SOVIET HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT/FORESTRY EQUIPMENT/SNOW REMOVAL AND WINTERIZATION EQUIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000200260004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRET/SECURITY INFO
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Soviet Heavy Contruotion Equipment/Forestry
Equipment/ Snow Removal and 'Winterization
Equipment
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Local people did the jobs mostly
with shovels; is labor battalions were used, embers of collective farms give
six days of labor per year on roads that pass through their respective collective
farms, Quality of maintenance varies with the farm personnel and their eg25X1nt.
Crowbars were used to get the stone, and then it was
Kharkov KhTZ kerosene burning
BTZ kerosene burning
Chelyabinsk 60 Diesel
Chelyabinsk 65 Dismal
The kerosene burning 8TZ NATI is used as a prime shover for artillery. It has
opted of 20 kph,
The.heaviest tractor is the 8-80, which runs on gasoline.
enerator tractors in Stalingrad. Gas generators were used
as
g
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where s or thom was available, The generator tank was cleaned once a week.
Anti-freeze was seldom used, SAhat
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little was used was alcohol, and the soldiers tended to drink that in short
order. The kerosene trpf%+,or was started by the troceea of nourina kerosene on the
:carburetor and burning it to it the carburetor,, The Army -keeps.=tore running at
critical times and' at other"times rune the engines iMtermittentlv.' dthbrwlse the
0oolant (water) is kept' iii o ns' wherb it ii kept heated and pMred warm into the
radiators.
Moscow had excellent equipment. There were blade-type plows and a loader
that was, by it. description similar to a Barber Greene loader. It took
an eight toot snow fall to show Moscow down, The machinery was supplemented
by a large number of people hand shovelling. Wooden sledges were used for
transportation. Military roads are cleared by Ves-type, towed plows. State
and federal highways use blade plows,
Z& bering is all done by civilian saw mills
Bridging equipment with the army consisted of iron beams and wooden beams
for orossing small streams, Pilo driver rigs were attached to the ChTZ
60 tractor and were assigned to the rear services,
Poland is building one small farm tractor of a model
tractors are used in Poland,
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