'TURINSK' COMBINAT AND LUMBER FACTORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300080007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY',- USSR
SUBJECT "Turirlsk" Combinat and Lumber Factory
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AfFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, wiTHIn THE MEANING Of TITLE ID, SECTIONS 703
AND 700, of INC U.S. CODE, AO AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OP AEU,
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT SY AN UHAuTH0RIEED PERSON IS
ANONIBITE0 IV LAO. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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a, prxim camp
about 20 miles north of Turinsk. Here 11 thousand prisoners includingeight:kundred
Armenians assisted in the construction of the "Tatinsk" Combinat and. worked. itx the lumber
factory. The workers were r;arefully segregated so that they learned only abOut the
section in which they worked.
About two mlles east of the river near the camp the prisoners ere ordered:to'pOmtence
construction of the 'Turinak" Combinat in 1937. Three shifts were rotated at ten or
eleven-hour intervals and the factory building was completed in 1938 It-IfWa,brick
and cement structure and was entirely surrounded by a high wire fence. There were many
guards and large dogs to prevent unauthori...4ed personnel from ,entering.
3. Upon completion of the factory in 1938 approximately 25 to 30 thousand Boviet'.,citl,zens
were employed. Two Armenians were employed as chief engineers in the"combinat;Ashod
Midinian and Vagharshag Laleian. Both were from Erivanl Armenia and 'had received 24.year
j*1:pon kiteittengee.
4. The combinat was divided inte several sections for different products. Prisoners were
rarely afforded an opportunity to obtain information about the factory *rim., gOweysr, we
were able to determine that the followlug were produced there:
45 milimeter anti-tank gun earriages
45- to 50 meter-long river gun boats
Chamioals, bottleu oue meter high and 1/2 meter wide were
seen Which were mid to contain chlorine and "Irbid" gas.
Aircraft were amsembled from yarts received from Chelyabinsk,
Turinsk, and Tavda. There was also an airfield nearby but.
we knew very little about it.
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5. The Director of the aembinat was named Samarin.
Another 'senior offidial and assistant to Samarin it the combinet, was Nicolai Golovonaw.
Be was 4 mechanical engineer and came from the Leningrad "Putilo** factory.
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Irbit was the center of the Urals NKVD district. General Maier was the director of .
this cammand and he was six feet tall and very Strong. The director of the military
group at the conbinat was Major Struugin. There was a military school for the IIKVD in
Tavda.
Logs were floated down the 'bare River toward our camp. The ice-free period lasted from
mid-June to mid-November. The prisoners, with the aid of an incline and a tractor,
rolled the logs up the river bank to the plains. Like many Ants, the prisoners then
rolled the logs across the plains about a mile to three factories. Here other prisoners
milled the limber by hand to standard sizes. The logs were light weight an4 it was
generally acknowledged they were to be used for aircraft construction. The lunber was
dried in ovens and chemically treated.
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