MOLOTOV BORING AND GRINDING MACHINE FACTORY

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY ileMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Molotov Boring and Grinding Machine Factory
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1. Construction of the Molotov Boring and Grinding Machine Factory LIbarkov
Machine Factory7 began about 1931, was completed about 1934 and went into
production immediately. Erection of the foundry began in 1936 and was
completed it 1938. The factory was built by the Ministry of Heavy Industry.
It was transferred to the control of the Ministry of Machine Tools about
1938. The factory employed 3,000-31500 workers, about 400 of whom were women.
Female workers were employed as draftsmen, inspectors, office workers, or
cleaning Women. None of them were engaged in heavy work.
29 the plant produced the following types of boring and grinding maciwry:
Grinding Machines
Ida= Diameter*
Model Number
a.
750 mm
150 =
312
b.
750 =
150 =
313,(Wrilmiic)
0.
1,000 mm
200 mm
3A2
d.
1,500 =
250 mm
3A].5 (hydraulic)
e.
2,000 mm
250 mm
3313 (hydraulic)
Production; 50-70 machines per month
* Length and diameter are the maximum size of the piece each machine was
capable of handling.
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Radial Boring Machines
Length Maximum Bore
1 200 mm 50 mm
1,200 mm 50 mm
Production: 30-40 machines per month
25 mm
C,
1 meter
Production: 50 machines per month. This was
repair factories and was a copy of a machine
Company.
Model Number
256
2106 (improved
machine)
do not recall
a small machine used in tractor
manufactured by the US Hasmnond
Crankshaft Grinding Machine
Length Diameter &del Number
1)250 mni 150 mm 3H42
Production: 25 machine's per month. This machine was used to regrind
truck and tractor crankshafts on cooperative farms. It was a modification
of a German machine manufactured by Kellenberger. The table on the modi-
fication was band operated; on the original German machine the table was
automatic.
Design Engineering
3. The factory had its own design department known as the Construction Bureau.
It employed 20-30 design engineers and draftsmen. The machines were mostly
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One grinding machine (Model 316) was an original design) but the design 50X1
was faultyland it was produced only briefly. Model Number 304.15 was a
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modification of a German machine built by Colb.
Model Number 3B15 was an original design based on the50X1
Colb machine but having a larger capacity. Radial boring machine Model
Number 256 was a copy of a foreign machine,and Mod2asa50X1
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Parts Production
5. All parts used in the machitibs were manufactured by the factory except
heavy castinga. Bases and. tales for grinding machines were produced
by the Krdmatorak Machine Tool Factory or the Krqmatorsk Locomotive Works.
The Odessa Machine ToOl Factory supplied the heavy castings for boring 50X1
machines. The foUndry at Molotov began production on a limited scale in
1939. It prOduced heavy castings after 1940 but its production was insuffi-
cient to supply the total requirements of the factory.
-percentage of heavy castings used by the factory were produced e oun
Assembly Methods
6. Grinding machines were assembled in batches of ten. There was no conveyorized
assembly line. Cranes were used in the assembly shop?three small ones and one
large one.
7.
War-Time Relocation of the Molotov Plant
When the Germans mn.red Kharkov in March 1942, the factory was ordered to
move to Kamm or Ufa in the Urals. We were allowed seven hours to dis-
mantle 60-70 machines and load them on railroad cars for shipment. The
machines were not packed or processed for shipment and parts of one machine
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handling ruined 80% of the machinery. Am' machines or material which we
were unable to remove were destroyed. 50X1
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Quality of the Machines Produced - Life sus.
8. The machines produced were not of uniform qua1ity4althoughjgeneral1y,the
basic designs were good. This was caused by poor production planning or
production coordination which is, in my opinion, a universal fault in the
Soviet industrial system. Parts were not available for madhines in the
assembly shop and had to be hastily made in the machine shop to meet pro-
duction schedules. The finished machines were of poor quality because of
badly made components. Because of the irregular supply of parts, production
either moved family or at a rapid pace with long hours of overtime work.
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estimate the life span of a well designed grinding
=him at 3-5 yrs. A radial boring machine wouldipossibly last longer. A
radial boring machine in the Molotov machine shop was in servise over six
nava.
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