URAL-ZIS AUTOMOBILE PLANT NEAR MIASS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015100170007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 20
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Declassified in Part T Sanitized COPY Approved for Release 2013/07/03 : CIA-RDP82-00457R015100170007-6
fiNFORMATPON REPORT co NO:
COUNTRY USSR (Chelyabinsk, oblast)
SUBJECT Ural-ZIS Automobile Plant near Mass
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1, The Uralt,ZIS (Zr,??od ineni Stalina.) Automobile Plant is located about 120 km west
I of Chelyabinetk\ Chelyabinsk Oblast, and about 10 km north 0150X1 -HUM
Riess \ In the arep betwoen Mass and 'he automobile .lant is
a, double-track electrified railroad line frail Chelyabinsk to 50X1-H UM
au ono p art is Jant.ea e Mass railroad
station by Lith a single-track railroad spurs 5 or 6 km long, .and a well-
surfacedrce.i. Housing projects, designated Novostroyka or i/ovy Miass, were under
constructiQa in the area along the railroad spur and adjoining the plant area
on the sou/least. These housing projects 'ware built for the plant employees,
soma of tikora were still living in earth shelters, adobe huts lend wooden shacl?.s,
as of Sep.tember 1949. The Miass River, flowing from south to north, it past the
plant on the west. Ithe river was about 200 meters 50X1-HUM
from the plant? A gold mine was in operation in the area west of the plant; hut
its eita:t location was not known. Two thaall, plantcowned, shunting loeomotives;
several' railroad cars, 19 electric trucks and about 100 motor trucks -were used
for hailing purposes within. the plant area, *.
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