1. NEW FACTORIES IN EREVAN 2. AVTODETAL (AUTOMOBILE PARTS) FACTORY IN EREVAN

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• Publication Date: May 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL .INTELLIGkrcY: REPORJT
COUNTRY
USSR (Armenia )
SUBJECT 1. Now Factories in Erevan
PLACE
ACQUIRED
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2, Avtodetal (Auto-uobile Parts) Factory
in Erevan
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i. On 27 January 1948, a oornmission arrived at the Erevan Chemical
Factory Under the Ministry for Local Industries. This casianission
was composed of two, representatives of the LSinistry of Local
Industries of the Armenian SSR, three members of the Kharkov
Chemical Society, and three members of the evan ChemiCa1
Society i/n Lieudeleerv. The oouinisoion has been appointed to
dram up plans for a soda factory, to be located on the grounds
of the chemical factory. It is proposed that the factory have
an output of 10,000 tons of soda per annum. It is expected
that the project will be complete by May 1948 and that con-
struction of the new factory will begin in the su?xaer of 1948.
Factory No. 14
Construction of Factory No. 14, belonging to the Fergoremtrest
(Power Station Repairs Trust) of the Ministry of Electric Power
Stations of the USSR, is being completed at Transportnaya Street
in the town of Erevan. The factory is expected to produce parts
and materials for the repair of electric power stations. The
diraotor of the factory is Kirakosyan.
Avtodetal Factory
31 The Avtodetal Factory in Erevan is controlled by the Central
Directorate for Aggregate Industries of the (Ministry of the Motor
Vehicle and Tractor Industries of the USSR and is, therefore, a
factory of All-Union importenoe. The Avtodetal (Automobile Parts)
Zactory, also called Avto.apohast (Avtomobilnaya Zapasnaya Chast---
Automobile Spare Part), is an entirely new enterprise, built after
the war. Partial production started at the beginning :,.,' 1946.
p ork has been unsatisfactory and the State program w is not fulfilled
either in 1946 or in 1947. For instance, in June 1947,'the factory
carried out only about 5( of the plan; in July. about 45. The
reasons for the non-fulfillment area 1) shortage of specialists,
technicians, and engineers; and Z,) shortage of the necessary
equipment.
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4, Production: The factory produces various spare parts for motor
van a ors. mainly for ZIS-5 trucks, and for tractors, mainly for
tfniversal tractors and two parts for STZ tractors (Stalingrad
Traktorryi Zavod ' Stalingrad Tractor Factory). About four-fifths
of the output consists of motor vehicle parts and about one-fifth
of tractor parts. In 1947, the factory was producing 15 types of
parts
1946, the factory was to produce ton new types of parts. The
factory is also engaged on a small scale in the production of con-
sumer goods and goods for local enterprises, such as for the
Erevan tramways. In 1947, the factory produced goods to the value
of about 2,700,000 (rubles?) (gross production),
5. uipr t and Materials: The factory is constantly being equipped
with now raachine tco s and automatic machinery frc n Moscow and
Gorki. In 1927, it received about 120 machine tools, such as
grinding machines, internal grinding machines, cylinder and cono -
grinding machines, gear-cutting and slotting machines, thread
milling machines, and turning lathes. The factory recoivea forgings
for the production of parts from the Chelyabinsk Z1S Factory and
from the Chebarkul Factory under the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy
(Chermot).
a,. Director; A. A. Tumanyan
Deputy Director: Shuraits
Chief Engineer; Lardzhanyan
Chief Technologist: Khaohatryan
b, During 1947, Director Ttananyan went to Ptoscow on two occasions to
make arrangements for supplies for his factory. In February 1948,
Tumanyan again went to Ilosocw and Mardzhanyan acted as his deputy.
r In February 1948, about 60 young workman who had completed a course
at industrial schools and factory apprenticeship schools ("ahkola
fabriohno-zavodskogo obuoheniya") arrived at the factory,,
d: Some of the specialists working at the factory underwent. a period
of training at various motor vehicle and tractor factories in the
USSR, such as the Stalin Automobile Factory in Moscow, the Chelyabinsk
Factory, and the Moscow Small.--Cylinder (Malolitrazhr-yi) Motor Vehicle
Factory. Most of the workmen, recruited from among local inhabitants,
are non-specialists. They are trained during the course of their
work and a good deal of their production is rejected. Some of the
parts produced have to be totally re-
jected because or gross non-pomp ance with] requirements and drawings,,
and production has to be temporarily stopped.
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