ZAVOD IMENI MASLENIKOV NO. 42 (ZIM) AT KUYBYSHEV

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Kuybyshev Oblast)
SUBJECT Zavod imeni Maslenikov No, 112 (ZIM)
at Kuybyshev
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11 Aug, 1952
(LISTED BELOW)
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
1, Before the 1917 revolution, Zavod (Factory) Number 112 at Kuybyshev manu-
factured small arms ammunition. From 1917 until 1939 the factory made
watches. In 1936 the factory's name was changed to ZIM (Zavod-imeni
Maslenikov). In 1948 part of-the plant still produced watches; its other
products were unknown.
2, The plant was composed of 26 shops and employed about 181,000 workers in
three shifts. The assembly shop was classified secret,, and =-=ktraordinary
security precautions were taken for this shop in addition to the security
measures for the plant as a whole. A barbed-wire fence isolated the
assembly shop from the rest of the plant,
3. The director of the plant,was Beloberodov,, an engineer colonel in the
Soviet army, The former director was Radionov. Peisakhovich was in
charge of Shop Number 6, During the two-month period that a worker was
an apprentice,, he received 285 rubles a month. A beginning worker received
700 rubles a month, while.a worker with two to five years' experience earned
800 to 900 rubles a..month. A Stakhanovite earned about 1,100 rubles a
month,
The ZIM plant was guarded by male and female guards in civilian clothes,
The plant was surrounded by a wooden and stone fence; at the four corners
of the yard there were wooden towers manned by MVD troops wearing blue
shoulder boards and armed with machine guns.
The plant had a railroad siding where steel rods of diameters iip to eight
inches were brought in. Steel,, aluminum,, copper, bronze., and pig iron of
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various shapes were also brought in by rail. Wood was imported for the
metal shop.
Attachment 1 sketch
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for another report on the Maslonikov
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two reports in. regard to the number of workers and the nature of the
factory vs production.
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