ALUMINUM PLANT AT VOLKHOVSTROI

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010200050006-1
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• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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EJECT Aluminum Plant at Volkhovstroi
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lent installations. Date of observation: August 1945 to March
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1948. (No FW No) (paras 1 thigh 4)
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PW,, 26, fanner, worked as transportation and construction hand
in the plant from October 1945 to March 194$. His knowledge of the
Rissian language enabled him to converse with Soviet plant personnel.
No) (paras 9 through il)
On the eastern outskirts of Volkhov\troi (32?21'E/59?
grad Oblast, some hundred meters east of the power plant
l
ine.
ov River, south of the Leningrad-Tikhvin railroad
allations:
The plant was 20 years old and was to be greatly eislarged before
the war, a project which did not proceed beyond the first stage.
The moat important plant installations, evacuated to the Ural in
1942, returned and the slight war damages were repaired in 1945.
North was being equipped with new American, installa-
Worksho
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w' ioiii `iii -the lade Summer of 1946. Eighty tubs were put into
operation; ten testing tubs have been installed since iLuiust 1947.
b. In Workshop South old aluminum tubs were dismantled ail rein
stalled. fifty percent (about. 40)resumed operation in the Summer
of 1947.
c. The transformer station was being equipped with five Ame*can
transformers, five in operation, one in reserve, and ten rectZiers.
d. It was believed that the Aluminum dressing plant would not ')e
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1947, was still being equipped with mixing machines and furnaces
by March 1948. For plant layout see Annex 1. (For better survey
on the plant area, many construction cabins, small wooden adminis-
tration buildings and sheds were not entered on the sketch which
contains.the essential plant buildings only.)
Work
3. Force
A total of 3,000 laborers, 30 percent women, working in three
shifts; 900 additional FWs doing clearing and constructions work.
4. Production*-.
5. With the reconstructions started by the end of June 1945, the first
workshops resumed production in late 1946! According to a Soviet
foreman the plant is to be completed by the end of the present 5-
Lear Plan's
1uminum bars, 80 x 30 x 20 am, with firm designa
inscribed. Output was not deter fined.
6. Measuring instruments above the tubs indicated an alectric power of
5,000 to 6,000 amperes and a tension of three to six volts.
7. A cement factory was being reconstructed in the northeast part of
the plant area. Four reconstructed silos were used as china clay
stores. For plant layout see Annex 2.
8. Production: Aluminum bars, output unknown.
The two aacent melting shops each measured 150 x 30 meters and
had four stories. For sketch of average tubs see Annex 3.
10. One workshop had testing tubs of German, American, English, French
and Polish origin.,
11. The bauxite dressing shop had 11 containers,of English origin,
10 meters high, 45 meters in diameter; an alleged bauxite wash-
ing installation with soda admixtures, and the following installa-
tions:
18 to 20 coal-fired insulated boilers
8 boilers. without firing but with pipe connection (4 meters high,
3 meters in diameter)
3horizontal rotary drums (4 meters long, I meters in diameter)
with gear drive.
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Field Comment:
a. Although the periods of observation date back to early
194 the agreeing statements give the first detailed
post-war information on the plant layout, plant installa-
tion etc...
b. Annex 1 and 2 agree on the general plant layout and
approach facts given on an aerial photograph of 11 September
1941.
3 Annexes 3 sketches.
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legend to Annex 1:
1 Administration, 80 x 15 x 20 meters, four stories, with
dispensary and presumably laboratory.
2 Building, apartments of key-personnel, brick and clinker
structure, 80 x 15 x 20 meters
4 Brar1ching-
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pow r plant r measures 50 x 12
x 3 meters
5 Transformer , 60 x 25 x 30 meters with flat
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ton rectifiers with five transformers and chokes
b Switch board and control device for transformer
station
c Smafl transformer
Wprkst`iop under construction, iron structure, 80.x 30 x 25
ttetes to be production shop
Twc'electrolysis shops
North shop, 115 x 30 x 25 meters, with two lines of
light openings and flat roof, has silo for bauxite
dust, 30 meters high in the west part of the build-
ing and four lines of each 20 tubs for aluminum
manufacture
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b BuildingAeight testing tubs for aluminum alloys and
smokestack 7 meters higher than the roof
Workshop South, same as a), also with silo, but only
40 tubs in operation
d Annex stores for aluminum bars
Partially destroyed shop, used as stores for sables
and tools
Stores with carbon electrode blocks and workshop to
insert conductor rails into carbon blocks
Area of bauxite-earth dressing pl@At under reconstruc-
tion, no details available
10 Heating plant, 80 x 30 x 30 meters with four smote-
stacks, 15. meters high, and four heating furnaces
mostly fueled witjr peat
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a Narrow-gauge railroad line to peat area
11 Mechanical workshop
a Small foundry
b Mevhanical department with approximately 50
machine tools of various types
12 Oil and gasoline dump with four banks, 6 meters
high, 8 meters diameter, underground depth of tank
unknown, painted grey-green.
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a Distribution point with pip and valves
Cement factory, 120 x 30 x 25 meters with eight
semi-circular adjacent silos, 35 meters high wittt
flat roof reconstructed in 1948
Gasoline bunker.
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Legend to Annex 2
1 Administration, 60 x 15 meters,four stories
2 Laboratory, 60 x 15 meters, four stories, not
completely installed, no details available
3 Power station, 80 x 1k x 14 meters, installations
not identified
Casting shop No 1, 120 x 25 x 12 meters, with 70
tubs 4.7 x 1.5.x 0.5 meters, open on top, ten
additional tubs of various types (testing tubs
according to Soviet statements) of which the best
type will be installed in casting shop No 3.
Casting shop No 2, same size as No 1, with 80 tubs,
production started in 1946
6 Casting shop No 3, under construction, iron frame,
120 x 30 x 12 meters, completed
7 Four-story storage building for completed aluminum
bars with canteen on the second floor. Main 115uild-
ing (a) 125 x 30. meters, (b) wing, 60 x 30 meters
(c) east wing, 35 x 30 meters, building partially
destroyed.
8 Stores with carbon electrodes and construction materials,
wooden sheds
a Wooden building with small electro workshop
9 Mechanical department "RMC", 150 x 40 x 10 meters,
not completely installed. The small foundry in the
west section of the building produced spare parts.
The east section housed a forge and workshops
10 Destroyed workshops
11 Boiler house with four steam boilers, heating plant
for the plant and for the town.
12 Bauxite dressing shop, under construction since late
1946.
a 60 sr 50 meters, three stories
b 50 x 70 meters, three stories
c 80 x 30 meters, three stories
a 30 x 40 meters, t3 stories
e 70 x 50 meters, two stories
f 50 x 10 meters, tvver
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Boiler and furnace parts are stored near the building.
13 Bauxite dressing plant, 140 x 40 x 10 meters, under
construction.
14 Bauxite store, 120 x 60 x 10 meters, vacant, with
railroad track leading through the building
15 Cement factory, twin-workshop, 150 z 50 meters, partial-
ly destroyed, with one five-story section and one one-
story section
16 Eight silos, 25 meters high, 10 meters in diameter;
4 were repaired.
17 Transformer station.
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A Earth
b Tub with masonry lining, 6 meters long, 3 meters wide
Iron rods.
Copper plate
e Pig-iron plate
f Asbestos layer
g Bailbow
h Two aluminum rails
j Twelve electrodes, each 50 x 50 x 50 cm
k Power line.
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