POWER PLANT II AT MINSK

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010300310005-2
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2009
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEX'A i yy MPR A ENCY {TORT
INFORMATION REPORT (Z NO.
COUNTRY USSR(White Russian SSR)
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SUBJECT Power Plant II a 'i4wil
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Location
On the southeastern edge of Minsk (27o35'E/53o50'id) , 4hite
Russian sSR, immediately northeast of the Svisloch River and
several hundred meters south of the railroad line to .Io3cow.,
2. Plant Installations
a. The plant covers about 360 x 270 meters. Tha installations
were constantly being enlarged.
b. The main building had one 6iemens- chuckert turbine? which
was installed in 1947, and one turbine of bovi?t origin. Each
turbine had one hoiler set, A ird boiler se' was under
construction. the installation of a. 25X1
third turbine was also p a. .
c. The boilers were fueled with peat and coal. the conveyor
system for peat and coal leads over the top of the main build-
ing. The boilers were charged from overhead. The main build-
ing also housed the ytching station. An additional switch-
ing station was under construction in the transformer station,
which was temporarily occupied by P'vWs. A railroad connection
is available, or plant layout see Aanex 1.
3. Work Force
One hundred 6eviets working in two shifts, and 1120 aovi..-e-';
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9q. Capacity
No .details available.
5. a. The annex to the turbine and boiler house had been under
construction since October 1948 and was completed by March 1949.
The installation of a turbine and a boiler started in January
1949. The smokestack for the annex was erected in March 1949,
Soviets said that the new boiler and the turbine, one of a
total of four, were scheduled for operation by the Summer of
1949,
,.. I the total
capacity of the three operating turbinewas about 50,000
kws. The capacity of the new fourth turbine was to be
25,000 kws.
6. Work Force
About 400 to 500 Soviets, 60 percent women, and 350 Ris doing
construction work and handling the petit and coal. For plant
layout seer Annex 2.
The reports confiria and supplement each other and form a clear
picture on. Power Plant NO II In 11fi nalr_ Th A twin ~tkatnh w raors 9
as to all essential points.
details on. the annex to the turbine and boiler house, completed
in the S ring of 1949.. This enlargement was previously re-
p orted The --tui b irte- _capacit-y -is reported
ma.
fear,,
b. reported the correct plant location. The
plant is also entered on ainsk town plan, transmitted with
a previous report*, The course of the Svisloch River, loca-
tion of the freight station, and the course of the railroad
connection from the freight station to the power plant can
easily be identified from the town sketch,
c. The capacity still needs confirmation. Other target
data of the plant are sufficiently clarified.
2 Annexes: 1.)
2.)
Power Plant II in =Iinsk
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Legend to Annex 1
1 New coal bunkers
a conveyor belt
2 Main plant building
a Turbine house
b Old, boiler sets
c New boiler sets
d Switching station
Transformer station
a Switching room under construction, former PIV camp
b Electrical repair shop
c Transformer installation under construction
Sawmill
Purification plant
6 Fitting shop
7 Garages
6 Administration
9. Apartment house
10 Peat dumps
a Conveyor lines
11 Entrance and guard house
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Legend, to Annex 2
1 Open unloading shop for pea
2 Machine shop for the convey
3 Conveyor . installations
4 Boiler and machine house, brick building with concrete
pillars, 54 x 27 x 22z meters, equipped with three tur-
bines end generators and three 16&-meter high smokestacks
above the boilers. The three flue boilers are in one
line, each is 3.6 x 3.6 x 5.4 meters. They are charged
from overhead. A fourth boiler, 7.2 x 5.4 x 7.2 meters
was being fitted and a fourth smokestack constzucted
4a Annex for the fourth turbine, 5.4 meters long and 2.4
meters high
5 Forge
6 Pump house, 27 x 5.4 x 3 meters with three rotary pumps
7 Pump station
8 Cantonment building, quarters, 36 x 5.4 meters
9 Transformer station, 45 x 13.5 meters
a P'1 camp iNo 7168/4
10 Coal dump
11 Pea t dump
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Power Plant II at Minsk
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