ECONOMIC-NONFERROUS METALS PRODUCTION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210172-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 172
• Publication Date: March 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CLNFTD .ZU16i.
SECLR?ITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Nonferrous metals production
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly and semimonthly periodicals
WHERE
PUBLISHED Weinheim, Frankfurt am !min
DATE
PUBLISHED 1951 - 26 Jan 1952
LANGUAGE German
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THE ALUMINUM j1DUSTRY IN THE USSR ~?- Weinhcim, Chemie-Ir_genieur Technik, 51
The production of aluminum was begun in the USSR in 1932 by the Swanka Aluo.
minum Combine on the Volkhov Fiver. The combir~: in Zaporozhlye on the Dnepr began
operaticns ir. 193L and the aluminum plant at Kamensk in the Urals in 1939. In
3941, the first Two of these were evacuated to the plant at Kamensk. whose capac-
ity had already been conside-ably increased during the was.. In 1943, still
anui.ner plant was put into operation at Stia.lirsk in Western S.tberia and at the
end of the war in 1945 an aluminum sm'._ting plant was put into operation at Kras-
noturlnsk in the northern Ural-, Here al_c the equipment of the damaged German
Lauta Plant was set up. The alt:-ltinum smelting plants et uitterfel3 and Aker were
also transported to the Soviet Union. Their present locations are unknown.
Today, the USSR, with a pr_-duct:.on rapacity of perhaps more than 250,000
tons, holds third place among the world`; produ'Are of aluminum behind the USA
and Canada. Its production is approxLm:itely the came leel as that of the Germans
in 1940.
USSR Aliminum Production .n Tone
iFartiaally r?stimated?
1932
goo
1945
85,000
193
L , toOO
19-6
9x, 000
1934
1'.,-00
1947
l04,000
193'
25,LOCl
lath
1 5,000
1935
LO1.800
.1949
55,000
.1940
60,000
950
:'.00,000
The abnv_ figures represent, primary aiuminun Of re':ond.ary alumir00"i, 13,000
tons were obtained in 1935. Sin;-- test: t1'ir f ,gutF fl y YIFi'T. Increased consider..
ably..
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Swanka - This combine is located on the Volkhov River (Leningrad Oblast).
Before the war, it yielded annually 80,000 tint ;,f ore and 20,000 tons of alu-
minum. The plant suffered considerable damage during the war. it is estimated
that aluminum production again reached 15,000 tons by 1917 and may now have been
increased to 20,000 tons.
Zaporozhtye - The location of this enterprise is about 30 kilometers above
the city of the same name on the Dnepr.. The prewar capacity of 35,000 tons was
probably attained once more in 1950.. Its production for 1949 was said to be
15,000 tons.. Aluminum oxide extraction in 1949 ai.ountod to about 50,000 tons.
Kamensk ??? The most important aluminum plant of the USSR is located in the
new city of Kamensk-?Ural`sk in the Chelyabinsk Oblast on the Zset' River. During
the war, the Swanka and Zaporczh:ye Aluminum Plants were incorporated into this
enterprise. In 19k0, K.nmensk produced 10.000 tons. Its current capacity is es-
timated to be 75,000 tone a year, It is ~p