TRACTOR PLANT IN CHELYABINSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400100011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25XgEPORT NO.
SECURITY INFORMA.TI01`
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO. 25X1A
COUNTRY USSR (Chelyabinsk Oblast)
SUBJECT Tractor Plant in Chelyabinsk
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DATE DISTR. 21 Feb 1952
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NO. OF ENCLS. I
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Location:
The Stalin Tank and Tractor Plant is three to four. miles
east of the town center of CHELYAI3INSK (61?25'E/55910'N),
Chelyabinsk Oblast, at the end of a broad asphalt road with a
double track streetcar line which terminates in a loop at the
an date of the plant.
2. Installations:
The plant covers an area of about 1,500 acres. The layout
of the plant is characterized by the arrangement of the three
large. workshops for the production of engines, of tractors,
and a third shop which is under construction. These work-
shops are located one behind the other. The :riddle one.
4production of tractors) is about 2,000 feet long. No less
conspicuous is the administration building north of it. This
buildini= is from 12,000 to 15,000 feet long and has a tower.
The plant machinery is chiefly of UTS and German orivinand
delivered before the war. Only a few of them are dis-
mantled German equipment. Electric power is supplied from
without and is transformed in the factory transformer sta-
tion. The plant has a railread connection with three spurs.
(see annex 1).
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 3 . Work force
About 50,000,
4. product ion:
Type t%C80n t
5. Location:
In the ea
street c
C insta
ercent women and Juveniles.
enr'area of about 1.2 x 1 miles. A trans-
altrailable but no power plant. The factory
spurs In the plant area. (see Annex 2)
, includin; many women and juveniles. Work was
or .three shifts. TAelve hundred also worked
my 1948 tanks, then tractors.
t ion
'Pla about 1..8 miles pqu:,~re. i e plant has r spur
trae e Annex 3).
Fifty t in three shifts.
12. 'roductio
Tanks and t rts, tractors including all the required spare
parts .
I 'ield Conunent
a. The Kirov Plant in CHBLYAIINSK was the 4ost important
plant for the production of tanks and self-propelled guns.
It also produced 7,500 tractors in 1947. The production tar-
get for 1948 was 10,000 tractdrs.
b. The plant is located exactly 2-miles northeast of the
railroad station of CHELYABINSK, immediately north of the
CII.ELYABINSK-KUR GAN railroad line.
c. Two of th1l three sources of the report designate the
plant Stalin instead of Kirov plant, It is