MAVAG (HUNGARIAN STATE IRON, STEEL, & MACHINE FACTORY) /TISZALUC POWER PLANT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 143
• Publication Date: June 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
CLASSIFICATION. C0KrM Ti'IAi
COUNTRY Hungary
SUBJECT MAVAG (Hungarian State Iron, Steel, & Machine
Factory)/Tiszaluc Power Plant
PLACE
ACQUIREL
DATE
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DATE OF
DATE DISTR. 3-JUnE_5
NO. OF PAGES 6
NO. OF ENCLS. 2
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
HIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
2. Hungary`s largest iron ant steel factI:ies were the MANAG plants Magyar
Allami Vas, Ace' as G.epgysr - Hungarian State Iron, Steel, and Machine
Factor; at Dicsgyor, Gyor, and Budapest; the Rimamuranyi Iron Factory at
Dad; the Manfred Weiss Factory at Csepel; and the Salgetarjan Factory.
3. The Diosgyori Vasgyar Ziesgyor Iron Factor/is situated near Miskolc.
The components of the factory are indicated by numbers on Map "A."
pccUpies several Square alles in area
network of Miskolc.
Miskolc has three large railroad stations. The
passenger as .50 1, the freight station No 1-s' and the So-caLLed station is cat-a
on sap "A." Goeor3 station No 1-s
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It shows the location of
the following:
1 Passenger Station
1
5 Terminal of Lillafured RR
-a Freightstation
1-b Gomori St
ti
6 Underground wells
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7 N "
2 Water Works
7-a Reservoir
3 Tepolca sin Hotel
8 Paper Factory
Diosgyor Vasgyar
9 Soviet billets
I Nev Factory
II The old orig
inal factory
11 bate Han r]
III Magnesium Fa
ctory
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6. The passenger station is cn the main line of Budapest to Kassa, and with the
help of the other two stations it handles all passenger and freight irefiic
between Hungary and the U$SR.
7. Miskolc is a strategically important military center since it has an
independent army corps, r, military airport, and three large barracks.
8. The shortest route from the USSR to the Hungarian-Yugoslav border passes
through Miskolc via Debrecen, Berettyoujfal*., Bakescsaba, Mako, and Szeged.
9. The highway passing through Miskolc leads also to the regions east of Tisza,
The Miskolc-Satoraljauhely highway, as well as the Csap-Kiralyhelmac highway
leading to Czechoslovakia, and Austria, ties into this highway network.
10. Miskolc is the point of departure of the small independent railroad len U.g
to the l3-kilometer distance to the Palota Hotel in Lillaf'u--.-.., and the
mills in U,j Diosgyor. The terminal of this railroad corresponds to Na
on.Map "A." The railroad handles passenger and freight traffic between
Miskolc, and Lillafured which is currently the headquarters of the,;ovie:;
staff.
11. The Soviet billets are indicated by Nos 9 and 10 on Map
12. Another mine railroad and connecting road leads from Miskolc t' Gor;,;;il c i,~ -
Tapolca, the famous spa which is only nine miles from 2-fiskolc. The c~rwrkino
water supply of Miskolc is purified here. The Water Works is indicated L
No 2 and the Tapolca Spa Hotel as No 3 on Map "A."
13. The Diosgyor iron and steel factory consists of three parts.
The new factory on whose territory the cannon and munitions
testing plant is situated.
The old original factory.
The Magnesium Gyar CMagnesium Factory
ZSee I, II, and III on Map "A,
14. The old factory includes the open hearth furnaces, tl~ rail roiling mills,
various shops, and the Eastern Electric Power Center which furnishes some of
the power for tlv. shops.: '.;her sources of electric power will be discussed
under the section dealing with the water works at Tisz;aluc.
15. The open hearth furnaces are the most important part of this factory,
Originally only eight furnaces were operating but immense investments were
made in the foundry after 1945.
16. The open hearth works were enlarged through the construction of an 8U-ton
Maerz furnace, and a 250-ton circular mixer with accessory hoisting cranes.
The old furnaces were rebuilt with Rader and Mia99mit bricks which r,,It+ i
n a._...
a 15-204 incr.^goc Pie
-.. p~ vuua. wtui.
17. The iron and steel foundries which were badly damaged in World War II were
rebuilt also.
18. There are now nine furnaces in operation. After World War II a modern ore
brick factory was built
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n
Kando electric locomotives equipped -Peat. These are the so-called Csz
with a phase and period switch system.
The steel nil besides making rails - also wade express mrti~n . n* _ xpresa train
1(~rt~mnti yne +
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20. On the grounds there are two reinforced concrete air raid shelters, each
capable of accomodating 12 hundred persons. The walls are made of reinforced
concrete, two meters thick. There c.re also 10 reinforced concrete storage
tanks, each having a capacity of one hundred cubic meters.
21. The new factory contains the shops which produce cannon parts, and grenade.
and shrapnel shells. The latter are taken to the eompletely closed off
ammunition and testing plant for filling and packaging. The ammunition
dumps were located here before World War II but they have moved tc, the
Bukk Hills and are now in a hill near the Hamor mining settlement which lies
beside the Lillafured railroad.
22. In general, the factory makes semi-finished weapon parts the. heee are
shipped by train t.) the munitions plant located in the hills at SajobaLo:..'
to be assembled. Tank parts are also made here as well as armor plate
various sizes.
23. The sium Factory was built during World. 57es I1. The bn_idin^ itsa]_: ?:
completed short before
the Soviet or-cirnatinn. F_
It wee suopo-~--
-- a- -Fwwz -z w. ~;nc "aoucru ruv^T Plant of the new raczory.
The Eastern Power Plant has a capacity of 20 thousand kilowatts while the
capacity of the Western Power Plant is 24 thousand kilowatts. Since t`t-Is
power became insufficient due to the enlargement of the factory, a warn:;
power plant was built at Tiszaluc to supply additional current.
This plant which utilizes the water of the Hernad River was equipped with two
Ganz turbines and could produce 15 thousand kilowatts
It wa
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s comp
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November 1944. The power plant is represented as Enclosures "A" and. "B":
(a) The dam which stores sufficient water to keep the power plant
:n,- oper?_tio:! cv s when the river gets low.
.::take canal. which leads water from the dams to the :onduits.
The _;.nal is open.
(c) Two conduits having a 14 meter drop which draws the water
Prop the canal through the grating into the two turbines.
(d) The turbine shed, and
(e) The take-off canal which channels the used water into the TTissa.
26. When Diosgyar requires no additional current, the Tiazaluc Power Plant supple:
electricity to some of the neighboring communities.
27. Water It was very difficult to procure an adequate water supply for
factory and for the approximately r
PProxd.IDately 60 thousand workers living on the fec*7:;
grounds. The industrial water supply comes from the Szinva brook, which it, fed
by the waters of Lake Hastor see No 11 on Map "A". However, the paper
p' ~r i n D + Dinscsicu heap priority rights to the waters of the Szinva. Since
this arrangement often left the Diosgyori Vasgyar short, the waters of certain
springs which had been discovered near the ruins of the Dios or castle were
collected in underground concrete wells fce so 6 on Hap "A` and led through
a cast iron pipe to the water works in the residential area of the factory.
The water works distributed the water forrdrinking and when necessary for.
Industrial purposes /iec No 7-a on Map "A
28. Three springs were reserved for Diosgyor. They deliver betweer five and six
v -i~f C wS!`? _ :: i rr raid. All t..ree are
deep and are si.utea tirouga
layers of pebbles and coal so that their ,;raters are absolutely pure. The
entire Diosgyor Iron Works could be paralyzed if the water world in t; e
CONFI1.
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ne of the tecbaical directors of the AIAV.AG Steel Mill was Karoly ?,Sass
agyi,
The map
location of the following:
1 Passenger Station ;
1-a Freight Station 6
1-b Gomori Station. 7
2 Water. Works 7??8
3 Tapolca Spa Hotel 8
4 Diosgyor Vasgyar 9
I New Factory 10
II The old 11
original factory
III Magnesium Factory
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ENCLOSURE (A): Ticzaluc Power Plant
B : Tiszaluc Power Plant
Terminal or L`.] 1afumd ER
Underground veil
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Reservoir
Paper Factory
Soviet billel,3
Soviet billet:;
Lake Hamor
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