RED OCTOBER PLANT NO. 466 AT LENINGRAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009700070006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 1 25X1 REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR (Leningrad Oblast)
SUBJECT Red October Plant No. 1466 at Leningrad
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 114 February 1952
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1. York force:
8,000 to 10,000 Soviets working in three shifts (Soviet statements).
2. Production:
a. About 80 electric motors, 60 cm in diameter, per shift.
b. Crankshafts 60 cm long for two or three-cylinder engines.
c. Straight shafts, 4 to 5 cm in diameter and about 2 to 2.5
loSg (color of shafts: a silvery blue).
3.
Test stands for aircraft engines:
A test stand was put into operation in mid -1948.
a honing tone v1 th assumed an ever higher pitch.
The engines produced
4.
Large quantities of German aircraft engines, called DB-601 by former
German air force soldiers, were stored in the plant.
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the haulage of electric motors,78 cm long and
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Production of skids for
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manufactured per month. Source believes, however, that no engines but
instruments in the giie of 60 x 60 x 20 cm and similar to radiatore
for Motor vehicles were packed in these boxes.
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c. Large "engine boxes" 120 x 80 x 60 cm, 80 pieces per month.
When asked about the howling tone which was heard from the test.stand,
the Soviet f#reman in the carpentry stated that these sounds were caused
by jet engines which were sent by the Rybinsk branch plant to be
tested in the plant.
Activities at the engine test stands:
Number of test standD uoiden-wi fied, The test stands were continually
in operation for three of four days, then there was a pause of one or
two days. This was observed in a rather regular circle.
8. Work force4
About 10,000 Soviets including construction workers and many women who
were predominantly assigned to the production of electric motors.
9. Designation:
Red October, inscription seen at the entrance gate.
motors and aircraft radiators bombs were also
ted workshop,
in addition to electric
produced in a newly construe -
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Comprehensive information on the Red-October Plant No 466 in Leningrad was
previously transmitted.
The data on the work force (8,000 to 10,000) seem to be exaggerated.
In prliviotzs reports the average estimate was 3,000, the maximum estimate
6.000. Also the data on the output, for instance 75 to 80 electric
motors per shift, are much too high although the production of such
motors Was probably the main output of the plant in July 1948.
According to previous.a1 reports, the testing of jet engines started in
the Fall of 1947.
statements are based on hearsay_but were furnished by two persons. The
n two former reports. *** These
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The production of radiators (in previous reports mention wes made of air-
craft radiators) is confirmed by two previous reports.*
A connection between the Leningrad plant and the aircraft engine plant
in Shcherbakov (Rybinsk) was previously mentioned. ** The pertinent