TANK PLANT IN CHELYABINSK

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2001
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• Publication Date: February 23, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY U33R (Cheleeabinsk Oblast)
SUBJECT Tank ?lent in Chelyabinsk
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The toun of Chelyabinsk is located. on the right bank of the Miyas
River about 70 miles se-let of the Tangaiski Mountaine,which are part
of the Uralit The followthf! plant re located on the left bank of
the river:
a. The Chelyebin.sk Tre.ctor Plant (CUM) CIEIVIA.BINSKI TRA.ICTORM!'
ZAVOD)
b? Plant for .Ae;ricultura.1 tlachinee (SIZIMOKIASII)
c. Tank Plant (TAT-7(.(7Y ZAVOD)
The area covered by these plant% which e re considered to be one
Kombinat; is about 20 square kilometers. The tanke.,.1a.n.t is t.Tur-
rounded leortly by a brick valis partly by barbed wire. It is guarded
day and. night by armed military guards. About 6,000.persons are
employed at the plant. They ere engaged on a free contract basic.
They must be party members and all poseese party books. There are
trade union organieatt0113 representing eleven different unions.
Daring the war a large 'Limber of women and yottthe were employed but
the women have been replaced by workers discherged from the army
eince the end of the war? Al). workers live in Mrxelyabinek or its
suburbs and the COMM:del: Party and the local authorities pay close
attention to their living conditions,-. Wages and provisioning, of the
uerkere is very good in comparizen to conditions in other plents
The entire :oersoreael of the plant is under MU supervision and almost
every third worker is an official or secret VITD informer. The
T.,)Oricing, methods are competitive,which increasee the production
capacity but lowers the, quality of production. A tank school is
located in the vicinity of the -plant,, There is also a unitary.
technical school (V0YM1170 Trei:rfr/CITES17.0TE UCHMITOTT, iZAVL.DENIYI.- - ?
711.1370vhicll is attended by youths 14 to 1.7 yeariiOf
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The lant produces seif-nroreried ault,ault (,,U)13g, carriers (TELMA
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7,71. (157-15, 7!Cti OTTONT) arid tanks? The plant does not produce the
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following parts:
o. All rubber accessories, pines, rade, which -re delivered by
the YAROSLAVL synthetic rubber tr4st.
b. The ball-bearings,which are delivered by one of the ball-
bearing ola.nts, presumably in to scow.
c. Some moulded Parts4whiel pre delivered by the foureries 'coated
In Chelyabinsk.
d.. All optical a.nd :nrecision instruments,which are delivered by
plants in 07echoslovakia.
e? The armament,wMch is delivered by armament --lants nresunably in
the South Ural.
During the war and after, the bulk of production was of tanks of T-34
type for the Soviet, Polish, and Bulgarian armies. During the
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latter part of the war, production of tanks decreased olightly but
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July 1948: 330 ':1-34 type tanks
August 1948; 345 T-34 tyne tanks.
The cost of production of one T-S4 with full equipment end armament
varied. between 1,200,000 and 1,500,090 rubles during the time source
was there. Some of the T-74 tanks designed for the Soviet Army
were equinped with a new anti-tank weapon described below. The trnks
of the Soviet occupation troops were not equipned with this anparatus
until the winter of 1948, presumably for security reasons. In July
1943 there were about -2,000 tanks collected rt the Chelyabinsk elr_nt,
S-74 and other/ypes. They were not in storage condition but were
ready for immediate use.
4, Some of the T-74 tanks nroduced at the -alant were armed with the
Katyusha tyPe rocket run. Some self-propelled assault Puns were
?qui-Toed with the sa:le wernon. The reular guns have been taken away
from such armored vehicles and they hay? bean turned into a kind of
selronelierl assault Katyusha . Some of the T-74 tanks were
equin-led with flamethrowerv, of Gerlan or Soviet construction, the
details of which are not 1-noun. The T-74 tanks have been eoui mod
with 759 VP Diesel en,inesjall of which were nroduced by the Chelyabinnl,
The tanks have been nainted with dark green raint which is
=noosed to be anti-magnetic. 7very new tank constructed by Coo
-)lant is checked by the control-sunorvisinu. ?omission. Only when
the tanks meet all the tests required by the romnission is it release
from the factory and allowed to nroceed to the snecial receiving
commission which checks it thorou,,hly. If the tank get,-, the receiving
commission's O.K., it is sent to the factory's base,from which point
I t is as-1,-ned to duty. Tanks which ;10 not nrsn ins-aection are re
turned to the foundry. Defective tank amount to between 1" and 18
ner cent of the entire rroduction. East of the -,lanes nroduction
open to the Soviet Army.althoush many T-Sills are dellvered to Vie
Po1.111 and Bulgarian armies, Source has delivered T4s to ":odlin,
r:iolandehere they were teen over by Polish military. 60 ner cent
of the arnored vehicler of the Soviet occunation troons in Austria
consist of T-74.e.
$ rach tank reler,eed by the Chelyabinsk factory is -nrovl.ded. with a
snocial control book -ith oil technical drtp and numbers written in.
It is the duty of the tank commander to note all replacenents and
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rennirs thrt are med.? on the vehicle, The nwTher of kilometcre
trevelled by the trnk end the number of enlne work hours Pre plee
recorded, in the book.
5. In the Tammer of l9e-g, the Chelyabinsk rlant nterted to rroduce a
new tyne tank which iG nemed aftel: its inventor,mhose mime becen.
with "K" end ended in "in". Source cannot recell the npme but thie:Ils
it uesse zthine: like "KnOTO7T71 or "Y/RTI-P. Its ,c7terior resembles
thet of the German renther. Actue1ly4,the yenta? is n combinetien
of Panther end T-71.!., Its. weipht is p:hout 67 tons end it hes ceterrillnr
chains with ribber r ogey vbeels, pdpnted to move
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trej- hrs .:ono on r lrre:e SCR e nroduction basin.
?, nurinr the last -erlod of the wer, the nlent eroduce4 P fe- of the
sar)erehenvy tanks of tyre "Y" but they mroved to be P failure rrd
t,7ece ? reduction wrs belted. They woihe Ill tons pnd could not be
used offensively. There were no bridges which could beer their woleht
rnd they were very slow,. After the wpr these tanks were knocked
e0TM rn0 sent to the Per rpet,where source believes they have been
included in the constal defense system.
P. he 'Toe ,on eentioned in Pern.two nbove resembles the Gerqpn Penserfaust.
The missile consists of two nnrts, en ejectin-r mechnnism end the
missile oronerjend the ejecting mechnnism se,spretes itself frcri
the missile rroner et about ten meters from the wean= nnd snurts n
flnme phout ten meters lone. It is reroxted net no Soviet armor
olete has been able to withstpnd it. It is on n rroduction basis
so-ewhere in the Urpls and is pn imnroved tyre of the German
Penzerfeust. The aiti-tank aiopr-tus is enuired -ith orticl
dieter with two sights OLO7irir PUTS= OPTIMUM INSTRUMENT
S 'Then the enemy's tpnk neners on the si .hts,
rirlemrn croons the snfoty bolt end onene the srotectime; steel
1-te end euns the trigger. The -epk point of the prperntus in
net it CPA easily be hit when the ,Irotcctinp- is oren end the
ar-losion of the -Assn? itself would destroy the tnnk. 2ach tenk
oeui,eed with this p-erpreZpas can fire bet?ecn fotr and cit' shots in
on eneite;ement. The mechnnism is handled by the tank commrnder;e0
hes officer's rank
elosure: Rough sketch of Soviet AT weapon.
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have been previously reported.
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