"1. FACTORIES, MINES, AND POWER PLANTS IN UZBEK SSR 2. MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC INFORMATION"

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1947
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1, BR,GOTAT (4:M.31N 69'120E
ILO Pswer Plant'
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At Farkhastroi, eight kilometers upstream fromeMegovat on the Syr-Darya River,
construction of a hydroelectric plant began in 1942. The dam feeding the plant,
Allegedly the second largest in the Soviet Union, was to have been completed by
the'end of July 1946. Scheduled to begin operating by early 1947, the plant
will have a. capacity of 350,000 K. On 1 July 1946 two turbines had already been
installed, and two others were expected from Canada. The height of the falls
over the dam is 132 feet, while a canal 20 kilometers long leads to the drop.
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plants in Tashkent will be dismantled and removed to smaller communities.
'1,0cated three kilometers from Begovat, the factory was built in 1942 and
equipped with Canadian maehinery, In addition to threeealready-installed Nartene
,ovens, an open-hearth Dome furnace and rolling mill were under construction in .
alliy-1946. 1500 Workers wore employed in July 1946 but a considerable increase
e in employment was expected,
!e BUKHARA (39?50'N
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Kharkov Tractor Fest= (1C.T.'z.)
Manufacturing and repairing tractors, this factory is part of the original K.T.Z.
moved from Kharkov to Bukhara during the war. It has one open-hearth furnace,
with a capacity of aperoximately 10 cubic meters. About 1000 workers are employed.
Director of e factory is a 1P:rain1an named Duchenko.
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Yollowing the cessation of hostilities this factory was dismantled; modern
machinery was shipped back to Kharkov, while older machinery was sent to
Stalinabad. The factory has been converted to a cotton cleaning pliant in
which 3,000 workers are employed. Daring the war K.V.Z. produced aircraft
ports and incendiary bomb components (type unspecified). (Stalinabad, Tadshik
06Ab 38?I5'N, 88?3GB.)
31. CH WEN (20 miles NE of Tashkent)
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Factor7 grounds cover About 6 square kilometers. Because workers *ere permitted
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wan produced in this ,plant. Smoking was prohibited, and the installation was
closely guarded by MVD personnel.
NT.g.1 (near ZOOABUIAGH, 3964'N 6550'5)
Site of wolfram and molybdenum mines, with preferential treatment and payment for
workers. Also site of sugar factory employing 2,000 workers daring season.
5. rai.CA:71A, (40:'22'N 71-48)
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This is a cotton cleaning factory employing 150 workers and producing 200 to
250 bales a month. The finished product is sent to Tashkent for processing.
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j'roduces one ton of marmalade, three tons of canned fruit, and half a ton of
oanned meat per month: employs 250 workers. Monthly salaries range from a truck
driver's 400 rubles, with 140 deducted for taxes, to the manager's 2,000 with
a 600 ruble deduction.
C. )',1.q1c1.47/aPut_gottP.A.Allk
Cleans 400 bales of cottonper month and employs 300 workers.
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oviet scrao collection agency which salvages in Fergana a monthly average of:
O n113 of scrap iron, shinpee, to Chelyabinsk
aj tons of zinc, brags, and lead, shipped to Sverdlovsk
ln tons of peach-stones, shipped to Tashkent for the 'cbmpounding of
nrussic acid
;7, of c'neton eeerl shinned to Tangi Youl
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Site of mercury mines, located 40 kilometer e south of Fergana in the Pamir Mountains.
Approximately 600 workers employed.
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H&IpERKAN (Probably Kirghiz SSR)
Site of mercury mines, situated about 70 kilometers south of Fergana. Soviet geolo(e-
late combed this region for uranium deposits in 1945, but with what results is unknown.
The mercury produced at Natal:let:al and Haiderkan is shipped to Skobelevo, two kilo-
meters north of Fergana on the railroad to Margelan.
8. ICATTA-ITRGAN (39?554N 66?154E)
Cotton cleaning and cottonseed oil factory employing 2,000 workers.
9. KAg4N (Nov Bukhara, eight miles SE of Bukhara)
cotton procesring and cottonseed oil factory employing 2,000 workers.
10. KASSAN7SAI (In the Fergana Valley)
60 kilometers south of Kassan-Sai in the Pamir Mountains are mines producing gold,
silver, wolfram, and uranium. 800 workers are employed. Ore is washed by primitive
methods in the nearby Kysyl-Su River.
ll e RaSNI-7.DVIGATSEL (sp? reported to be near Samarkand)
Metallurgical plant employing about 500 workers.
12. IANGAR-STgOI (Khatirchi Rayon, Samarkand Oblast)
Wolfram and molybdenum mines are worked with poor equipment. Average 24-hour
production is one carload of washed wolfrem and molybdenum.
13, MARGEW (400274N 71?434E)
Silk Mlii Nr.?,_ 514
Produces 240,000 meters of silk fabrics per month. Entire output was devoted
to parachute silk until converted to production of yard goods after 1 July 1946,
rower is supplied. at a tension of 24,000 volts by a plant at Kuvasai, 40 kilo-
meters from Fergana.
la, "10AN (41010'N 71?504E)
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700 workers produce ten tons of canned fruit, jam, and meat per month.
15, SANARKAND (39'40N 67?04E)
Population moderately estimated at 300,000 in May 1946 Deily food distribution
through cooperatives is 100 tons.
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Construction commenced in 1943, but the factory had not been completed as of
July 1946. Popularly referred toras an "hydraulics plant", the factory uses,
among other raw materials, cotton hulls. Industrial alchohol in one known
product. Other products are marked with letters "K" and "P". No production
figures are available. A Ukrainian named KUCHARENKO is director and chief.
engineer of the plant.
17. TASIMET (41?30'N 69020?E)
Fileten?Areeel
Produces tank and tractor parts and employs 50,000 to 60,000 workers,
b. legIitEl_Nr. 84
Airplane factory producing twin-engine transport and passenger aircraft in two
separate plants in Tashkent. Employs more than 5,000 workers. Derives its
power from a distant plant, but has its own power-plant on premises in case of
emergency.
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This factory, erected in 1942, produces small arms.
Factory Nr, 702 or Factory im. Voroshilov
During the war this plant produced field kitchens, but has since been converted
to the manufacture of agricultural machinery.
Director of the factory in ENGELSMANN,
Factom_Nr. 708
Also referred to as Rogjlpaz (spy) Zavod, the factory was removed from Rostov
during the war. It produced exploeive mines (types unspecified), and in June
1946 was converted to harvesting machinery production. Employs approximately 25X1
2,000 workers, mostly German YiVe. j Comments Possibly Reselmsdh Zavedg.
FaoGry
r. EaskaL.N.r. YO9
Moved from Rostov during the war, it produced 250kg aerial bomb casings, but
has now been converted to the manufacture of agricultural implements.
Easlamint_Zal
Produced bombs (e4f an unspecified type) during the war: present production is
not known,
h. FactqueNyern5 or "AKSAY" Factory
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The factory comprises 18 departments:
Director: RANIKRASOV
Employees: As of July 1946, an aperoximate total of 7,000 for the entire
factory.
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Manufactured aerial gas-bombs during the war. Each bomb weighed
35 lbs, including the device by which it was affixed to the air-
craft. Bomb-casings - had a wall thickness of 2 mm. The depart-
ment produced 1240 bombs per month, employing 600 workers in three
8-hour shifts. Present output is not known.
Ante_ Z: Produces screws.
Dgpts. ? pnd 4: Blacksmith shops.
Dent. 5: Produces the following types of submarine mines and paravanes:
is described as cylindrical, 80 cm. in diameter, about
1,30 meters in length, with four fins on the tail, and
having a wall thickness of 9 mm. Each mine is equip-
ped, with an anchor and four saall wheels. The entire
apparatus weighs about 25 lbs.
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Is described as generally similar to Type "A", but is
90 min diameter, about 2 meters in length, and weighs
45 lbs. The mines were filled with explosives in
another6unidentified factory. Anchors were shipped
separately to Burmakino (sp?), allegedly a sea-port in
the Far East. The mine-casing and corresponding anchor
always bear the same number. All shipments were handled
by the Soviet Army. From 39 to 40 carloads of mines
were shipped every month. For this, the factory was
paid from 67.000 to 68,000 rubles by the Government.
Pa: Weigh more than 1600 lbs. For each paravene, the
factory was paid 56,000 rubles. Two metal cables
approximately 250 meters long, 20 mm. in diameter,
and weighing 88 lbe are attached to each device.
The total length of a paravane is 3.25 meters: the
catching device is 18 to 20 cm. long. The department
uroduces 12 naravanes a month, all of which are
shipped to Misozurkin (sp?) in the Far East. Four
eases of accessories accompany each peravane. These
cases contain, among other things, two pairs of
shears which can cut through steel cable. The shears
are alleged to have an action employing mercury, but
details of this mechanism were not reported. Screws
of various sizes are also conteinnd in the cases.
DenIaa?: .5roduces agricultural machinery.
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?7: Produces "Fugac" aerial bombs 80 cm. long. 17 to 18 cm. in
diameter, and cylindrical in shape. The empty casing weighs
154 lbs ? and has a. wall thickness of 1 cm. A 220 lb bomb Is
also manufactured in this department Monthly production of
both types of bombs averaged 15.000. The bombs were shipped
to Nizhna-Tagil and subsequently to Stalino for filling and
finishing,
klEt,A) Foundry, servicing other departments, employs about 1500 woreers
In 3 shifts.
Dep.taa9e Produces packing cares.
Deeta_10: Has three steam-hammers, servicing other departments.
Produces tools and instruments for factory use.
Papa. /2: Transportation section.
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Peat, 13: Railroad section in charge of receiving and shipping. Factory
rail yard Is 24 kilometers long and has four locomotives. At
least five freight cars enter and leave the yards daily. Days
in which 20-car trains arrive and depart, however, are not
infrequent.
Dent, 14: Auxiliary foundry, supplementing Dept. 5.
D15: Unidentified.
RapA, 16: Produces ten turret lathes a month.
De t 17: Manufactures agricultural machinery - 400 harvesting machines a
month.
Dept. 18: Produces cultivators for cotton growers.
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Employing 3,000 to 4,000 workers, this plant produces agricultural machinery.
During the war the factory produced explosive mines of various types, and
employed 6,000 men. Much of the machinery is currently idle.
!Kaganovich" Locomotive and Car Re air Works
Situated beside Tashkent railroad station. the works employed about 7D00
workers as of July 1946.
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Trains 2,500 students a year, among them 200 railroad engineers.
1, polygraph Combine
Produces ball-bearings of various sizes. Production figures are not available.
18,-,:yANOVSKATA (40?20'N 71?30?E)
Xerosinejlglauct
This plant was built adjacent to a smaller refinery during the war. 800 to
1,000 workers employed in production of aviation gasoline. Raw material is
delivered by-train from Andizhan and Leninsk,both approxirntely 80 kr, distant
from Vamovsk,
X,ANGI TOUL (41%qf 65?0'E)
P9ttonse0_41114111k
This Installation producer 800 tons of cottonseed oil and 40 tons of soap a
month. The plant is equipped with ten hydraulic presses and 42 washinghimes.
Director: VOZHNI
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ita 1945 the Uzbek SSR produced 50b,000 tons of cotton instead of the officially-
.aounced 750,000, At least 15% of the cotton was mildewed because of improper
staeking.of bales. Oman YUSOPOV, Governor of the Uzbek S.S_R,, publicly
declared total cotton oroduction for 1946 to have been 1,000,000 tons, Actual
production for the year is estimated by. all Subsources at 000,000 tons.
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