RED OCTOBER PLANT AND FLUGOV PLANT IN LENINGRAD

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600080003-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 7, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
SUBJECT Red October Plant and Flugov
Plant in Leningrad
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August 1947 to November 1948
1. had October Plant No 466
a. Manufacture of electric motors of 20 44P.
b. Trial rurs of turbojet-power units. rower units; diame-
ter 20 to 24 inches; length about 8 feet; cigar-shaped,
(own observation). Running, tic two hours, then tw a hours.reste
day and n i ont .
1 lus7ov Plant
a. S,;;rk. of P103. .Uan (ventilator) wheels for electromo-
tors, shipped to r;a nt No 466.
b. tbork of Soviets (own observations Blade wheels:
dir.. i;ete? er rz ouw t '0 aches, about 30 to 50 szaa1l turbine b dds
at outer ad-e. Once, on a test stand, a eo.:paratively
lon ^ shaft was observed, on which five wheels, as described
above, were fitted. Source only rerre~nbereri that he two
outermost wl,ecls were the smallest, the third wheal i rye,
lar,,-eat.
c. Coverer jet-power units were loaded separately on a
Studebaker truck. 1 "he same truck was later seen in Plant No
46 nesr a test stand.
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~'oviets said that jet-power units were built in Plant i o 466.
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Test stands worked day and night at intervals of about
1 to 1Q hours. 't'ruck traffic with other places was ob-
served.
Construction work on sheds and buildinns was finished.
`tio test stands were on the south side of southernmost of
the three large sheds and 10 or more were under construc-
tion.
'larch 1948 to Ma * 1949
7. #wo test s :ands were finished and in operation; two finish-
ed but not working. Ten others were under construction.
Lxpected to be ready in July 1949.
ft. Turbojet power units were tested; Soviets said they were
duplicates of US-types.
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German expert`-:, 10 to 15 men, who were working on test
stands, lived near plant.
25X1X 10. Red October Plant anc: ?lugov Plant operated jointly. The
name of Plucov was Al slang derived from rlyugov Road.
"oviets said this plant was also called tied October.
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Construction work was co. _pleted except for a few inside
installations.
12. Two turbo-jet power unit test stands were wRrkinc, others
being built. The so-called "old test stand had been
installr_d for testing E-motors,
13. Three shifts, 1,000 to 1,500 persons, 70 percent women.
14. -+early- all buildin=r.s were off-liriits to P'is. Llectro-
motors wer?:: still manufactured in one of the workshops
as late as April 1949.
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