SOVIET PLANTS PRODUCE DITCH DIGGERS, LAND-CLEARING MACHINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700170046-1
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: March 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1953
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DATE DIST. /S Mar 1954
WHERE
PUBLISHED Minsk, Moscow
LLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Agricultural
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PUBLISHED 23 SeP-9 Oct 1953
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SOVIET PLANTS PRODUCE DITCH DIGGERS LAND-CLEARING MAC$INES
BUILD LXPERIMERTAI, DITCH DIGGERS,
Belorussiya, 25 Sep 53 OTHER MACHINES -- Minsk, Sovetskaya
The Minsk Udarnik Plant has produced a number of experimental models of
KM-1400 ditch diggers for use in land irrigation work. A group of these ma-
chines have been delivered to MTS and machine testing stations.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Beloruasiaa, 3 Oct 53
The Minsk L'darnik Plant has designed and built an experimental model of
the D-305 ditch digging machine.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 6 Oct 53
The Minsk Udarnik Plant is producing KM-1400 ditch diggers.
The Lida Agricultural Machine Building Plant is producing brush cutters
and 6-ton dump-style tractor-trailer wagons.
Moscow, Trud, 9 Oct 53
The Minsk Udarnik Plant has recently shipped a large number of ditch
diggers to land reclamation workers of the Belorussian SSR, the Baltic re-
publics, and Kaliningradskaya Oblast. The plant has shipped 22 ditch diggers
to Polesskaya Oblast.
The Vitebsk Komintern Plant fulfilled an order placed by the Odessa
Agricultural Machine Building Plant a month ahead of schedule.
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The Gomel' Repair plant is producing grain loaders.
LATID-CLEARING MACHINES -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, ~11' Sep 53
Plants of the Ministry of Transport and Heavy Machine Building pro-
duce more than 90 types of agricultural machines. In 1954, plants will
increase production of ditching machines sevenfold, of brush cutters
sevenfold, and of stump pullers threefold, as compared with 1953. Plants
will also increase production of ditch diggers for land irrigation.
mobilenfeed steamers. farms
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new supplied erollers will be and
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to kolkhozes for testing.
DELIVER STUMP PULLERS -- Moscow, Izvestiya, 23 Sep 53
The Chelyabinsk Plant imeni Kolyushchenko has shipped a large number
of stump pullers to the Estonian SSR, the Karelo-Finnish SSR, the
Tatarskaya ASSR, the Bashkirskaya A?^;;, and Arkhangel'skaya and
Kaluzhskaya oblasts.
PLANT PRODUCES FARM MACHINES -- Moscow, Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 26 Sep 53
The Perovo Machinery Plant is producing many new machines, including
farm machines. The plant produces a machine for grubbing tree stumps out
of the ground, a. well boring machine, and a steam engine. Plant experimental
shops have assembled new models of a grain combine and a hay baler..
BUILDS BRUSH CUTTERS, OTHER EQUIPMENT -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
3 Oct 53
The Kazan' Machinery Plant has begun producing brush cutters. In
September 1953, the plant built 30 brush cutters; it plans to produce
brush cutters at the rate of 600 a year.
Moscow, Pravda, 5 Oct 53
The Kazan' Machinery Plant has made its first shipment of brush cutters
or use with the 5-80 tractor to the Pelorussian SSR, Siberia, and the Far
East.
The plant produces couplers for tractor-drawn planters and ships them
to MTS of the Tatarskaya ASSR in barges.
The plant has designed two steam power units which are now being tested.
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