HEAVY PRESS BUILDING KUYBYSHEV METALLURGICAL PLANT KUYBYSHEV OBLAST, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: September 1, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
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HEAVY PRESS BUILDING
KUYBYSHEV METALLURGICAL PLANT
KUYBYSHEV OBLAST. USSR
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KUYBYSHEV METALLURGICAL PLANT
KUYBYSHEV OBLAST. USSR
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This photographic interpretation report has been prepared by the
Air Force, Army, Navy, and Central Intelligence Agency in response to
requirements requesting identification of a heavy press building under
construction in Kuybyshev Oblast, USSR, appearing in two photographs
in the April 1959 issue of the Soviet magazine Novaya Tekhnika Montazh-
nykh i Spetsialknykh Rabot v Stroitel'sdve, and an analysis of the struc-
tural framing of this building and similar buildings at the Verkhnyaya
Saida and Kuybyshev Metallurgical plants.
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A study of available photography of Kuybyshev Oblast indicates that
a building similar to the unidentified building in the photograph in the
Soviet magazine is located at the Kuybyshev Metallurgical Plant. An
analysis of aerial photographs of the Kuybyshev plant, a similar plant
at Verkhnyaya Salda, and the ground photograph in the Soviet magazine
proves that the unidentified building is definitely at the Kuybyshev Met-
allurgical Plant and is identical to the building at Verkhnyaya Salda.
Therefore, analysis of the structural framing of one plant applies to
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In an attempt to identify the construction shown in the magazine
photographs (Figures 1 and 2), available photography of Kuybyshev Oblast
was studied, and the only similar structure found was at the Kuybyshev
Metallurgical Plant. On the assumption that the plant at Kuybyshev could
be the one shown in the magazine photos, an aerial photograph of the
completed heavy press building at Kuybyshev (taken in December 1959)
was compared with a photograph of a similar building under construction
at Verkhnyaya Salda.
Detailed measurements and structural analysis of the high-bay build-
ing at the Kuybyshev Metallurgical Plant (Figure 3) and the building at the
Verkhnyaya Salda Metallurgical Plant (Figure 4) indicate no significant
differences in the two buildings. Therefore, it is assumed that all struc-
tural details observable in one building are duplicated at the other. On
this premise, most of the steel framework in the Kuybyshev building can
be extrapolated from a study of the similar building at Verkhnyaya Salda.
A plan view derived in this manner and presented in Figure 5 shows sup-
porting columns at Kuybyshev.
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FIGURE 2. SOVIET MAGAZINE PHOTO SHO'D' I,%G SE VIE1'~ OF A HEAVY PRESS FOUN-
DATION AT THE KUYBYSHEV METAL L UFGICAL f L ANT .
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FIGURE 4. VERTICAL OF VERhr'r;YAYA SAL D1 A,ETAL L URGICAL PLANT HIGH-BAY BUILDING.
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FIGURE 6(A). VERTICAL VIEW OF HEAVY PRESS BUILDING AT THE KUYBYSHEV METALLURGICAL
PLANT TAKEN IN 1959.
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FIGURE 6(B). PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF HEAVY PRESS BUILDING AT THE KUYBYSHEV METALLURGICAL
PLANT TAKEN IN 1957.
FIGURE 7. SILHOUETTE OF KUYBYSHEV /.?.ETALLURGICAL PLANT DRAWN FROM. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS.
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Figure 7 is a silhouette of the Kuybyshev Plant skyline, as it would
have existed in 1957, constructed graphically from Figure 6A (taken in
1959). The photogrammetric exercise required to prepare the perspective
shown in Figure 7 revealed that the building just east of the north end
of the high-bay building (Item X, Figure 6A) did not exist in 1957 when,
according to the article, the heavy press building was constructed. This
building, therefore, was not shown in Figure 7. The similarity between
Figures 1 and 7 is readily visible.
Since the steel framing shown in Figure 1 is part of the heavy press
building at the Kuybyshev Metallurgical Plant which is identical to the
heavy press building at Verkhnyaya Salda, the specific questions contained
in the request fora structural analysis of the high-bay and low-bay sections
of the "three" buildings can be answered by an examination of Figures
5 and 8.
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FIGURE 8. ELEVATION VIEW OF SUPPORTING STEEL FRAMING FOR THE HIGH BAY AND ONE ADJA-
CENT LOW BAY AT VERKHNYAYA SALDA AND KUYBYSHEV METALLURGICAL PLANTS.
Milideev, L.V. "Vozvedeniye Slozhnovo Fundaments Pod Tyazhely
Press," Novaya Tekhnika Montazhnykh i Spetsialnykh Rabot
v Stroitel'stve, No 4, Apr 59, pp 19-21. (U)
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