AMMUNITION STORAGE AREA NEAR KARACHEV

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000100490007-9
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Ammunition Storage Area
Near Karachev
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1. The 28th Ordnance Depot (28-oy Artillerivskiv Sklad) was
primarily an ammunition'loadinF area.
rounds ammunition were s i.ppe ere from the outside;
instead, various ammunition components were sent there and
complete rounds loaded and assembled. It was a storage depot
only insofar as the completed rounds were kept there until
shipped.
2. Besides the buildings where the rounds were loaded and assembled,
there was also a two-story building which housed a laboratory
of about 20 rooms. I do not know -what kind of work was done
there, but very frequently people worked late into the night.
An army colonel was in charge of both the depot and the army
garrison. Among the army units located in the immediate area
were an antiaircraft regiment, a field artillery regiment, a
rifle battalion, a separate artillery battalion, a cavalry
troop, and an infantry school. Near Karachev there was a
testing range for 85mm artillery guns which were produced in
Bryans,, but I do not know whether any of the rounds produced
at the depot were tested there*
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were shipped from the following places: fuzes from Saratov;
primer cups from Kazan'; casings from Kurgan and somewhere in
the Urals; the projectiles and powder from somewhere in the
Urals. Among the complete rounds loaded and assembled were
85mm, 100mm, 122mm, and 152mm artillery shells, aerial bombs
weighing from 200-500 kilograms, land mines, hand grenades,
and rifle. cartridgesH No rockets or rocket motors were
assembled there and no components of any kind were manufac-
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.whether projectiles arrived already loaded or whether-ziiey were
Fuzes arrived for loading direct from fuze plants.
She specific fuzes used,, exeept that there were as
And artillery fazes There were no roekot fuzes.
empty when received and filled with explosive at the depot. How-
ever, Inasmuch as complete loading and assembling of rounds was
done at the depot, I would guess that they arrived empty and then
were filled with explosive on the premises.
There were from 300-400 people employed in loading and assembling
rounds. The work was done on a conveyor system which insured a
.steady and rapid flow of completed-rounds; however, I cannot
estimate the amount of production. Completed rounds were packed
in wooden boxes and sealed Immediately; and prior to shipment .tie
seal was checked. he following packing procedure;:
85mm artillery rounds were packed eight per box; 100mm and 122Amt
artillery rounds were packed four per-boa;- 152mm artillery rounds
were n*eked '117 per box; and aerial bombs were packed individually.
the markings which-appeared on the various rounds.
o w e mmarkings which. appeared on the casing of the
rounds were duplicated on one side of the box in which they were
packed and the markings on the projectile were duplicated on the
other side of the box.
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