CHEMICAL AND AMMUNITION PLANT IN BEKETOVKA NEAR STALINGRAD

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Chemical and Ammunition Plant in BFKETOVKA near STALINGRAD.
pipelines 20 inches in diameter and "aid c feet underground. This
v~P part of the plant could only be entered with speci-aL passes. In the
vicinity of these buildings large a amounts of only slightly covered
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The Chemical. Combine No 91 is in D K TCVKA (4e?34'/44?2)
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immediately south of STA INCRAI) (48045'N/44025'-) between the
double-track railroad line to 'iIKU0RETSI, (45?5211J/40?0S;'L) and the
igbt bank of the V?1ga Riv :r. The Volga River makes a sharp bend
to tide e act at Bi',M-MVIKA.
b. The large Stalgres Power Plant is closes to We Conbine, separated
only by the railroad 1z.nc. The generators of the power plant are
e. In another part of the plant some bu.i.ldin :fs are connected by
over a 'ids area. Source .ale only superficial observations. One
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d, In some rooms of the de:par't!nents I and VIII many paper bales
vivre; stored, some of .ri ; ch and Japanese origin. These stocks verb
\ estimated by indigenous p, rsonriel at. about 6,000 tons. Mostly woven
were employed at largo opon boilers in other rocn,,~ frog; ainich emanated
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sr,oQr,s of sulphur were stored. An acres'! d smell of rotten eggs also
filled the air in this section.
f. South of the chemical plant is a built-up site designa.ted"margarine
plant Dismantled Cep glom mad-'n
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l7;5- buxldi nK s, These rre c''i,n,:.s were being repaired by about 100 P', `s n
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\,:> operated b-; six coaldust ir'ed steam boilers and 10 steam turbines.
It supplied power to the residents and industries of 3TLL QRAD and
surroundirk_:,s ,
i' c. The che.,4cal factol7 proper is in a series of buildings scattered
important plant departnent, designated 'iTBjqI"..Q IV", produced
chloride of .'time which was shipped in 50 kg cardboard barrels-
E'0 tons had to be loaded in each 10-hour shift,
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a -The i3EKETOVKA 1wmuniti.on i lant is 1O miles from 6TAL1NGRAD. Its
production progr. :) alsoicludes phos.p'hor, sulp"Ur' nitre, chloride
of lime, and oaey,-gnn,
b. Mortar shells of different caliber :is-well as aircraft bas bs were
also filled.
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c. For layout sketch see Annex 3.
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a. In the Ch 3 .cal Plant in BEKETOVKA near STALBQGRAD are two
departments designated ~'Tsokh 2" and "Trokh ? ,07"
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b Pump installations are in operation in a workshop of department
207. Taere are also eight 13-foot om nt,incrs with unidentifiee ci
corroding acids.,
c_ The production of dep. rtrne.t 2 (three woritsiops and one machine
shop with 15 machine tools) included caloric gas.
d,, For layout sketches see A;racxes 4,5 and 6)
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4. a. A seven-story building of thy: ammunition plant !a &KJ TGVKA
near STALINGRAD could only be entered with a special pass. Chen
there was an operational disorder sweet and liquorice smelling gases
escaped from this building and irritated eyes as well as respiratory
and digestive organs.. The yh; sisal. disturbances did not last very
long passing fairly quick in fresh air; . the workmen employed in
this building wore Soviet army gas ..cask.
b. Soft, white stones coming b;; rail were processed in this building.
The finished product was a ~%iiite powder. Shipments of this product
3 f \ left in t.?hrred e irdboard barrels 30, inches high and 16 inches in dia-
meter,.
c. In addition to some new buildin4s, mechanical workshops,, and stor-
age depots, source nertmbers an irr ta:l.lation of four workshops about 160
x 65 feet. From time to time defective containers 40 i_,ches hign and
30 inches in diameter and provided with a number of graphite electrodes
were sent f zxam these wog ]:shops to L he shop for repair.
d. A number of other buildings seared to be u;5s8 f ,r preparing and flil1.
ink; antitank and other artillery awn nition.
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200
(20 percent women) per shift in a three-shift sciiedule, and
working only an eight-hour shift.
f. For 'LayouL sketches see "Annexes 7, 8 and 9.
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a. A chemical. combine in the vicinity of the Stalgres Power Plant
south of STI:I;.'I,GRAD consisted of six workshop buildings at the tine
of observation. Three of these buildings were new structures with the
intet-ior not co-tpleted.. In one of these workshops several boilers
about 161 feet high and 10 feet in diameter were being established and
a r^.r;tifi d syste, of pipes V..as being laid,- In another workshop build-
ing two furnaces :)f unc eterntined use were being set up.
b. The following description of;the,plant installat`:ons was given:
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1) In a building c,f About 260 x 200 feet were tw mills and two
i.ining, furnaces as Dell a:;, containers and pipe lines. A w-zite grayish
kind of stone was groui3d in the mills. The finished product has .a
yellowish and bluish color. 'I1;is product as well as a number of other
products of this plant titers put into iron drums, steel cylinder's,
demijohns and boxes. The cork force numbered 3.0 workers, 20 percent
of whom were v,ot:en U, ;Z percent 1"s. 1.'ork w._us done in three shifts.
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b. In one department shells (in another department bombs a.i.so)' were
filled with a phosphorous substance. The filled shells were painted witri
a blue-groy. dolor and. paokod into bows. after bQinG Groasoda
about 100 and 150 mm up to 3.70 mm shells,
c One workshop bui,Lding had per;
1.ar,;e vi dows. At rtdLktt many searchlights beamed through the windows
into the interior of this workshop. There were many indications that
inflammable material was processed here,
d. 77 ar gases were produced in another department. The Soviet w:otivaen
in this department wore tick rubber clothing, rubber boots and rubber
gloves. Their heads were protected by r gas masks covering the whole
ace. The gas was put into steel cylinders. About 600 cylinders were
filled per snift. They were ei her Put in stock or trucked away. Chioric
gas, "green gas and tear gas" were produced and stored in a similar
operation. ?
e. "Sulphur was burned and produced" in ahother department, of the plant.
This was done in furnaces 20 feet high and 61 feet in diameter which
were. in continuous operati.,n. These furnaces lastd, at best, three
months. They were built of fireclay and loam.
(.. Salt was processed ip r)ther department. Acids were produced in two other
departments,
g. Tarred cardboard barrels were produced in a plant-owned barrel fac--
tory. One barrel held 35 kr of chloride of lime.
h. There were many steel and concrete underground bun,ers within the
plant area. The P s could not learn the pLupme of these bunkers.
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i. For layout sketch see Annex 12.
3. a, The Chemical. Plant No 91 in DEKETOVKA near STALINOTIZAU covers about
14 000 x 3,000 feet including the adjacent power plant. According Lo
source's estimate the work force numbered about 3,000 men.
b. There were 11 departments. Source remembers the chlorine, chlor c gas,
/E;he phosphor and chemical warfare agent departments.
C. Phosphor stones, Quartz stones and good coal shiixnents came by rail
to one aepantrnent where these materials were pulverized and made into a
paste to which charicals were added. This mixture, designated "phospiior'
was sent through underf_rocnd pipes to another workshop for further pro-
cessing.
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-x. T he Plant ?vo 91, like woodwoorkinF r epartment. No 20, operates for a
large Chemical Co:rrbirie in &ZETOVi.h. The plant is in the viciaiLy of the
Volga :giver sit the S'TALTh :RAD-I'IKitOIv,'1'5K railroad line.
h. There was a special department in the Plant io 91, producing chloride
of lime and poison gases. In addition to an uatknovn number of Soviets,
about 1 :0 17s were employed.
c,. One department had bbau~ 100 boilers, 13 feet in diameter, used for some
Tchernic al tre atment. There were frequent boiler explosions v.ith fata
c,.sualties.
The great salt consumption was notevorthy. Salt shipments came by
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water on the Volg liver from ASTRAI i1ASv (460a14/480031E) and were
-}unloaded by conveyor belts.
C. the total work force of Plant No 91 at about
1,000 Soviets and s.
tome of we chef, ical apparatuses tare also of German make. /
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g. Department No 20 had a sas mil3 , a carpentry and at saithy.
"'ortc force: 70 to 100 Soviets and as many This department made
:rood work for Plant o 91.
Februaxy to August i4
I5. A. The Chemiea1 Plant in B:..KM;TOVKA south of STALL.G1tAO covers about
5,000 x 2,600 feet.
cal plant had its own steam boiler ins;,allation, fired with coal. Spur
tracks existed.
\,,. c . The plant w xis subdivided into two main sections: 04e for the
chemical production proper and ra~iother one where mostly old type artillery
and mortar shells were disarmed, emptied, refurbished and newly filled.
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coal., limestone and large tiwmounts of sat among the
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raw material shipments coring to the chemical section. Some of these
shiprner is came by rail, but mostly by water on Volga liver barges.
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was el- ays in operation. The kilns were about 40 L. high and lb Peet in
Power was supplied from ad;;acent ST'KUNiAI h i Power Plant. The cheami-
work ill the chlorine
department;
Limestone and coa2 iv-;re mixed in a 3:1 ratio in a "s-one mill" and
pulverized. The mixture was then burned in a lime kiln installation w.dch
dianeter. The burned material was sent by a piping system through the
entire department while passing throu: h different production atago'sa :some
of the apparatuses used were supplied with team. The final product,
chloride of -Lime c designated chior is powder in this department) was
packed into c:,rdboard barrels.
L Phosphoric acid was produced in another department. A thio: paste
coming in tank cars with the inscription f/A ;` ;NQ_,RF" was first unloaded
into tin containers. The paste was heated in these containers and simul-
taneously watere- . The contents of tine paste precipitated into the liquid
which was then conducted into earthenware containers of about 1 cubic
meter volumetric capacity. It had a brown-yellow color, Compressed air
was added during the production process while the escaping steam was con-
ducted into a distillation installation. Saa.ples of the, product were
continuously tunkted in the labora.ory.
?. onl.oric gas wis puu uuou 54-L vey.+ a:~ue:1 ~, iav~j>xviyL ar.s A slant e::u.Jvaasav3
and shipped.
h. A kind. of "acid" smelling like bitter almonds, was also produced in
the plant. It crystallized if exposed to the air and it, was very soluble
in water.
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i. I had to dig out leaky underground iron containers about 15
feet hilt and about 10 feet in diameter. These containers were under
subsoil water. The mass escaping, during this excavatioh. caught fire when
exposed to the air. Burning stopped only vdien the container was again put
under water.
j. Sulphuric acid was shipped in do ni 'ohns of 13.2 gallons volumetric
capacity. In one department bottles marked with rings on
top and bottom. The contents of these bottles was a very heavy and
viscous licuid allegedly inflammable. The bottles were not to be placed
horizontally.
estimates on production
amounts. Tvo thousand barrels of chloride of lime were stored daily.
The monthly phosphoric acid output was about 250 demijohns (each contain-
ing 125 kg).
1. The total work force was roughly estirnRted at 1, 500 to 2,000 Soviets and
500 to 600 P17s. A German chalmist from Ab~ti+tL',.NDORN, von BOCK, was in the
plant. He was mainly employed in the installation designated "margarine"
plant.
The "margarine 11 plant, also part of the Plant No 91, was about 1,600
feet south of Plant No 91. At the time its buildings apparently served
rrainl r f: r the storage of chemical machines, apparatuses, e.Lectro-motors
,and electricna installation-material, machine tools and equipment for craar-
ging ammunition. C"tinvavo and other kitchen utensils were manufactured
in one building.
n. For layout sketches see Annexes 13 and 14.
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16. 1a. The Chemical Plant In BLKM'0VKA consists of eight departments. Cheri-
cal warfare agents were produced. The plant insLa11ations were not des-
toyed in wartime and there was only a -little damage by artillery and baubs.
The installation ..,- s evacuated but has been returned and reinstalled,
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b. Part of the plant installations cane from art Upper Silesian Plant
During an experimental operation of a large blowing engine, gases
e-..caped which source designated "blue cross fumes". (Sternutators?)
-- , ,d. In the plant phosphorus was observed being unloaded from Gm an tank
e. Chlorine was produced in one building. As great amounts of this ;as
escaped during the production process a disagreeable smell filled the air
round the plant.
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f. Large amounts of ai aunition were stored in the plant area9apparentLy
waiting to be filled. This was said to be incendiary and gas munition.
warfare agents. A P's suffered from a serious vesicant contamination (Yellow
Cross contamination) when using the oily liquid of ne of these bottles for
greaasinrg his boots.
a great a ;mount of stored bottle: contained che,icaal
V7g, Piles of thousands of con aiaers with chloride of lime and piles
of normal-looking oxygen steel cylinders were observed,
h. One department de&a.gnated "acid installation" 1 .,ad lar.e steel pressure
chambers and other containers with acid proof lining placed on acie-proof
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fundaments. ";Japed channels were cemented with acid-proof putty,
i. The plant had a cooling installation operated on the mraonia com-
pression system.
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17. as The Chemical Plant No 91 in BEKETOVKA, still under construction,
covered about 1 x 1 square miles including its old production site.
1 bd The chlorine department consisted of the follow.in, buildings: Several
machine shops, a warehouse, the chlorine production department itself
~~~JJJ consisting of a large building with a silo-shaped tower and one furnace
(in operation)m a building deli treated by source "salt production building"O
and a recently built house.
c. Poison uses were produced in ond epar-ment . Yellow, sulphur-srneL ling
fumes developed during production.
30 percent c them V,0=men. Four to five hundred R':s did reconstruction work.
\T"orkmen wore protective clothing and gns masks in the chlorine and salt
department, as well as in the shell filling department and poison gas
department.
d, There was also an in,uallataon for filling gas shells.
e. A new installation was under construction about ?,600 feet south of
the main plant. It 41l be a hydrogenation plant for gasoline synthesis
and a carbide production plant. Operation had not started in February 1949.
f. The labor force working in three shifts numbered about 3,000 civilians,
g. The conscripted Professor Imo vcm Brock, -.c.cmeill. of the. L Sc, F4xben Pl to
supervised the construction of the new installation.
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h. The entire plant area was strictly guarded and the plant departments
are strictly separated.
i. The plant with the cover name "margarine" had a number of large and
6-middle-.sized workshop buildings and served for- the storagq,,of dismantled
German plant installations. All the installations of .he dismantled
SAALFELD Plant of the Goldsch.?nidt Corporation were ,moved, in several
shipments, to this place by the fall of 1546.
j. for layout sketch see Annex 15.
25X1 Jules and August 1.948
111118. a. The Chemical. Plant in 13BUaT0V A is apparently :gin old enterprise but
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tower and an installation equipped with pumps and earthenware containers
.ihich was a filtering plant according to information from indigenous per--
-.-cor}nel, Most apparatuses of the department were of German make and cane fret.
25X1 a firm in SAALFJLD. This department was not yet in operation.
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c. In addition to several buildings
there was an installation for filling oxygen, an underground ur-
er w ere sh.lls were cleaned and greased as well :-s administration
warehouse buildings.
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incoming shipments: Large amounts of
numerous boxes containing steel c;;linders (these shipments had to be
irrSnediately frbm airplanes landing on the GUMRAY Airfield) and alle-
phosphorus arriving in German tank cars.
e. For layout sketch see Annex 16.
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19. a. Among chemicals processed in the Chemical Plant No 91 in BY K1:TOVKA
source especially noted a liquid with a pungent smell coming into Li
plant in earthenware containers.
b. Soap was produced in a secondary department of the plant.
c. Tubs with bottle-shaped electrodes suspended on wires were in an
electrolytic department. Power was supplied throu h a transformer sta-
tion.
d. A c?table liquid was used in one department. It apparently con-
/sisted of an ether-alcohol mixture.
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BMETOVKA (48?34'N/49?22 4 E) is located 101 miles southeast of S'I'ALINGRAD.
The area of the Chemical Plant starts in the town center and extends be-
tween the S`TALINGR,.D-KE~ .SNOAR','L ~K (4$?3lh/44?32'E) railroad line and the
Volga River for about 1 mile to the southeast. The STP111h,GRAD large-
scale power station "Stalgres" is opposite the northwestern corner of the
chemical plant, separated from the latter by the railroad line.
2. Plant historrs
The Chemical Plant No 91 in BEKETOVKA existed before the war. The most
import."-. nstallations w ere evacuated during the war, but were returned
and re-"installed shortly after hostilities ended in the STALINGRAD region.
The buildings of the plant were scarcely daaaged in the war chile the adja-
cent power plant apparently had to be completely reconstncted. How-
ever, the largest and most important part of the plant installations was
not set up until after the war and then by using disun-antled German appa-
ratuses.
3. Plant installations:
This report does not furnish a distinbt picture on the plant installations
or production. However, by comparing the different observations,con-
clusions could be drawn wiich may give a correct conjecture of the main
points of the BEKETOVKA production progrvn.Althouf;h the plant consists of
a number of very different production aranches, chlorine alkali electrolysis
must be considered the basis of the entire enterpriset. This electrolysis
serves principally for the production of chloric gas tvixich is further
processed in a number of installations. Many by-products are produced by
the electrolysis itself as well as in the subsequent operations. The
D.C. current of low voltage and high amperage requi red for the electrolysis
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is supplied by the Staigres Power Plant through a transformer and
rectifier station.-
It is very probable that sodium sulphite is also produced electrolyti-
cally in the same plant.
Another large installation of the plant is the chloride of lime depart-
qment with its lime kiln batteries and extensive apparatuses.
Prewar production was the production of ultramarine, an.inor;anic
blue pignent, widely used for manufacturing printing and painting colors
for dyeing paper- material, building materials, linoleum, etc. The equip-
ment for this production includes crushers, mills, kilns and various app.ai--
ances for washing and dressing the material.
Although no details are available, it is certain that sulphuric acid is
~'''2produced in BEKI TOVKA. An installation for the production of hydrochloric
acid may also exist as a side line of the salt-processing department.
The repeatedly reporte extensive installations with containers, pipe
system and other equipmerata as well as the production of chcv ir,. ~tlafaro
agents obse.wed b;,- many sources, are certain indications of the exis-
tence of a large-scale production of industrial and war gases as yell as
other chemical warfPre agents. Tile cooling plant operated by the ammonia
compression method is doubtlessly part of this production setup.
It is also certain that the plant has various apparatuses for tine treat-
ment or production of phosphorus and phosphoric acid.
In addition to these departments there certainly are many other plant
installations which ai a not recorded and where other chemical agents
are produced,
Independent installations within the chemical plant are those workshops
where old-type mortar and artillery ammunition as well as aircraft bombs
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are disarmed, cleaned and refurbished to be refilled with chaiu.en
charges and igniting charges and partly with propellent charges also.
Incoming shipments of raw materials arrive by water and are unloaded
at plant-owned harbor installations: transportation is continued
by rail on a ramified network of sidings and spur tracks of the.plant.
Transportation within the plant is done on standard gauge railroad cars
4. Production
The production of chlorine is determined. The shape of the cells used
for the electrolysis is shown in a schematic sketch on Annex 9. The
inter;.or surface of the iron container itself is the cathode while the
electrodes of ferrous oxide or a similar substance are the anodes. It
was erroneously reported in pars 4 that the electrodes considted of
graphite. The cells are filled with a salt solution. During the electroly-
tic cleavage chlorine and orztgen develop as anode gas while the cathode
residue contains sodium and potassium hydroxide (caustic soda and caustic
potash) and magnesium compounds. The gases are separated and compressed
and put into steel cylinders or - mainly chiorie gas - processed into other
products.
The chloric gas is used especially for the production of chloride of lime.
d Crushed limestone :i s burned with coke in one or two cupola furnaces
- which are in continuous operation. Air is artificially supplied. The
r limestone is then slaked in drugs with steam and water and later is chlori-
nated in a number of lane containers. Dur.'ug a long production process
/1'and unloading by conveyor belts and elevators.
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the material is dried in containers lined with heating coils and crushed
in edge mills. These mills consist of a spherical tub,, open on top4fl
which two vertical millstones rotate around an axis and crush the brit-
tle material.
Chloric gas is certainly also used in HLKuTOVKA for the production of
phosgene or diphosgene ("Green Cross"). This may not only be inferred
.from the rotten fruit odor but also by the fact that ethyl alcohol, w.-ich
is potable in diluted form, is being processed. This product is an israpor-
'tant basic material for the production of "Green Cross" or "Perstoff".
Probably ch or acetone and color acetophenone are also produced by using
chloric gas. These products have a strikingly pungent `:.odor. The first
is used as lung, poisoning gas or an irritant and the sec end. predominantly
--as -vesicant.
,materials are available in the plant. This production started before the
war and very recent reports confirm this proddction to have been resumed,
The production of"Adam it" (chlorvinyldichlorarsin) is not quite deter-
mined? There are some indications of this, ~,iowcver, such as the odor
of flowers, the processing of hydrochloric acid while using refaigera-
ting methods, and the oily consistency of the chemical ;arfare agent
Wartime information as well as very recent information on the alleged
production of "Clark I and II" (blue cross gas (sternutators)) is not
confirmed. The procedures and production processes used in BEK TOVKA
are completely different from those used in blue-cross gas production.
This production would also be extremely complicated. It must be assumed
that such chemical warfare agents will more likely be produced in plants
where basic materials required for blue-cross gas production are processed
By allowing chloride of lime to react on picric acid., chlo.opicrin is
produced. It has long been used in the Soviet Union on a large scale
as a filling for shells with 50 percent sulphuric chloride. There is
no doubt that sulp,nuryl chloride is manufactures in B I TOVKA.
It is possible tnat percilormethylmercaptan `SCCi4), the equivalent
of the French "clairsite", is also produced in the plant. It is an irri-
tant gas and has a repulsive odor. It is produced by allowing car.o n
bisuiphide to react on chlorine. The BE1U TOVKA Plant produced carbon
bisuiphide in prewar time. The respective production installations have
been enlarged by using dismantled German apparatuses.
There is also evidence that mustard gas or yperite is produced. It
is a gas smelling of leek, horse-radish or mustard. The required basic
or manufactured.
The production of xylie bromide is possible but not shown. Tjais is a
powerful lilac-smelling irritant. The only indication for sucr a production
would be the processing, of tar. Tar is not used in the production of
xylic bromide but the most important primary product of xylic bromide
is xylene (in addition to bromine), which can be mista-.en for tar due
to its viscous consistency and its color in a raw condition. --
There is no factual proof for the production of _.nosphorus in BB;KLTOVKA
as indicated in some reports. It is much more probable that an inter-
mediate product originating from other factories is shipped to BbKbTOVKA
as raw phosphorus mass in tank cars and is redistilled into pure white
phosphorus in speciallinstal ations. It may be possible that the pri-
mary phosphorus production will be started to simplify the production
process.
It is very probable thet calcined soda is produced as a by-product during
the salt analysis and is preferably used for the ultramarine production.
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Chemical Plant. Various compou.las are produced as ode-products. prey are
parQCessed on the-spot or are setrt to other plants for voce s' . The
production of .ashing agents_rnayy be_ giv n an ex-Ample. Caustic Ukala
produced durin the salt electrolysis as well as soda are proceosed as basic
materials for the production of washing agents.
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In addition to soda, sodiumm, sulphate and l ar: quantities of charcoal, and
especially kaolin, sulphur and quartz are processed in We ultramarine
department. These materials ,ire first crus;red in crushing plants and pul-
verized in mills. They are then burned in 20-foot hi,h kilns. Flirt-
stones containing almost 100 percent silicid acid are used as quartz and
also as flints, according to one source. The frequently stated si.Llphuric
smell in the plant area may hz,ve come from the ultramarine department or
from a plant where carbon hisz.lp}-ride is produced by burning elementary
sulphur and conducting the gaases over glowing charcoal.
It is very probable t.,at picric, acid and phosphoric acid are also
produced in the plant.
The, above mentioned products represent the main production of the BEKETOVKA
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installations c~mme i roin we p1.an -?t I. W
A3.u:'LND0ftF, Salle Di otrict, i uringia. The production pro ;ram of this
plant was for the l'ollowi cbeavlcelu: caustic potash, caustic soda,
liquid chloric chloride of lime,, oralerinated rubber, sulphur chloride
ferric chloride, calcined soda, Soda c.rr s tats, sodium canpounds, sulpnruryl
chloride, cr:rbo.i tetrachloride and compressed hydrogen.
There is no c?oubt that these dismantled taexman installations will be put
into operat:J_on in .BI KITO\IKA as fast as possible. The urgency is indicated
by the enl`, straen t of the chamiat,, Dr. von BOCX for nerly employed in the.
AP. !PEA Dc:;.ELF Plant$,w?o is to supervise the building operations. The informa-
tion is not sufficient for a capacity est:rrate of the various productions.
ot.even the. proportionate sequence of products can be indicated. It is
aertai i that considerable amounts of chioric gas and chloride of lime are
being produced. The monthly output of phosphoric. acid may be about 30 tons,
the monthly output of yellow phosphorus about 60 tons.
alone, which is roduced from caioiL'en c~.rbide, can yield various cher ! ? caliber"
Workshop for_ cleaning
old artrmunition
Acid production (330x30
consisting of follovmg
installations
a Distilling plant
b Depot for filled acid
r- "emi_ cGhns
c ..,c_haniC .1 WQrkshop
l.'~+ Depot ror steel cylind r
(department 5)
-11 ita ch.l ne' sit op (several
turbines and ventilators
a ppcreiitl for ventile `t_
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su ly of the plant
-13 Locksmith's workshop
-14 Depot of chloride of lint,
and litae kiln.,
D ~ rt:A nt 5a, filling
t r!tion for chlorine bot.
`-i6 Autoniatic stone taverner
( cr'z hjnL of limestones)
Caxide shed
De of t ec ritent Uz*r.own
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A "Stalgress" Power Plaht.
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.,3 New building
I ressing of a u tip deg+ rtment 3a) (260x65x16 feet}'.
:atr4nce jzohibited to P e.., 'wo to r.e.e .Z 4on. carloads were
delivered daily fromthe,dep&rtmenn 1Xa. ah oar contained
about 100 filled boxes rmeasuui# xl0x6 c s ?
6 Oxygen filling station
7 Chlorine department (department
Stone will
9 Charcoal de.poi.
10 Sulphur depot,
11 Dressing of sk ells. (department ila $ 500xlQOxl6 foot)
4 Nt'w building (debar taent 4)
B "` iargar lae" Plant,
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B "5talgres, " Power Plant
C Ammunition and Chemical
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1-1 Power plant with six turbines
f2 Loading of gas bottles
w-3 Department 19 (probably production
i of chemical warfare agents)
4 Depot of ompty gas battles
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pipe; tine 1-6 Filling station for
~~- Filling gat bottles
L _ 1 7 New building, inside the building
T are machines and containers. At
the western side of the building
12.
b: evoli wooden tugs wiTn arias
3 Process'.ng of salt (new building)
9. Electric punch. v ith two turbines
,,-10 L pot of chloride of lime
11 Vuntiiator,
12 C1earinf.; of bottles
,?13 I?ro~;uetir:)rt of chloride of lime
(three kilns 30 to 50 feet h igh,
diametar 20 feat)
14 Conveyor belts
--15 Lime mills
16 Field railroad
,17 ty to re of lime and coke and
loading point
,i8 Depot
9 EJ.evator tin one-eight-hour shift:
32 lifts of three cart:: of coke
azi . 041 ea. t of -lime each)
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