COAL REFINERY [ ] CONSTRUCTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2002
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• Content Type: REPORT

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3. A hydro-power plant was under construction east of the town.
Water for the turbines will be supplied through a tunnel from
a neighboring valley, plentiful in water.
4. The construction of the c6al dressing plant started in Octo-
ber 1948 under the supervision of chief engineer Makiakelichi
prof pleted in filMW six years.
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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Georg
SUBJECT Coal Refine
Constructio
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DATE OF
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5. A new hydro-power plant, under construction some distance from
Tkvibuli, was about 1,200 me the last straight
road section before t oviets said that, at
first, a water tunnel ed, -As no German
-..gs...m .~. -the- -eon s are available.
6. The construction of ng plant started in
the Spring of 1948. ensions could not be
identified as addition sites were being surveyed
east and west of the'. buildings un onstruction. Director '-
Gabi Sonya, chief engineer MaklakeUche and several other Ger-
man PW engineers supervised the construction..
7. The chief engineer believed production would start in late
1950. Source assured that the installation would be a hydro-
genation plant. Coal to be processed here was already arriv-
ing at the freight station from the nearby Stalin, Lenin and
Molotov mines. (Two plant locomotives, each with five 60-ton
railroad cars,per hour. )
8. Access roads in a poor condition were partially renewed. A
railroad connection was available and being extended.
9. Construction work force: 350 civilian laborers and 350 PWs.
(For plant layout see Annex 3)
10. The construction started in the Spring of 1948, and the ad-
ministration, a. machine shop, and the laboratory were the
first buildings to be completed.
11. The main plant building of the hydrogenation plant, under con-
struction since the Fall of 1948, was to be completed by 1950,
a target date which, according to source, could not be meta.
Soviet engineers said, that the coal will be processed by the
Fischer-T'ropsch-method but no technical installations for this
type of process were obserfed.
12. Construction work force: Several hundred civilian laborers
and PWs.
(See Annexe 4)
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2 Municipal
3 Brickyard under construction
4 Three centonment buildings for laborers
5 Railroad bridge, 20 meters long, iron structure
6 R bad bridge
7 Main magazine
8 MVD Building
9 Mining school with apartment house
10 Four-story mining school
11 -t'W camp No 7518/2
12 Railroad bridge, iron structure
13 Church
14 Molotiv mine, with modern equipment, being exploited
since 15 July 1948
15 I nin mine, old installation, dates back from before
World War I.
16 PW camp No 7518/1
17 Stalin mine, new installation and most productive mine of
the area
18 New power plant
a Pipe lines
b Tunnel under construction (for cross section A - B see
small sketch)
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Legend to Annex 2
Foal
refinery
1 Main building under construction, 60 x 40 x 48
meters, foundations completed with basement
under half of the building, td be equipped with
railroad siding in the southern part of the
building.
2 Boiler house, bare structure completed, 40 x 2 0
x 10 meters with 30-meter sheet-metal smoke-
stack, machinery arrived in July 1949 from
Krupp-Gruson AG in Magdeburg
Coal washing installation, called Dora 1 and
Dora 2, under constructions being concreted.
Each container Was a diameter of 28 meters. A
pump plant was under construction among the
containers
4 Transformer station. Power with a tension of
6,000 Volt came from Kutaisi
5 Two water tanks, each 17 meters in diameter and
6 meters high, ferro-concrete structures which
leaked when first tested.
6 Workshop under construction, 60 x 20 x 28
meters, foundations completed, called dosing
bunker, to be coal store. (The reported height
was indicated by Soviet laborers)
7 Forge and mechanical department for plant
constructions, concrete building, 30 x 10 x 4
meters.
8 Stores with construction materials, iron rods
and electric installation materials, 30 x 10
x 4 meters
9 Admi ,x 20 x 10 meters, partially
B }ffics o
C Depot for mine
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D MVD.kommandatura
E Three boarding schools, bare structures com-
pleted
F Mining school, bare structure completed
C Transformer station and power transmission line
H PW camp No 7518/2
J Three railroad bridges cantilever iron structures
K "CRM" frame construction firm, manufacturing all
steel structures required in that region.
L New samilI with. two sawframes
M Former church used as explosive store
N New passenger railroad station under construction
0 New railroad line with bridges under construction
P Molotov Mine
Q Lenin Mine
R PW camp No 7518/1
S Power plant under construction
T Stalin Mine
U Soviet convicts' camp
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Legend to Annex 3
1 Iain building under construction, 40 x 25 meters
to be 30 to 40 meters sigh. Concrete basement
9 meters deep; no machinery available.
2 Bridgehead of conveyor belts, concrete bare struc-
tures completed
3 Bridges for conveyor belts, iron structure under
construction
4 Trans-shipping station, concrete structure 10 x 10 x
7 meters, bare structure completed
5 Dosing bunker, 30 x 20 meters, under construction,
caner i r structure half of the building
has a unnels being
inst
6 Two r rs, under construc-
tion, 12 to 15 meters in
diamet processing and
drying installation,
7 Transformer station, concrete structure, 20 x 5 x
7 meters, with Siemens-Schuckert installations
from Germany being fitted.
$ Two concrete water containers, 7 meters high and
12 meters in diameter
9 Mechanical workshop and forge, quarry-stone struc-
ture, 20 x 10 x 5 meters
10 Magazine, 20 x 10 x j meters, for iron rods of various
sizes, and clothes
11 Administration, 25 x 10 x 12 meters, four-story
quarry-stone building
12 Concrete retaining wall at river
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Legend to Annex 4:-
1 Main building under construction, 200 x 100 meters
2 Administration, 150 x 39 meters, completed in
early 1949
3 Laboratory, 25 x 10 meters, completed in April 1949
4 Two concrete tanks for water, 10 meters high 15
meters in diameter
5 Machine shop, 50 x 15 meters, completed in March 1949.
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