IRONWORKS COMBINE AT VOROSHILOVSK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R010900050001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 25
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1, Four-story brick building, 60 x 25 x 25, completed in rough
brickwork but the machinery had not yet been installed.
According to Soviets, this shop will allegedly produce
paraffin?
2. Concrete building 35 x 25 x 8 meters, connected by
pipelines to the trick building, item 1.
Demolished building.
Cooling tower under construction. The foundation was two
meters deep and 12 meters in diameter.
5. Pattern-making shop, a brick structure, 10 x 6 x 3 meters.
6. Shed for excavation tools, a semi-finished brick structure,
12 x 4 x 6 meters. It also contained a small forge.
7. Installation used for impregnating railroad ties. The
installation was 3.5 meters wide, 7 meters long and 1,5
meters deep,
8. Small road bridge over the railroad tracks, 30 meters long
and 6 meters wide. This was a stable wooden bridge, suitable
for heavy vehicles. It crossed the tracks at a height of
10 meters.
Workshop building, brick structure, 12 x 6 x 4 meters, use
unknown.
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10. Warehouse, brick structure 35 x 10 x 5 meters. Pipe clamps,
screws, pipe bends and other material were stored in this
buildings.
11. Storage dump, in which was stored round iron, angle iron,
U-iron, T-iron, rails, hoop iron in 1l sizes, cast iron
steam heating pipes in all sizes, rough cast steel shafts,
ingot steel, raw castings in all shapes, iron sheets 1 to 6
meters long, 0.8 to 2 meters wide and 2 mr. to 10 mm thick
and galvanized Dater pipes 6 meters long and -j inch, 3/4 Inch
and 3 inches in diameter.
12e Plant workshop, a brick structure 150 x 18 x 5 meters, partly
reinforced by concrete pillars and iron girders. This shop
worked only for plant requirements and produced such items
as crankshafts, iron parts for the coke ovens, spare parts
for plant; locomotives and railroad cars and parts for
conveyor belts. This shop also made heating pipes and
processed shafts which were up to 10 meters in length. The
equipment; of this shop Included one 10-meter lathe, 6 other
lathes, 4 milling cachines, 3 drilling machines, 1 hand
forge with 3 large hearths, an electric welding department
with 15 electrical welding machines and an undetermined number
of autogenous welding machines?
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13. Warehouse, a brick structure, 30 x 12 x 5 meters. Carbide,
oil, gasoline, dyes, roofing felt, nails, screws, coal
buckets, railroad lamps pails and tinplate, 1.5 meter
long, 0.0 meter wide anc 1 to 2 mr, thick v ere stored here.
There was no electrical equipment.
14. Brick structure, 6 x 4 x 3 meters. It presumably served as
filling station for benzol. There was a tank 12 meters
long, and 4 meters in diameter which was built underground
and extended one deter above the ground. The installation
was still under construction early in 1949.
15. Two tanks, 8 meters high and 6 meters In diameter, with a
wall thickness of 15 mm.
16. Three settling ponds, each 50 meters long, 30 meters wide
and 6 meters deep with pumps. The side walls were of
concrete. The wasie rater of the naphthalene Installation
was purified in these basins,
17. Traffic exit, with guard house.
13. Switch control station.
19. Storage shed 40 x 12 x 6 meters, steel frame structure
without 'walls and with a wooden roof. Firebrick was stored
in this shed.
20. I:aain entrance to the coke factory, with sentry box.
21. Storehouse ar_1 laboratory, a brick structures 40 x 10 x 5
meters. A green, sand-like, oily mass (naphthalene sand)
was stored here.
22. Cooling basin for asphalt, 20 x 6 meters, and 2 meters deer.
23. Brick smoke stack, 40 meters high with a base diameter of
3 meters.
24, An underground container for a raw material which came by
rail and was called "naphthalene sand",
25. 16orkshop for naphthalene production, 50 x 25 x 20 meters
a two-story brick structure with concrete pillars? Circular
naphthalene slabs, 50 to 60 cm in diameter and 10 to 12 cm
thick, ware pressed in this shop.
26. Five horizontal boilers with control gauges, 10 to 12 meters
long and 3 meters in diameter. They rested on concrete
supports which were 6u an high.
27, Unidentified brick structure, 30 x 15 x 12 reters. It had
concrete pillars and a steel frame.
2". Four to five horizontal boilers 3 to 4 meters long and
1.5 meters in diameter. Steel pipes led to the boilers,
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29. A furnace capable of attaining high temperatures
presumably used for asphalt production.
30. Boiler installation for liquid asphalt. A boiler, next to
the asphalt furnace was 5 meters high and 3 meters in
diameter, and rested on a pillar foundation which was
3 meters high. At its base the boiler was funnel-shaped
and had a discharge valve. The liquid asphalt was forced
from this boiler through a giant pipe line 25 meters long
and 15 to 20 cm in diameter, into another toiler which was
15 meters high and 4 meters in diameter.
Collecting basin for hot asphalt. This was an o en tructure
with concrete pillars and a wooden roof, 30 x l x 6 meters.
After the asphalt had cooled it was crushed Into small
lumps ti jith iron crowbars and moved to the asphalt mill on
conveyor belts.
32. Asphalt mill. The asphalt was crushed into pieces which were
of pencil thickness and were 1 to 5 cm long.
33. Loading bunker for crushed asphalt, a steel frame structure.
34. An iron tank, 15 meters long and 3 meters in diamet^r,
supported by a steel frame which was 6 meters above ground.
An oily liquid was pumped from this tank into tank cars.
35. Pumping installation for the iron tank, item 34. It was a
simple brick structure, 4 x 4 x 3 meters, There were
3 horizontal piston pressure pumps which were operated by
steam.
36. Six iron 'tanks, 5 meters high and 3 meters in diameter. The
tanks were built partly into the ground. Their use was not
known. They were surrounded by a brick fire wall which was
2 meters high. All the tanks were connected by pipelines.
37. Four iron tanks,
33. Unidentified brick structure, 40 x 20 x 20 meters.
39. Pumping station, a brick structure, 3.5 x 2.5 x 3 meters,
equipped with 2 horizontal piston pumps operated by steam.
40. Test station equipped with measuring instruments, 5 x 3 x 4
meters, made of fire brick.
41. Fitting shop (Schlosserwerkstatt) for the repair of boilers
and pipe :Lines a brick structure, 12 x 10 x 6 meters,
equipped with I lathe, 1 drilling machine, 1 rillingmachine
and several workbenches with vises.
42. Unidentified brick structure, 35 x 10 x 8 meters.
43. Unidentified brick structure, 15 x 5 x 4 meters.. It had a
flag stone floor and was allegedly equipped with special
pumps.
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