Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00457R006200590010-2
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'Dzher: hin~ki Tractor Plant 5.. Stalingrad
)ATE OF
4FO. 1945 to 1 e, ber 1949
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
The Dshershinski Tractor Plant is in :;talingrad. .4* Plant production
figures agroo fairly well. +,ith one another,
one, x~c dvl =t?r tiZ; pie sea enrr ne lx een obser red; by October 19,49, but anot .er
irsal n, ,r ae~ which would ,go into production in 'the suu:rer of 1949 Only
T`renty tractors per 2 t-bouar period is the production fi.: ,ure given for
:;r;- l9).3 z~rcar7 the end of 1943 to :.:aa, 19 9, the estimates range between
35 and LO, while in Cc',-o'bcr 1949 the aver age daily prtoduction was 50 to
60 tractors According to the vehicle produced was a cater-
pillar, tractor fitted ;dt'z zee Y ue v creel one idler wheel, and four traci-'
up o tin rollers arranged in pairs on a: sp :ing O x sources report a
gasp ne en;; n ~' five af, i,Iie i speak of four cylinders, one of six cylindo s,
`Accord nn Ito tyre construction was planned of a .s.ix cylinder
th t ; a n.etir .inc ,enwas to n into production in
I.
One ;>ource stated that the engine
produce
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tiori was 25. percen a higher than the chassis production. The surplus en;;irc s
were shipped to octov or :' i:arkovo the production
of 500 crankshafts and 14C hit
?.triod +-,-c
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n >
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spare parts for tractors,, In addition, ru : o ?s of the mmanul'ac t,ure
of tank parts in factories 400 and 25, ect .nat? that this production
Loth outgd n shipments of tractors and .inco7in shipraonts of raw raaUerial.i
u: s:.rall quantities of scrap were moved by rail. One source mentions the
1 ~.ve~ofi-1 ~n~ pi.nns, valve tappets, springs, and electrical , equipment fro m
c~va p.wan natora'nor~..pariz of ;140 to 50 vehicles
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Three tr re a ~~or c ] a$ t~rc pl X 4 N/
of-the 'fl force,
`5';, w}w ea......~^L..6...... %+~ 1"~IVf1 ._.__'~ "~ aa'.'n~n~n?. ern. _. _
yov ,ots that the; plant errpl)yod.30,0 0a '.everal sources indicated that 60
to 65 ')ercent of, the rorirfDrce v1ere, cro en3
A '. ooc on fence with barbed wirre "and raatchtwers ;surround the plant yards.
fir r?ai.c prot~~ctiori measures. were not oboerveda
CLASSIFICATION COw,'1!,NTL, n/CONT ( L
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Decoment. No. ---
!ia Change in Ctassl
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Class. ChedngeA Te: TS
70
Date:
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