NOVOKRAMATORSK HEAVY MACHINE-BUILDING PLANT AT ELEKTROSTAL

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY., USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Novokramatorsk Heavy Machine-Building
Plant at lektrostal
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General Information
9 June 1953
to The Novokramatorsk }eavy Machine-Building Plant i/n Stalin (Novokramatorskiy
Zavod Tyazh8logo Maehinostroyeniya imeni Stalina-NKMZ im. Stalina) is at
Elektrostal.(N 55-k., E.38-28), 62. km by rail from Moscow, Elektrostal is
situated on a-branch line to Noginsk which leaves the Moscow-Gorkiy line at
Fryazevo. Elektros'al is ,7 km from both the Ftyazevo and Noginsk stations.
The plant belongs tp the Ministry of Heavy Machine-Building and is directly
subordinate to the Chief Directorate of Metallurgical Machine-Buildings or
GUMMash, which has its head office at 11/13 Sadovo-Kudrinskaya'Ulitsa, in
Moscow. The plant also carries out orders for the Chief Directorate of
Hoisting and Transport Machine-Building (GUPTMash) of the same ministry.
History
2. Before the last war, the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant of the People's
Commissariat for Ferrous Metallurgy, which produced special steels of many
kinds, was located in this area, and a workers' settlement-called Slektro-
stal came into being. This settlement was given the status of a town of
the same name in 1938. At this time'a factory for the production of air-
plane-engine parts, belonging to the Peoples' Commissariat for Aviation
Industry, was under construction adjacent to the Klektroetal Plant. This
factory was completed before the outbreak of hostilities. On the opposite
side of the railroad was Filling Factory No. 12 of the Peoples' Commissariat
for Ammunition. This factory filled artillery shells, bombs, and mines,
Next to the filling factory was a chemical factory,belonging to the Peoples'
Commissariat for dhemical Industry,which produced anti-gas equipment and
similar articles. The chemical factory was previously part of Filling
Factory No. 12.
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3, At the outbreak of;'hostilities in autumn 1941 (sic), Factory No. 12
was evacuated to the Novosibirsk area, and the aviation factory moved
to the Urals. A small part of the Rlektrostal Plant and a very small
section of the chemical factory also were evacuated. During the same
period the Novokramatorsk Heavy Machine-Building Plant,. including most
of its equipment and personnel, was moved from Kramatorsk. (N 48-43,
E 37-32) to &lektrostal and accommodated in the aviation factory building
adjoining the Elektrostal Plant. A smaller part of the personnel and
equipment was. sent to the Urals. As the aviation factory had only a
shape casting foundry (fasonno-liteynyy tsekh) with comparatively small
electric furnaces consisting of two of ten-ton and one of three-ton
capacity, the Third Steel Foundry of the Blektrostal Plant was turned
over to the Novokramatorsk Heavy Machine-Building Plant. This foundry
had one electric furnace of thirty-ton capacity and a Martin furnace
of thirty-five-ton capacity. The Novokramatorsk Plant remained under
the control of the Peopleae Commissariat for Heavy Industry and began
work in 1941 on the fulfillment of orders for industries connected with
defense, metallurgy, and coal mining. During the war and until the end
of 1948 the director of the plant was Yefim Stepanovich Novoselov, who
formerly'was director of the Central Scientific Research Institute of
Heavy Machine-Building (TaNIITMash).
? 4. After Kramatorsk was evacuated by the Germans, the Novokramatorsk Plant
was rebuilt, having been badly damaged by the Germans, and recommenced
the production of heavy machinery. Most of the personnel and equipment
which had been evacuated to ;].ektrostal remained there, and in this way
two Novokramatorsk Heavy Machine-Building Plants i/n Stalin came into
existence. The one-at Kramatorsk was equipped with modern machinery
? when it was rebuilt and has the greater productive capacity. The avia
tion factory which was evacuated from Blektrostal did not return, but
Filling Factory No. 12 returned to Blektrostal in-1942 and continued to
fill ammunition. In 1946 almost all the personnel and equipment were
transferred to other factories engaged in the manufacture of ammunition,
and new chemical and electrical machine-building installations of a
very secret nature tpok over the plant. The director of this new plant
was Tipanov (fnu), and the plant also took over the premises of the ad-
joining chemical factory. After the war the NKMZ i/n Stalin at Elektro-
stal was expanded, and new production facilities and housing were built.
At the end of 1947 and beginning of 1948 large. buildings were construct-
ed to house the Machine-Assembling Shop and the Roller Shop. In 1951
the 2nd Machine-Assembling Shop building was completed. Several-
multi-ple-story buildings for personnel were built on Oktyabrakaya Ulitsa and
Sovetskaya Ulitsa, a communal dwelling was built at the Chirikovo set-
tlJement, a large, multiple-story building on Stalin Propekt, etc.
Production
5. Machinery and mechanical-equipment for rolling mills, Martin furnaces,
and blast furnaces were produced, including the following:
a. Turntables, roller conveyors, devices for inserting ingots and
withdrawing them from heating furnaces, etc. This equipment was
manufactured for-the blooming mill built at the Uralmash Zavod
and installed at the Trans-Caucasus Metallurgical Plant i/n Stalin
at Rustavi.
b. Stands (rabochaya klet), throw-off apparatus for coolers(sbrasyvatel
dlya kholodilnikov), reduction gears, roller conveyors, turntables,
etc,for the large-size rolling mill belonging to the Azovstal Metal-
lurgical Plant at Zhdanov.
c. Machines and auxiliary equipment for rolling mills "900" and "800"
for the Rail and Girder Shop of the Novotagil Metallurgical Plant
at Nizhniy Tagil. All the main equipment for this shop was built
at the Uralmash Zavod.
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d. Pipe-rolling plant "140-400" (truboprokatnyy aggregat 140-400).
This plant is designed for rolling seamless pipes from round in-
gots (zagotovka) of 150-320-mm diameter, up to 5 meters in length
and 2.6 tons in weight. The diameters of pipe produced are from
150 to 400 mm. The plant is composed of two broaching mills, an
automatic mill, two reelin -mills (rifling-stan), and two gauging
mills (kalibrovochnyy Stan), one for hot and the other for cold
gauging. The broaching mills (proshivnoy Stan) have working
rollers of 1200-mm diameter, length of body (bochka) 760 mm, and
80-110 rpm. Engines (dvigatel) are 5000 hp each with 160-210 rpm.
The automatic mill has a roller 1000 mm in diameter, body length
of 1550 mm, and 60-90 rpm. The engine is 2500 hp with 365-560
rpm. The reeling mills have rollers 800 mm in diameter, body
length 720 mm, and 90-180 rpm. The engines are 1200 hp each, with
400-730 rpm. The three-stand gauging mill (trfkhletevoy kalibro-
vochnyy Stan) for hot-gauging has rollers 750 mm in diameter, a
body length of 530 mm, and 30-50 rpm. The three engines each have
200 hp with 500-900 rpm. The seven-stand gauging mill for cold-
gauging has rollers 750 mm in diameter, a body length of 530 mm,
and 30-50 rpm, The seven engines each have 200 hp and 500-900 rpm.
The weight of the entire outfit is about 6500 tons, and the average
output is 340,000-350,000 tons a year.
e. Stiefel "400" rolling mill (prokatnyy Stan Shtifel 400).
f. Sheet rolling mills for small alloy steel sections (listovoy Stan
dly?a prokatki melkikh profiley legirovannoy stali).
g. Electrical pipe-welding mills (elektrotrubosvarochnyy Stan); the
first mill was installed at the Khartsysk Metallurgical Plant and
gave very good results. Pipes with diameters up to 600 mm are pro-
duced from steel strips 4-8 mm thick which had been welded spirally.
h. A large number of separate auxiliary mechanical apparatus designs
connected with rolling mills, which are supplied to various steel
plants. These consist of roller cone ors (rollgang), turntables
(povorotnyy stol), tilters (kantovatel~, manipulators (manipulya-
tor) pushing-off apparatus (stalkivatel), doubling machines (du-
bler), which are used for bending and folding sheets in half dur-
ing hot-rolling of thin sheets, lifting and rocking tables (podyem-
no-kachayushchiysya stol) for thin sheet rolling mills, etc.
i. Rollers and. reduction gears of various types for steel mills.
.j. Bessemer converters for the Dzerzhinskiy Steel Mill at Dneprodzerzhinsk,,
k. Casting machines (razlivochnaya mashing) for the Elektrostal Serp
i Molot Plant,
1. Crabs for ingot molds (telezhka dlya izlozhnits) and crabs for
cranes; mold-filling cranes (muldozavalochnyy kran) for the Chel-
yabinsk Pipe Plant.
in. Auxiliary equipment for blast furnaces.
6. Electrical bridge cranes for foundries; the chief product in this category
is heavy bridge cranes for working with molten metal. These cranes have
two crabs - a main ;crab for lifting and transporting ladles and an auxil-
iary grab for turning and tilting the ladle and other work in the shop.
The auxiliary crab can pass under the main grab. Cranes include:
a. An electrical bridge crane for employment in foundries, having a
lifting capacity of-125 tons, lifting height of the mechanism of. the
main crab .26 meters, lifting speed 6 meters per minute, lifting
height of the auxiliary crab 20 meters, speed - 7.5 m per minute.
Traveling speed of main crab - 31 m per minute, of the auxiliary
crab - 35 m per minute, and of the crane bridge - 80 m per minute.
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b. An electrical bridge foundry crane with lifting capacity of 175
tons, lifting height of the main-crab 18 meters, and lifting speed
4 meters a minute. The auxiliary crab has two lifting gears; the
lifting height of the first gear is 20 meters and speed of lifting
is 7.5 in per minute; lifting height of the second gear is 28 in and
the lifting speed is 15 m per minute. The traveling speed of the
main crab is 31 in per minute, of the auxiliary crab - 35 in per mi-
nute, and of the crane bridge - 80 in per minute.
c. An electrical bridge foundry crane with a lifting capacity of 260
tons; the lifting height of the main part of the . mechanism - of the
main crab is 16 in and speed of lifting is 2.6 in per minute. The
lifting height of the first gear of-the auxiliary crab is 20 in and
lifting speed 5 in per minute.The lifting height of the second gear
of the auxiliary crab is 20 in and lifting speed 15 m per minute.
The traveling speed of the main crab is 25 in per minute, of the
auxiliary crab 35 m per minute, and of the crane bridge - 60 in per
minute.
d. A crane with a lifting capacity of 350 tons was produceddin 1952.
e. In 1952 a bridge. crane for use in steel mills was produced. The
bridge girders (ferma) were 75 meters between supports. A crab
with a turning jib traveled along the lower flanges(poyas) of the
bridge girders. The weight of the crab was 70 tons. The total
weight of the bridge was about 700 tons.
~,f. Cranes with other lifting capacities have been produced, and the
plant is at present engaged in construction of a bridge crane of
300-ton capacity.
g. A considerable number of parts used in the construction of cranes
have been standardized by the Crane-Building Office.
7. 'Electrical mine elevators of several types are produced, with one or
two drums and automatic controls for regulating the speed of lifting,
these include:
a. Single-drum elevators 1 x 4 x 2 (The first figure denotes the num-
ber of drums., the second the diameter of the drum, and the third
the width of the drum., in meters.).. Maximum speed is 10 in a second.
There is a reduction gear with the gear ratio 9.5:10.5. Yaximnm
tension of the rope is about 20,000 kg.
b. 71evator 1 x 5 x 2.3; maximum speed 13 in per second; reduction gear
with the gear ratio 9.5:10.5; maximum tension of the rope - 23,000 kg.
c. Elevator 1 x 6 x 2.5; maximum speed 14 in per second; reduction gear
with gear ratio of 10.5:71.5; maximum rope tension - 27,000 kg.
d, Twin-drum elevator 2 x 5 x 1.7; maximum speed 13 m per becond; the
reduction gear has a gear ratio of 9.5:10.
e. Twin-drum elevator 2 x 5 x 2.3; maximum speed 14 in per second; the
reduction gear has a gear ratio of 9.5:10.5.
f. Twin-drum elevator 2 x 6 x 2.4; maximum speed 15 in per second; the
reduction gear has a gear ratio of 10.5:11..5.
g. An elevator with a drum 8 in in diameter is under construction.
Many of the parts for these elevators have been standardized.
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8. The following crushers and ball mills are produced:
a. Hammer crushers (molotkoraya drobilka) with a rotor one meter in
diameter and 0.8 meters in width. The motor is 115 kw and makes
950 rpm. The length of the crusher is 2 m,, width 1.8 in, height
1.5 in, weight about 6,000 kg, and output 100 tons per hour.
b. Larger hammer crushers.
c. Four-roller crushers (chetyrekhvalkovaya drobilka).
d. Ball-drum mill (sharovaya barabannaya melnitsa) with balls inside
the drum, This mill is for crushing for boiler plants of power
stations etc. Diameter of the drum is about 2900 mm, length 4300
mm, rpm 19.8, power 380 kw, weight of balls 33 tons, weight of
mill 100 tons, and output about 14 tons an hour.
e. Ball-drum mill with drum diameter of 2900 mm, length of drum 4700
mm, rpm 20.5, power 430 kw, weight of balls 39 tons, weight of mill
115 tons, and output 18 tons per hour.
f. Ball-drum mill with drum diameter of 2900 mm, drum length of 5100
mm, rpm 19.4, power 520 kw, weight of balls 44 tons, weight of mill
138 tons, and output 19 tons per hour.
g. A considerable number of balls of various kinds are produced for
other factories.
In ball mills an electric motor rotates, through a reduction gear, a
small cogwheel meshed with a large cogwheel which is attached to the
drum. Many parts used in the manufacture of ball mills are standardized.
9. Several types of plate feeders are produced. These are used for moving
large, heavy materials. In most respects they resemble plate conveyors
but are shorter than conveyors and have a more compact arrangement of
the steel plate band. Plate feeders are made up of two endless plate
pull chains with rollers which engage sprockets. Steel plates attached
to the chains form a continuous track. Plate feeders produced include
a feeder 16 in long with chain and plate band both 32 m long, weighing
102 tons, with an output of 250 m per hour.
10. The plant produces the following winches (lebedka);
a. Winches for the walking (shagayushchiy) drag-line excavator ESh-1,
which is produced by the Novokramatorsk Plant at Kramatorek. This
excavator has a scoop capacity of 3.4 m. The diameter of the drum
is 845 mm, diameter of lifting rope 32.5 mm, and lifting speed 1.06
m per second,' Winches are sent to Kramatorek,where the excavators
are assembled. 108 winches have been sent to Kramatorsk.
b. Winches for the new walking drag-line excavator, Dffih-4/40, which
is also built at the NKMZ at Rrasiatorsk. The scoop of this exca-
vator has a capacity of 4 cu in and a jib 40 in long.
c. Winches for a new excavator with a 15-cu-m scoop, which is also
being built at the NKMZ at Kramatorsk.
d. Winches with a lifting capacity of 100 tons; among other uses, it
is employed to lift detachable bridge spans.
11. ]Many types of reduction gears and gear wheels (shesternyi) are produced
for rolling mills, bridge cranes, bridge-lifting machinery, mine ele-
vators, lock-gate machinery, etc. These included reduction gears for
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six stands of the four-high, thin-sheet, continuous-action rolling mill
"1680"
kvarto tonkolistovoy nepreryvnyy Stan 1680). The motor of each
stand produced 3500 hp. The following table gives details of some of
the reduction gears produced:
Weight (tons) Number of teeth Teeth on drive wheel
57 45 32
60 50 32
64 88 32
67 62 32
90 122 26
124 188 26
In addition the plant produces large gear wheels for power stations.
12. Many large, heavy, stainless-steel blades for hydroturbinee of hydro-
electric stations are cast. Some of the blades weigh 25 tone. Blades
cast for the Tsimlanskaya Hydroelectric Station weighed 10 tons. Prep-
arations have been made for casting blades weighing 30 tone each for
the Kuybyshev and Stalingrad G ES now under construction.
13. The plant also produces lubricating apparatus of various types, mainly
for rolling mills.
Customers
14. The following is a list of enterprises which are supplied by the plant:
Uralmash Zavod
Azovstal Steel Mill, Zhdanov
Podoisk Machine-Building Plant i/n Ordzhonikidze
Khartsysk Steel Mill
Dzerzhinskiy Steel Mill at Dneprodzerzhinsk
ffi.ektrostal Serp i Molot Plant
Chelyabinsk Pipe Factory
Novokramatorsk Plant, Kramatorsk
Volkhov Hydroelectric Station (GEES)
Stalingrad GES
Svir GES
Kama GES
Kuybyshev GE:S
Farkhad GES
Gorkiy GES
Tsimlyanskaya GES
Stalin Metallurgical Plant, Leningrad
Lenin Metallurgical Plant, Leningrad
Volga-Don Canal
Volga River Administration
Don River Administration
Dnepr River Administration
Bolshoy and Malyy theaters, Moscow
The Moscow subway
Since the war the plant has cast 124 large blades for hydroelectric
stations.
Miscellaneous Projects
15. The plant produced 32 sets of machinery for 'operating the steel lock
gates of the Volga-Don Canal. Each set weighed 48 tons. Each gear
wheel was 4 m in diameter. The gates are operated by motors through
reduction gears. Six sets of machinery with winches of 100-ton lifting
capacity were produced for raising movable_"6Tidge"spans to allow the
passage of ships on the Don, Volga, Ind Dnepr rivers.
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Other artcles produced included:
Steel forgings for the Podolsk Machine-Building Plant i/n Ordzhonj.kidze,
the Leningrad Lenin Plant, and the Stalin Plant at Leningrad.
Large gear wheels (sheeternya) and sprockets (zvezdochka) for the trac-
tor industry.
Plough frames for the agricultural industry.
Machinery for the Bolshoy and Malyy theaters, Moscow.
Forgings for subway cars for the Moscow subway
Apparatus for the oil industry.
Value of Production
16. In 1946 the total product had a market value of 104,000,000 rubles.
In 1952 the total product had a market value of 240,000,000 rubles.
Personnel
17. Director - Kondratskiy
Deputy Director - Chvirov
Deputy Director for Commercial Affairs - Trok
Chief Engineer - Ornyanskiy
Chief Designer - Yampolskiy
Chief Metallurgist - Odintsov
Chief of the Capital Construction Department - Sorokin
Chief Accountant - Glagolev
The plant employed about 8000 workers, working three shifts, except for
some auxiliary shops which worked two shifts.
Shops
18. Steel Foundry Shop (Staleliteynyy Tsekh) - Vorobyev
Shape-Casting Foundry Shop (Fasonnoliteynyy Tsekh) - Barabash
Iron Foundry Shop (Chugunnoliteynyy Tsekh) - Matsenko
Forge and Press Shop (Kuznechnopressovyy Tsekh) - Kravchenko; this shop
includes a Hammer Section (Otdeleniye Molotov) and a Press Section (Ot-
deleniye Pressov). The press section is equipped with presses of 1500,
800, and 600 tons, among others.
Pattern Shop (Modelnyy Tsekh) - Reutov
Reduction Gear Shop (Reduktornyy Tsekh) - Oreshnikoy
Crane-Building Shop (Tsekh Kranostroyeniya) - Lazarenko
Roller Shop (Tsekh Valkov) - Provoroy
Metal Construction Shop (Tsekh Metallkonstruktsii) - Borodin
Machine Assembling Shop No 1 (Mekhanosborochnyy Tsekh No. 1) - Zaslavakiy
Machine Assembling Shop No. 2 - Kolosnikov
Tool Shop (Instrurnentalnyy Tsekh)
Assembly Shop (Montazhnyy Tsekh)
Machine Repair Shop (Remontno-Mekhanicheskiy Tsekh)
Heat and Power Shop (Teplosilovoy Taekh)
Transport Shop (Transportnyy Tsekh)
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19. Because of the large variety of machines produced the following design
bureaus have been created at the plant:
Rolling Machine-Building Bureau (Byuro Prokatoetroyeniya); engineers
include Oaadchiy,, Khutornyy, and Karpyahev.
Crane-Building Bureau (Byuro Kranoatroyeniya); engineers include Osinov.
This bureau is mainly engaged in the design and construction of bridge
cranes.
General Machine-Building Bureau (Byuro Obshchego Mashinostroyeniya);
engineers include Gutchenko.
Reduction Gear Building Bureau (Byuro Reduktorostroyeniya); engineers
include Grigoryev. The reduction gears designed are mainly for the
ferrous metallurgy industry.
Mining and Metallurgical Equipment Bureau (Byuro Gorno-Metallurgichest-
kogo Gborudovariya); engineers include Antonov.
Lubrication Bureau (Byuro Smazki); engineers include Poluektov; this
office operates in connection with the ferrous metallurgy industry
for the most part.
Mining Elevators Bureau (Byuro Shakhtnykh Podyemnikov)
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