INFORMATION REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010400110001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Location:
The copper works in KARABASH
last, are located south of the
;mall lake, 3,UOOx3,0O0 feet-
2. Plant Installations:
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
(60?12' E/55?29' IT), Chelyabinsk Ob-
r=iilro d station and southeast of the
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The copper :lorks consist --f about 15 one- and two-story buildings
th a total of seven smokestacks, each over 150 feet high. The
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:lock:oxce
2U,U00 to 30,0
'rodiiction:
Copper plates
of copper ore
0 .;orker - in the copper T,1vurLs and in the mines.
and buss. ot: l output for all shifts: 49',A-0 tons
daily.
Comment:
a. she copper combiile in hARABASH is known from old records.
About 3, 0cC workers were employed t11 'ere in 4 shifts in 1941. The
p::i, ant had three furEaees in 1941, the same number of furnaces as
now reported.
b. The attached sketch is the first received on this installation.
3.
A German town pla Sc
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2 Annexes: 1 Copper Plant and Copper nines, KARABASH
(2) Shaft 2 of the Copper IiMines, KARABASH
Le, end to Annex 1
1 Shaft No 1 Dzerzhinski-Shaft. . epth: 1,750 feet.
Gases from a mine fire in Au :~st 1947, caused the shutdown of
the shaft which was not re-opened by June 194$.
2 Shaft No 2, Central=Shaft, 1,770 feet deep. For layout see
Annex 2
Shaft No 3, Voroshilov-shaft, 1,170 feet deep, at present fur-
ther construction under way
4 S3h. ftITo 4, Capital-Shaft, 260 feet deep, no minim yet
4a Transformer and distribution station
5 Shaf.tft 5 $'irst of T. ay Shaft, 1,200 feet deep
6 and 8 Goldshaft and gold washing plant
7 Shaft No 7, Utalino Shaft, 1,250 feet deep
9 Mountain area
10 Dynamite storage, .1 mile square, severcal.lar;__e sheds
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12 `/ooden bridge, 2,000 feet long, on the : outhea-st bank of the
lake, pas sable only for light vehicles.
13 Copper works.
Legend L Annex 2
1 Administrative builddin,120x60 feet
2 and 3ressint_ cabins ?;n",' washing facilities
4 Pit head
5 "'_chine house, 120x75 feet
6 Locksmith' shop, 45 feet square
7 Pit head, 120 feet high
8 and 9 dubber conveyor belts, 2 feet wide
10 Crushing plant, 180x45 feet
11 Boiler house, 45 feet square, with. two 60-foot smoke stacks on
the northern si;. _e :f the building
12 Machine house, 30x15 feet
13 For _;e , 150x45 feet
14 Air compressor station with 4 compressors :net an underground
plant, 300x90 feet
water cooling
15a Lathe department, 240x60 feet
15b Motor vehicle repaij' shop,), offices, and liv"t..g; quarters,
240x60 feet 0-
16 Sawmill, 150x36 feet"
17 Transformer station
18 Pit
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