ASBESTOS MILL AND INDUSTRIAL PLANTS IN ASBEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400070004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLAS$IFICATIQN C
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CENTRAL [NTETLLIGNCE AGENCY
INFORM T ON REPORT
REPORT NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
SUBJECT Asbestos Mill and Industrial Plants in Asbest
25X1 C
DATE DISTR. 21 Feb 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Location
The asbestos mill is about 14 milos south of the large E-W
main street of ASBEST (61?30'E/57 00'N), Sverdlovsk Oblast,
southeast of town. There is a large swamp north of the mill
and to the west a park about 1,200 feet square. For location,
see Annex 1.
2. Plant Installations
a. According to Soviet workers, the asbestos mill existed
before WW I,# Except for the Baranith department, which was
built by German PWs and put in operation in 1946, all buildings
of the plant are old,
b. All of the plant machinery was replaced in 1948 by new or
almost new machinery dismantled in Germany. A factory spur
track was not observed. The finished products were trucled to
the railroad station. For plant Installations see Annex 2.
Work Force
A total of 3 500 workers, including many Volga Germans working
in three shifts, in addition to 24 German PWs employed as spe-
cialists and drivers.
Production
Clutch plates
Gaskets
Asbestos fabrics for coverings
Asbestos carpets
Hose
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2 Annexes: 1. Asbestos Plant and Industrial Installations
in ASBEST
Installations of the Asbestos Mill in ASBEST.
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Asbestos mill, cal
Asbestos mill No, 1 s available
Asbestos mill No. 2, no ?ails available
Asbestos mill No. 3, no details available
5. Asbestos pit Karriere 11
60 Asbestos pit Karriere 7/4
3.
Red October asbestos-mill
Asbestos pit Kariere 2/160.
9. Two small asbestos pits
10, Three asbestos heaps, the biggest being about 150 feet high
11, Internment camp for female forced labor
12. Shed housing electric locomotives operating in the
asbestos pits
13. Collective farm
14, Athletic field
15. Park, about 1,200x1,200 feet
ead factory with conspicuous dome
Water tower, about 90 feet high
bite, where large dwelling houses have been under
since 1948, Work on three houses had started
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20. Inter
21, Mechanical
spare parts an
22, Mechanical plant, cal
factory" by PWs. A new
construction. This plant a
asbestos factories.
23, Building site for dwelling hou'rT
120 two and three-story buildings was comp
ed. "locomotive
still under {
apical work for
24. "Garrison", fpomprised of 16 large cantonment buildings,
Q1uarters of guard personnel
25, PW Camp No. 7314/1.
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