INDUSTRIES IN TASHKENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001900560005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 20, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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4. 1Pact2zw ft- 2., the Ta t r cB,lt ;al Mach .F o .~' -]
(Tasheelmash), is located near tramway stop "NN on tramway line No. 4 in
front of the medical institute on Karl Marx Street near the military airport.
This factory, erected about 1935, produced agricultural machinery. During
the war, production was converted to land mines, field kitchens, trailers,
water pumps, lathes. grinders, drilling machines, and other metal working
tools. It also repaired tanks. The land mines were filled with explosives
allegedly in a factory near Moscow. The factory was equipped with modern
American. English, and. Japanese machinery. The management changed frequently.
The daily coal consumption was about 6-7 carloads (60-ton cars), which came
from the Angren-Ugol coal mines located near Oblak railroad station,approxt-
mately 60 km from Tashkent in a southerly direction. Pig iron was received
from Chelyabinsk. During the war, between 3,000 and 5,000 workers were em-
ployed. Their number was not reduced after the war, but production was con-
verted partly to agricultural machinery. Land-mine production went on after
the wars although on a somewhat smaller scale. After the war many Japanese
is were employed. The factory had at its disposal 20 trucks varying, in
else from It to 3 tone in capacity and over 10 passenger cars. This factory
was said to have the highest quality of output of a in Tashkent.
g Ng. : This plant, located close to factory No. 735, produced
mines of an unknown type. Between 500 and 600 workers were employed. Reznikov
was the manager.
6. Oaabo1troitel.nr Z r (Special Construction Works). Located between the
medical school and Factory No. 84 is a wood-working factory employing approxi-
mately 8,000 workers.
7. nhorge Rec grd , commonly referred to as GP (Grammofonnaya Plastinka),
on Pasrai Yelangakh Street No. 5 near the Chirchik Gorny railroad station.
There are only two such factories in Russia, the other is in Aprelevka, a suburb
of Moscow. The shellac used in this factory is imported from Algiers, North
Africa. The factory employs 200 workers and produces 3,000 records in twenty-
four hours, mostly for purposes of propaganda. Numerous records were made for
General von Paulus and for propaganda in Iran. Shellac was in short supply.
and there were rumors about Russian efforts to produce it. This factory was
evacuated during the war from Noginsk, 35 km from Moscow. The manager, an
engineer, Peter Lebedev, is about 35 years old.
8. .rod. Zavod (Oxygen Plant): Produces gas for welding purposes and fills
gas containers. Gas for welding y)urpoass was reportedly always in short
supply in that region.
9.
Carbide FactoaZo
Located in the vicinity of Factory No. 708.
10.
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Pja&t No.-Z:
Located on M h Kala Street, employed approxi-
mately 600 workers.
11.
General:
Tashkent never had sufficient electric power for household and lighting
purposes. It frequently happened that power was cut off for private use
and that tramways stopped for an hour or two because of lack of power.
During the war factory No. 708-was frequently in danger of having its
production interrupted because of lack of transportation. This, however,
never happ?ened,because the management had the right to requisition critical
materials from other less essential factories in town.
2 sketch maps attached.
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