ASBESTOS PLANTS (Sanitized)IN ASBEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400080009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENT PAL IN `ELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1 REPORT NO.
E TY INFORMATION
INF I IATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Sv66;rdlovsk Oblast) DATE DISTR
25X1 SUBJECT Asbestos Plants
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1. Location-:
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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b, 1952
P1aet About 1 km northwest of the railroad station ofAsbest
(61 30'E/57 00'N), Sverdlovsk Oblast, 360 meters south of a lake,
and several hundred meters east of the main asbestos mine.
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Plant designated "Giant" Plant : 500 meters SSE of giant
150 me ers west of the passenger railroad station, and 2 kris
from an center. A transformer station is 270 meters south of
Plant
a. Plant
operatio
overhauled.E
covers about 300 x 270 meters. The plant suspended
six week t!ffobaervp in the Fall of 1946 to be completely
any new constructions.
b. Plan
install-
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did not observe any
c. Both plants were
railroad tracks and
railroad system for
d. Po
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Ox 180 meters. It is a newer type of
It.was overhauled from January to
operations were discontinued. Source
new constructions.
connected to the railroad station by Soviet
had an additional narrow-gauge electrified
shipments of material and waste,
s supplied from the outside. Plant
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,Plan employed about 450 laborers, including PWs and 70
perce en.
PlantIemployed 550 laborers including PWs and 70 percent
women.
4. Production :
a. Plant
.4 4-
average o
a#91 "
AEh Plant
(dust) up to..type No 3 with five to six-mm fibers.
The types of asbestos are classified according to their quality,
IC.mmen.t :
average outp 1 of 45 sons per shiit, excluding asbestos as
_a Lives a good survey on the large
asbestos mines and asbestos processing plants. The plants and
auxiliary installations farther to the southwest were previously
recorded. Being partially confirmed by previous reports
b.' The ar-25X1
rangement of workshops in the order or e p ess is
deemed probable, excellent ge&'al survey on the
installations an is a g e. er. Thar-e- is hardly any -corres.
pondence to the 'diagrammatic sketch of'- a previous report' ihitb, how-
ever, entirely at variance with attached Annexes.
I. Further;informaat?on is ,required to confirm the report -,and to
mte the va'late and correcthQss of its contents.
3 Camp..of women convicts
4 Barn for electric locomotives
produced asbestos of types No 3 to No 7 and had'an
of 28 to 30 tons per shift.
nroducedasbestos of types No 3 to No 7 and had an
Asbestos Plants
Switching station
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2 Asbestos Plant
5 Asbestos plant
6 Electric station
7 Main asbestos mine,Karriere
3 North-Karriere
,Q_.-PW Camp No 7314/1, changed into
No Change In Class.
^ Declassified
Class. Changed To: TS S
Auth.:
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10 Red October Asbestos Plant
11 Electrified railroad
12 South-Karriere
1 Underground dumps for-the storage of asbestos stones
2 Bunker for stones
3 Rolls
4 Conveyer belt
'Bunker
6 Rolls
7 Stone crushing machine
3 'Conveyer belt
9 Bunker
10 Stone crushing machine
11 Simon plant department
12 Elevator
13 Conveyer belt
(Items No 1 through 12 are covered by a roof, 135 x 36 meters).
14 Stores with wet stones, 36 x 18 meters
15 Stone drying plant,
27 x 18 meters
16 Magazine for dried stones, 36 x 18 meters
17 Mill with four sections
a Bunker for stone waste
Installations No 14 to 17 are interconnected by conveyer belts
and covered by a roof, 230 x 45 meters
13 Dust chamber, 36 x 130- meters with conveyer belts coming from
No 17, equipped with a sucker installation
19 Two loading shops, each 36 x 13-x- meters
20 Forge, 18 x ll meters
21 Mechanical workshop, 18 x 11 meters
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22 Central power station, 132 x 7, meters
23 Electric workshops, 23 x 11 meters
24 Laboratory, 15 x 11 meters
25' Tool shop, 18 x 11 meters
26 Spare part shop, 36 x 11 meters
27 Building, 25 x 11 meters
a Forge
b Bath
c Dispensary
23 Electrified Railroad
29 Main railroad (Soviet standard gauge)
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1 'Underground dump for asbestos
2 Two buildings with stone crushers, 36 x 18 meters
3 Two Simon installations each 74- x 7- meters
4 Drying plant, 18 x 132 meters with
a heating plant
5 Storage of dry stones, 90 x 27 meters
6 Mill with two sections, 54 x 27 meters
7 Dust chamber, 36 x 13*- meters
8 Stores for asbestos types No 3 to No 6, 110 x 23 meters
Installations No 1 through 8 and the electrified railroad for
shipments of waste are interconnected by a roofed conveyer
line, The dust chamber. has a sucker installation.
9 Sawmill, 132 x 9 x 72 meters
lo Coal bunker, 27 x 9 meters
11 Power station, 132 x 7*- x 9 meters
12 Laboratory, 11 x 72 x 9 meters
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a Bath
b Dispensary 45 x 132 x 6 meters
14 Administration, 36 x 132 meters, with 27-meter side wings,
the building is 132 meters high
15 Electric workshop, 17 x 9 x 6 meters
16 Mechanical workshop, 23 x 9 x 6 meters
17 Storage for spare parts, 13 x 9 x 6 meters
18 Electrified railroad
19 Soviet-gauge railroad track.
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