1. INDUSTRIES IN CENTRAL ASIA 2. POSSIBLE JET FUEL PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001700320005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 1 ? !CE AGENCY REPOR
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INFOR ATI _ UF(T CD NO.
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DATE DIST1h 12 -Tan 1949
SUBJECT 1. Industries in Central Asia NO. OF PAGES 2
2. Possible Jet Fuel Production
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Matta K=gan (34?55?N,_66015?E)
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10 The town, situated on the railway 70 Ions N7 of Samarkand, has a population
of 50,000. There are 40 villages in this area, whose inhabitants are en-
gaged in cotton and tobacco growing. '
2. The Mikoyan Oil Extraction Plant is said locally to be the second largest
cottonseed oil plant in the world. The factory is controlled and directed 50X1-HUM
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and o extracted therefrom arep'ocassed with gasoline and that a
number of wrkmen receive burns. The monthly output is about 500 tons.
The factory is operated niit and day. No foreigners are employed here and
none are also wed to approach the wo rks . Pay of technicians, and rao rkers
varies between 200 and 1,500 rubles per month, according to individual out-
put. Thefts of oil by factory hands ass frequent as a result of the low
wages paid. The factory products are sent northvnrd by rail, in particular
to Moscow and Leningrad, and are used for military purposes. 50X1-HUM
Comment: The processing of cottonseed oil with gasoline would pr uce a
el for reciprocating engines using low octane fuel or for jet
engines with high combustion temperature. in view of the destination of
the product, it is likely that it is being used for jet engines?)
,3. A large cotton mill is situated near the railway track. in Hatta Kurgan.
Kermi ne (400013%, 65?l l.' E)
The population of Kermine (6,000)
is engaged in tobacco and cotton grovang.
5. The Kermine railway station is 'small, with four to six sidings.
6. Cotton dill No. 72 lies about 50 meters north of the railway station and is,
known as the Kermine Area Cotton t !ill. The brick building has eight cotton-
gins. Machinery bass installed in 1945. Engines are 750 HP, electrically
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driven; it is said locally that these were originally used in a submarine
but were found unsatisfactory and removed. About, 600 workers are em-
ployed nine hours a day. Wad vary between 200 and 500 rubies per month.
The following enterprises are located at Balkhaeh, Kazakh SSR
a. Capper Smelting Works under the M nistry of Non Ferrous Metallurgy.
This is a rather large works with many buildings under'construotion.
The works receives ore fr? the Kounrad, Uspenski, and Dzhezkazrn
mines. There is a molybdenum plant in operation at the works which
produces molybdenum concentrates (screened molybdenum ore) from
molybdenum ore received from the Kounrad mines. The output of copper
in 1947 exceeded that of 1916 by nearly 2,000 tons. The output of
molybdenum concentrate and molybdenum ore has also increased. The
director is Dosyatnikov.
b. Non--Ferrous Metal Treatment Facto No. 517 under the Ministry of
Non a ggMjurgy. This a jarge and wellequipped factory
engaged in rolling and treating varous non-ferrous metals. The
director is Evseyev.
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