AIRCRAFT ENGINE PLANT NO. 500 IN MOSCOW-TUSHINO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600250004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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a Zavod Tro 5'OO an aircraft engine plant in, 'oscoti~- Tutpt
ll no e!i ployec rou h y 3 000 xneni':.work3ng 'three shifts. &ceordi'} Soviets the
pl-an. produced -piston engines `and jet enginesa 25 1
the.assambly 'of piston ens ines0 German engineers employed `at the
plant, said; ;that they t?orked near the et.^en ine. department in a _ :t
workshop specially fenced off. From this fact and the observt tion
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that ?.; the German engineers frequently went. to the :test s tand source
inferred that they-were employed for the development . ar construet.on
of .Jet engines
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the let engine test stand t s an ;the
nor awes ern s e p ant 0 It was about 20 ' rioters high and
had a. floor space of 60 squareetersQ A reinforced - ,concretr~
ceiling 30 c. z thick. was put in about 9 meters above th6' , oox p The
engines were r:~ountad on this inserted ceiling; An iron staircase lei
to this ceiling and the tested en;ines were lifted by roans 'of a.
hoistinS devices each jot; engine Baas tested
for 13 . haurs Tvio shipping: boxes 6x3x3 met: rs ! were manufactured
every day . n -the carpenter shop a the PU camp. hes poxes ~^aere
lid -
ihia 40~ rior uas lined with sheet nets .9 an
de of mr,~ bdards~ their" inte
they were painted, rays The boxes were carried by 10 Pots to the
entrance ; to of the" plant ~, From .Soviet wgrl ors the .P s 1 earned
thatx het a fines were to be shippad in the, boxes ; avail 00~ had {
o al of 3,00Q , er.~ployees 9 30 percent of whoi tive a tomen hree
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the P T carp was located in on old
Tao tt pop gust by' the s3.de ' ..~ the not test stand,, about lc)() P
lame t;or1:shop:. Shirp1n boxes .ware --a.iryuf rcirar ? and old
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.repare tere,,he supper, t:,..otion of the boxes -raas detachabj e
and siren. thened by flat iron... Four stron. Iron eyes
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at the upper side of the boxer, ~?i'Lic.iz abo ii; 2 5x. s;
e 20 ki
ccor~dir.~; to a rou;h est1.uate~ 12 to 20 'ho.es "i ere ? .`ani;facyL.tp.. 'eA. (,vz'
re-a.ired .)1thin a 24 hoL14 period,,, The hoes Mere
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facture. on speoiai requests which varied "rea=; !y as to 1:...t.4
to be produced,,, The finished boxes were truc'.ted. away., The t:r,Rc1:~3
-oi,ud _rr-turn after PO minutes at r}ost..
Tile :reef jet errs ins test stand vas at the nort'raestern slue t?' ' the
Plant,. It, ,,as about 1.2 n:ete.r s Ind h end. 25 meters long.., The s d
i'ac iiig the P'Y, camp was covered with a shutter--like wooden ;t;:..ictt e
Ti er noise heard from this test stand was entirely different. from
that Pre-dur:ed by conventional piston engines and therefore I d~ ~r,as;;
general. y a$suried argon P u that ;het ere i.nes 'sere been : e l: ,d
there . a
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jet ?;;
the test stand
secs .; x~ c,x. 1 In the sketch the hei ht of the test stand Is Iv~en
12 ,,etr-is,; c h."L ,.e in the body of the report
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~ ..; sketch of these "boxes a see A.r. ne