MUNITIONS FACTORIES AT YAROSLAVL AND MAKHACH KALA

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 12, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Attached is a rough sketch plan' of Factory TNo,. 62 in the town of Yaroslavl'
drawn from raeraory,
2.a Before the war this factory produced cartridges and shells. During the war
it was evacuated to Chelyabinsk,where it carried out repairs to tanks, The
production of amraunitioa was discontinued while the factory was in Chelyabinsk,
3? In 1945-194Ca the factory was moved back to Yaroslavl and began again the
production of cartridges and c hollao Source says that the Chelyabinsk work.
ahops are still operating, but he does not inavt what they are producing,
S. The machine tools at Factory ITo 62 are of German manufactured
Be About 1?500 skilled and 12,000 uunkilled non are employed, Source does not
know the ca.,aoity of tho factory or the destination of the finished produots3
Co `a`'he following is the key to the plan,
1o main office
2. electric sub--station, Mlectrio power is received from an electric power
station in Yaroslavl and passes through this
sub-station to the factory'.
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13? wood piles
3m workshop for
tempered products"
4, smithy or forge
So toch:nical center Nose 1 and 2
G. technical center No. 6
7, underground assembly workshops
8 o packing departz nts (above ground)
9 m ;arat
10, mechanical repair workshops
lld workersO living quarters
12m workora, living quarters
'our-story workers f dwl5in house
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3-"-. child ,.dren's nursery
1. main gates truck and
17. pates the ough which f intabed products leave the factory by
lop-lied on to rsil.ay oars
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19Q watch togs with searchlights. Watchmen are postod here. At night
0. } watch dogs patrol between the watch towers.
-r n ii, :;akhaah Kala there is reported to be a factory named KhadzhiYev which
_ xufectures parts for anti-airoraft guns. The factory consists of sveral
to and three-story buildings which are s ituatod about l kms west of the
railway leading to Baku at the edge of the urban area of L aoh Bala.
T in factory, reportedly, has not been enlarged since the var.
S. The following is an explanation of attached sketch map No. 2 of Factory
No. 182 near :'al hach Kala.
osnteon for workmen
machine tractor station
warehouse
radio Iunotion
warehouse
doriet Air Force billets
i , railway station
dwelling houaos for collective farriers
~.. car_umiaation passage
10. mound in which defensive points are excavated
13- , aoldiers' billets
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2 , communication passages and motor
1', three-and four-story dwellings
4. standard taro-story dwellings
15. guard-roars
16. fire-brigade
O. Factory 182, also L-uoan as Dvigatelstroi, is a military town in itself, with
cps, cinena,and a theater. Among the factory workers and the inhabitants a USSR.
of ~.lakhaoh Isla it is described as the second largest war factory
It has many fives four-and Another sourcehasd stiriated the number of worloers
.roofs.
ass 40,006- e ?
10. The factory is controlled by the ':linistry of Armed Forces. it Was built
In 1932 as a torpedo factory and :,nufactures all parts for torpedoes.
Source believes that mines are also manufactured there. (Field Comment:
An independent source oonfines this, and adds that submarines' mare
produced.)
11. There is a bread issue of 600-1,000 grams per day per worker. 'itik is also
issued to those onployed in the more dangerous workshops.
12. Up to autxama 1947, the factory had not been enlarged or developed since the
war.
:3. The torpedoes and other products are assembled at an assembly shop situated
the
Station Turali 3, the factory, ua
five kms out to sea from the factory.
assembly shop form a straight line. Source has not visited the assembly shop,
it assumes it must be on a small island. It is visVile
roe the oreontroi
The assembly shop is an integral part of Factory 182, r
of the la tter'B dirootore It is said to be eit ,t stories ni 6h, and to be built
in the shape of three sides of a rectangle, with the open jzzi pointing
from the shoe. (tTashin on comments The attached sketch map,
source for this inTo-r-m-a-tion# ors in several respects from the
stated in paragraph 13. It is impossible to sttri:ro definitely
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is oorreot. It is unlikely that the shop located five kras from the factory
in actually an assembly shop. In view of the limited assembling entailed
ii t, final staves of torpedo r-anufacturo, it appears more plausible that
t iie shop is a testings.ehop vttiere the 2raotice-heads of the torpedoes are
11.:}r s carry the factory output to the aoserably shop, either packed in boxes
c Brea with tarpaulins.
15, once a week,a vessel (size and type unknovrn) collects completed torpedoes
-- rn the assembly shop and distributes them to their dostinations.
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