THE NKMZ IN KRAMATORSK

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT The llic1,12 in Kraratorsk
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1.. The entire plant equiprent of the WIZ (Novo Kramatorski as,vod. ltrazhelogp
Eashinostroyenia imeni Lenina) was built in the 1930s.
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condition, mostly because it had. been put into operation gradually.
2. .The IlIaZ had a large ,and well-equipped mechanical repairs shop (sbep #10.
The office of the chief mechanicsassisted by shop mechanics, was responsible
for the naintenance and repair of eguipment, They made rcutine inspections
25X1Xml .carried out repairs because of improper use of tne.
machines and lack of skilled personnel handling them, the breatrage rose to
abnormal proportions, especially during the first three or fotr years of
operations. Repairs were clarsified in four categories:
-2c1;,1717,o,:pnr:rral iech in.'..t.,e?.;0:0nte with the rinn
Urkeep and maintenance.
c. Linor repairs
d. Capital repairs
Time Sheet inspection charts for each piece of machinery were kept in the
office of the chief engineer but were seldom considered. The complete aata.
and time limit for the reDairs and amortization of the equipment were not
fixed at the plant but wero established by the Technical Department of the
Unistry of Heavy 11achinery, These rules were standard for all installations
of heavy machinery construction in the. USSR.
Press Shoo
The follouing equipment was to be found in the press shon of the lanz at
Kramatorsk:
a. A steam-hydraulic forging press with a reximumeaacity of 10,000
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tons. The press Is vertical with foor ;:o'L nd.oos constouct M
Ge mla ny by t.he firm Rye' raul i c in the 10' T /6.'iformant P i
3at i3 faCtOrY. hen last seen the oress w.to in go-A
working:, condition,
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b. steam-hydraulic for,:int; oress 1,rith a ,Iaximum caoacity of 2,000 tons.
The press is vertical vith foor okilars and uas constoucted in ';ermany
by Schloe!-enn in the 1930s, Its oerforniance is .;ood
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was in qood workinl cndition.
c. A steam-hydraulic for,;in,',-; press with a MkXi MUM C:Z :sae ty n f 1,50C, tons,
It was constructed in riermany by ,:lchlonmann. he oress,
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d. A horizontal steam-hydraulic press with a Laximum oa?:ocity of 3,000
tons. it o.ns constructed by jchloemann in :=ermany.
The presses vere serviced by overhead brld?,,e cranen. The overheod bridge,
cr-,ne over n ten thousand-ton cress had i freireyt lond caoacity of
20-250 tons.I.=. does not remErbe,- the name of the firm nuculyin ; the
cranes. For.ling ,,,ns serviced by susoension til Lino; crpne9. Cutting of
sample -retn1 as done by two 'Heller SN1,15, each wi th a disk of 1,100-2,000 mm
maximum diameter.IIIIIIII1Hoes not mmemher vether the InneAling furnaces
worked ln r,,as or oil. The rest of the equipment in this shoo was routine
and of no special interest.
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ForginG: and Extrusion Shop
The following equipment .,as in the forning and extrusion shop of the NSM.4;
a. One steam-hydraulic rress with a maximun c-ooleity of 300 tons. It ons
constructed in Germany by EO.UCO.
b. Two oteam-hydraulic oresses with a moximum caoacity of 600 tons each.
c. One steam-hydraulic press with a mximum capacity of 300 tons.
cL About 15 pneumatic forging ha.,mer 3 with the vei of the head rnog'-zi?;
from 0.05 ton to 3 tons .ach. These howlers were suidol Lod by the
German firm 7;1.1111.1C0 11Led by n
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also two or three more hammers produced by the Old Krpmetorsh1 Plant
(SKEZ) Which vere similar to the British pattern. The bridge crones
operating at the shop had been constructed at the 3r2 and the
Castirk&Shops
6. At the NOZ there were two shops for casting ironinumbcred Shop #1 and
Shop # 2. Both shops had bridge cranes with a load capacity of 50 tons each.
a. Shoo # 1 of heavy and medium eastino had two or three cuoola forn Leen
with a capacity of 10 tons sach. The furnaces were equipped with
receivers.(khranilishche).
b. Shop # 2 of light and medium casting had two or three curola furnaces
with 0 maximum ca.acity. of 5-7 tons each, ,roducinn; each 5-7 tons of
liquid cast iron per hour. .
?1oldin9 Shop
7. The molding section of the N.l.!77.. was mechanized. Moldingwas done by hand,
using pneumatic instruments, rammer s and hammers. The shoo had modern
equipment, constructed in the 1230s. 31nd slin,Trs were autoa,atic and trains
bringing sand to the shop were unloaded by mechanical,devices. too
25X1X exception of cupola furnaces and cranes, the equipment of this shop 'INS
imported cannot identify the countries supplying the ego prnnt bot
states that occording to his calculations the equioment should st1.1.1 be in
good working condition in 1950.
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1 C;I:Wrkm :T1,1 Trrii in Shce)
. The steel caeting ene triteliee hOJ ttl'e N:11i, had three or five open
heerth furneces e:ith e ceeecity -)f 30-60 tons each end crenee eith a
loed cneecity ue Le 75 teles eech, constructed. at the -end the
frieming wan done by mcch enicel ane eee -eeane; compressed eir ees e',se ueed,
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chenicai ho nencral intemation
roA 7 the metal-cuttine ealle vere lmported, latLes eere eenstructed
by vell-known foreign firma welch sueelied the N fith eheir eAest
eroduction a smell nuetbee ef eecere f,-els hid been
eredeced et the Soviet machine tool paint erteni ank: had proved
ineatisfectory, jine. to shop's foreman, ehe Soeietemadc tool were
we.61 con8tructed bet the metelial of ettich they eera mede val of poor
quality and the toels broke -hertly after ese.
..21.211f=y: or :tchine :oels
10. The rincipel eu .3iers of -echine tool to the :.'e.1.1Z were the follatin;e
a Scheisser.etrlee a qerean firm eupplying planing mills, vertical
eerine and turle:ne 1,thes, 4earemi1line, .lechinery.
alner,
c. heinee e a German firm sepplyine ell Lyes of eechinere Including
d. Kreven, e LiiiYt.sh firm sup.lyin heeery cuttine lathes and hi.fl poeer
e. Lorenz, a 1.1' firm upelyine genrecatting nexhines.
f. 1:'erel1 (or Sykes-r.,rell?).,Aying ,t,Lr-cuttin eechinee.
11. Only one of the deliveries wade by Lorenz vr,s unsntisfgletorv. Anntho,f,
delivery ees that of a unique eiece of maelnere never eueeeeee,1 le eeelitei
or perform:Ince oy erty other -Tar eiener over 25X1A
planer res mede for helical -;eerine yithout ane groove ene )r straight
tooth -'ears.
,ermen army reueelying berini; machinery, revolvin and
serewecuttiee lethes,
geer-cuttineiathes
lathes for t,le strierine shoe.
leere YiIls
12.. There iere several lore eills (machines?) at the 11122 which were essentlek
to the elant'e eree:uctien. The adminietreLion of the plant, rataer than it%
the mills be idle, freeuently put then to teaks other than those ree :hich
the: were ori?leelly designed handled by unskilled workers, the expensive
toels broke ?!,'ter e shert operation. The damaeo lees es acielly tEeeetrous
aa theue :A.".le were exeensive and capable of producing lar 'e essential
eerte with the necoeslry .recision. The fellowiue vorked on the
ereductien of'un barrels for naval and ceeetal artillery:
". vertical borin and turnini 1,the :th an ee roxivAte bed len;th of
10,000 mm. It v:a.- constructed by 3cheis5eDefries.
b. Planine lethe with the bed about 2,$)00 x 6,000 em or
conetructed by 2chmisseT,efries.
lennne incline, :eith bed about 2,000 me X1,0a) .mm,
elner.
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Geer daner, for cettine, Ath a die:re-ter tin to
structed by the U0 fire of Yerell or Sykes-Farell.
A e,e..r-cuttine lactline for cross-cuttine er Peelr, eith a dleeteter up to
6,000 me. :=ource believes tle,t t! ere were two eills of tyee,
cenetructed by ::.cl'eissefee:!ries.
Cutting l'thes, several, 1-Ith te-e 25X1X
distance beteeen centers 26 meters :centimeters':), huilt be reven, a
British firm,
perhaps le.reer,
constructed by
1,000 me, con-
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13 'riother lar.w forg- ress s cquired in Germany and brought to tt.e MMZ
in 1934 lt -as he first or-!ss of that size to be ree,,,Ived it the Dlant,
-rid rerhapE in the 1.5:7;31i as a 1,ho1e. The press waF, so large t' at foundation
eits 10 m deo had ti be dug for its installation. A srecial shop oing
it as rl.inaed, blt the projeA was never crried out, The 'giant press
-r,:s 1,-ft in the open for foer years, uW1 1938, when f.t as silip:;ed to
;.ariupol in the Ukraine, he it ras reassembled .nd out into a eration.
The ,A-,,ss was a steam-hyoraulic forJc Press ,roduced in emany by '.;chloemaual.
The c.4nacity of this ores s was 15,000 tons, the wei.;ht aha2t 3,600 :,,ons.
The tt,o jaws of the lol-er transverse of the 7ress were m\de of cast otoel
e2 ;Lin about 16 t)ns e,ch, The leth of the posts w.s 25 meters, with
tn eAternal dia.,:eter of 1,1,0 mm. The le-.-gth of the her: was 10 meters and
the vioth was tree meters. ',:he distance bet::ecn :gear centers was
3.P m (sic). .111 overhead bride cr5ne :iith a loid capacity of 300-350 tons
25X1X serwleed this .;ress believes that this cr,ne was
sulied by the Cgechosleval, firm Ckoda. the saLie 25X1X
firm su-plied the NK th itner cranes, in 7-!rticular a bridge cr.me 4th
lo-d cauacity of ,40 tons which is str!tioned in mechanical shop k 2. The
cr.,nes :!ere well cinstruete and gwe an excellent performance.
St.op.of Metal Construction
14. This *as one if the 3 Irgest shops in the NITLZ. The equipment was exceltent
and the sop could actually produce any metal structures requireth flly
the cuttin,..g ano bending of sheet Letal was iimited by the size anti caoacity
of shears available at he plant., The 1.,rTest shears at the NK:2 *dere
made by the .;errapn firm ftq,rA (sic). :'hey alloned the cutting of sheet ;otal
of thickness up to a maximum of 36 ir..1 at a width of up to 3,000 ,TA a2L5t
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a cutting pressure up to 75 kltg to a square eter. 25X1X
ro estimates can also be sn.lied to the capacit111111,111.11111hine.
15. Although the shor was exceptionally well equipped, it had no facilities for
auto7latic gas euttlnig and automatic electric welding.
durIng the first years of orld -ar II, there vere no installations if the
type -0entioned in any of the plants in the UC5:i, /egardless of the Pact that
the rvaximum thickness of the nhet rhich could be cut or bent as
11-nitor1 by wailahle tools, th., shop produced metal structures by using
gni in cutting. In Tost structures produced by this shop bening was not
required. The shop -ro,4uced bodies for taffr,s with a thic'