MISCELLANEOUS FACTORIES; RELOCATION OF GERMAN EQUIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001700250011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLI
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SUBJECT
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DATE OF D WO
L,scellaneous Factories; Relocation
of German Equipment
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NIDITED by LAW. REPRODUCTION or THIS FORK IS PROHIBITED. HOW
EVER. INFORMATION CONTAINED IN BODY OF THE FORA MAT SE UTILIZED
AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE RECEIVING AGENC7.
on -reparations account.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH
USE OF TRAINED INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS
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. complete tube factor., to manufacture what-is developed at the
Oberspree:werk Berlin is heinr? set up at 1Tovosihirsk. The metal ceraraic
for the tubes will I.-e manufactured at the same place, but the ;metal ceramic
for other general purposes will not I?e produc-ri there. The ferrisdorf-
&chomhure- -Ir?('1sto:: firm in Ilermsdorf, Thuz inj ia,~,recently forward4d to
I o'Yosibirsk a f _rst consign-aent of cerariic parts which it is? producing
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A new synthetic gasoline factory, covering an area of 2 square kM, and situates,
4 krm NE of Pinsk, was under construction in the sir-rmpr of ?1946. Three
workshops, 100 meters long and 30-40 meters wide, had been completed and
smelting machinery was installed in one of then. One workshop was desis*ned
and fitted out as a distilling plant. Machinery from the 1 egqdebreck, CTermany?,
synthetic gasoline plant, which was dismantled in 1945-1946, was zt-torod near
the factory. The factory was nearly completed in ;1ovember 1946, but pro(dnc-
tion had not started at that (late.
3. a. During the winter of 1945, a tank-factory 6 km SE of llovocherkassk,?whicy.
lies 30 km ENE of Rostov, was constructed with P labor on +he 8i "e
of an old factory, almost totally destroyed during the war. T?i =oc.
foundries were rebuilt and four large and two smaller workshops
added with adjoi ui= ; large. testing-around, where tanks were broken
in. Building work was made possible throughout the .d nter her means of
a special compostion which the Russians added to the 'lortar to prevent
freezing.
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b. Tank production started in December 19462after iJhich date approximately
300 F". .s were kept on principally as specialists, excluding Russian
employees. Tanks produced were "Stalin" and T-35. Daily production
was estimated at 2 or 3 tank-chassis exclusive of arrian^nt and super-
structure. Engines were not made in the factory but cane ry rail from
Taganror,. The tanks mere broken in on the testing-around }'efore nountee'
with turrets,aim:Arjt.;nts etc.
CLASSIFICATION SI-CIV;T OO'TTP.OL L.S.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/20: CIA-RDP82-00457R001700250011-8