INDUSTRIAL AND TOWN PLAN INFORMATION ON BIYSK

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• Publication Date: June 27, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This matsrtal contains information afteoting the Natloasi Defense of the United Btstes within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.B.O. Boos, 783 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which is any manner to as unauthorized person is prohibited by law,
COUNTRY USSR (Altayskiy Kray)
SUBJECT Industrial and Town Plan Information
on Biysk
DATE OF
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1. These industrial plants were l.o,ca,e~~ ;in B:iysko
a. A factory for the production of ma,~.hin.ery for tree food ir~dastry
(Zavod glavpishchemash} was lo,:ated. on Krasr..oarmeyskaya, about 'two
km south of the boiler factory. I7ur:ing th.e war t;iiis factory
carried the designation Plart No. 5 and she local population
still refer to it by this name. I:r: additi.on to machines for the
food industry, the factory also produced military field bakeries
(Polevye pekarni). im.e factory employed 800-1,000 workers in
three shifts. It was served by its own, railroad siding.
b. A large shoe factory was located in t;a~;.e c:.enter ~,:~ town, It had
been transferred t;o Biysk. from Nikol.aye~,>d~tzring t;:k.~e war.
c. In 195+-1.955, work was begun on a .Large c~onst.ra~~t;ic,r:. project northea
of the boiler factory. The work was Neixig carried. oat in a forest,
the area extend.irig for abo~:~.4 ~?0 kil.o:meters o The i.nsta:llations inclu
a power station., a railroad Line, a ga:~rage x'or x+00 t;:r?aAc^ks, and an
automobile repair plant. 'I`.he precise. :stare of t:h.:is project was
not known to the city irirab:itants, 'but it was ass-:;r~~P;~. that a page
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d. Biysk, the ~;errninus of the Biysk-Barriaal rail. line, had a sznal.l railroad
s tat ion, wits only fo~.zr or five pairs of tracks. The stat:io.n ware-
houses we:r?e srria:l.l. s,nd of .l.ittl~: importance, since most of the factor.:ies
had their owr~::~ailrcad. sidings.
e. There were twa army camps i.n Biysk. One camp b~~rdered on the nortklern
part of t;".e boiler ~'s,c.to:ry. 'I':his camp, ~;rriic:~ ha,d :i.ts awn railroad
siding, cor~tai,~ed a l.or~goa.r-story building an~~ n:umerous single-story
buildings w~:~ich se.TMve,~ ~,s warehouses. Field ar~;illery and a.ntiaircra.ft
artillery pieces r~.ave teen.~~k;served being taken out of the camp. The
second military camp was s~.aated in the sout:;~easter.n.part of the town,
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at the foot of a hill. No details were available on this camp.
2. The following is a legend to the attached sketch of .Biysk:
1. Gorkompartii.
2. KGB.
3 ? Gorispolkorr~.
~+. Bookshop.
5? Department store (Univermag).
6. Clothes factory (Shveynaya fabrika).
7? MVD and militia.
8. Ulitsa Kirova.
9? Ulitsa Lva Tolstogo.
10. Dinamovfikaya ulitsa.
11. Military camp.
12. Market.
7-3? Teachers Club.
1~+. Central posts telephone, and telegraph offices.
15? Dramatic theatre.
16. Shoe factory.
17. Oktyabrskaya ulitsa.
18. Museum.
19? Komunarskiy pereulok.
20. Pochtovyy pereulok
21. Pontoon bridge.
22. Biya River.
2~. Main highway to Mongolia.
2~+. Island in the Biya River.
25? Flour mill.
26. Flour mill.
27 ? ET,EKTR OPECSi Plant .
28. Kr'asnoarmeyskaya ulitsa.
29? ~Glavpishchemash Plant formerly Plant No. 5.
30? Grain storehouses (Zagotzerno).
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31. Alcohol factory.
32. Town railroad station.
33? ~irmasloprom)dheese fac~o~r.
31+. Dairy machinery and equipment plant (Molmashstroy).
$5. Auto repair plant.
36. Biysk Boiler Factory.
37. Military camp.
38. Match factory.
39. Grain elevator.
~+0. Grain storehouses (Zagotzerno).
~+1. Edible fat factory (Maslozavod).
~+2. Central thermal power station (TETS).
~+3. Slaughterhouse (Myaso kombinat).
~+~+. To Barnaul.
~+5. To the military installation under construction.
~+6. Settlement for the workers of the aforementioned military objective.
~+7. Central municipal park.
3. A ten-page repa~rt briefly describing industrial installations in Biysk
and mainly dealing with information on the Biysk Boiler Factory
Attached to the report at"e a 39-point legend and sketch of the Biysk Boiler
Factory area.
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USSR (Altstiyskiy Kray)
1. Miscellaneous Information on Biysk
2. The Biysk Boiler Factory
Miscellaneous Information
1. Bitiysk ~ 52-31t, E 85-1~, the second largest city in the
Altayskiy Kray, was situated on the Biya River, 150 km from Barnaul.
The city, which was not divided into administrative rayons, had a
population of approximately 180,000. Its development began in the
early days of World War II, when industrial enterprises were trans-
ferred to it from the western areas of the USSR. The city continued
to grow, its rate of development having greatly increased in recent
years.
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2. Most of the factories in Biysk were concentrated in the
"industrial area", so-called by the local population, which was
located in the northern part of town, west of the Biysk-Barnaul
rail line. The Biysk Boiler Factory (Biyskiy Kotelniy Zavod) was
the largest plant in the industrial area and, in fact, the largest
enterprise in the entire city; it was situated about 500 meters
northwest of the Biysk railroad station, to Mich it was connected
by two rail spurs. ~or a description of this factory, see below
The following are details on other industrial enterprises in Biysk:
a. A factory for the production of machinery for the food
industry (Zavod Glav-Pishche Mash.) was located on Krasnoarmey-
skaya, about two km south of the boiler factory. During the
war this factory carried the designation "Plant No. 5rr and the
local population still refer to it by this name. In addition
to machines for the food industry, the factory also produced
military field bakeries (Polevie Pekarni). The factory employed
800-1,000 workers in three shifts. It was served by its oWn
railroad siding.
b. The P4o1-Mash-Stroy, which produced machinery and equip-
ment for the dairy industry, was located south of the boiler
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factory. It had approximately 800 employees and operated in
three shifts.
c. The Zavod Elektro-Pech, a factory for electrical indus-
trial ovens (furnaces ?), occupied the former Bolshaya Aleksan-
drovskaya Tserkov church building on Krasnoarmeyskaya, south of
the Glav-Pishche-Mash factory. The factory, which had about 500
workers, was served by a railroad siding.
d. The town's thermoelectric power station was situated
northwest of the boiler factory, near the Biya River. In 1951
the station had a capacity of 6,000 KW, but in 195? it was being
enlarged and was due to reach a capacity of 12,000 KW.
e. A large sugar factory was located near the power station.
f. The Maslo-Zavod, an edible fats factory, bordered on the
northern part of the boiler factory.
g. A large shoe factory was located in the center of town.
It had been transferred to Biysk from Nikolaev during the war.
3. In 1951-1955, work was begun on a large construction project
northeast of the boiler factory. The work was being carried out in
a forest, the area extending for about 20 kilometers. The installations
included a paver station, a railroad line, a garage for x.00 trucks,
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and an automobile repair plant. The precise nature of this project
was not known to the city inhabitants, but it was assumed that a
huge chemical combine was being established there to process the
raw materials found in the "Altayskie Gori".
!~. Biysk, the termirnxs of the Biysk-Barnaul rail line, had a
small railroad station, with only four or five pairs of tracks. The
station warehouses were small and of little importance, since most
of the factories had their own railroad sidings.
5. The Biya River bisected the city, and the only link between
the two parts was a 600 meter long pontoon bridge. The bridge was
opened between 0?~00 and 0600 hours to permit the passage of boats
plying the river.
6. Biysk had a teachers training college, two vocational secon-
dart' schools (a school for forestry and a school for male nurses),
and a great number of general secondary schools.
7. There were two armor carps in Biysk. One camp bordered on
the northern part of the boiler factory. This camp, which had its own
railroad siding, contained a long four-story building and numerous
single-story buildings which served as warehouses. Field artillery
and antiaircraft artillery pieces have been observed being taken out
of the camp. The second military camp was situated in the southeastern
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part of the town, at the foot of a hill. No details were available
on this camp.
The Biysk Boiler Factory
8. The Biysk Boiler Factory employed 2,500 workers and operated
in three shifts. The factory produced DKV (Dvukhbarabanniy Kotel
Vodotrubniy) boilers for shall steam turbines and occasionally also
for large heating systems (Dla Krupnikh Otopitelnikh Sistem). It
also produced the heating units for the boilers. The boilers could
produce ten tons of steam per hour at a pressure of up to 23 atmo-
spheres, but the plant was capable of producing boilers of larger
sizes.
9. The boilers manufactured by the factory were made of steel
types STAL-20-K and STAL-25-K, whereas the pipes for the boilers were
made of STAL-10. (The composition of these types of steel was not
known.) These steels were made expressly for boilers and were supplied
mainly by the KMK (Kuznetskiy Metalurgicheskiy Kombinat). In the
course of a month, the factory used 2,100 tons of metal - not counting
cast iron (Chugun) - and produced approximately 120 boilers and 1~0
heating units. The boilers were for the local market and also for
export. About 100 boilers a year were sent to Poland, Rumania, China,
Korea, and Vietnam.
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10. Before the establishment of the Sovnarkhozy, the factory
had been subordinate to the chief directorate of boiler production
(Glav-Itotlo-Prom) of the All-Union Ministry of Heavy Machinery Con-
struction (Ministerstvo Tyazholovo Mashinostroyer~ya USSR). Other
plants controlled by this directorate included:
a. The Krasniy Kotelshchik Boiler Factory in Taganrog,
the largest factory of its kind in the USSR.
b. The Barnaulskiy Kotelniy Zavod in Barnaul, the second
largest boiler plant in the country.
c. The Belgorod'skiy Kotelniy Zavod in Belgorod.
d. The Elmarine Bai3:er Factory in Tallin.
e. The Ordzhonikidze Boiler Factory in Podolsk, near PZoscow.
f. The Polzunov Central Bailer and Turbine Institute in
Leningrad (Tsentralniy Kotelno-Turbinniy Institut Im Polzunova).
11. The Biysk Boiler Factory had a great deal of equipment, most
of which was old. It had obtained its equipment during the war from
two factories: the boiler factory in Belgorod and the boiler factory
in Podolsk.
12. The factory consisted of the following production departments
and auxiliary departments:
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a. Preparation department (Zagotovitelniy Tsekh), where
the steel is rolled and the cold pressing (Kholodnaya Shtampovka)
is carried out. This department is equipped with the following:
two "guillotine" cutters
a steel rolling mill for widths up to 25 rrun; a steel bend-
ing machine (Kromkozagibochniy Stanok)
automatic o~-actelene saw of Soviet manufacture; cold presses
of 160 ton capacity; electric saws; four suspension cranes with
hoisting capacities of ten tons each; and aRussian--made steel
planing machine (Kromkostrogatelniy Stanok) from pre-revolutionary days.
b. Press and forge department (Kuzr~*echno-presoviy Tsekh),
which had among its equipment the following items: 50X1-H U M
press of 500 tons; about five smaller pr
machines manufactured by the press factory in Barnaul (Barnaulskiy
Zavod Mekhanicheskiy Presov); a three-ton steam hanuner; a 500 kg
pneumatic harrnner; a cold pipe-bending machine for pipes with a
diameter of 1I~0 mm. The latter machine was constructed by one
of the engineers employed by the factory, a man
named Dick, a former prisoner who before his imprisonment had
been a lecturer at the Stalin Academy for Armor in I~toscow.
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c. Foundry (Liteyniy Tsekh), which had a monthly output
of approximately 300 tons.
d. Boiler pipes department (Trubniy Tsekh), which had a
monthly output of 500 to 600 tons. Most of the pipes had a
diameter of 51 mm and walls 2.5 mm thick. This department
was equipped with pipe-bending machine,
which the aforementioned engineer Dick improved in such a
manner as to increase its output five of six-fold. The depart-
ment also had another pipe-bending machine for pipes of a
smaller diameter, Mich was an original design made by the same
engineer.
e. Boiler assembly department (Kotelno Sborochniy Tsekh),
the largest of the departments. Its equipment consisted of:
automatic welding machines, suspension cranes with a hoisting
capacity of up to 35 tons; eight or nine radial drilling machines
(Radyalno Sverlilnie Stanki) maraifactured in Odessa; a pillar
drilling machine (? Portalno Sverlil'niy Stanok)
several lathes, including a boring and turning lathe
(Tokarno-Karuselniy Stanok)
for parts with
a diameter of up to two m. This department contained the X-ray
laboratory for the examination of seams.
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f. Mechanical department (Makhanicheskiy Tsekh), which
had about 50-60 men working f.n each shift. Its equipment included
various metal-working machines of Soviet, German and other manu-
facture. The department also had acylinder-and-cone grinding
machine (Kruglo-Shlifovalniy Stanok)
Altogether the department had 30-~5 machines of various kinds.
g. Ventilator and exhaust department (Tsekh Ventilatorov
I Dimosov).
h.
Repair department (Remontniy Tsekh).
i.
Work tools depart~aent (Instrumentalniy Tsekh).
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Oxygen department (Kislorodniy Tsekh).
k.
Electrical department (Elektro-Tsekh).
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Steam department (Kotelniy Tsekh).
m.
Transportation department,(Transportniy Tsekh), which
was in charge of the hand-cars and locomotives belonging to the
factory.
n. Power station, which had a capacity of 1,500 KW.
o. Measuring laboratory.
p. Central laboratory (Tsentralnaya Laboratorya Zavoda),
made up of a laboratory for the examination of the physical
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properties of metals, a laboratory for the chemical examination
of metals, an R-ray laboratory, an electro-technical laboratory,
and a laboratory for the testing of casting-sand used by the
foundry.
;~~~ Sketch of the layout of the B3ysk Boiler Factory
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Legend to Sketch-Layout of the Biysk Boiler Factory
I Factory area
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III Military camp (Voenniy Gorodok)
IV The Mo]ma.shstroy factory
V Avtoremzavod, the automobile repair factory
VI Match factory
1. Extension of Krasnoarmeyskaya, which cuts through the boiler
factory grounds.
2. Main factory entrance
3. Dispensary, asingle-story, wooden building
1,~. Garden
5. Storeroom for instruments and work tools
6. Electrical workshop
7. Former dining room (present use unknown)
All located in a
one-story, wooden
building covering
an area 30 x 10 m.
8. Boiler parts production department
9. Machinery maintenance department (Rem. Mekh. Tsekh)
(Departments marked "8" and "911 are located in cone-story,
L-shaped building, 30 x 30 x 10 meters.)
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10. Main storehouse (Tsentsalniy Sklad) for raw materials and
partly finished products which the plant receives from other
factories - sons-story, wooden building, ?~0 x 12 meters.
11. Transformer station and electric power distribution center
12. A repair workshop which also manufactures packing cases (Rem.
Stroit. Tsekh), asingle-story, wooden building, 30 x 6 meters
13. The mechanical department (Mekh. Tsekh), a brick building,
20 x 12 x 6 meters. In the cellar of this building there is
the department of work tools (Instrumentalniy Tsekh).
].1.~ . Loading ramp (not in use )
15. Aone-story, brick building used as a canteen,kitchen, and store-
room for food products. The canteen seats 250 to 300 people.
16. The administration building, atwo-story, brick structure,
10 x 15 meters, containing the personnel department, the con-
struction section (Otdel Kapitalnovo Stroitelstva), the factory
guard unit.
17. Main administration building, still in the planning stage.
18. A two-story brick building, 15 x 10 m-:ters, containing the main
accounting offices, the fire department, and the offices of the
chief designer and his assistants.
19. Water tower, made of brick, 20 m high, 12 m in diameter
20. Garage and repair shop for the factory vehicles, a brick building
21. Oxygen plant and storeroom
22. Unloading area for raw materials, with two suspension cranes, one
with a lifting capacity of five tons, the other of ten tons.
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23. The preparation department (Zhgotovitelniy Tsekh), a single-story
brick structure, 250 x 20 x 10 m.
23A. Offices oftthe factory management, atwo-story building.
2It. The main boiler assembly section (Kotelno Sborochniy Tsekh), a
one-story brick building, 70 x 30 x 12 m.
25. Pipe processing department (bending, welding, etc.), and the
department for metal constructions required by the boilers
(Karkasno-Trubniy Tsekh) - a brick building, 70 x 30 x 12 m.
26. The forge and press department (Kuznechno-Presoviy Tsekh)
26A. Offices of the forge and press department.
27. Unloading area for raw iron, with a suspension crane of ten tons
capacity.
28. Underground fuel stores
29. An iron chimney, 30 m tall.
30. Foundry department (Liteyniy Tsekh), a brick building, 60 x 12 x
12 m.
30A. Offices of the foundry department
31. A suspension crane of ten tons capacity
32. The steam department, a brick building, 30 x 15 x 15 m., containing
five DKV boilers, among thorn one 6.5-13, one 6.5-18, and one
6.5-23. (The first figure denotes the number of tons of steam
produced per hour and the second the pressure, in atmospheres.)
33. The power station (two steam turbines of 750 KW each).
3I~. An iron chimney, 25-30 m tall.
35? A coal mill
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36. An open water reservoir for cooling the water for the paWer
station turbines.
37.
38.
A small office belonging to the administrative departanent. Next
to it is an entrance to the factory.
39. ~ openr-air coal store.
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36. An open water reservoir for cooling the water for the paWer
station turbines.
37.
38.
A small office belonging to the administrative departanent. Next
to it is an entrance to the factory.
39. ~ openr-air coal store.
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36. An open water reservoir for cooling the water for the paWer
station turbines.
37.
38.
A small office belonging to the administrative departanent. Next
to it is an entrance to the factory.
39. ~ openr-air coal store.
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