URAL TANK FACTORY/CHIRCHIK CHEMICAL FACTORY

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP82-00047R000300600005-6
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RIPPUB
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C
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2
Document Creation Date: 
December 23, 2016
Document Release Date: 
April 17, 2013
Sequence Number: 
5
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Publication Date: 
November 20, 1953
Content Type: 
REPORT
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or:, _ cater. I CIVICe.�- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000300600005-6 , CLASSIFICATION COIDE11i1th up / SECURITY INFORMATION CENTRAL INTELLIGENut AGENCY REPORT INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. 50X1 COUNTRY USSR DATE DISTR.AO Nov 1953 SUBJECT Ural Tank Factory/Chirchik Chemical Factory NO OF PAGES PLACE 50X1 ACQUIRED DATE ACQUIRE Date of Toll DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING ONE NATIONAL WENS& OF ?NI U TTTTTTTTTTT WITHIN TN! MKANINO OF TITLO IS, SECTIONS 703 AND 754, OF THE 0.11. 000l, AS 0010010. ITS TRANSMISSION OR RIOS. LOTION OF ITS 001 01001 TO OR NOCtIFT SY AN UNAuTNORISSO PINION IS PRONIBITID SY LAW. TOR TTTTT OUCTION OF THIS FORM IS FRONIIITIO. NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION 50X1 50X1 a construction battalion of. the Soviet army I the battalion was composed of officers and technicians from Lenin- grad and a number of Estonian enlisted men. Total strength of the battalion numbered approximately one thousand men. 2. Our battalion, along with three other construction battalions and a 50X1 number of civilian workers, was sent to the Ural Mountains in the vicinity of Chelyabinsk During 50X1 this period we were engaged in the construction of a large factory. The factory was located near the village of Chebarcul which is about 70 kilometers southwest of Chelyabinsk and situated near the main line of the Ufa-Chelyabinik railroad. The factory itself was about five , kilometers northeast of the village of Chebarculiand was connected by several spur tracks to the railroad, being from one to two kilometers south of the main line. 11114 faCtOry was constructed on open ground in flat country and about five kilometers southeast of the Ural foothills. Although it was sur- rounded by trees there was no direct attempt made at camouflage. 50X1 although most of the buildings were completed and Carloads of machinery were being installed. Much of the machinery which was brought in by railroad cars had been moved from war-threatened factories in the west. The factory consisted of three large buildings, averaging from 200 to 300 feet in length and of brick construction, as well as numerous smaller shoPs. Electrical power was available as I noticed transmission lines 'being erected. 50X1 I heard reports from a number of technicians and officers employed _there that the factory was designed to manufacture tanks for the Soviet army but that it could be converted after World War II to make farm traators. 50X1 50X1 CLASSIFICATION CCGFIDENTIAL - SECURITY INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION ORR EV SEX LAST PA GT2 FOR sualacr & AREA CODEC 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000300600005-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000300600005-6 CONFIDENTIAL - SECURITY INFORMATION - 2 - 50X1 50X1 . A large chemical factory was located about five kilometers solith of Chirchik. This factory vis under a tight security control and waS said to be a secret plant since no one was permitted to talk about it. There was a spur track from the main railroad line to this plant although I did not observe whet was transported. The only identification of 50X1 this plant is that when the wind came from the dir- ection of the plant, it carried considerable smoke and the air was tilled with sulphur fumes. - end - LIBRARY SUOJE.CT 8: AREA CODES n a 043..283 JigN /e2,2 i/97Y CONFIDENTIAL - SECURITY INFORMATION Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/11/04: CIA-RDP82-00047R000300600005-6