PLANT(Sanitized) IN IZHEVSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400070005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY USSR (Udhnurt ASSR)
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DATE DISTR. 11 March Lq,
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ATED INFORMATION
Plant in Izhevsk (53?iO'E/56?50'N), Udmurt; ASSR,iS west of the town,
southeast o the dam reservoir (See Annex 1).'
2. Plant installations:
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CLASSIFICATION COT+iFIU Tom,
The following departments are, recorded.
(1) Plant for infantry weapons
(2) Motorcycle plant
(3) Boiler house with seven furnaces (see 3a through
(3a) Coal dump
(4)4Hammer mill
a. Production:
a 1 x41 x 0.1 meters were cut and
h machine shop)
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 (b) Lathe shop. Rough turning of rolls (1.5 x 0.2 meters),weight"
150 pounds.
(7) Forge
(B) Open-hearth plant
(9) Ammunition clip department
(10) Boiler house, and electric connections (this building was under
(5) Rolling Mill
($a) boiler house (5a through d are furnaces)
(5b) High smokestack
(50:) Coal dump
special guard)
Wire-hardening shop
Test department.(tasting of track shoes)
T'rRck shoe department
a. Production:
Track shoes for tanks. Two parallel operational passes each with
five punches and metal-working machines. Each track block passed
through five machines. Processing of 350 kg of steel was the shift
norm. The finishing production of the caterpillar tracks was done in
a special assembling and testing department.
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(19) Carpentry
(20) Depot
(21) Two kitchens
(22) Wood dump
(23) Living quarters of the guard unit
(24) Watchtowers
K. Ovrflow canal of the reservoir.
(18) Annealing department (electric furnaces)
b. ~iork force-
Sixty Soviet workmen and 30 PVs
(14a and 14 b) Two foundries
.(15), Rolling mill
(16) Administration
(17) Sawmill
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3. Plant work force and working time:
Six thousand men working in three 8-hour shifts.
4. Shipments:
The finished products wee submitted for acceptance to military committees
at1d civilians and shipped by rail. The machine guns were packed in boxes (1.5
meters square) before shipment. The motorcycles were loaded in boxcars.
5. Production:
Small arms, automatic weapons"(light machine guns and heavy machine guns),
single parts for tanks and motorcycles. No indications are available on the
production amount.'
6. Security:
Guard duty was done by armed, uniformed plant police. Sentiies were sta-
tioned at many workshops. the watchtowers outside the plant area were manned
with sentries.
anent?
The Izhevsk Plants
wartimes..
and the motorcycle Plant are knowh from
The ?:lanta machine tool plant, produced infantry weapons (rifles,
machine s, p stols) during the war.
Plan ametallurgical plant, produced Ferro-alloys and special
The Motorcycle Plant bu-i.lt motorcycles (types 'Ish 2, 7, 8, 9" with a
piston displacements ranging from 350 to 750 cubic centimetets) with sidecars
It allegedly had an annual capacity of 5,000 units.
According to this report all three plants seem to be united into one
combine or at least are on a common plant site.
No conclusions can be drawn from the observed production au
and the production amount. The production recorded in wartime is apparett-
ly continued.
2 Annexes: Plant
in Izhevsk, Udmurt ASSR.
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