UAZ ALUMINUM PLANT NEAR KAMENSK-URALAK, CHELYABINSK OBLAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003300420007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: September 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT UAZ Alwiaimm Pte t
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The town of i located three miles east of K.q, NSK
(56025111,T/61.0581H.) and ef:4r?s founded ry n 1939. It cons i st,s
of modern; large apartmejf6 looks built of stone partly
with flat, 'partly Qgith gable roofs? In 194-8 the town had
between 30,000 and 40f,000 iahabitants,. K.L'E''>C itself
is an old town consistin ; of cotta ;es and some dilaridated
churches. The surroundings of uAZ mare covered with a
layer of ashes causod by the spoke coming f om the 20-
feet-high smoke stacks3
2 Location of the Plant- In the center at . wiz
3. Plant. l ea o The f eneed-12) T i~t covers an area of approximate: ?
T p O 4 5 0 0 feet,
4 -Plant Installations, The mall n plant installations. are e i8ht
woxk a?ps 4.,phe ?o a ammo. a, is smel ted~o These ''> k hope area
built in two rows of four build+ngs, each in a "Vest--east
direction,. in the center of each ra", is one workshop -,here
the
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aluminum is east in b h
ars,e e?7orkshops are
approximately 1,000x130x5C feat. The first to vorkshons
were built in 1939.
50 Eouipment of the Electrolytic Department o Each workshop had
~~ h~ array ;e "'osa ~~9^~ ~ ~ do st worksho
s had
p
round furnaces; the other aim were sQuar e-shape ? f, 2 )
Th
e old furnaces were0hdld t b
s1e11eoe moderni Ted. In
ror ehojq, was a orene which could he moved -through the a
jaoent workshops as far as the center 4'7orkshbp (castin
4
conveying the molten aluminum "co vats lined rvi th fireol
stones (vat content,approx atsly 50 gallons),,
5J norLyig Force: 194 - p:V0 1,T ~i ~b?kim in three g-wrtlls
1948 3000 We 4? ork hrg in three s hi t r . U
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