NOVOSIBIRSK METALLURGICAL ENTERPRISES

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• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR. RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Metallurgy, mineral deposits
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PUBLISHED 1948
LANGUAGE Russian
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NOVOSIBIRSK METALLURGICAL ENTERPRISES
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In Novosibirsk during the past war, the metalworking industry achieved
foremost significance. As an example of the great increase in the metalwork-
duction in Novosibirsk City and Oblast; in 1944, this had risen to 80.5 percent.
Metallurgical production in Novosibirsk developed as the result of the tre-
plants, the majority of which have their own foundries. The Novosibirsk Metal-
lurgical Plant is an enterprise for rolling metal, and uses stock imported from
the Kuzbass and Magnitogorsk. The plant supplies sheet iron and steel to all
tity of its production to plants in the Urals and European USSR, primarily for
automobile and tractor production. The Novosibirsk Automobile Plant, now un
Construction of the Novosibirsk Me?4allurgical Plant was begun in 1940. At
first, the plant was planned as an auxiliary unit of "Sibmetallstroy" and was to
have produced four types of cold-rolled metal, but later events made it advisable
work to be done, since only the foundations bad been laid for two tremendous
plant buildings, and in the third, which was incomplete,?assembly of the equip-
ment had begun.
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By the end of 1941, assembly of the large cupola electric annealing fur-
naces, designed for band steel, had begun, together with the installation of
the cold-rolling machinery. The furnaces needed large ammonia-gas installations
to preserve the metal, annealed at 700 degress, from the formation of scale. Be-
cause of the lack of heat-resistant steel, Alundum tubes, and ammonia gas the
heat engineers developed a new method of annealing high-carbon steel by using
kerosene gas. In this way it was possible to avoid building the ammonia-gas
installations. Gray clay wall insulators were used instead of Alundum.
In the spring of 1942, assembly of the first shop was almost completed.
Wood had to be used in the pickling baths instead of steel because of the war-
time shortage. The shop includes a pickling line, two continuous rolling mills,
cutting machines, and electric soaking pits. At that time, the shop rolled band
steel from stock obtained from Magnitogorsk, but the process did not give satis-
factory results and a special type of hot-rolled stock was needed. The plant en-
gineers found a method of producing this stock at the plant, thus obviating im-
ports from Magnitogorsk.
Shop No 3, which produces hot-rolled billets, was completed in December 1942.
The shop was the first in the USSR to use oil bearings. In April 1943, the first
equipment, flying shears, was assembled in Shop No 4. In August, a three-table
cold.-rolling mill was put into operation. With this new machine, the plant was
able to begin large-scale production of cold-rolled sheet up to 640 millimeters
wide. Three new circular and three rectangular electric annealing furnaces were
next put into operation. The production capacity of Shop No 4 made possible the
production of an expanded assortment of metal products. The plant was the first
in the USSR to start production of a chromium-manganese-silicon (khromansil) steel.
Among its other special products were sheets for electrolytic plating and struc-
tural steel. A shop for producing metal consumers' goods was built and produced-
enameled and galvanized metalware.
In the postwar Five-Year Plan, the plant is scheduled to increase the pro-
duction of cold- and hot-rolled metal 12 times. The-plant's shops are now pre-
paring for wide-scale production of steel conveyer bands which will replace the
expensive rubber conveyer bands in many enterprises, including mining, coking,
construction, metallurgical, and food industries. In enterprises of the Minis-
try of Ferrous Metallurgy alone, the use of steel conveyer belts instead of rub-
ber will mean a saving of 10 million rubles. At present, 200 tons of the steel
bands have been produced. With further expansion of this type of production,
the plant will supply the bands to all Soviet industry. For this purpose, special
machines are now being installed in the shops and will make possible a consider-
able increase in steel quality.
The plant is also scheduled to expand the rolling of tool steels, produc-
tion of which was begun during the war, and to increase output of sheet for new
automobiles begun in the postwar period.
The plant is now making tests of the production of cold-rolled stainless
steel sheet and transformer steel, for which it will need special furnaces which
will temper the steel at 1,200'degrees in a hydrogen atmosphere. The first tests
of rolling transformer steel were successful. The postwar plan also provides for
the construction of a special shop for the production of saws -- the only one in
the USSR.
At the end of 1940, construction of a tin-smelting plant was begun on the
left bank of the Ob' across from Novosibirsk. In December 1941, with the com-
pletion of the refining shop, the plant had begun to put out finished products.
The reverberatory furnaces were put into operation in the smelting shop by
23 February 1942, and by the summer of 1942, the plant for the most part was
completed.(2)
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Construction of the tin plant was of the greatest importance to the city's
economy. The plant processes concentrates obtained from regions of the Far
North, Primorskiy Kray, East Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia.(l)
Among the plant's shops are: smelting shop, roasting, refining, dust-
collecting shops, and a concentration plant.(2)
Bauxite and Other Mineral Deposits
Of particular interest among the Novosibirsk mineral deposits are the
bauxite deposits associated with the Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks of Salair.
As the latest discoveries have shown, these deposits form extremely rich beds
in the upper regions of the Berd' River. Geologists of the West Siberian Geo-
logical Administration discovered these deposits during the last war in the
upper region of the Berd' at the junction of Novosibirsk and Kemerovo oblasts
and Altay Kray. The area of the bauxite basin includes 400 square kilometers.
The larger deposits include the Oktyabr'skoye, the Mayskoye, and others, but
the quality of the bauxite has not yet been sufficiently studied. The dis-
covery of these deposits, the only ones in the entire territory of Siberia,
is of great significance to the state. The bauxite deposits may be used to
supply the aluminum plant in Kemerovo Oblast, which has been obtaining alumina
from the Urals.
A deposit of tinstone, including industrial reserves, has been discovered
and prospected in the Kolyvan' region, but is not being exploited because of
difficult mining and technical conditions.
The mercury deposits in Maslyaninskiy and Legostayevskiy rayons are not
industrially important as yet. Alluvial gold deposits in these regions are of
industrial importance. They have been mined for many years, chiefly by small
scale prospecting artels.(l)
1. Novosibirskaya Oblast' (Novosibirsk Oblast), by N. N. Protopopov, published
by Ogiz-Novsibgiz, 19148
2. Novosibirsk v o velikoy otechestvennoy voyny (Novosibirsk Oblast in the
Years of the Great Patriotic War), edited by M. N. Nikitin, Novsibgiz, 1948
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