INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R008700080008-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 44
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO. 51.61
MAY 1949
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CENTRANTELLI 'AGENCY REPORT
SUBJECT Industrial Installations
TAT .I000MENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THEUNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT 50
U. S. C. 31 A..) 32 AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS 'N ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15 PRO-
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DATE DISTR. 11 Sept. 1952
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industrial information on the USSR h.
STATE
CLASSIFICATION SE OONTROL-US OFFICIALS ONLY
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300 i'ai north of Leni nTorsk.
Len n; orsk ~'-s a,": erently located somewhere deep within Siberia. There
hot - an ll months
.s only 1 month o s _imer weather - suffocatingly
of trcather . There were no roads?
line running ,ro:: i atel-y north from
~)U,'~ there was a r w= -l 47c4y ap;
Lenin"?or ek .
c,jt-cf-d :te lead'
tiiero wasu an xhin2ambikomad
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:mine :h ch descended to a depth of 170 meters. The men entered the
no by ladders .
of 2,000 meters.
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the Lenin lead mine ,?h4:_c1 descends to a depth
This mine was ecgmip;ped with elect:L _c _L~- sur~-;li ed by
3 b?- rotors. The mines a'e situated along the rail--y line
and were read ilr, r eco0ni.:ed by the big piles of stones near them. Tile
ore was also heaped up in bi?;y w1es. The ore was car _.od atira,>
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our lei 14 v: .ll ch lasts about 2 months in that rertion.
lip ,.
ondii,ions at this camp wore terrible.
The c1 ate in y rticva-.- was terrible. There were a cord"iii_`
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sonorS then guarded by uss ~~,n pr1 On rs v ho had,
co to say., been ;:1ardoned.
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ino lived in log cabins} the streets
were not graded.
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4. i. oscov.
at a distance of a few dozen.kilombte--s from
zoscou the country began to look more it osp erous.
_t the beginning
of the trip the houses in the snallei cities and in the villages
people were poorly clothedj* while Athe surrounding arable land lay
failo . in the vicinity of the capital, however,, there t? ere Many
more brick houses, the people appeared to be more prosperous and
the land was more intensively cultivated.
12-story
vnc The prisoners were lod1ed in a structure which
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which :.sere passed Z were practically all made of wood and the
much of
was _aa rtially f inished f (camp no. 466/75, Gorki street). ,since the
period 1926 to 1029 there have been many of these unfinished
at that time
structures in . oscow? a result of the fact thaVany workers
were taken from the building industry and placed in the heavy
industries.nth These buildings were On later finished by
prisoners of war, ?enalizdd civilians, and farmers who were
compelled to do this work. Iri ortant construction work in :oscow,
houeve , was pm performed exclusively by free Russian workers.
The total nuxnlber of war prisoner camps in Moscoa and vicinity,
including the above-mentioned buildings and also cabin camps,
is estiir:.ated at 120, Camp 46610 was likewise a brick structure.
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Camp 466/25 consisted of r;ooden huts.
ctories.
L.. Cinder bloc factory produced cinder blocks measuring 20 30
centimeters for knusing construction. This plant also produced
concrete slabs for floors and side walls.
b. :ir lane factory (jet motors) .
rebuilding of metal r ocessing machines such as
milling machines and lathes.
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Some ci: these machines were the s oils
of war and others came from bombed out 1 ussian industries.
Only a few prisoners ijorked here durin" the eriod from
a:rci1 to June 191;8. hen nroducti on got going in June 1948 the
v;a:r yprisoners were removed.
This factory consists of 8 buildings from 40 to 100 meters in length.
It ? m is located at Sokolinaja, approximately 2 km from the
%lektrosayotskaja subIaav- station, n the northeastern tut part of
_oscor; .
c. Fats and Par -~ara.ne factory.
rodue lion amounted to 8 tons .Der day.
.d. Eye bread factory.
" ilitia Garage" no. 1.
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This was a re-pair mina shop for prison cars andm patrol cars of
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the PKVD. ~'4ost of the cars repaired were passenger cars*
total of
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approximately 240 cars were kept in shape. The personnel at the
plant consisted of some 50 mechanics who were prisoners of war and
frori 10 to 15 Russian mechanics. There ore an average of 0 50X1-HUM
cars in the onna m plant for repairs or overhauling.
ith the exception of the airplane motor factory there was a
serious shortage of equipment at all of the factories. _ t the
14.-' litia garage"
percent of the available ecuiprient was
made by the nechanics themselves. In as far as x)ossible the Harts
for the cars were also, made at the plant. In case a certain ;part
could not be replaced the car was dismantled and the parts used
for the repair of other cars.
Food: The daily ration consisted of 700 pr. of bread, 20 gr. of
fats, 30 gr. of peat, 450 gr. . of ,potatoes, 17 Er. of sugar,
10 gr. of salt. Parley and rice were also distributed at
irregular occasions (the matimm daily ration consisted of about
3,000 calories) .
General: r=t Moscow the prisoners were given an opportunity to make
u visit to the "J1S ~ located in the soutzwes-tern part of
the city, along the i-~ightr y to K?arl:ov. -t this plant they saw
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hotel
the foundry, the assembly section, the swimming y ool a 1: the
The . lant emplo -ed about 3,000 morkers; production w s 50 cars
per day. Brands: 5 50 (modelled after Studebaker} , os1e itz
(modelled after Onel), Fobjeda (imitation of Opel-Chevrolet).
3,000 tons in the South Harbor at 5dw T:'oscow.
There was lot of traffic here. The shies brought up raw materials
for the factories and food for mityan "'[oscoz: _~o-nulation.
5, iIraasnoL orsk, approrimatel- 20 from T'oscow. The prisoners were
taken here by truck.
The camp had accomodatio is for about 2,000 men but 1c11ere were only
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from 250 to 300 tizor?e. ii t xameuMwr_n? -- ?on;J these were
Tikranians, Germans, .r umanians and a few diplomats
The car., -+;as a gather ing place for repatriates. It was re-,Dortedly
d`m continued in 1950. The ',"rest Europeans who laer.e left at t? at time
xtxom
:sere sent to Kiev, while the others mikhar: ni were
tmmha either repatriated or sent to i inek, Brest-Litovsk
There were also some 50 generals lodged at this cam , _most of them
were Gerns.~
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These men were provio-,;.sly lodged at the generals camp near "oscow
where some 80 gener4.l-s were c?ni'ined. '"dhen the Russ ans failed to
live up to their promise to d .scharge all of the Prisoners of .,ar
in 1949 the generals .rent on a hunger strife. In order to break down
the= resistance 50 of them were removed to Krasnogersk in Jan. 1950.
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The presence of generals and diplomats very l kely the
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huh location, the meals and the treatment were better at this
cam.
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than in other camps.
The prisoners :generally did no work outside of the camp, although a
few of them did work at loading paat on trucks.
he cIty of ~ :-r~~ snoa a -.f r of ti
n rsk hs irately 20 000 irdi bitants. -i very
large mart of the ti houses are log cabins, ? =.s only
:Ln the newer mart o " the city that there were some brick tenement houses.
The- main street is paved i.;_:.th asphalt; the other streets are
cobblestone.
part of the Zeiss o ticGLfactory .s located at Krasnogo?ssome 40
e ork
German engineers and several German specialists, are xa there.
;:1en entering the city from the direction of T:oscow, the factory is
located about 1 km inside the city limits on the right side of the
,main road. The city itself is largely located to the left of t'iis
road and in a valley. The factory has its o..n railway connection.
-p;,roximately 3 km from the Zeiss factory and on the sane side of
the !,gain road there are 12 anti-mi craft batteries ~1 arced on a hiU.
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6. Kiev .
Ile i~o_~crs r;e?.e .~ ~ransp ortUec: to Kiev by ssee ? trsin
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u -o oblle re-,o it shop re_-~air ng -tractors., exc&v to:i s:
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Chassis
The __c. Y;c ;ors love reeuently taken srorr mantled vehlcles?
t'_ry s there was also serious sl o1 tage of ; crts and e yu: ;.jment.
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