BOLSHEVIK MACHINE PLANT AND KRASNYY EXCAVATOR PLANT IN KIEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200670008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL/SECURI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
DATE DISTR. /..5 Apr 1953
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SUBJECT Bolshevik Machine Plant and Krasnyy Excavator NO OF PAGES
Plant in Kiev
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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(LISTED BELOW)
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DATE
SUPPLEMENT TO
ACQUIRED BY SOURCE
REPORT NO.
DATE CU INFORMA.TION
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. The Bolshevik Machine Plant is located on the "Brest-Litovsk Chausee" and is
approximately five kilometers from the center of Kiev and about two kilometers
from the Kiev Polytechnical Institute.
2. The entire establishment, including freight and storage yards, occupies
approximately four square kilometers.
3. The bulk of the buildings is constructed of steel-reinforced concrete and brick,
the walls of which are about 0.5 Meters, or 24 bricks, in thickness. I cannot
state exactly how many buildings there are, but there were over 20 (1935 to 1937)
The entire area is surrounded by a.1.8 meters high fence, built of furnace slag _
and cement.
4. Principal products manufactured at this plant (1935-1937) were:
a. Stationary steam engines up to 600 p.s. (h.p.).
b. Steam pressure kettles h-220 up to 500 square meters working pressure,
p-13 to 15 atmospheres.
c. Steam condensing and vacuum equipment for chemical and sugar industries.
d. Pumps (piston and diaphragm type)
e. Filtering equipment for chemical and sugar industries (of 100 square meter
pressure in one aggregate)
f. Centrifugal equipment for sugar and graphite industries (without electric
motors).
This factory also had a large and modern mechanical and metallurgical laboratory.
6. Normal employment was about seven thousand persons.
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7, The factory could easily be converted to produce armaments (about 24 hours).
8. The principal manufacturing of the Krasnyy Excavator Plant consisted of road
building machinery; machinery for building construction, such as scrapers,
bulldozers, and carryalls; and mechanical carriers for factory transportation,
such as lift and fork trucks, electrical hand trucks, and mechanical conveyors.
9. in this area (1938), the excavator plant worked 24 hours
a day, employing over 10 thousand persons. Machinery manufactured at this place
was shipped eastward but to what destination I do not know. 50X1
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