THE SOVIET BEARING INDUSTRY AND BEARINGS PLANT NO. 6 IN SVERDLOVSK

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION 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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY USSR (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
SUBJECT The Soviet Bearing Industry and
Bearings Plant No. 6 in Sverdlovsk
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 28 April 1960
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1. The bearings industry in the USSR consisted of eleven production plants,
numbered one through eleven, and of eighteen bearing rspair plants. The
latter were not numbered, but were designated as Remontno-Podshipnikovyy
Zavod plus the name of the city in which the plant was located. Alma-Ata,
Kazan, Kiev, Tashkent, Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk, and Moscow were known to have
repair and/or reconditioning plants.
2. Throughout the industry, Bearings Plant No. ,2 in Moscow was known as an
el*rprise which received the orders for new types of bearings. It was
also known to produce "special bearings" (spets-podshipniki), i.e.,bearings
made to order for new types of machinery. Bearings Plant No. 1 in Moscow
supplied bearings to the aircraft/missile plant in Perm, according to'a
special supply representative of the latter.
3. About 85 percent of the ball bearing production of Plant No. 6 in Sverdlovsk
was used by the military. Military representation at the plant consisted
of four men headed by a lieutenant colonel (pplk) of the armored corps.
About 1+7 or 1+8 types of bearings were produced at Plant No. 6. Each type
had a numerical designation (the meanings of the designations, the exact
ose of each bearing, and where they were all sent were not known 0 75X1
All bearings produced by the plant carried the trade mark 25X1
4. In mid-1958, Plant No. 6 was the only plant in the USSR which supplied
bearings to tank factories. Plant No. 1+ in Kuybyshev at one time pnmduced
a type of bearings for tanks, but in 1955 this production was tranferred to
Plant No. 6.
5. Bearing type No. 500, with brass cages and balls of 3/1+-inch diameter, wash
a support bearing produced for the Army. Average monthly production for thi
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type was 5,000 to 6,000 units. Among other places, this bearing was sent
to the aircraft plant in Perm and to plants producing tanks.
6. Bearings Plant No. 6 received raw materials from metallurgical plants
in Kuznetsk, Chelyabinsk (steel type ShKh 15), Moscow (ELEKTROSTAL, steel
type ShKh 15), Zlatoust (special steel type ShKh 15SG), Serov (steel
types ShKh 6,9, and 15), Minyar (steel type ShKh 6), Kyshtym, Novosibirsk,
and Gorkiy. With the exception of wire, received by air shipments from
the Krasnaya Etna Plant in Gorkiy, all !shipments came in by rail.
As of mid-1958, the plant did not have a railroad siding.
7. The waste of raw materials, particularly of steel, at the plant was "barbaric".
Such wastage, caused by the carelessness and indifference of the workers, was
greatest in the press and forge department during the processes of race T,
production and in the roller production and polishing department. According
to a survey carried out in the plant in 1957, only 31.3 percent of raw metals
rga~, efficiently and practically exploited, while 68.7 percent was either
wasted or discarded as substandard., One ton of Sh.Kh. 15 steel of 25 mm. diameter
cost the plant 3,200 rubles. Though the plant itself did not suffer from
this waste, since it was covered in the calculated production costs, the loss
to the State was not insignificant.
8. Another weak spot of Bearings Plant No. 6, in fact of the entire bearings
industry, was the inability to acheive in the heat processing a uniform
hardness of every part of the bearing. Soviet experts, furthermore, were
unable to understand how the Western bearings industry, particularly in
Sweden, could achieve an accuracy of up to 0.5 microns, while the Soviet!'S could
barely reach a tolerance of 1.5 microns. As a result of this inaccuracy and
the faulty heat processing, more than 15 percent of the plant's finished
products which were destined for the Army were rejected by the military
representatives at the Planti; The Plantlkas?geneially criticized for its
low standards. It was in need of good polishing equipment, since the
locally-made machines did not permit the required degree of accuracy; hence
the demand for Western machinery.
in the report are data on plant production (in approximate figures), plant
equipment, organization, fork force, and a listing of plant personnel.
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1, The bearings industry in the USSR consisted of eleven production
plants, numbered from one to eleven, and eighteen bearing repair
plants, The plants for the repair and reconditioning of bearings
were not numbered in the manner of the production plants but were
designated "Bearings Repair Plant" (Remontno-Podshipnikoviy Zavod)
plus the name of the city in which the plant was located. Of the
eighteen such plants in the USSR, the following plant sites were
known: Alma-Ata, Kazan, Kiev, Tashkent, Vinnitsa, Sverdlovsk,
and Moscow.
2. Until the establishment of the Sovnarkhoz system, the entire
industry was under the jurisdiction of the Chief Directorate
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of the Bearings Industry (Glavpodshipnik) of the Ministry of
Automobile Production (Ministerstvo Avtomobilnoy Promishiennosti).
With the establishment of the Sovnarkhozy, each plant became
subordinate to the Sovnarkhoz in its geographical area. Viatliy
Devyatov was head of the Glavpodshipnik until the establishment
of the Sovnarkhozy. In mid-1958, he was chief expert for
bearings affairs at the All-Union Gosplan. 0%
Throughout the industry, Bearings Plant No.A in Moscow was
known as an enterprise which received the orders for new types
of bearings. It was also known to produce "special bearings"
(spets-podshipniki), i.e. bearings made to order for new types
of machinery, etc. Plant No. 1 in Moscow supplied bearings to
the aircraft/missile plant in Peri
Bearings Plant No. 6 in Sverdlovsk
4. Bearings Plant No. 6 in Sverdlovsk was founded in 1941 with the
equipment of Plant No. 1, when the latter was transferred from
Moscow during the war. The plant was located in the center of 56n,
on Shartashskaya, in buildings formerly occupied by an alcohol
plant and a bearings repair plant. In 1942, the production of
bearings was begun at the plant; they were supplied to a plant
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in Nizhniy Tagil X57-55, E59-5J and to the Uralmash plant
in Sverdlovsk, which at the time produced T-34 tanks.
5. The main department of Plant No. 6, that of polishing and
assembly (shlifovalno-sborochniy tsekh) with its 300 foreign-
made machines, was completely destroyed by fire in 1946.
Though it was rehabilitated within four month's time and was
equipped with new machinery, the department failed to regain
its former productiveness and became one of the weak links
of the plant.
6. The plant continued to develop after the war, but all growth
was confined to the existing buildings, since the plant's location
in the heart of town precluded further expansion and addition of
new buildings.
7. The piincip departments of the plant were the following:
a. The Press and Forge Department (Kuznechno
Presoviy Tsekh), located in a one-story
building 250 x 150 meters in size, which
included the following equipment:
(1) One press (9,1/2
Duymovaya Shtampovochnaya Mashina)
for producing races of up to 21 cm
internal diameter. This machine was
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used for the production of races for
bearings of types 226, 228, 230, etc.
used for tanks. The machine was
installed at the plant in 1955. The
only other machine of this type was
found at Plant No. 1 in Moscow.
(2) Two presses (7,1/2
Duymovie Shtamp. Mash.) for races of
up to 18 cm internal diameter, in
bearing types 218 and 313 (for tractors),
500, 361)4, 3616, 3618, etc.
(3) One press (5 Duymvaya
(4)
Shtamp. Mash.) for races of up to 10 cm
internal diameter, for bearings of types
3608, 3610, etc, for the army.
Three locally-made pneumatic presses
(presa svobodny kovki), of which two
exerted a pressure of 8 tons each and
the third of 2 tons. These presses were
used for the hand forging of the races
(koltsa) and the balls (shariki) for
bearing type 244, which was used for
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heavy tanks. The diameter of the
ball in this bearing was 1.75 inches.
b. The Lathe Department (Tokarniy Tsekh) and the
Polishing and Assembly Department,., which were
located together in a 9,000 square meter, one-
story building. The former contained about 120
lathe
co The Thermal Department (Termicheskiy Tsekh), which
was equipped with the following:
(1) Rotary oil furnace (karuzelnaya
maslennaya pech)
and used in the heat proces-
sing of large races.
(2) Two horizontal air furnaces (gorizon-
talnovo zdushnie pechi)
was used for the hardening
of medium-sized races and large balls
and rollers (roliki).
(3) Two furnaces for the heat processing
of small balls and rollers.
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d. Three polishing departments: for polishing
races, for the production and polishing of
balls, and for the production and polishing
of rollers. The department for the polishing
of races contained about 200 automatic machines,
The locally-made
machines were far inferior in quality and
efficiency to the foreign-made equipment.
This shop was one of the largest and most
responsible of the plant's departments.
The department for the production and polish-
ing of balls contained two cold
(kholodnaya shtampovka) for making balls,
two hot presses (goryachaya shtam-
povka) for making balls, but which were also
used as cold presses for certain types of balls,
one Lekra press for burring the
balls (Dla Snyatiya Saturnovo Koltsa). The
department also contained 32 machines called
Opilovochnie Stanki, which were capable of
removing layers of up to 0.4-mm in thickness
from balls. These were locally-produced copies
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of the~ LS machines. There were also
12 machines for rough polishing (stanki pred-
varitelnoy shlipovki), which were vertical
machines with German Chasewrede tables; 32
abrasion vats (abrazivnie barabani) contain-
ing water and gravel, each with a capacity
of 250 kilograms of balls; 16 polishing
(here the
balls passed from the thermal processes
to the mechanical processes); 25 or 26
polishing machines (shlifovalnodovodochnie
stanki) of the locally-made M.Ts.Z, the
types; 18 vats containing a special lime
(barabani dla polirovki), where the balls
underwent their final polishing.
The department for the production and polish-
ing of rollers, both conical and cylindrical,
was equipped with the following: one machine
for straightening steel rods; 36 automatic
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lathes,
about 20 vats (barabani) for abrasing the
rollers (abrazivnaya obr abotka poverkhnostey);
8 machines for the basic polishing of the
rollers (stanki dla tortsevoy shlifovki); 60
machines for rough polishing (gru-
baya shlifovka) and smooth polishing (chisto-
vaya shlifovka); one or two machines for the
final polishing (polirovka) of large rollers
(large rollers were polished only by machine);
and an undetermined number of vats for the
final polishing of other than large rollers,
e. The Cages Department (Separatorniy Tsekh), which
was housed in a one-story building 200 meters
long and 70-80 meters wide. The cages were of
two main types: of iron for less dependable
types, as for tractor bearings types 218, 313;
and of brass, for more dependable bearings, as
for tank bearings types 230, 2414. The iron
cages were produced by six vertical
Lekra presses. The brass was brought to the
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plant in billets from Zavod No. I in Kyshtym.
Plant No. 6 contained a special casting de-
partment where the brass billets were cast
into pipes and then worked into cages by
!4u machines, which carried out the various
processes (lathes, drills, polishers, etc.).
8. In addition to the above principal departments, the plant contained
the following smaller shops, also directly connected with produc-
tion:
a. The Ball Chromium-Plating Department, within
the framework of the polishing and assembly
department.
b. The Steam Department (Kotelnaya), which
provided the steam required mainly for the
chemical processing of the parts.
c. The Compressor Department, which had two
compressors each capable of
delivering 5,000 cubic meters of air per
hour. This compressed air was used mainly
by the presses.
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d. A chemical laboratory and a metallurgical
laboratory, which were connected to the
department of the head metallurgist.
e. A special bearing testing station which
worked around the clock.
The plant employed a total of 3,100 workers, divided as follows:
a. Approximately 2,000 directly connected with
the production of bearings.
b. 220 engineers and technicians.
c. 1400 in the technical inspection department (OTK).
d. 200 administrative personnel.
e. The remainder in auxiliary department, such as
electrical, instruments, repairs (rem. mekh.
tsekh), transportation (equipped with about
50 trucks), carpentry shops, etc.
About 60 percent of the employees at the plant were women,
most of whom were employed in the thermal processing and
the polishing departments. Two hundred sixteen of the
employees were members of the Communist Party.
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10. About 85 percent of the plant's production was used by the
military. The military representation at the plant (voen.
predstvo) consisted of four men headed by a lieutenant colonel
(Pplk) (not by a colonel (plk) as previously reported) from
the armored corps.
11. The plant produced about 117 or 48 types of bearings, each with
a numerical designation (the meanings of the designations, the
exact purpose of each bearing, and where they were all sent
were not known
12. The plant produced the following main types of ball bearings:
a. No. 218 - brass cages, ball diameter of
7/8 inches. The average monthly production
of this type was between 20,000 and 30,000
units, of which 15,000 went to the army to
be used in armored vehicles. The same
bearings with cages of iron were used for
tractors.
b. No. 518 - a support bearing (uporniy pod-
shipnik) with brass cages and with balls of
19/33 inches' diameter. The average monthly
production of this type was 1,500 units, all
for the, army.
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c. No. 317 - brass cages and balls of 1-3/16
inches' diameter. The average monthly
output of this type was 6,000-8,000
units, all for the army.
d. No. 226 - brass cages and ball-diameter
of 1-1/8 inches. The average monthly out-
put of this type was 12,000 units, all
for the array.
e. No. 228 - brass cages with balls of 1-1/8
inch diameter. The average monthly output
of this type was 2,000-2,500 units, all
for the army.
f. No. 230 - brass cages and balls of 1-5/16
inches' diameter. The average monthly output
of this type was 10,000 units, all for the
production of tanks. These bearings were
sent to the giant Nizhniy-Tagilskiy Vagonno
Stroitelniy Zavod in Nizhniy Tagil, which
produced railroad rolling stock. In 1958,
this plant transferred to tank production.
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g. No. 244 - brass cages with balls of 1-3/4 (?)
inch diameter. The average monthly produc-
tion of this type was 2,000 units, all for
the production of heavy tanks.
h. No. 500 - with brass cages and balls of
3/4 inch diameter. The average monthly
production of this type was 5,000-6,000
units, all for the army. No. 500 was a
support bearing and, among other places,
was sent to the aircraft plant in Perm
and to plants producing tanks, for use in
tank guns (?).
i. No. 8120 fic7 - a support bearing with
brass cages and balls of 0.5 inch diameter.
The average monthly output of this was
4,000-5,000 units, all for the army.
J. No. 313 - brass cages and balls of 15/16
inch diameter. This was used for military
purposes and also in tractors.
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13. The following cylindrical bearings were produced at the plant:
a. No. 3634 - with brass cages and a cylindrical
roller of approximately 40 mm. diameter. The
average monthly production of this type was
7,000-8,000 units, all of which were used for
oil drills. Most of them were sent to the
Uralmash plant in Sverdlovsk.
b. No. 3618 - with brass cages and rollers of
approximately 22 mm. diameter. The average
monthly output of this type was 7,000-8,000
units, all for the army.
co No. 3616 - with brass cages and rollers of
approximately 20 mm diameter. The average
monthly output of this type was 10,000 units,
all for the army.
d. No. 3614 - with brass cages and rollers of
about 16 mm. diameter. The average monthly
output of this type was 7,000 units, all for
the army.
e. No. 3612 - with brass cages and rollers of
about 14 mm. diameter. The average monthly
output of this type was 7,000-8,000 units, all
for the army.
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114. Of the conical bearings, the plant produced types No. 3608
and No. 3610, both of which were with brass cages. The monthly
output of the No. 3608 type was about 3,000 units and that for
the No. 3610 type 7,000-8,000 units. All of the output was
for the army.
15. In mid-1958, Plant No. 6 was the only plant in the USSR which
supplied bearings to the tank factories. Plant No. 4 in Kuybyshev
at one time produced No. 244 bearings for tanks but, in 1955,
this production was transferred to Plant No. 6.
16. A small part of the output of the plant was exported.
exact and full details were not known
17. All bearings produced by the plant carried the trademark "6 GPZ"
plus the numerical designation of the bearing.
18. Plant No. 6 received raw materials from the following sources:
a. From the metallurgical plant in Kuznetsk
(Kuznetskiy Metaiurgicheskiy Zavod). This
plant received steel of the type Sh.Kh. in
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the form of rods of the standard length
of 3 meters and with diameters of 100,
110, and 130 mm. This type of steel was
used for the production of races for over
medium-sized bearings, such as types Nos.
8120, 226, 228, 230, 244, 317, 3634, and
3616. (Bearing No. 244 was produced at
the order of and from steel provided by
the Uralmash plant). The Kuznetsk plant
was Plant No. 6's main supplier of steel
for the bearings named above.
b. The metallurgical plant in Chelyabinsk
LT55-10, E61-2J (Chelyabinskiy Metalur-
gicheskiy Zavod), which provided steel
of the Sh.Kh. 15 type in 80 and 90 mm.
diameters for the production of races
for bearings types 218, 500, 3608,
3612, etc.
c. A plant called Elektro-Stal, in Moscow,
which provided the same steel as the plant
in Chelyabinsk.
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d. The Lenin Metallurgical Plant in Zlatoust
L55-10, E59-40-7, which produced special
steel and, since 1958, had been supplying
Plant No. 6 with Sh.Kh. 15 SG type steel
in 110 and 130 mm. diameters. This steel
was used for the production of races for
bearings Nos. 230, 244, and 3618.
For the production of the various types of races alone,
Plant No. 6 required almost 3,200 tons of steel per
month. From 70 to 75 tons of various types of steel
were used in the production of balls per month. In
1958, the monthly output of balls was about 50 tons,
in contrast to 20 tons per month in 1947.
e. Most of the steel for the production of balls
was received from the Serov Metallurgical Plant
(Serovskiy Metalurgicheskiy Zavod Im. Lenina).
It provided Sh.Kh. 6 steel with a diameter of
13.5 mm. for bearing No. 500, Sh.Kh. 9 steel
with a diameter of 17 mm. for No. 218 bearings,
and Sh.Kh. 15 steel with diameters of 20.5, 21,
23, 24, and 26 mm.
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f. The special steel plant in Zlatoust also
supplied Plant No. 6 with steel for balls.
It provided Sh.Kh. 15 SG steel with a 25 mm.
diameter for the No. 230 bearings, and with
diameters of 26, 28, and 32 mm. for the No.
244 bearings.
g. A plant in Minyar N55-04., E57-337, which
supplied steel for balls for bearings No.
8120. This steel was of the type Sh.Kh. 6
and had a diameter of 9.2 mm.
h. The Serov Metallurgical Plant supplied Plant
No. 6 with 70 percent of the latter's steel
requirements for balls and rollers. Plant
No. 6 required from 160 to 170 tons of steel
per month for the production of rollers.
i. The Kyshtym plant supplied all of the 60-70
tons of brass required monthly for cages.
3. The Novosibirskiy Listo-Prokantniy Zavod in
Novosibirsk, which supplied 6-8 tons of iron
strips for cages (separatornaya zhel. lenta)
in thicknesses of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.5 mm.
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k. The Krasnaya Etna Plant in Gorkiy, which
supplied (iron) wire to Plant No. 6 and
apparently to the entire industry. The
wire, in diameters of 2.)i, 2.9, and 4.o
mm., was used in the production of rivets
for the cages. Plant No. 6 used 300-350
kilograms of wire per month.
With the exception of the wire, which was delivered by
air, all raw materials for Plant No. 6 arrived by rail.
19. The waste of raw materials, particularly of steel, at the plant
was "barbaric". Such wastage, :the carelessness and
indifference of the workers, was greatest in the press and
forge department during the processes of race production and
in the roller production and polishing department. According
to a survey carried out in the plant in 1957, only 31.3 percent
of the raw metals were efficiently and practically exploited,
while 68.7 percent was either wasted or discarded as substandard.
One ton44 of Sh.Kh. 15 steel of 25 mm. diameter cost the plant
3,2u0 rubles. Though the plant itself did not suffer from this
waste, since it was covered in the calculated production costs,
the loss to the State was not insignificant.
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20. Another weak spot of the plant, in fact of the entire bearings
industry, was the inability to achieve in the heat processing
a uniform hardness of every part of the bearing. The hardness
required was 61-62 Rockwells, but in the production of balls,
for example, the plant was plagued by the appearance of spots
some millimeters beneath the surface of the ball (trostito-
viye pyantna) and the lines on the surface (shtrikhoviye ozhogi),
whose hardness was only 57-58 Rockwells. Most of the spots
disappeared after the sh.Kh. 15 SG steel was introduced in 1958,
but the causes of the lines and how to overcome them remained an
enigma. The plant was particularly preoccupied with improving
the heat processing of large bearings Nos. 230 and 226, the most
important bearings for the tank industry. Experts, moreover,
were unable to understand how the Western bearings industry
could achieve an accuracy of up to
0.5 microns, while the Soviets could barely reach a tolerance
(pripusk) of 1.5 microns.
21. As a result of this inaccuracy and the faulty heat processing,
more than 15 percent of the plant's finished productL which were
destined for the army were rejected by the military representatives
at the plant. The plant was generally criticized for its low
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standard. It was in need of good polishing equipment, since
the locall-made machines did not permit the required degree
of accuracy, hence the demand for Western machinery.
22. The principal production departments of the plant, such as
the press and forge, assembly, fine polishing, and thermal
departments, operated in three shifts. The auxiliary depart-
ments worked in one shift and all other departments in two
shifts. During the winter months (1 October to 1 May), work
began at 0800 hours, with shift changes at 0800, 1600, and
2400 hours. During the summer, work began at 0700 hours.
23. Though not particularly large in area - about 500 x 400 meters
surrounded by a board fence two meters high topped with barbed-wire
- Plant No. 6 was considered one of the top enterprises in the
city from the point of view of mechanization and automation.
24. In the winter of 1957/1958, the plant was allotted 2,000 cubic
meters of wood from the forest in the vicinity of Rezhik
556-51, E61-247. The forest had reportedly been uprooted in
connection with a plan to flood large areas in the formation of
an artificial lake for an atomic power station under construction
in the vicinity of Beloyarskoye LN56-45, E61-2.g. By 1958, it
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was widely known in Sverdlovsk that an atomic power station
was being erected in the Beloyarskoye area and that work at
the site was progressing according to schedule.
25. Plant No. 6 did not have a railroad siding, and of its 50 trucks
only about 30 were operational.
26. Electricity was provided by the central grid and carried into
the plant by underground cable. The plant operated a trans-
former station on the site.
27. The following persons were reported:
a. Vitaliy Devyatov, chief expert for bearings at
the All-Union Gosplar
Prior to the establishment of the
Sovnarkhoz system, he had headed the Chief
Directorate for the Bearings Industry. Prior
to that he had worked for many years in what
later became Plant No. 1 in Moscow. A mechani-
cal engineer by profession, he was considered
one of the leading experts in the Soviet bearings
industry.
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b. Grigoriy Sergeyevich Kosobokov, chief expert
for bearings for the RSFSR Gosplan since
195EI
cal engineer by profession, he had worked,
before World War II, in what later became
Plant No. 1 in Moscow. During the war, he
was director of the technical ddpartment
of Plant No. 6 in Sverdlovsk. From 1952
to 1958 he was assistant head of the All-
Union Chief Directorate for the Bearings
Industry.
C, Piotr Ivanovich Yashcheristin, director of
Bearings Plant No. 11 in Minsk
Until about 1953, he was
chief engineer at Plant No. 6 in Sverdlovsk.
He was a mechanical engineer by profession
and held the degree of Candidate of Technical
Sciences.
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d. Ivan Fyodorovich Gavriyelov, chief engineer
at Plant No. 11 and a mechanical engineer
by professio Until
about 1953, he held various positions of
responsibility at Plant No. 6.
e. Sergey Vasilyevich Komarov, director of the
bearings repair plant in Sverdlovsk since
1954/1955 and formerly director of the lathe
department of Plant No. 6
f. Sergey Vasilyevich Khudeyev, director of Plant
No. 6 since 1951 and former (since 1941) director
of the production department of the same plant,
An engineer-economist by
profession, he worked before the war as
assistant director of the instruments depart-
ment of Plant No. 1 in Moscow.
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g. Valeriy Ivanovich Kitayev, chief engineer of
Plant No. 6 since 1955 and former head designer
in the same plant
A mechanical engineer by profession, he
completed his studies in Nizhniy Tagil during
the war.
h. Mikhail Fyodorovich Pomukhin, head metallurgist
at Plant ho. 6 since 1949
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i. Vladimir Ilyich Klimov, director of the
technical department of Plant No. 6 since
about 1957 and formerly a senior engineer
in the same department
j. Piotr Klimov, production director at the
Lenin plant for special steel in Zlatoust,
k. Vladimir Pivnev, director of the press and
forge department of Plant No. 6 since 1952/1953,
Until
1552/1953, he was a senior technologist in
the same department. A metallurgical engineer
by profession
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1. Dmitr Andreyevich Gulayev, director of the
lathe department of Plant No. 6 and formerly,
for many years, director of the assembly
department of the plant
During the war, he worked in
m. Sim Osipovich YagrWatinskiy, director of the
polishing and assembly department of Plant
No. 6 since about 1953
He formerly was assistant chief engineer at
Plant No. 50 in Sverdlovsk, a military plant
possibly connected with the production of
Shortly
tanks. /Before the war he worked in the Soviet
Embassy in the United States,
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n. Lt. Colonel (Pplk) Valentin Yakolevich Zakharov,
head of the military representation (voen pred-
stvo) at Plant No. 6 for many years
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Legend to Sketch Showier Location of Plant No. 6
1. Lenina.
2. Lunacharkovo.
3. Pervomayskaya.
)t. Shartashskaya.
5. Bazhova.
6. Shevchanko.
7. Urals Military District Headquarters (Uralskiy Voyenniy Okrug).
8. Residential area of 6-8 story buildings, called Gorodok Chekistov.
9. Highschool.
10. Residential building.
11. residential buildings.
12. Kindergarten.
13. Plant No. 6.
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Legend to Sketch of the Layout of Plant No. 6
1. Main gate for vehicles.
2. Gatekeeper's hut and pedestrians entrance.
3. Asphalt road.
4. Administrative offices and plant directorate, the only two-story
building on the site.
~. Plant club.
6. Roller department.
7. Ball department.
8. Race polishing department.
9. Assembly department.
10. Thermal department.
11. Lathe department.
12. Narrow gauge railroad track.
13. Press and forge department.
1)4. Electrical department.
15. Repairs department (hem. Mekh. Tsekh).
16. Bearing testing department.
17. Garage.
18. Fuel stores.
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19. Maintenance and construction department (rem. stroit. tsekh).
20. Metals stores.
21. Laboratory.
22. Cages department.
23. derehouse for finished products.
24. General warehouse.
25. Compressors department.
26. Boiler department.
27. Transformer station.
23. Entrance for vehicles.
29. Wooden fence of the plant.
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