were also stored there The workers were
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sweet when one smoked in this r
railroad cars were load-
ed from this building with a rather firm, very black, damp, clayey
substance called "zheleznyy gek", Railr9ad cars were also loaded 25X1
with cement copper (tsementnaya med') which was chocolate colored
Some yellow-colored waste material was disposed in a nearby dum .
some dark chestnut--colored substance which was ca led me naya gu ,a 25X1
This material also gave a sweet taste to the tobacco in cigarettes,-One day while somewere playing outside this building splas)^25X1
rroun .
ed one another with the liquid in some puddles on the ground-.-
1 i m c bu ne clothes but did not burn the skin very much
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that part of Building A designated as
Building A2. The equipment there consisted of three electric
stoves See Annex C for a sketch of one of these stoves.] and other
chemical apparatus The tree stoves stood in
a straight line in the .center of e u ng, these 25X1
stoves being loaded with .a medium yellow-colored powder. Off to one
side 6 the building was a room with three or four trar~sf ormers
Building B was a foundry (plavil'nyy tsekh) where cobalt was alleged-
ly produced. In this building were three electric furnaces: one was
about 4 m. high'and about 6 m. in diameter; the second was about 32
m. high and about 5 M. i diameter; the third was about 3 m. high and
about 5 M. in diameter, 'Metal from those furnaces was poured into
molds, of which there were about 50. The molds measured about 80 cm.
in length by about 50 cm. in width by about 10 cm. high. When cooled
this matte (shteyn) was silvery and shiny, about the color of iron
when it is broken into pieces. Other than these furnaces there was
only some conveying and transporting apparatus overhead which brought
coke and some kind of other material and dumped it into the furnaces.
The slag was carted to a dump near this building
cobalt was produced in this building. This building ree e co alt
slag from the Large Smeltery (Bol'shoy plavil'n tsekh
And, the Small Smeltery (Malyy plavil'nyy tsekh) .0 25X1
of which are part of the Norilsk Nickel Combine. the
cobalt slag received from these two factories contained only 200 gr.
of cobalt per 10 tn. of slag. Attached to this building was an elec-
trical'control room.
5. The following were the other buildings belonging to Plant No. 25:
a.? Building C was a repair workshop (masterskaya).
b. Building D contained only offices.
a. Building E? housed a store, the kommandatura, and, possible,
elements of the MVD
d. Building F was a boiler and heating plant for the buildings of
Plant No. 25.
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a large addition to Plant No. 25 was under con- 25X1
struction. Construction had been started towards the end of 1951
and may have been completed by now. According to the area of con-
struction the facilities of Plant No. 25 wo'uld25X1
be increased 50 to 1OO , One ex ension was being constructed on the
northern and the northern side of Build-
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Annex A
Sketch of the Plant Layout of Plant No. 25
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Annex B: General View of Factory:# 25 from South Side.
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Annex C: I Sketch of a Stove Located in Building A2 25X1
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