DNEPROPETROVSK AUTOMOBILE PLANT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400060002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY
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8 Feb. 1952
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USSR (Ukrainian SSR)
Dnepropetrovsk
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W ork Force
About 1. 5C0 men, mostly PWc, working, at the plant construction,
Production:
Production had not started by the end of 'April 1948,
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Location:
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The DAZ motor vehicle plant- is about four miles south of
DNEPROPETRU TSk.s Ukrainian JSR, some miles we t of the Dnepr
River. A plant for car-bodies was about half a mile south of
the plant. For location see Annex,
2. Plant Installation:
tlae plant construction
was started in 1atjG . were extended to the
plant area and foundations for two big, workshops were concreted
in 19,45. The workshops were completed by Se.)tember 1947? Ma-
chinery was installed and the other factory construction was
pushed so that the foundations for four additional work hope
were completed b-.j the end of April 1948 At that time the
plant covered an` area of about 6,CCOx5,G0C feet, which pre-
sumably increased. The ?:iorksh roofs and sk
lights, were 9 Ox24Ox42 feet. the 25X1
construction rind materials were poor, oa or e ma s 25X1
Germany. nnmn from They were it an excellent condition.
the mac ner
had been dismantled in an Opel plant in the sovie Zone of
Germany. The town it came from was not remembered. Railroad
tracks led into the two completed crcrl~shops. There was no
power production in the plant.
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Comment:
a. It iu lcno:za from other records t..at some workshops of the
?JNLP.WF y~.CVA motor vehicle pl:.:nt -were constructed durin the
Gorman occupation, but destroyed it-i the retreat of
Gcrraan troops. :he etfr.otri?c uion of he new plant on the same
site started :.'gout c:-rly 1945
b. Thio report locates the plant too :far south. Other cor-
respondin- records report IV-o location two miles south of the
tow_.in borders, an exact pinpoint-.sb of the location vas not
possible.
c. The :.r body plant to the south of the motor vc Acl.e p1~.3__ ,
has not been cl_:rified..;he plant 25X1
had two sections, the MU 1111 . u orao z c plant an n auxi iar
pl:.iryt.$ which are about oiic --d a half miles apart 25X1
poe ibly mistook the uouthc::r-nn pl:;i t for a. separate factory.
dq Additonal infermatio is required to clarify location,
layout ai.d tyT )e of construction of the plant,
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