PETROVKA PLANT IN DNEPROPETROVSK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500090002-8
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY USSR (Ukrainian sSR)
SUBJECT Petrovka Plant to Dnepropetrovsk
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1. Location
In the western section of DI EFROPETROV" (340591E/4802VN)
Lkrainian JK, about three thousand feet from the Dnepr hiver,
parallel to its southern bank.
2. Installations
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a. The plant area is 2#xl miles, and is surrounded by a board
fence. The blast furnace plant with two furnaces in operation
and two more under construction was farthest west. To its
north was the onon-hearth plant built by German P.+s in 1945.
The power plant, which was expected eventually to supply the
entire plant was still under construction. The newly construc-
ted sheet-metal mill was operating to capacity. The main de-
partment is the "itelsobalken" rail and girder mill, composed of
four large workshops in one block. The der.artment had a long;
train of rollers, composed of seve al sets of rollers set side
by side. foundations for large :lachines were under construction
in another section of this department. The third section was not
yet equipped, the fourth was a mechanical shop for the construc-
tion of the plant, a brick and steel structure.
b. Excavation work was under way at a site 1,800x1,200 feet east
of the "iEelsobalkan" plant, According to joviets, a ,:annex ann
tube and pipe plant was scheduled to be erected there.
c. spur tracks run alone both sides of the plant installations.
They are beinr expanded, . In some places, the factory has' double
and even quadruple tracks.
d. A new road to D1.EPR0D7&tZ Ii $K was under construction north
of the second factory spur. A section about 3,000 feet long
and 25 feet wide had already been paved,
e, x large workshop was being equipped on the other side of
the road, about in line with the sheet-metal mill. It is hart
of an automobile plant. oouroe has not been inside this
workshop.
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f., +'or plant Installation, see :r. ex,
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:0 deteails available.
iheet metal and corrugated sheet iron..
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a. Although this renort does not furnish a clear picture of the
?o p of iron and steel plants northwest of .Dii1XP1OPJ. ;'hOV6 it is
useful in several respects.
(1) The statement regarding the location of the Petrovka. Plant,
south of the road and railroad line to DNEPRODZ. u. ii.val~$ a revs
with previous information. y lthouph no factory is shown there
on the military town plan of DN:c:P.KOF;;:ThOV5K of uovernber 11241,
an aerial i hoto~,:raph taken in 1943 clearly shows industrial
installations there. The attached layout sketch corresponds
rou;;hly with a raw sketch attached to a :previous report
(2) The date. on the Relsobalkan Plant is of particular in-
terest., 1~ocordin,C to source,, it is part of the Petrovka Plant,
although other sources believed it to be an independent plant.,
The available data on the location of this plant-' do not entire
agree. It seems certain from this report that the Relsobalkan
Plan' (contrary to previous rerorts) is not immediately east
of iihe '.Molotov Pla,ut, which is north of the railroad line
(3) The "automobile plant" retorted to be north of the rail-
road line Is undoubtedly the ,Iol,:tov Plant, on which several
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recortsl have been received. According- to other sources, hoist
in ? quirrlent and truck mountings are PrO&Ced there,, which
may have led source to believe an automobile factory was there.,
b0 it is known from other sources that one:' of the largest iron
ern" Steel slant of European ,%ussla is in DIvL1'ROPETROVSK. flue
location of this plant, called 11_..1etallurgioheski Z,avod
Petr'Ovski'o, had not previously been known. The size of this
plant` and. the name Petrovski make it seen possible that all iron
plants in the area northwest of Dl Za'AGPETROV K, the ..... lotov,
iielso al'kan, and Petrovka, 11lantsp are mart of this large
Petr vskt 11ant, which is still being expanded. i ecause of its
relati iely small size, the Petr. ov1 a Olant cannot be this
1etrov$XI Plant.
c, `urther information is required for an accurate picture of
the situation and for the locations of these various plants&
1 Anryex Petrovka i,lant in DN1 1>rtOl E".r'L OV,,3K
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