THE CHIEF DIRECTORATE OF MACHINERY CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES (GLAVMASHPROM)

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• Publication Date: September 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR
DATE DISTR. 4 September 41952
SUBJECT The Chief Directorate ofMachinery
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Construction Enterprises (GlavMashProm)
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 79,
AND .794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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. The industrial installations of the Ministry of the Merchant Fleet (MMF) are
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(e) The Chief Directorate for Machinery Construction Enterprises r (Gray:jive
Upra.vleniye Mashino-Stroitelnoy Promyshlennosti GlavMashProm) Which -
is responsible for the production of spare parts and the construction of
small vesstis.
The Chief Directorate of Maritime Industrial Enterorisee (GlaVMorProm)
which is responsible for ship repair.
The Central Technical Directorate (Tsentralnyy-Tekhnicheskiy UpraVleniye
TsTU) which is esonnsihlef?r tile planning of the other two directorate's
production.
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2. There iatto-iitherp'lifte of division beteeen the activities of. thebe
three directorates, particularly between the first two, which were
Created ilit1946'whi# the Central DireotOrate-of Industrial-Enter-
ptisda (Tiiiiritra1keyeUpraVleni7eMorskoy-Promyshlannest1?;.T41-
NorProm) was abolished. The result id.that-GlavNtahPrun is
frequently found in charge of repair work, and GlavNerPran in
of installations making Spare parts. In theory thelroduc-
lion of spare parts is based on decisions reached atmeetings
attended by representatives or the three directoratea.
3. Normally the yarda.. of GlaVMashPromdo not make
SadHasserblies, although they can if called upon to do so, Their
rain efforts are to maintain a constant supply of spare parts for
all .the Various industrial installations of the ministry. In practice
there is always a shortage of parts for almost every piece of 001p-.
rt within the ministry. This is due partially to the low quality
of pares produced by GlaVNashPros, particularly of cast materials of
which more than 50 per cent Of the total produced are rejected ,either
at the plant or by the censurer. ?The great demand for spare Parts
is also due to the old and obsolete equipment which is found in the
!INF and to the unskilled technicians who are handling it. Another
factor which explains this critical shortage is the It* of proper
maintenance of the equipleht,which itself results from the Wiey.
of maximum utilisation of all machinery and personnel which is
required by the state.
4. The central offices of GlaVNaelerrom are located in Moscow and the
25x director' Ils Remisov (fun) The -
entire central administration is quite small and has a total of may
25X1 20 people in all the various seotions. 1 . 1
they are -
25X1patterned on those of the other.chief directorates in the .M)IP.
25X1 I It40 most important section it called the Requirements
25X1 Section (Otdel Komplekatsii) which handles requirements and distribu-
tion of spare parts. The industrial installations of the ministry
25X1 send their requirements to this dir ctorate where they are examine:4
and dismissed in consultation with r presentatives or GlavitorPran
?. and TsTU. Priorities for spare parts are set and orders for their
? production are issued. As a ruler this planning is of little use,
because no more than a small fraction of the ministryts needs are
ever fulfilled. Spare parts for internal combustion engines are
especially scarce. When the spare parts are produoed,_the
Requirement Section makesn w plans, based On original requirements,
for their distribution.
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Ship Repair and Ship Construction Yard imeni Vane Sturua at
Baku, Class II. It is engaged in the repair of dredges for the
Directorate of the Caspian Sea Routes (KasallorPut) and also in
the construction of tugs.
(b) Ship Repair and Ship Construction Yard Kannonerakiy at LoniMPOR
Class I. The director is'Prokoryev (rim), Engineer Captain,.W4
First Class. This yard builds small, tugs and produces spare parts.
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This plant which also manufactures propellers, propeller
shafts, and crank shafts for steam engines, is specialized
in making various types of shafts. These shafts are sent in
a semi-finished state to the consumer for finishing. They have
to be turned to the exact dimensions desired, balanced,and
polished to fit a particular piece of chinery. About
50 per cent of the shafts produced by this or any other casting
plant in the USSR are eventually turned down. The main cause of
rejections at the plant, accounting for about 25 per cent, is
the poor quality of the rear shaft collar (upornyy khvostoviki)
which connects the crank shaft to th propeller shaft. The
other 25 per cent are rejected by the consumer because of the
poor quality of the crank shaft journal (motylevaya sheyka)
where the connecting rod to the piston is linked to the crank
shaft. In this case the rejection is mostly due to the poorly
trained foundry workers who ruin the stoekswhich is originally
of good quality. My information on this plant is based on
personal observations made in 1941 and was refreshed by conver-
sations with engineers from the plant early in 1951.
(c) Zavod imeni Gadzhiyeva at Makhachkala, Class I. The director
is Solovyev (fnu), Captain, MP, 2nd Class, who has 1,500 workers
under his eontrol. The plant h' specialized in the manufactUre
of spare parts for Diesel engines, such as cylinder heads,
pistons, cylinder linings, piston rings crankshafts for Diesels,
fuel injectors, timers distributor shaits3and valves. Here;
too, theproduction is insufficient to meet the demands of the
25X1 fleets of the ministry. This lag in the production has resulted
in a great turnover in the top administrative .personnel.
25X1 Pie cylinder heads; piston rodsnand pistons
produced by this plant were of very low quality end in some
25X1 eases half the shipments to ReYdTanker have been rejected as
unsatisfactory, following information on this
plant:
(1) One of the most important shops is the one which manufac-
tures injectors and valves. It is the only shop supplying
these parts for the entire Southern Fleet. Occasionally it
also supplies other fleets.
(2) The foundry at this plant is also very important. It
makes rough casts and forms from which semi-finished parts
are produced in the other shops of the plant.
(3) Injectors and valves were the only finished parts turned
out at this plant.
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25X1 (4) This lant also fills requirements of the Navy which
have top priority.
(5) My information on this plant was received from its
director late in 1950 at a meeting on supply problems
held in the offices of ReydTanker.
(d) Plant No 1 at Sovetskaya Gavan, Class I, employs three thousand
workers. This plant, like the imeni Gadzhiyeva at Makhachkala,
is engaged in the production of spare parts for Diesel engines.
In addition, Plant No 1 produces spare parts for steam engines,
such as cylinder heads, pistons, steam slide valves, and others.
The spare parts produced at Plant No 1 are very good, much
better than those of the plant at Makhaohkala. The plant is
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mainly engaged in fulfilling 'requirements for the Navy
(e) The Astrakhan Wharf (sudo-verf), Class III. The.director is
Leonid Somov? Engineer Captain, MF, 3rd Class, who has 250
workers, 40 office workers ,and five engineers under his super-
vision. The plant builds small wooden seiners and other amaIl
craft. It also repairs tugs Of the Caspian Dry Cargo Steamship
Company (KaspFlot) which are Assigned to the harbor at Aistrekhan,
as well as visiting vessels in emergAncies.. The excellent
machinery in this plant was obtained mostly through Lend-Lease
or as German reparations. only about.50 per cent of this
machinery is in actual use.
(1) The machine shop which employs about 30 people has a great
deal of fine machinery, probably obtained as German repara-
tions such as lathes, and about 40 modern grinding and
milling machines. In this Whop spare parts for both
Diesel and steam-engines are Made.
(2) The shop for ship hulls in which about 30 workers are
employed has about 10 different types of wood shaping
equipment such as planing machines, band saws, circular taws,
lathes, and a four-bladed planing machine. This shop makes
lifeboatsoand there is a launching platform for seiners
just outside the shop.
The sheet steel shop shapes steel sheets for hulls and for'
boilers and replaces defective steel plates in old vessels.
There is no special machine of importance in this shop,
which employs about 30 workers.
(4) The foundry has about 30 workers. Its equipment consists
of two steam hammers, each of a three-ton capacity, and one
electric hammer of a one-ton capacity. The latter, made
in Germany, is a Hartmann model.
The tackle shop employs about 40 people. It produces
bumpers, fenders, sails, mats, ropes, and tackle equipment
used in hauling vessels on the launchers when they are in
need of repair.
The electric shop employs about 10 people. It has some
electro-welding equipment and repairs and installs electric
motors and generators when necessary.
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The boiler shop, in which there are 10 people, provides
steam for the entire plant. It has two Longaare boilers,
where the steam is kept under a pressure of eight
atmospheres.
The maintenance shop has about 15 mechanics who take care
of odd jobs around the plant. In the shop there are some
snail machines such as a drilling machine, a lathe, and a
shaping machine.
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The whole Plant is surrounded by a high wooden fence
and is watched by alailitarized guard. The average wage
of the workers is 540 rubles per Month. They work six
days in one eight-hour shift and live in the same housing
project as the workers of the Plant Tenth Anniversary of
the October Revolution.
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