1. PETROVSKI METALLURGICAL WORKS, DNEPROPETROVSK 2. DZERZHINSKI RAILWAY CAR FACTORY, NIZHNI TAGIL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R002400170014-1
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 28, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO.
MAR 1948
Appro LASS ICAT~a~eSECRET/1CGLIT .QL USDOFFICIALS O _ 170014-1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR (Ukraine/Urals)
25X1SUBJECT
Dzerzhinski Railway Car Factory, Nizhni Tagil.
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1. Petrovski Metallurgical Works,
Dnepropetrovsk
2. Dzerzhinski Railway Car Factory, Nizhni Tagil
DATE DISTR. 28 March 1949
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A. Petrovski Metallurgical Works, Dnepropetrovsk
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3UBJECT: ?etrcvsky :iron and Steel
Works at Dniepropetrovsk
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Y The *'"?etro vskt' :_. =_, _ ' Q001-Ph (Metallurgiche skip. Zaved
"Pet?ovsky) at Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, is one of the largest
units of its kind In European Russia. Before World War 7T it
h~.d ax output capacity of 842,000 tons of pig iron and 704,000
] tons of raw steel per annum. The construction shortly before
the war of two further Siemens-Martin furnaces, bringing the
total to 10:, increased even further the importance of the
`Petrovskj ` works
25X1 2, The OPetrovsky* complex will consist, when v_ir damage is repair
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ed of a blast furnace plant with 5 furnaces, a Siemens-Martin
plant with 10 S-M furnaces,, a Bessemer plant, a rolling mill,
a sheet metal plant with girder and bar-iron divisions, and a
pipe foundry,
The PUetrovsk~ , '
~ 1[ork;~s suffered c~onsiderab
le damage during the
war, but by the middle of 1944 'one blast furnace, three Siemens-
Martin fu1paces, and three rolling assemblies were in operation,
The electric power plant was already in operation by 1943. By
the middle of 19489 four blast furnaces, five Siemens-Martin
furnaces, the rail.-rolling mill',,.the 'sheet metal plant, and the
tube foundry were in operation,
All of the five blast farriaee `'slif damaged to a greater or
lessen extent during the w=, The first blast furnace to re-
sume operation was blown in di.ring the spring of 1944.. It has
an output capacity of 225,000 tons per, annum; by mid 1.944 it
was producing at a rate calculated to pour out 1509000 tons per
annum, The furnace has a volume of 620 cubic meters,
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The second blast furnace to be blown in was Number 4, the re
pairs on which were completed on J. October 1945, Two more are
being repaired, but it is not known when they will be ready fozr
work, No data available on the fifth blast furnace.
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