TRACTOR AND TANK WORKS AT CHELYABINSK

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300490006-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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:31Loa RAL IrELUoENcE AGENCY REPORT
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10 Nov 51
Tank ..eorks at C;helyabiask INCI. O AGCS 2
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and_-:,m1.: works la located a few kiloreters soUth of Chelyabinsk
rwaaliorg the east side of the Taain road leadin,.; *Jouth from the
o,n. road is known as Leninalzaya:Ulitea in Lao of tae todn,
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abicA consist:5ot plants producing. tractors ana talks, a steel
'k.;:tv.ry no roi1in4 mills, and an electrie plant, aas constructed before the
,I1Jsr a p.ri],sc. of year, under the development plan for tho mineral and
ara of Chelyabinsk The 'works is known as the Che/yabinsk Tractor
,ccA CbolTJ.biaski Traktotny Zavodl, becauee it was orizinally built as
3Gh aCO. -cractors are subobeed to be the main, product, The tr-otor plant is
to 1.a.q.a Lq,oen built first The tank plant was joined on to it shortly.
,,r6f0 or derin the war? The rollin4 .tolas were built about the same time
tht; tanx ant.
T1.1 ilefAcrisst cat.?Irpillar tractors were constructed in the tractor plant.
1k-y- was amcan ano German O or cent of the work was on the conveyor
4,y1,tem, InJormant heard that rodern tanks were manufactured in the
?lant situa;ed south of the tractor plant. Ore was treated in blast and
Oarnaces at the steel 1'oun6ry and rollin mills, situated south of
-cljoihing tho tank blunt, The number of furnaces was not known.
In tb '.ru,otor ',,M,ut nearly 15,000 workers were on'1oyed iuc.n, oviA
prisoners, anti German P.s, in the tank p1an4 0v1,Jt civilian ,:orkJra
ni ',rilcnors, but no German P.4s. were.amployea Ui =4?,r,;brs in Lac steel
mills was not knoorn It 44'3 0,Uu TLLAt C/Iti olurks
a'i aoca.; ;50,000 workers in three shifts,
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Metale of various kinds and shapes were received by the traotor plant from
the steel foundry and rolling mills, Ore foethe blast eurnaces was received
from the Chelyabinsk area. Coal for the electric prant came from a coal mine
ahout 30 kilometers from Chelyabinsk. Its name and direction were not known,
It Was known, however? that this mine had 46 shafts and that the coal was at
A ureet depth uaderground, It was not of good quality but was plentiful,
c?wing to dampnese,work in this Mina:was performed.in rubber suits, Information
obout the coal mine came from mfp who had worked there.
curJty Measures
The traotor plant itself, and as far as the eye could see beyond it, was
eoerounded by a high fence. Watchtowers Were situated outside the works at
interstale of about 200 meters. Inside the,works and at the entrances there
westeivilian guards. Workers passee were exam _ned, Supervision of the
Soviet prisoners and the German FWs was carried out by military guards0
sayout of Worka
eread out over an area of more thah 20 (square ?) kilometer
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t1.7 works
aad thus prevented
\the buildisigs and workshops were unusually large
Et wider view -
. Details are as follows
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Tractor Plant?Approximately 3 km long by 2 km al:de.
1-5 on eketoh are very.long, two-storied bribKualldino. 1 end
were used iv,' the administration offices of thiltractor plent.
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were reinfored concrete shops, averaging ZOO meters In
Igth and about 15-20 meters highs' They were used for the most part
for the rseembly of traotors on conVeyor belts. South of these shops
there were many other buildings which could not be identified,
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is the approximate,. sit of the electric plantl,which may
ee been about 300 meters iongS i.
Tenk Factory? extends over an area of 2,x 2 kilometers.
Steel Foundry, RoUing Wills and Illaet, Furnace', .
d, Running along the western and eastern sides of the works there were
eeveral Soviet gauge railway lines which branched off into the works..
There were stopping places and long ramps. Besidet smaller roads, one or
Seo main roads ran through the tractor plant from north to south which
so,!parently coemeoted the different plants. The impression which may h50X1 -HUM_
geined that all the plants are rectilinear is not correct.
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