AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY PLANT AND AIRFIELD AT SKVORIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300370006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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io An aircraft asse.?ably plant was traaeferr~d to skvorin (48o48~N, 43oI4~E),
in the Stalingrad ar?a, during the warn After the suer, S'kvoria, formerly
a sr~7.1 tovm, grew in industrial importance y plant ,~ aalarged,
and the railway rnas extended to the town- ants T~robably
the rails-ray (rata Kalach) o
2. The aircraft assembly pleat Ira lcoated about one ]rilometor north of the 25X1 A6a
town center. It oansists of ei~zt large stony assembly belle built oa
steel girder frar~rork, four ~naller testiag shops, and a srsall sirfiold
built for tine works during 394?. About 2,000 sxorkQrs, mostly skilled,
are c~tnploy+ed?
S. According to Russian ongl.neers, sisr to ofght aircraft, of unidantltied
ground attack and figi~tor ty~+t~ss, are produced ~areaia?y. ?apt 194?, test~?
flights were begun at #;h? factory a3rfiald.
d, Tn tho autumn of 194?, het airarat't wero tested at #his airfield. S.ourae
beliovad that these planes aarr