KUIBYSHEV STEEL PLANT AND ROLLING MILL AT KRAMATERSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400200002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION CUK ""1TI
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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
SUBJECT
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NO, OF ENCLS. 2
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Location:
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DATE DISTR. 8 Feb. 1952
NO. OF PAGES 1
Kuibyshev Steel Plant and Rolling Mill at
Kramatorsk
On the eastern edge of Kramatorsk (48-,(R3N, 37-33E), Ukrainian SSR, on
both sides of the Torets River. For location see Annex 1.
2. Plant installations:
Details on the plant history are not available. For plant layout see
Annex 2.
3. Work force:
Source was not able to give a reliable estimate'of the number of workers.
Work was done in three shifts.
4. Production:
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Angle-shaped iron, section iron; round wire, hexagonal wire, square wire
and streamline wire.
LjComment:
a. The same source also reported on the Stalin Factory, north of the
Kuibyshev Plant.* Details on the steel plant and the plant layout
are the first postwar records. Confirmation and supplements are needed.
b. From wartime records it is known that the reconstruction of the
seriously damaged plant was started in 1943.
2 Annexes: Kuibyshev Steel Plant and Rolling Mill in Kramatorsk (2 sketches)
Document
No Cbnce in Mass.
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1 Gate and guardhouse
2 Lodging no use
3 Magazine, 18 x 7.5 x 4.5 meters, contents unknown
4 New construction, 72 x 45 x 10.8 meters, uncompleted, purpose
unknown
5 Repair shop for motor vehicles and parking lot for plant-owned trucks
wrap crushing inetlatrions for the open-hearth plant, not roofed
7 Office and repair shop
Storage with firg bricks for the open-hearth plant
b Lathe shop
c Electrical repair shop for equipment of the rolling mill
d Machine shop of rolling mill
Four straightening machines for all types of profiles, no
dies and two saws to dot the processed work pieces
Mill train with three sections, one beside the other, for
angle iron and section iron
Three mill trains for round, hexsg n, square and streamline
wires with a wire winding machine at the end of each train
h and i Installations of unknown purpose
12 Open-*earth plant, 135 x 45 x 13.5 meters, with two metal smokestacks
of 21 meters height, tapering toward the end. Equipped with five
open-hearth furnaces, three of which were in opc;.r?ation and two dis-
mantled and being reconstructed. Each furnace has a capacity of 70 to
80 tons
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a Repair shop of the open-hearth plant
b Storage dump with scrap, red-iron stone, lime stone, and coal
c Gooling place for slugs
13 Gas plant, 27 x 10.8 x 13.5 meters, belongs to the open-hearth plant
14 Gas plant, 45 x 22.5 x 13.5 meters, belongs to the blast furnace depart-
ment, connected with the department by three surface pipe-lines cros-
sing the brook on an extra bridge.
15 Fitting shop, 9 x 9 x 4.5 meters
16, Locomotive barn for three plant-owned shunting locomotives, 27 x 22.5 x 7.5
meters
17 Vacant shed, 27 x 13.5 x 9
18 Dispensary, 18 x 6 x 4.5 in
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19' Repair shop and ia.the shop, 54 x 27 x 9 meters for repairs on tracks and
locomotives '
20 Mechanical department, 22.5 x 18 x 7.5 meters for small plant repairs
21 Combined road and railroad bridge
22 Bridge for the triple gas pipe line
23 Construction site, 72 x 72 meters foundations, purpose unknown
24 three office buildings, each 9 x 7.5 x 3.6 meters, in a garden
25 Two last furnaces, each 21 meters high, 6 meters in diameter, with
three air heaters, each 10.5 meters high and 2.4 meters in diameter
a blast furnace, not in operation; according to Soviet statements
reams for distantling
b Blast furnace in operation, charged by automatic skip hoists, which
were hand filled
26 New blast furnace, 21 meters high, 6 meters in diameter with three air-
heaters and full automatic charging. Soviets said that the handli.n;
of the blast furnace, which is in a perfect condition and ready for opera-
tion, is so complicated that it stopped working after a short pericd of
operation.
27 Coal dump
28 Ore dump
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