KAGANOVICH PLANT PRODUCING COMPONENT PARTS FOR RAILROAD CARS AND LOCOMOTIVES IN LYUBLINO

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• Publication Date: November 16, 1952
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CENjiRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
iNFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
COUNTRY
USSR (Loscow Oblast).
SUBJECT
Kaganovich Ilant froducing Component Farts for
Railroad Cars and Locomotives in Lyublino
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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DATE OF
INFO.
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING VIII NATIONAL DEMISE ,
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE WEANING OF TITLE Ia. SECTIONS 709
AND 794 OF THE u CODE. AO AtilicitICO ITS TRA=L'ItsITON CM ;Mitt
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MOM OF ITS CONTENTS TO ON RECEIPT BV AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHISITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS rim, IS PROMBITeD. 11
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DATE DISTR. 18 Nov. 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.2 (6 P4geS)
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The lant Droducinc, component Tarts for railroad cars and locomotives,
calod Lieyno-Leknanicheskiy Zavod im, L.L. Kaganovicha (Kaganovich Foundry
and 1:echani.ca1 Plt); was located in the southern outskirts of Lyublino
(55?4)'15/37?451E), between the Pererva (sic) and Lyublino railroad stations,
on the main h(fhway- to ro5col.7. *
The plant was founded in 1913. but most of the plant installations were
built after 1935. In 1941 to 1942, some sections of the plant were alleged-
ly evauated to :gybyshev (53012q11/50009iE). Alter the war, the plant was
expanded and i7proved by the ristallation of dismantled German machinery
In addition to spare parts for locomotives and railroad cars, the wartime
production included small arms, shells, and component marts for tanks.
Late in 19)49, the manager of the plant was Konovalov (fnu), Who held the
rank of a eneral.
The plant covered an area of about 1,500 x 750 meters. It consisted of a
steel departr-ent with a nolding shop and a casting cleaning shop, an iron
foundry, a nonferrous metal foundry, an axle forge, two. spring workshops,
a machine shop, an electric welding department and assembly shop, and some
auxiliary and secondary installations. The construction of an annax build-
ing to.the nonferrous metal foundry was completed late in 1949Q The
construction of an additional transformer station was planned? **
The plant produced component parts for freight cars, coaches, express-
train carsjand locomntives. The parts were shipped to unidentified plants
outside Lyublino for final assembly or to be used for repairs, In 194.9
the daily production consisted of 450 railroad car and locomotive axles,
up to 120 mm in diameter and up to 175 =long; 500 to 800 cast railroad
car and locomotive wheels; 200 to 300 steel plates, up to 3 mm.pauge, for
locomotive and railroad car construction; about 800 springs, each
consisting of 10 to 15 plates, used for freight cars and express-train
cars; spiral springs for buffers; claw couplings;. buffers; 3,000 to 4,000
brake shoes; 1,200 to 1,500 bushings for railroad car axles; 1,000 to
1,200 bcarinz bushings; brass boarings; and ? track Shoes, 300 mm long for
track-laying vehicles. There was also a small-scale production of locomotive
cylinders. and occasionally a chassis for a four-axle 60-ton freight car
was assebled-
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5. Power vas supplied throat a high tension trannmission line, -,Ihich
allegedly cane from a hydro-electric station located in the west, There
was a plant-owned transformer station in the steel depart,m(.:nt? cteam
was supplied from a plant-owned boilerhousc? 7,ee!dy incorliae: shipments
of raw materials consisted of 30 to 50 carloads of iron bars, strip
and rod iron, sheet Lron, scrap, brass, cool, coke, oil, limestone, sand_,
and clay, 7ach carload wei7,hed i!O to 60 tons?
6. Three f.%-hour shifts were worked I the plant had
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emploiees, About half of the workers were omen, juveniles,and Konsomoltsy
(embers of the Flomsonol, the Camrunist youth C:rranizatioW. (Mout =00
PUs were employed until late 1949,
The plant area Laa surrounded by watchtowers and a two-reter high wocc:en
fence reinforced with barbed wire on to It was guarded by railroad
police arred with rifles? All plant employees had plant passes with
photographs and the PI.-s had plant passes without photographs,
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p ant? ***
25X1 conment, Per location sketch of -C.-aa plant. see ;aineY, 1, The sketch
is baqed on an aerial photograph
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raiIroa.arand locorotives
Plant previously rerorted.
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f the plant, zee Annex 2? The sketch
ant manufacturing componeat parts for
is identical with the 7olotov lailroad Car
? rone
confirmed the designation "rolotav" Plant and no other plant7.f:Ith the
same type ofnrodaction ins reported in 7.Toscow-Lyublino or the surrounding
areas It was also reported. that the quantity ane ouality of the steel
foundry production was inac7,oquate, According te .7,oviet press reports, the
average daily production of the eon earth furnaces in 1950 was 46
tons of steel square meter of hearth surface (TjerdSohlenflaeche),
which was a::eut to-thirds of the ca-calcity I
50 percent of the production of the stool foundry was
waste material,' the capacity of the open. hearth
furnaces raa only 20 tons for each furnace. Part of the retals processed
in this rlant were suprlied. by the electric steel furnaces and the iTcy
iron foundry, the production of rich was not knrwn
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2. Perera railroad station. .
LyulJlino n7itohyard and round hoe.
"0 Lyublino railroad station.
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Lyuhlino tom area.
6. 7.TIro?e1ectric station near Lyubltho
LoscoVLyubertsy (55 40IN/37 5/0E) airfield.
E. Via6inirs;:iy petroleum refinery.
5cuthorn port on the !'oskva River.
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1. Cteel department 'Atil mold1ni7 shop and castinz :,top, about
200 x 70 7otors. A steel and hricl: structure. The production included
railroad car 1,..'neels, couplins, miscellaneous small arts?and steel
plzAes for railroad car and leco7notive cons-txuction. ?he steel depart?
. ment had the foller-inz equip=ent:
a. Three oil?fired open?hearth furnaces anC crane installation.
There wore three smokestacks, about TO reters hic-11, on the ?snath
side of the worl:ahopq
b. 7o1einE7 shop nith about 30 nechanical o1dinrrachines, 1 conveyor
belt for olds, and 2 crane installations
Two electric sreltinc, furnaces, 1 srall annealing furnace, and 2
crane installations. ?.
d. Ca!7ting-cleaninc .t;ho p tith 2 conveyor belts, sandblast equiprent,
turlraing barrels, and about LO zrindinr and cleaninn racbines.
2. Iron foundry, about 150 x 60 notc a steel and brick structure. Its
production included buffers, brake :71;oes, and bushinzs for axle lubrication.
a, Cleaning and zrindin shop, equipood -with 3 sandblasters, tumbling,
barrels, emery and.grindin;1; rheels, 2 crane installations, and
1 compressed?air tank.
bc Foundry, equipped ritb 4 Rneltinv furnacesjof wh7Ich 3 were continuously
in operation. Tyro crane installations.
77o1ding shop and foundr7 shop equi7ped nith nolds, containers, etc.
There t'a a larze smokestack on the north side of the buildin.
3. 7'achine sho:I, about 100 x 'JO eterr,rhere component 7arts for locor.otivo.
and railroad. car co?atruction were processed and finished. Aller:edly,
vLoels noro also lathed in this de7.7.1rt7nt. Tho shop nns equi7pod with
about 50 lathes and several p1anin:7 and rac!;ines
4, Axle fcir,e, about 150 x 70 meters. car anc: loconotive a:71es
nf different raw7en and 1enf7thrl wnre procluced The shop ras equiee.
1 1E12.r-e anneali_n7 furnace, 2 hardonIng furnaces, 2 laro
pneumatic Larrers of ,nn:1-0, 1 ma&ine for strair-htening a:des
? 1 test stand 'Ath drop ha7rK-_,:o, anc7. 2 crane inntallation. There a
large rrnentack on tr.: north 7f_Ce of the buildingQ
0princ: rorkshrr r 1 hout 90 x 70 7icters Plate ty:-.e srrin7s and
r7rin!--,53 for n)ilroa, car construction were produced. The shop
equi:T.,06 7.ith 1 laro Gil?fired annealinl: furnace; 1 1:arCsenirv: farnacei
conveyor e1t or r,ortin and ae1) inu the 7ressor., punches;
bendiiv and. stratcninf: nac!-,j':es;/_ e!;+. stands for toztini: the :1;irdness
and 1)enCinr strenrth of s7rin;:s. There ras a larf:n :;1-7,0ke5tac1: on the
west side of the
6. Sprinc worhop about 100 x 70 mAters, hore sprinja for railroad
car construction were produced. The workshop T.as equiped with 4 oil?
fired annealinf- furnaces, 4 rollinz: train a'.-out 10 meters lonc:?
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2 hardeni furnaces, punches, presses, grinding macnines and work
benches st- stands for testing the hardness and bending strength
of springs. There was a large smokestach on the rest side of the
building.
70 ronferrous metal foundry, about 50 x 20 meters :in which bearings for
railroad car axles were cast. The foundry was equipped with 2 smelting
furnaces.
0. rev building. The construction of this building was completed in mid..
1949. It was allegedly a nonferrous motel warehouse an. carbide vork-
shop, equipped with 2 carbide furnaces (sic), operated f or plant
requirerents a
90 Tool shop, about 50 x 20 meters. Small c err onent parts for railroad par
and locomotive construction were allegedly produced and processed in this
shop. It was equipped with numerous 'machine tools. According to Soviet
statements, the wartime rroduction of this shop consisted of small arms0
ilectric-welding and assembly shop, about 100 x 50 meters, in which steel
parts for locomotive and railroad car construction were allegedly welded
and assembled.
no Transformer station, about 50 x 50 meters. This was an annex building
of the steel department, The transformer station was under special guard,
12. 1.7arehouse and depot for molding sand, about ? 100 x 30 metors,
13. Boiler house, about 10r.', x 50 meters, allegedly equir.oed with 2 boiler
installations. it supplied steam to the plant. There was a large smoke-
stack on the north she of the building.
Pattern-making shop?
15. Locomotive shed, about :7;0 x 30 meters. Plant-owned locomotives were
repaired here.
160 Administration building, about 50 x 20 meters, a three-otori otructure.
17. Laboratory.
"nin entrance and guard station.
IP. Garage and automobile repair shop. It was ,separated from the plant area
itself by a fence and had a orecial c,oritrance from the street.
20. ',,-ater tower, about 50 meters high.
21. water cooling installation and basin.
22. scrap ?urn.
23. Coal dump.
21. Dump for iron bars*
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25. Lir thlino switc11,7,Y'a ane railroad
26? 2crnrtia. ra13.road station.
27. Resieential .butildinrs for 'int
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