HARBOR INSTALLATIONS AND SHIPYARDS IN STALINGRAD

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• Publication Date: February 28, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY UIV (15talingrad Obl. Lst )
SUBJECT Har.)or Installations and Shipyards in Stalingrad
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10arbcr installations extended within the town district of Stalingrad along
the vTestern bank of the Volga fiver., 'Whey served shipping on the Volga Inver
whicr became very heavy after the war,, At the southernmost end of the city
was the 3hipbuilding, Yard Stalingrad South. On an islai*_d opposite the city
was r. repair yard. * Traffic consisted of steamers and motor vessels of every
type up to 2,000 tons and tow karges up to 3,000 tons Goods arriving; from
istrakhan included fish, automobile tires, rubber, sheet iron., oil, gasoline,
and lar: quantities of very heavy dark green ores from, Kazaishastan".any of
thesE co.7m.od.ities were sent on to Moscow, Grain arriving at a rate of 120
cars per day in 19Ii.8 'was transferred into barges,
2, On tt:e western bank of the Volga River, close to the ; oult?iern end of the city
and about 1,000 meters from the railroad line to hostov, was a shipbuilding
yard cal;led Shipbuilding, Yard rtalingrad south. This shipyard was allegedly
in of erabion since 19.30 and was seriously damaged during the war but reerocted
d.uxi.rg the period from 1943 to 1945, The shipyard built tow barges up to
2,000 or 3,000 tons and tuck, boats powered by 1 or 2,;00 UP Diesel-engines. One
build ing housed oil pumps or Da?cu.: Component parts tar armored tanks, very
similar to, but flatter than, T-34 tanks, were still made in another buildir g
in the f::a11 o:: 1940) . Chassis came fror:i. other plants r. t.rr.;ored tanks and
amriur iti en, which according to Soviet workmen had been produced during: the
war,, were no longer made arid the necessary machinery vas sU-1 i.~ ped to an un-
deter:,,inod destination in 19ii5., Tlectric current for the shipyard was supplied
by are *n,lnicipal power station about 31 kr, northwest of the. shipyard. The ship-
yard was protected by a wooden fence and, guarded by r.?militiareen,
3., The ohiprard on the island opposite the city and approximately opposite the
fled arricado Viorks was not referred to by a special designation? It was
observed that nearly all vessels which arrived in the yard for repairs bore
the inscription NVRPO However, it was not known ether this designation
had something, to do with the shipyard itself. The yard had suffered only
comparatively little damage during the war, and worked again at nearly full
capacit as early as 19415, Psis believed that the s, ipyard was a branch of
another :larger shipyard on which it depended;. It was managed by an engineer,
vihoA,like- most of the other end:inee:rs and chief mechanics of the , orkshor wore
a kind o:' blue yachting uniform.> In 1949, the labor force was an estimated
1 ,000 and still seemed to increase The percentage of wc,raen and children was
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oa VE'58e151 aF, well as stear onf- ne and s?ieeel ! tt?i n,. ev'.-r , c ipLicli
,.'.ud -.arm actured component Jar~t-,s- for all kinds of on, Os.f, i~On5
were usually shipped to other Palaces This shipyard } .: $onr..i, is
-uaxr.ed ',) y only a few centrie s ,a
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l0 3arbor installations in Stalingrad with legend.
2. Shipyard Stalingrad South with Legendo
I, 3hiffyard on Island in Volga River opposite Stalingrad with Legend0
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Annex 3
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l,. .ii.rtrt ent house
2. A] art:aent house for 500 far ilieso ;:nf,ineers,, -tech nicjans, -v:orknon, cared
I:T0r.,
3n Central station
L . 'D building,
i;ati .)n building at frei; ht station i i_th (. trFcks,.
6 T h,ree depot buildings under c;anstr ncti r?n by ANTMU in the spring of l)1~.9~
Iio ? di'.monsions, see paracraph 7 below
7. Three new depot buildings. 100 x 73 x 6 raters, cansistil: g of 3 part,,
eo.: )1e teck in April 19149, storing sugar, rubber, automobile tires and paper.
in front of these buildings there is a yuayrwall, 1,000 meters 1ongj;hich
srxa3 bi;i,lt under ;uporvlnion of a Cerr a.n engineer since 194.1"1",, "dater depth
1; met?ers~ o landing piers were on the river bank, but there wore a faw
landl.i pontoons. Two tracks serviced the depot building and a no -w ono .,.,as
under construction in the sprint of 1949. On the Quay -there were six travt ll:i-g
cx'< ner on rails, each with a capacity of 6 torts., two l5,-trnn floating crariiia
of American pia he and snt',e sr::i1l s- f.,c ,,:-operati$'d ."loatint, cries en pontoons,
Flour warehouse,
9. '.heat silo., tt rain shipping "plant was said to be
clo nstx?r ar? from "ta"1 i.n rad; the exact location is
tmnsferred there frm railroad cars into 'hares,
10. rm.-Or station,
U, Chf:r'ical works,,
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1.5. Limber and coal durw n ;'.1 co available were 12 t" iurni.ng lathes, each 10 re text's inn g., of -r'itish
ai' nd It it .c`-1n er"i,7J.n.
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20, Lathes :hop, a.,uut CO x 25 x 10 maters, 'or repairing ie ic3rts `en
lathes, act: 5 maters lorne, r; 're avai1& le for turnFn ~`;~ ,eci -,.. c:EIa,,
21. Li ber 1anc:ing for lumber sent down the Vol,a River,
22 :; Co~veSr7.*.?, 1,,5 meters ,-ide, for roving 1o ;n to the savr Chair, :links were
ja.;gecig, and the apparatus ia,. pcrt,ered by an electric
23. `,a mi;!.1, a three-story viooden huil6inr 10 x 20 x 10 r s, :`o cutting
to shape boards, bears , planks to be used'. in repa:trir,,,: ips ,Atriprrent
in.-;lr.c ed 2 full frame satin:;, and 2 block bares:: sarrs, .for. ertr:^?, rchnor
2L;,, Ad:.r,9.nj.stracjir office oi' the sawAI-1:
25, ood i oit"kimg, and impreL,nntin; shop with ti sr li and I. vt-rj' e3Y;`i` >Ianin.g
rras:'raf. te, saws of different kirnt.s, ntillin frindint; and "-ori.ng ; .achines,
st,gar?. bending mac`, ines and 2 ai rti,Jht impregnating bei1~ r.;,, eac. 20 meters
la~.gs,
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