PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT BRATSK ALUMINUM PLANT, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: November 1, 1966
• Content Type: IR

BRATSK ALUM
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BRATSK ALUMINUM PLANT, USSR
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The Bratsk Aluminum Plant is located 13 nautical miles southwest of
Bratsk, USSR at coordinates 56 07N - 101 27E. The plant is connected by
rail and road with Bratsk and is sezY4 by a power line from the Bratsk
Hydro Power Plant Bratsk is located on the Trans-
Siberian Rail Line.
This aluminum plant covers approximately 1,920 acres and contains 99
completed buildings and eleven buildings under construction (see figures
1 and 2). Among the buildings that are completed, two pot rooms with their
respective rectifier buildings lie in the center of the complex (see
annotation 1, Figure 2). The construction on the first of these pot rooms
was first identified on coverage and it was observed as com-
pleted and probably opera Iona on imagery. Coverage of
Jshowed the initial construction of the second pot room, and
coverage of building as completed. Both of these
pot rooms measure eet.
Excavations for four additional pot rooms were noted on
imagery. The size of these excavations indicate that these po rooms w1
be similar to those already erected (see Figures 1 and 2). An area adjacent
to two of the pot room excavations has been cleared and appears to be the
site for the seventh and eighth pot rooms (see annotation 3, Figure 2).
Because of the early construction. status of most of the production facilities,
it is difficult to ascertain the exact number of pot rooms to be erected.
The area between the production and administration facilities may well be
a site for the construction of additional production facilities in the
future (see annotation 8, Figure 2). It seems illogicial to assume that
this area be left vacant. The 17 buildings that now occupy the area were
identified as housing units on overage. Since that time, they
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Other completed facilities include a casting building, aluminia silos,
a transformer yard, storage buildings, and a support area. The casting
building (annotation 1+, Figure 2) is connected by a passageway to the two
completed pot rooms and has a second passageway under construction on the
other side of the building that will connect to the pot rooms which are
under construction. The support area (annotation 7, Figure 2), located west
of the production facilities, contains two administration buildings, eight
multi-story barracks or housing units, and 32 storage and support buildings.
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have covered this plant. On thel imagery, which revealed
the first indications of any construction activity, the area for the
plant was being cleared and the gradings for the rail line had begun.
The construction was observed in various sta es on the missions between
coverage revealed that
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in the early stages of construction.
All measurements have been made by the NPIC Technical Intelligence
Division, and are considered to be accurate within + 5 feet or + 2%,
whichever is greater.
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ACIC U.S. Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0127-22HL, Scale
1:200,000, 3rd Edition, July 1965 (SECRET)
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2. POT ROOMS U/C
3. SITE FOR TWO POT ROOMS
4. CASTING BUILDING
5. RECTIFIER BUILDING
6. OPEN STORAGE AREA
7. SUPPORT AREA
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