SOVIET REPAIR SHOPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007000210004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
RMATOON REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Soviet Repair Shops
DATE DISTR. 26 February 1951
NO. OF PAGES 8
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there -as a ?.,ov : tank rcna r shop at the form er railroad ??enair
shot. in 1,iro1nc.eser 53/, 12). :J.ll types of -'rank repair Fork
ay'ere done and :te spare parts recuired mere manufactured at the
shop. The installation 4?4as headed by Colonel (Tech) -olesnikov
(fnu) 0 The political orricer -as Lieutenant Colonel (Tank Troone )
Briosoy (fnu) . The unit 1?!hich ran trio installation
1 comps sed 4 o f cers, most of them of the technical
services, and 120 ".00s and '?, most of them veteran tank troopers 0
The German oe-,sonnel employed at the installation-yore used only
for specific jobs in the foundry, lathe department, grinding and
milling shop. The assembly -'ork -as done exclusively by the
Russia ? (1) 50X1-HUM
Leipzig Central rotor Vehicle :-repair Shop
20 During the period from 25 to 30 October 1950 the central motor
vehicle repair shop for the :soviet Occupation Forces in Germany
was located in the former Buessing?h.AG Plant on Linkelstrasse
in Leipzig 11-260 The shop *,ras a .soviet corporation niant
1 50X1-HUM
3, The main shop v.as housed in the Puessing -lant and had a German
''ork force of about 1,5000 It ,,,as raana.ed by T"ajor Phudensky
(gnu), and only did repair -York on motors and transmissions, for
the most part 3tudebakers and Fords 0 (2) The f ollorlihf? auxiliary
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a0 Former - -oellmann "lant in Leipzig- 33choenefeld, managed `bar
Captain Belanakhikov (fnu), and employing a Cerm?an -q,,or k force
of about 400 men0 The plant manufactured ground gears and
spare parts for transmissions and motor vehicle axles0
b0 ,epair shop in -rurzen, managed by 'ajor Alyenov (1nu), and
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employin; a German r1ork force of abut 20O It rnar~uf' hettjred
bodies in addition to dolnp r na it ?,,ork on bodies.
Mounts for roc'Lot -launchers ?.'ere being
over nau ed at tho shop. (3 )
c, ?epair shop in. -polda, located in former foundry, hon, ??,hicb ? ?as , .sated in the
area?
f th
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e radio station south of ?,:ocn.igs'?'ustcrha.usen,,
(12.) This repair shop is kno"oa as another branch installation of tba
56d Central -'ev:aia '?2,nr_ "nom 50X1-HUM
(15) On 10 ~Tur~e 1950 on.~.e "-a j o =?aluarov .. f?rau l ? Tas re norte T as a s-
sif9ned to the 53d Central ~e ~aaa r shop In Berl in?Oberschoene;~. Bide o
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