1. MILITARY TRAINING AT A KIEV TEKHNIKUM 2. MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL MILITARY PLANTS IN KIEV

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• Publication Date: June 30, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INfORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
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1. Military Training at a Kiev
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Tekhnikum
2. Miscellaneous Industrial Military
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Plants in Kiev
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1. In 1956-1957 there were 600 students at the Kiev Tekhnikum, 197 of whom
graduated in June 195 and were assigned as teachers in trade schools at
the elementary level. LJ The Kiev Tekhnikum thoroughly trained students 50X1-HUM
to be technicians for the maintenance and repair of industrial equipment,
maintenance and repair of ships, and the mechanical processing of metalb.
The school workshop was large and well-equipped. Students training for
ship maintenance and repair received their practical training at Zavod
iin Stalin, a ship repair yard near Kiev. For three months each year the
students were employed as ordinary workers in local industrial plants.
2. In 1953 military studies were added to the curriculum. This was thought
to be an experiment to determine whether or not such studies should be given
in all secondary technical schools of the USSR. In Kiev the military
studies were extended throughout all four years of study and included such
subjects as antiaircraft defense, automobile and tractor mechanics, tactics,
small arms, chemical warfare, and driving. During the third year of
training the students spent one-month at a camp in Trushki near Belaya
Tserkov (N 49-48, E 30-07). During the summer this camp was used as a
firing range by the Army Transport School No. 3 (Voyenno-Avtomobilnoye
Uchilishche No. 3) of Romny (N 50-45, E 33-29). Upon returning from the
one month of training the Kiev students were examined by a military committee
and received the rank of mladshiy leytenant avtotransportnoy sluzhbi by the
authority of Order No. 7 of 4 January 1957 by the Ministry of Defense.
Students of institutions that had had military training introduced at a
much earlier date were generally free to follow their professions upon
graduating. However, in some cases they were inducted into the Army,
even against their will. Those who were not dratted were called up for
three months' training every three or four years.
3. The Arsenal Works on Moskovskaya ulitsa in Kiev, about 500 meters west of
the famous Pecherskaya Lavra Church, was one of two or three plants in
central Kiev that had the same name. This plant, which was in an old
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factory, employed some 15,000 people in three shifts and primarily produced
optical equipment for the Air Force. Numerous Senior ,A4r-Fokce officers
were regularly present at the plant to take over the finished products.
Nbst of the plant equipment had been brought from the Zeiss Works in
Germany. The Arsenal was organized into 24 or 25 departments; No. 4 was the
tool department; No. 7 was the department which processed metals mechanically,
No. 10 was the department which assembled Kiev cameras; and No. 16 was the
department that repaired the plant's machinery. A number of the departments
were secret and only the particular staff was alloyed to enter. The
plant had a large central laboratory where much of the equipment was of
American manufacture.
4. The Bolshevik Works, though not a completely military plant, also had
some secret departments, some of which were underground, and all were
heavily guarded. The plant was located on Brest-Litovskoye thosse
in the Oktyabrskiy Rayon and primarily produced components for steam
ship inery.
?Zayod lin Gorkiy was also located on the Brest-Litovskoye dhosse, about
two, or three kilometers west of the Bolshevik plant. It employed about
15,600 workers in three shifts and had 24 or 25 departments: The plant
primarily produced automatic and semi-automatic lathes.
Plant No. 208, a large military plant, was located on Kerosinnaya unto*
in the Oktyabrakty Rayon. The plant produced precision instruments that
were thought to be made of brass. The streetcar which had once passed
in front of this plant had been diverted around it.
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