REPAIR AND IRON FORGING PLANT OF THE NORIL'SK NICKEL COMBINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000200330018-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2009
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SUBJECT Repair and Iron Forging Plant of
the Noril''sk Nickel Combine %
COUNTRY USSR
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
1. An installation of
6 -20 $ 88-od
DATE DISTR. //ov, ?3
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
!LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
side of Building A fee Annex for O etch of he lan
1 out . and another-on the south side of BuIlding C.
the addition to Building C vas to be a' siod 1 6
0 VL-UU L,ivn workc, as well as aoing repair work.
cutting tools were also produced at
e s ?p model nyy
tsekh) which was. to produce wooden models. RMZ apparently serviced
the entire Combine with forginge and --iron reix~f?reswmrar~t. .,,, ..;v _
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Building A was divided into two. sections:
a. Section Al was two_Storied; it had a kitchen on the first floor
and a restaurant for free workers on the second floor.
b. Section A2 produced forgings and castings for the Combine.
Old iron was melted down 174 about three furnAttiyn There were
various kinds of molds, square
iron bars about 20 m, 1 iron ar of various
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sizes which
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were used for reinforcing concrete.
Building B also had two sections:
A. Section B was principally a rear shop containing lathes and
other macsines. some kind of smelting pro- 25X1
cess was conducted there.
b. Bec n B contained a laboratory with chemical "-ui merit..
metals were tested there
4. Building C .was an iron rolling mill (prokatnyy teekh) containing
a furnace and several steam hammers. The western end of this". ..
building was two-storied and housed offices. It was oh the-south-
ern side of this building that the model-shop was being added.
That part of Building D designated as D1 was a repair shop for
locomotives and railroad cars. D2 of Building.D housed offices of
the NVD.
Comment: l? These furnaces were similar to the one uhowu on
Page 61,, Fig. 18, Tab 2, of Air Interrogation
Guide, May 1952. ----- ..._,
Annex
Sketch of the Plant Layout of "RITZ"
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Sketch of the
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