EXPLOSIVE, AMMUNITION, AND ARMAMENT FACTORIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2001
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• Publication Date: July 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Explosive, Ammtnaitionond Arm= Factories
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1. The largest explosives factory in the USJR is located at Sakamsk,* a city
of approximately 50,000 inhabitants which lies some 15 kilometers northweot
of Molotov, in the Urals. The factory, which is currently being enlarged,
is strongly guarded and is nanned by politically reliable workers. No
forced laborers are employed. At the plant and in its vicinity there are
frequent test explosions and cannon are fired,
The Aleksin (549311N, 370050E) explosives plant is not appreciably amaller
than the factory at Sakamft. Aleksin Iles same 60 kilometers east of Kaluga
in the Tula district. The explosives plant, along with several related
installations, including a grenade plant, was newly built after World War II.'
Half of the installations were operating by 1947. Some units of the plant
yore then working on special secret assignments.
The ZhUkovka (53?02n, 33043M) gunpowder factory is the third largest plant
of its kind in the. oountry. It lies 40 kilometers northwest of Bryansk on
the road from Bryansk to Smolensk.**
4. No details are available on the following explosives installations:
a. Dynamite factory at Beresovka (sic; Novaya Borisovka 47?060N,
290590E?)? northwest of Odessa.
b. Fuse plant at Belokalitvenskaya? in the Donets region.
co Explosives testing station northeast of Moscow.
ATmunAtion Factorlaa
5. The following information has been reported concerning ammunition factories:
a. Aleksin: Produces artillery Shells.,
b. sIugansk? Donets Basin: Produces artillery shells?
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liikoleyev? on the Black Sea: Manufactures infantryeammunitio:4 including
munition for the Soviet gas-action rifle and the German M-44 carbine
fiStarinkaimbiner 44),
0, Dizhni Tagil, in the Urals: .Meenfactures appro oetely 20,000 rocket
projectiles per day; 170mm and 210mm are also produced.
e. Orsk, southern Urals: Produces artillery ehells.
Z. Stalin?, Donets Basin: This plant consists of 18 buildings in which
machineey from Bydgoszcz, Poland, has been installed. Three presses
-for 172mm shells and a double press for 57mm shells are among the
vaehines with which the plant is equipped. Tank and anti-tank shells
are mennfactured., Electric power is obtained from Voroshilovsk.
ge StarybYkhow, near Kiev: The small arms factory hare also turns out
eneranition for the 6,no. machine pistol.
h. Chelyabinsk: Plant of
meter &vale and 300mn
approximately 3,000 morkers produces 120!m
howitzer shells.
1. UshuMka (sic: Uz4um?),
panufactured here; the
Chelyabinsk.
in the Urals: Anti-aircraft *fte: -Lion is
plant has road and rail communications with
6. The large Zerod Petrovenko between Stalin? and Voroshilovgrad, which was
cempletely destroyed during the mar, has been rebuilt. Large block of
dwelling houses were erected nearby in 1948. No information is available
an to the nature of current production.
7. A foundry employing approximately 2,000 workers in the vicinity of the
Lyublino suburb of Moscow is currently casting 100mm shell casings and
air hoe& asings ranging from one to three meterS in length.
Munitions factories are located also in the following places but no
information concerning them is available:
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Aekhargeldk
nakal? approximately 15 kilometers east of Chelyabinsk
Borovsk, near Molotov: Currently employs forced laborers, including
former members of ths Vlassov Amy.
Enguima? east of Kazan
0rozny, central Caucasus
Namerovo, Siberia
Kraany Luch? near Stalino in the Donets Basin
Leningrad
Minsk
Hovosibirek
*Molotov
Plaeekoyes approximately 50 kilometers southwest of Tula on the
railway line frail Tula to Orel
yalta
Yelanuga, Tatar ASSHe Has railway connections with Chistepol.
Zaporoshe
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The following factories produce armaments:
Stallmmds The Red Barricades Factory, with a complement of 65,000
wmicars? is the largest gun factory in the Soviet Union. Guns of the
heaviact type for railmwrxmmtings? coastal defenses, and naval
batteries are manufactured here? Steel is obtained from the Red
October Factory.
(7211risl: The second largest gun factory in the Soviet Union is located
ecme five kilometers southwest of this city. Lame-caliber gun barrels
wrl anti-tank guns ranging in size from 37Mm to 100m are manufactured.
The plant is equipped with 10 Siemens*Martin hirnaces.
1..vjgr.s A.large rolling mill employing 20,000 workers produces short,-
barrelled cannon and 37.Mm and 571um anti-tank guns0
gplairjo?, near Leningrad: Shields for field pieces end anti-tank guns
are produced at the armor plate factory.
Kui..ey.: The centrifuge factory produces machine pistols and 12.7dm
aircraft machine guns. Another factory in Run chivvy a new one, mania-
factures machine gun ammunition belts.
Iankasp The Stalin Factory in the Forel section of the city manu-
factures machine tools and guns for T-143 tankso
I4E4p,A, Donets Basin: Plant producing barrels for field. pieces.
LDOKEtaz: An unconfirmed report states that a mortar factory is
located here, 25 kilometers southeast of Moscowo
Molotov: A plant here produces guns of an unidentified type,*
Rostov: The USSR's largest agricultural machinery plant9 which is
located in Rostov? has a section charged with the production Of mortars
and field gunso
gfakarati (sic): A plant produces artillery pieces of an unidentified type.
&Enka: The tank factory manufactures 75mm anti-tank guns and artillery
pieces of 150 mm, and larger.
armkAoy, south of Moscow Produces barrels for field gunso
glarita4ov:- A mart arms production center manufacturing the following
items: 6.8 mm machine pistols, snipers' rifles with telescopic sights,
pistols, German 14,44 carbines Russian gas-action rifles, and Russian
carbines with automatic firing attachments.
kaktals: A plant here achieves an annual production of 79,000 machine
pistols; a new type of machine gun and Rheinmetall-Borslg anti-aircraft
guns in sizes up to & are also manufacturado
atelyabd,aga: Tank Plant II manufacturee 100mm anti-tank guns-.
Iwao This city contains several giants for the production of carbines
and water-cooled 20mm machine guns.
Ushumka (sic): A plant here manufactures infantry small arms and
aircraft cannon.
11111111111[Comments No such town is listed or shown on available maps.
Source possibly means Solikamsk, about 180 km by air north of Molotov.
*111111111111ammea.,..: Since Zhukovka is same 60 km or more from Bryansk. either
source is Mistaken about the dIztz=cc from Bryansk or the fartory is not
actually in the town of Zhukovka. The Bryansk-Smolonak road does not pass
through Zhakovkao
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