TUBE-ROLLING MILLS AND MANUFACTURING STEEL TUBES IN THE USSR

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR
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SUBJECT Tube-Rolling Mills and Manufacturing Steel Tubes NO. OF PAGES 2
in the USSR
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manufacturing of steel seamless tubes in e ubbit has eve ope
there are tube-rolling mills in Taganrog, Mariupol,
factured tube-rolling machinery before World War II: S1,12
(Staro-Kramatorsky Machine-Building Plant) in Kramatorsk manufactured
small tube-rolling mills for cold reduction of tubes; UZTM in
Sverdlovsk way engaged in building smaller tube-rollin machinery
of the Stiefel-system before World War II. the majority 25X1
of the tube-rolling equipment in the USSR was purchased abroad.
In the, winter of 1911.5-19)46, drawings of tube-rolling mills 25X1
of the Rockrite-system for a co reduction of steel seamless tubes
2. only two machine-building plants in the USSR, which manu- 25X1
Dnepropetrovsk and Magnitogorsk.
A large and modern tube-rolling mill-is in operation in the Novo-
Tagilsky Metallurgical Plant in Nizhne-Tagilsk (Ural).
by ZsNIITMASh) in Moscow'-
the drawings had been developed according 25X1
essentially. Some rolling mills of that type were supposed to. be
built in the USSR in the near future. The plans had just been made4
to the most modern 4esigns and did not differ from them
diameters of1f finished to es mere rom one an one half to 25X1
six inches., and the machines had to be of three or four different sizes..
An engineer-designer of ZsKBMM who was engaged with those mills, had
spent all World Jr aII (working as a receiver of equipment.
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he had received rolling mill equipment f
rolling too. He had become ac uain ed with
From the end of 1946 ZsKBMM began to work
on projecting tube-rolling mills of the Stiefel-system for rolling
steel seamless tubes in large sizes ( up to
400 mm or even more). The Mills of the Stiefel-system were manufactured
by the plans of the Ministry of Heavy Machine-Building.
As there had been no experience in designing of mills of that type,
Professor A I Zselikov sent some designers to study modern tube-
rolling mills of the Stiefel-system and to select materials necessary
for designing. Those designers had to work at two or three metallur-
gical plants in the USSR, where there were modern mills of the
Stiefel-system.
The Novo-Tagilsky Metallurgical Plant was one of the plants which this
roup of designers selected to produce machines of the Stiefel-system.
the second plant ;aas a metellurgical plant in one of the near-
Sverdlovsk towns;
The Novo-Tagilsky plant was supposed to manufacture three large
mills of the Stiefel-system for use in the USSR, according to the
project of the ZsKBMM.
The ZsKBMM1 had to complete the projecting of the mills by the end
of 1947, and must have done it, as the work was considered to be
very important.
It was said that the absence of seamless tubes set limited production
in some branches of industry in the USSR. Things were especially bad
in the oil industry where seamless tubes of large diameters were re-
quired.
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