BAUXITE MINES AT KUKSHIK AND VICINITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T00246A033100470001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 15, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sees. 799 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Bashkir ASSR)
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SUBJECT Bauxite Mines at Kukshik and Vicinity DATE DISTR.
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
Bashkir ASSR.
Kukshik received their mail at the Suleya Boksitovyy Rudnik (N 55-04, E 58-55),
which wad a somewhat larger railroad station than Kukshik. Approximately 500
drivers trucked ore from Machovoy Log (sic) to the Suleyou station, a distance
of about seven miles.
2. The report identifies two mines, one at Kukshik (N 55-05, E 58-43) on the
Ufa-Zlatoust line and another approximately five km from that settlement.1
Production and labor figures are given for the second mine.
3.
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15 March 195.7
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a one-page report on bauxite mines in the
the following information: Workers
at the uz o-Ur skiy Boksitov~y Rudnik (Southern Ural Bauxite Nine) at
1. Comment: According to T. Shabad in his Geography of the USSR,
1951 edition, Kukshik was renamed Pervomayskiy in 1943, but the official
Railroad Timetable of the USSR, summer 1956 edition, lists Kukshik as
the first station before Suleya on the Ufa-Zlatoust-Chelyabinsk line.
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1. The bauxite mine URALSKI BOKSITOVO RUDNIK and the bauxite
mine MA HOV LO&JE . are o --the section of the
twee ZLATO Tan UF. A halt, KUKSCHNITZ, has been
KUKSCHNITZ gradually seem to be of less importance. In 1941 25X1
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established right next to the mine so the raw bauxite can be
skidded directly down in railroad cars. The deposits by
the mines
cars, corresponding to 4-600 tons. The production materiel in
mining was done from the surface
andfom up to 20 metres deep shafts. The deposits by MACHOVOJ
LOG e very rich, and apparently there is ore for many years'
miniai'ng. The transportation of the ore from MACHOVOJ LOG to
KUKSCHNITZ takes place in trucks. There was no kind of treat-
ment or sorting of the ore before the transportation. The
daily production was estimated to be approximately 30 railroad
was old-fashioned; as such, the dumping cars were horse-
MACHOVOJ LOC 'v`r'hich supplied both mines with power. This power
station has perhaps also made it possible to have more modern
technique in the mines.
drawn. Originally both mines got power from a small
transported westwards towards UFA. Approximately 3000 men are
Concerning the location o1'other aluminum works 25X1
the bauxite was
works b MACHOVOJ LOGcSx
working in MACHOVO 25X1
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