BALL BEARING INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900230006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 28, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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GFNTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY _7'ORT
OUNTRY USSR
PLACE
ACQUIRED
Ball Bearing Industry
DATE DISTR. 28 September 1948
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLE
_~T7
--n I+CAiUIN3 OF TIIF ESPIONAGE ACT 59
' 3?. $? C.. 31 A6}D 92, AS AtS Eq!FEa ITD T S'.AtI5RI SS cIS OR THE REV Et,.AT10N
b?~
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH '
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,c?c au The bearing industry of the USSR is under the control of
the Chief Directorate of the Bearing Industry of the Ministry of the
Automobile and Tractor Industry of the US,R (Minister Akopov).
hiring the Car, the bearing industry was under the control of the
?"eople `I a Commissariat of Medium Machine Construction. This comparatively
recent industry was begun during the first Five Year Plan? The first
bearing factories in Moscow(State Bearing Factory No. l i/n L. M.
Yaganotvich and Ball Bearing Factory No, 2, afterwards renamed State
Bearings Factory No. 2) were built duria+. the first "Five Year Plan.
Subser~.~.ently';. new bearing o
factories ca-me Into existence In `3.orasFCy
Sverdlovsk. Saratov, and other alaces.
Yres ax I`actor long At, .present, eight ball-bearing factories are wor ing.
A ninth is In only partial -production. These satisfy the major require-
ments of the USSR. In 1947 and 1948, new sho-j) were starter, at then.?
factories for turning out ?recision. bearings for aircraft, and machine
tool construction and large bearings for heavy metallur (rolling mills).
! al t; a ~.s o c , an4 The owl i ty of the bearings turned. out rests all
practical. requirements. The polishing shops are the weak spots in the
factorie1 .. In 194` 1 new -polishing machinery of the ty 3er used in the
United States and Sweden was introduced into State Bearing Iactories
LEosr, 1,, 2., and 6..
11ya]v of? ' chaa .c l fi rs Technical .rater ial, Is sun -13 ed to the
bearing factories through the Chief Auto.:robi1e and Tractor Supply
Offices, which are found. In n any towns, and so,zetlmes directly from
factories on orders obtained from the Ministry.
Rareh. research connected with the bearing industry is carried. out
by the Scientific Research Institute for the Bearing Industry in Moscow.
The director of this institute is Pinegin. The institute conducts sxpeari-
meats and introduces new measures to improve the quality of the bearings
and to increase output,. The institute works in close conjunction w,h
factories dens., 1. and 2 in Moscow.
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,,W, ORE%'/CUJTRQL-US C?FFI;: TIC LS WILY
CENTR (RiETI(;ENCE AGLNCY
?. Ber_i,_ ,ctorie
a.. State Bearing Factory No. 1 i/n L. H. Kaganovich is located in Moscow.
The director is Takhtarov; the deputy directors are Krupin and Lunin;
the chief engineer is Gromoy. The factory want into production in
19326 It is a very large factory with modern machinery and eaui,)ment,
and produces bearings of more than 200 different types.
b. State Bearing Factory No. 2 is located in Moscow.
c. State Bearing Factory No. 3 is located in Saratov; Director Orlov.
d, State Bearing Factory No. 4 is located
in Kuibyshev; Director Tovbur.
e. State Bearing Factory No. 5 is located la Tomsk; Director Slirako.
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State Bearing Factory No. 6 is located In Sverdlovskt Director Bura.kov.
State Bearing Factory No. 7 is located in Bake Director Dzhafarov.
The State Bearing Factory at ICharkov is still under construction. In
19148 it went into partial production. Pankratov is temporarily
carrying out the duties of director.
t State Bearing Factory No. 9 is located at i3ezyn ranka (Kuibyshev
Province), near the town of Kuibyshev. Director: Dundukov.
D~?rii era r t ?ie ~. Bearing repair factories are under the control
of the Ail Union Bearing Repair Directorate (Soyuz Feraont-Podshipnik)
(Director Genkin) of the Ministry for the Automobile and Tractor Industry
of the USSR. Such factories are located in the following places:
Alma Ata. Director Mitkalev.
Gomel
Rostov on Dong Director Aghfonov (sago )4
Tambov
Tashkent: Director Shtillerman.
Tomsk: Director Bakmatov.
80 A 1 3 icy Bearin jes Trust; In Moscow there is an All-Union Bearing
Sales (Soyuz Podflaipnik Sbyt) Trust which deals with the sale of bearings.
This trust has offices in many of the large towns, including Moscow,
Sverdlovsk (Chief: Makedo-ov)g Leningrad (Chief: Andreev), Tashkent (Chief
:
3 asnikov), Kharkov (Chief Volovin), and other places. Enterprises in
the USSR receive bearings either through these offices or directly from
the bearing factcries.
9. Re erne: A central reserve of bearings exists in Moscow.
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