MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON THE SOVIET HOROLOGICAL INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A032500900001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 8, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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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.
COUNTRY USSR (Chelyabinsk Oblast)
SUBJECT Miscellaneous Information on the
Soviet Horological Industry
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 8 February 1957
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report on various installations of
the Soviet horological industry. The report mentions automatic watch production
at the Moscow Horological Factory No. 1. and the production of high precision
instruments such as aviation clocks and navigation watches at the Chelyabinsk
(N 55-10, E 61-24) plant.1
Chelyabinsk.
Comment: This is presumably the Molnya Watch Plant located in 25X1
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S CRET
U.S.S.R.
Economic
Russian Automatic Watch and Horol.ogical Factory, ChELYABINSK
The MOSCOW No. 1 Horological Factory produces an automatic
water but this is of a crude type compared with the very fine
mechanisms. The Russian time-piece did not incorporate miniature
ball bearings.
Comment: I-c migh?;; be of interest to know that a
firm will, be going into production
in 1957 with an automatic watch incorporating
ball bearings sixty hundredths of an millimetre
in diameter.
. thu Horological Institute (Research) in MOSCOW, where
the latest developments of fine watch
mechanisms. At the Institute
which was
a prototype of a watch
"a really first class job'"o
the watch
(would be going into production at their horological
factory at CHELYABILSK. The standard of this watch is probably
superior to that of a special. desk watch being made at the MOSCOW
No. 1 Dactory.
3,, obviously has the
highest regard for the capabilities of the C LYiWINSK factory to
produce work of such a high grade.
ICHELBINSK would be,or is, already responsible
for horological work of the highest precisipn including such items of
production as aviation clocks and navigation watches.
/Russians in the Institute regarded
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C LYIIBfl SK as a key factory. The general picture
of CHELYIABINSK was that it could probally cc spare with
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