INDUSTRIES IN AND NEAR THE TOWN OF CHELYABINSK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900540004-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR (UralsY
SUBJECT Industries in and near the Town of Chely.abind1 y
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boilers and five turbo-generators. The transportation of coal from the
railroad cams to the coal crushing mill and then to the !boilers was completely
automatic. The coal shed was able to handle three trainloads of coal sinul-
. taneously on its three railroad tracks. Approximately 15 trainloads of coal.
consisting of 50-60 cars per train with each car having a load of 60 tons,
were received daily. The plant produced 250,000 kw for industrial use only.
Ohelyabinsk draw its power supply for household use and street lights from a
power plant called Chigres. The water used at the TET? plant came from Mass
and was chemically treated with a reddish salt before it was used in the
boilers. One railroad car of salt was sufficient for a period of one week..
Ohelyabinsk has three brick factories. One of tho' factories, under the
administration of OSMCh No,.8 (Special Construction and Installation Ordan?
ization),located near the Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory. had a monthly pro=
pro=duction norm of one and one-half million bricks.
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1. We Che1yabi2ak. Comment d For further information
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Source heard of the following establishments located in Chelyabinsk:
25X1A a. Factory No. 78
be Factory Ido. 701 (also known as Kolushchenko Zavod.
OSMCh No. 22
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d. Factory No. 100 (Allegedly a small pilot plant and material testing
4. In 1943-44. there were two plants about seven or eight Ion from the town
close to Factory No. 254. These plants, called Semstroi, were: wooden
barracks sunk partly in the ground. Ther produced unknown types of arms.
5. In the center of the town there is an old iron smelting factory equipped with
two coke-heated ovens, each with a capacity of one ton of Iron. The ovens
were emptied twice daily. In February 1946 stove-plates# grates, axles for
horse drawn carriages,-and iron balls were produced here. Comiaent:25X1A
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6. The town has seven ba1reries. Bread deliveries were ::ode to the following
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KI-val T r or Works, also known as ChTZ
This factory received 70 to 80 tons daily during the war.
modern assembly line methods were used in tank
armored ' car pro tion. By gar 1945, this factory received bnly`)
45 to 50 tons of,,' r e daily. 25X 1 X
some sections of the factory was on its way, but some tank production
still went on.
conversion to peacetime production in
Zc terse No. 100 (see paragraph 3.d above).' This plant received
two tons of bread daily during the war. It produced ammtmition,
o. 7actory No. 200: This factory received 1.6 tons of bread daily and
produced automobile and airplane parts.
25X1 A d. Aglusbchan rl gtos This was an old plant near
the main railroad station in IN some sections were modernized during
the war. It prod ed mine 'throwers and received six tons of bread daily.
e. Balmastroi IM This steel works, built in 1938-39, is located
approximate from Chelyabinsk in the direction of lurgan.
During the war it received four to five tons of bread a days and its
quota was only 500 kg. less in May 1946.
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All of the above listed factories depended on this plant for food supplies.
During the war, its own workers used an average of 12 tons of bread daily.
This quantity decreased gradually to 66 tons by May 1924 chiefly because
the workers were transferred to liberated areas. against 25X1X
the 12 tons of bread 40 000 ration caasds including dependent
childrenga rations, during the war; received only
about 12,000 ration cards.
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8. Most of the coal used in the factories of Chelyabinsk came from the Kopeisk
(55? 068 N - 610 3'?1 E) coal mines.
A chemical factory on Sverdlovsk Street produced chemicals for electric
batteries and for gasoline refineries. In 1945 the factory employed about
3.000 workers, who worked in two 12-hour shifts. Director of the factory was
Ivan Paviovich; Chief Engineer. Oilier. Both men lived in Chelyabinsk, No.
56 Kalinin Street.
10. Factory go. 254 is about 5 km from Chelyabinsk toward Sverdlovsk, employs
1,000 workers, and produce -flares.
11. Factory N4 is a glass factory producing mainly airplane glass? with about
2,000 employees. It is situated on Earl Marx Street.
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