FARM MACHINERY FACTORIES/SOVKHOZ FARM EQUIPMENT/STEEL MILL IN MARIAPOL/CURRICULUM IN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

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• Publication Date: March 9, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

CL;SSIFICATICN C0~'TDFT"?`T=~~
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY'
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1. I remember two large farm machinery fac~coriea in the Ukraine. (Neither ran
~.n Belays Taerkav or Mariapol.) Ane, located near the railroad lraight yard
in Zaporozh~ , had appxoxlmatsly 15 thousand employees and produced combines,
seed dril.le, and ether machinery for grain faraSug. The tactory consisted of
several fairly modern buildings which were constructed of brick and stone.
I cannot recall the exec*. building dimensions, The oche: farm machinery
factory was in Klrovograd and was known ae "Zinov'yetsk" Farm Pachinery Factory.
This firm employed approxirsataly Zen thousand persona in the pro4vctian of
spring harroxa, ploughs, seed drills, and oeveral other types o; small farm
machinne. This plant was large; it cozai+t~d of eevnral long brink buildings
some of which ware three at~ries high. I do not know the 31m+sneione of the
buildings.
2. The tvo aovkhozee were rather small, about 300 hectares
each with about w rkang at each plane, Oue wan the Korozhelka
Sovkhoz near Zhitomir; tar ether axe the Daehava Sovktai, near Vianitsa, Both
were strictly sugar beet aovhhozea. During the period from 1940 to 1943, the
Korozhelka 6ovkhoz had twee tra::tors, three b?et seeders, throe 6utoe (small
the farm machinery was in very poor .:onditioa. I believe the reason
getting no replacemezte was the war (World afar II).
Farm Machinery Fartoriea~Sovl~.hc2 .arm Fsquipment~
Steel Mill in Mariapol~Cnrricul~m in Technical
Schools.
There was s small repair shop en .hs Korozbelke Sovkhoz but repair parts xere
not available, eo the farm machinery wan repaired with dunked and ecrappe3
machinery. Moat of the machinery used on the two sugar beet sovkhozes came
from Kiev and Eirovograd.
4. Concerning the steel mill, "Iiich Zavod", in Mariapol, buildin,.g "B" had 20
Martin-type open-hearth furnaces and two large bleat furnaces. Building "A"
had two smal: electrical furnaces. Capacity of the Martin-type open-hearth
furnaces was 50 to 65 tons per furnace per eight-hour shift (there were three
shifts per day). The blast furnace capacity was 800 cubic meters per furnace
per eight-hour shift. The electrical furnaces red a 20-ton capacity per
furnace per eig}it-hour shift. The electric furnaces smelted special steels,
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6. The Metallurgicr,l Techaikum in Mariapol had a Pour-year course in metallurgy. Tha
curriculum Brae as 2'allc+vs: Siret year -- mathematics, geography, geology, history,
and the usual political courses in Marxism and Communism; second year -- prae.ically
identical with the Pirbt year except for the in*,roduction oP metallurgy; third cad
Pourth years -- most of the previously mentiaa~ed courses xere continued along xith
much practieal work in metallurgy. Upon graduating iro~m the Techaihvm, oas ras
called a "Metals Specialist" which entitled him to ask Por and become a Poromaa is
any metallurgica]:fsCtory.
T. Technical echooie connected with univeruitiae conductet a Pive-year oourea is
metallurgy. Such canrses were quite similar to the other course dereribed ~rlth the
exception that one received three years oP practioal'experieaa~a instead of two and
gra0uatsd ~~ ae a Diploma Sngineer is t9rt~llurgy.
ere may a stversl ere at the present time.
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