FACILITIES AND LAYOUT OF THE INSULATION COATING LABORATORY, INSTITUTE 160, FRYAZINO

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Facilities and Layout of the Insulation
DATE OF
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PLACE
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Coating Laboratory,, Institute 1609 Fryazino
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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was four stories high. 60 m long x 20 mwide,
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Seccrd Floor The library, administration office, duplicating, drafting, and
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theoretical rooms, and a section of the high. frequency laboratory
were located on the second floor.
The work done on the third floor was considered very secret and
very few Germans worked there. (It is to be(noted that Germans
were not allowed to work in all laboratories because of the high
security classification assigned the work conducted therein.) This
floor contained laboratories for thyratron tubes television tubes
and high-frequency.
Fourth Floor e em ca epar men and sections of the High Frequency and
- --~~ Television Departments were on this floor.
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Institute #160 in October 1946,
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the Insulation Coating Laboratory of the Chemical Department. This
laboratory was fitted out with various equipment from the USA and
Germany. Zee Enclosure (i)s Sketch 1, of this report for the floor
plan showing work installations of. the Insulation Coating.. Laboratory.
This laboratory was located on the fourth floor.
The following equipment was located in the Insulation Coating Labora-
tory
Point; 1 Technical equipment closet
Nails, hammers, tubs, weights, rags, etc, were stored here.
Poi (Same as Point 1)
Point Drying oven
This oven had a temperature range from 00-2000C and had been
built by Heravs Co, in Hanau. It was table-mounted.
Point Wash basin
The wash basin had but one faucet and only cold water was avail-
able.
Point 51 Work bench
(a). A scale for weighing mixtures was located here. This
0-1000 gram soale, which had an accuracy of 10 milligrams,
was equipped with a set of weights from 500 grams to 10
milligrams.
(b) An enlarging device used to determine whether the aluminum
oxide powder was ground fine enough. The enlargement was
shown on a frosted glass screen. The trade name of this
device was."Lanometer". It was made by Zeiss-Jena; 500.
power. The "Lanometer" did not operate properly because
the lamps, similar to a 6-volt auto lamp, had been lost
in transit from Germany and procurement of.these lamps
involved much delay.
Point 6 Office desk
There was one desk lamp, used for both desks. There were no
telephones.
Point 7 Office desk
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Point a ball shelf
Weighing scale, capaoity from 0-200 grams (0-1 milligram accuracy);
it had a rider for 0-10 gram adjustment. Divisions were at every
02 milligrams. The scale was not accurate. It had been made at
Budapest; the commercial name was "Erdelin" (approximate spelling).
Point 9 Table
Used by Mr Y aL-s i ie ~ the engineer. No technical equipment was
located on this table; .it had one drawer.
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Point 10 Work table
One microscope was located here. It was manufactured by the
Leitz Co, in Germany, and had a 50 x 200 power amplification.
There was also a binocular on this table which had a 15 power
amplification. This binocular was used somewhat like the micro-
scope, ie, the filaments were carefully scrutinized to determine
whether the coating or surface was smooth and even.
Point 11 ..Work table
One tank for [::]coating method #1 was located on this table.
Usually two girls worked here.
Point 12 Work table
Two weighing scales here located on this table--one was a 50
milligram scale, American made, and the other was a 500 milligram
soale9 German made. Both were torsion type balances. These were
used,to. weigh the heaters and filaments after coating. The fila-
ments were weighed prior to and after coating to determine proper
thickness. A tank was also located on this table. rt.was used
for coating the larger heaters, is, heaters that were too large
to be coated in the tanks on the other table (Point il), and
anodes with the graphite and nickel paste. (For this paste
one gram of graphite was used to 4 grams of nickel nitrate.
Point 13 Iron frame
A sprayin stand was located on this frame See Enclosure (A),
Sketch ,2 . This spraying method was discontinued
in this laboratory. However, it was still used for extra heavy
coatings a lied to spiral filaments considered "secret" by the
Soviets
Point 14, Wooden table
An-electric muffle furnace with a temperature up to 10600C was
located on this table. The furnace was used for drying the alts-
minum oxide which who received in a very wet condition. The first
samples of Soviet-made aluminum oxide arrived from the vicinity
of Moscow. By the and of summer 19501 five-kilogram
packages, packed in a er bas. One bag was used
every two months. received about 100 bags between
September 1950 and April 1952, and Q test them and place
them in storage. They were not stored in the buildin
ey
were used in the tube production building.
the ma-
terial received from the USA (which arrived in large sacks)
prior to 1947 was superior in quality. The furnace came from
Germany; but,like most other equipment , the. manufacttrer'.s name-
plate had been removed.
Point 15 Wooden stand
A heating plate for heating. coffee, tea, milk etc was attached-
to this stand. The Soviet girls ate here. a
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snack bar in a small building near the entrance of Institute # 60,
ENC0SURE (A) Sketch 1 - Plan View of Insulation Coating Laboratory
Sketch 2 - Cabinet for Spraying and Drying
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Enclosure
Alah View of ilnsuk. iov Coo,+iK Laboratory
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?'A" Filaments were sprayed within this area
'"B" Filaments suspended from clamp.s'attached to aluminum sheets took
from 3 to 15 minutes for drying
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