VOROSHILOV PLANT FOR MINING EQUIPMENT AT DRUZHKOVKA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400370004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Location:
The Voroshilov Plant for mining equipment is at the
southeastern town border of Druzhkovka (37036'E/
480381N)# Ukrainian SSR, west of a small river and east
of a settlement on a hill,
tt Pa . fi installations:
The plant covered about 1500 x 750 meters including
the area of a former sugar factory., Reconstruction of
the war damaged plant was started by December 1947 when
enlargements of the minim; car de partWent and the con--
struotion of a new workshop began, The hatter was not
completed by the Fall of 1949. The strictly guarded h-'+
USSR(Ukrainian SSR)
Voroshilov Plant for Mining Equipment
at Druzhkov1
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
ACQUI:RED
DATE OF
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factory in the northeastern plant section operated very
intensively, but details were not available. For plant
layout see Annex.
Mork force :
Two to three thousand laborers, 50 percent women, working
three shifts,
~'roduction:
Electric locomott es, battery-driven locomotives, mini
cars, minim rails and switches, ventil
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sketch and legend ;iv e the best survey received on the
plant. Being less diagrammatic and giving more details
the sketch corresponds with a previous reproduction
on the arrangement of the buildings, Data on location,
plant layout, type of construction and size of the
buildings are believed correct and the plant seems
:sufficiently clarified.
:Fining Equipment in Drug hkovka .
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Legend to Annex
1 Club house, stone structure, 46 x 35 x 9 meters
2 Entrance for pedestrians
3 Four guard houses
4 Foundry for cast iron, 45 x 20 x 10 meters with sheet-
metal smokestack, 25 meters high and 2 meters in diameter
5 Large sawmill
6 Carpenter shop, 15 x 8 x 6 meters
7 Laboratory and filling station for oxygen, cylindrars,
15 x i r. tiers
8 Locom x 9 meters
9 Works
b xarden ing shop, newly constructed with sheet-metal
smokestack, 25 meters high
10 and 11 Storage dumps with gasoline, oil and paints
12 Automobile repair shop, 15 x 5 x 5 meters
13 Fire clay department, 35 x 10 x 8 meters
14 .Model making carlaent er shop, 40 x. 20 x 9 meters
15 Power plant, 40 x 20 x 10 meters, with brick smokestack,
60 meters high, 4 meters in diameter at the base
16 Workshop, so-called Reserne-Zech, 50 x 50 x 12 meters,
produced blades until the Summer of 1949 and later cover
plates for ball bearings, extensible stringers, screws,
etc,
17 Locomottte department , 50 x 50 x 9 meters
a?!anufactur e of component parts
b Assembly
c Office, drawing section and kitchen
18 Apprenticest dwellings, 4.0 x 12 x 8 meters
19 Main administration, 25 x 9 x 8 meters
20 Four small buildings, with kitchen, off ice and dispen-
sary
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Legend to Annex c ont t d :
21, doo faortkskshop, 50 x 15 x 10 meters, so-called CMK, menu-
of ventilators, slides, elevators and other
machines. to be manufactured with special dies.
22 Mechanical workshop, 40 x 30 x 10 meters
23 Workshop under construction
24a forge with two smokestacks, 30 meters high and 2 meters
,in,diaretor at the base, three or four lines of
annealing furnaces and many steam hammers
.b Small annex, boiler house
25 Foundry and ;molding shop, 75 x 35 x 15 miters, with
sheet-metal smokestack, 60 meters high, 3 meters in dia-
meter, and approximately five furnaces for steel casts
(open-hearth furnaces and bessemer converters), two
or three hardening furnaces and two or three molding
machines
26 Compressor station with tank for compressed air, 4 maters
high
27 Power plant similar to No. 15, subdivided into boiler
houses and machine house
28 Main storage and compressor department (a) and electri-
cal department (b) total dimensions, 45 x 15 x 15 meters
Construction department for rap is and switches, 40 x l0 _ x
6 meters
30 Electrode department,. 15 x 5 x 5 meters,
31 Carpefter shop working for building and road construe tion
requirements, 30 x 15. x 6 meters
32 Wooden storage shed mith screws, 25 x 1.0 x 5 meters
33 Water tower.., 10 meters high, 3 meters in diameter
34 Mine car department 55 x 25 x 10 meters
a Mechanical department No. 4
b Assembly
e Manufacture of component parts
d Almost completed Annex
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35 Repair, department with various workshops, 20 x 8 x 6 meters
36 Staff office of PW camp
37 Slat -stone factory,, 25 x 20 x 10 meters
Excavations, 80 x 50-x 3 meters, alle6pdly for a gasoline
depot
Garage under construction , bare structure completed)
50 x 40 x 6 meters
40 Tipping ramp, 50 meters long,, part of a coal dump
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New coal off ice
42 Old
coal of fice
43 Metal storage with offices and magazine
44 Office of a firm 1M ated at the salvage dump
45 Bolt f actory
46 Wooden shed
47 Gas tank of bolt factory,
10 to 1-5..r ter s high. , 10 meters
in diameter
48 Pun station with three or four creosote oil contain rs each
6 to 7 meters high and 5 to 6 meters in diameter
45a Railroad bridge, iron gliders with wooden pavement
b Wooden road bridge
50 Gasoline and oil depot
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Slag dumps
Bathing installation
PW cain No 7242/10
Small barracks
The large vtiorkshopsare iron structures with brick filling
and obtuse angular sheet-metal roof s.
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