ROSTSELMASH AGRICULTURAL MACHINE FACTORY IN ROSTOV

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTEL . , L CY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
USSR (Rostov Oblast)
DATE DISTR.
18 Jan. 1950
SUBJECT
Rostselnash Agricultural Eachine Factory
in Rostov
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1. Location:
The Rostselmash Agricultural 14ach is located on
the northeast edge of ROSTOV (390 4%111001-j 14N), Rostov OblastD
on the road to SHIAKHTI and one mile northeast of the RO STOV
freight .station.. The northeast ROSTOV suburb and suburban
railroad station are also called SELMASH.
2. Plant installations:
The plant was almost co.iplotely destroyed i_n the war. Recon-
struction work, mainly by German 4s,started in 1945. Pro-
duction was resumed in the first repaired departments in the
fall of 1946. It was planned to reconstruct all installa-
tions b- t*o=949 October Revolution Day 1'948 but this was not
25X1A done. it may have been postponed until
the 0urnier . The plant area, about 1, 00 x 3,000 feet
is densely covered with buildinr?s. Some of the new workshops
had been dismantled in one of the Herrmann Goering Plants in
the Soviet k*one of Germany and were set up iri the Rostselmash
Agricultural Machine factory. All the plant machinery, mostly
from Germany, is new. Work was done at an assembly line..
Only the foundry equipment was relatively primitive but it
was being continually improved by novel machines.. A railroad
spur track with several branch lines and three factorl-owned
locomotives is available. for plant layout,3ee Annex.
3. V~ork force:
4. Products
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Soviet cadre workers spoke of 24,000,but this was thought to
be overrated. About 1,300 PWs did cony. uc
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a. 'rho Rostselmash Plant is carried as
number 80 on the ROSTOV town map, dated August 1941About 20,000 workers were employed there before the war;
thus, the reported number of workers n- be correct.
b. The reported location of the plant is correct.
c. The plant installations are reported for the first time.
The data on the attached sketch require confirmation.
1 Annex: Rostselmash Agricultural Machine r'actory in ROSTOV.
Legend to Annex:
1 Three administration buildings
2 Four entrances with approach roads, the southern one
being blocked
3 Gardener' a grounds
4 Garage
5 DV. Camp No 7182/2
6 Dwelling house
7 Apprentices' school building
8 Old building, formerly occupied by PWs
9 Locomotive shed
10 Coal dump
11 Mechanical workshop
12, 13 Larehouse, 90 x 450 feet, with loading ramp for rail-
road freight cars; flats for plant officials on the
second floor.
14 Assemb"-y hall and paint shop )
) 90 x 450 feet
15 Hardening and cleaning department)
16 Foundry, 75 x 180 feet
17 Mechanical workshop, 90 x 450 feet
18 Carpentry
19 Drying room
20 Slag concrete department
21 Timber dump
22 Sawmill
23 Power plant, 60 x 120 feet, with smokestack
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25 Foundry, 120 x 240 feet
26 New small workshop
27 Gasworks, 60 ,. 180 feet
28 New large workshop, 180 x 450 feet
29 War material dump
30 Iron and rail dump
31 Soviet convicts' camp.
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