OKA CHEMICAL PLANT AT DZERZHINSK

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010800040009-3
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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The OKA. Chemical Plant :was in Dzerzhinsk(56?15 E/43?24' E),
scuth cf the Dzerzhin4k-Gorki (56020' N/440002 E) railroad' line
and about 200 meters east of the large Chemical Plant Vc 96
-"Zavod-Stroi". The OKIIChemical Plant covered an area of about
500 x 400 meters. Some -of the installations were in existence as
early as 1945. The plant was considerably expanded by the
construction of 'rally new lant buildings in 1943 and 1949.
Llectric power was supplied by the ? adjacent TETS station. .The
plant ?bad spur tracks leading northwest to the igumnovo railroad
station. *
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plant preduced a kind of fluid
thought
Alcohol.
'refined moto
fuel".
ITne proauctior or a yellowisn, odorless pow(er.
whicq lwas packed into red and green metal containers, 50 cm high ? .
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for .;fiis powder were marked witn tne 5ILLL and crossbones Symbol.
The 1.)1mt also produced a. sirupy, colorless and odorless Irass
which vas poured into lht-blue cardboard containers which were
'alarked .with the skull and crossbones symbol. Up to 8. carloads,
each coltaining 30 to 45 tons of the poisons, and 30 to. 35 carboys,
of 25 liters eaa,!,filled with the alleged alcohol liquid, were
dispatcied daily Two or threc- trucks arrived daily, each loaded
with. 30 sacks ?containing some unidentified raw material...Tank
cars co:Itaining potable alcohol also arrived frequently, *.*
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1500 Soviets were employed in each shift_ hbout
PUs were also assigned as construction -workers,
25 to 10 German engineers still worked la.
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4, The plant area was surrounded by a double barbed-wire fence,
Then) were watchtowers at 200 meter intervals. Military sentr'
performed guard duty.
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,;:mganta, The location I rees with an.
iI :photograph made in l942. However, Plant No 96 is only
100 neters from the OKA Chemical Planta For Jayout setch of the -
plan aee Anne .
' is not believed that this report constitutos
an aueLate description of this plant which has been greatly
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me etaaetnyl leaa cLue.Loped by the OKA Plant is now produced
on a large-- scale by the '4ava Plant and the Zavod Strol Plant
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product ton of "refined motor fuel", it appears possible that
- the OKA Plant plans a large scale production of anti-knock fuels
aftea tae completion of the plant expansion However, the use of
alcohol, the production of bromide compounds and the. information
renading the "refined motor fuel" also indicate the production
of eahylene dibromide.
1_41:012Xi sketch on ditto.
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7f,&.yout Sketch. of the OKA Chemical Plant in bzer
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LdWilistration building ,.a four-story brick structure,
5 x 12 x 14 meters,
&uardhouse?
3, Laboratory, a four-story concrete structure., 60 x 20 x 12:
meters.
4, storehouse, a four-story concrete structure, 130 x 15 x 12
n..eters.
5, 'orl'shop building, a two-story structure, 100 x 40 motors, with
everal built-in tanks? A plpe,about 1 meter high, extended
sbove the roof. According to Soviet workmen, ammonia was
released through this pipe when thero was excess pressure in
this workshop.
).. Luil(lingl 30 x 15 x 6 meters called "acid depot" c?..;aearelager").
It vas connected with other plant buildings by uninsulated
ripe lines..
7. Cooling installation, 15 x 10 x 6 meters, There vas a ertos
cf twisted pipes on the roof
V,orkshop building, a concrete structure, There was a strong
smmonia odor near the building. Workers employed in tbss work-
shop wore protective clothing. Pipe lines led from this
tuilding to the buildings No 7 and 10,
9.*Vorkshop building, a concrete structure, 20 x 15 x 6 met?..!rs,
containing tank installations and measuring instruments
chine noises were heard near this building,
10. Concrete building, 15 x 10 x 6 meters. Tank ears with alcohol
F.erLved by rail. The alcohol was pumped through pis'e ls_nes into
this building One PW once drank of this alcohol w thout any
injurious effects, According to one source,who was cnipoyed
Is a transportation worker, wood alcohol was stored in this
huliding in iron containers which were 10 meters long and 2
seters in diameter,
11, Container, about 3 meters in diameter, still under
construction in July 1949.
i. VarLous new structures of different dimensions. In some of
then the walls were tiled and the floors were paved vit-.h
'31agstones
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- Building ruins, The building was, razed in 1949 A new
building was scheduled to be constructed on this sfAec
ffaxehouse, 40 x 20 x 12 meters, used to store carboys
metal and cardboard containers cf finished products,
Nahine shop; a concrete structure, 35 x 12 x 8 meters,
16, Ca'zpentry shop and cooperage,
'A aew concrete. structure, 35 x 12 x 8 meters. This was
"new foundry" according to one fource
18, -5,)lar tracks,
10 Fence,
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ChamAcal Plant Ro 96 "Zavod Stro
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