USSR BOOSTS TRACTOR OUTPUT, BUILDS NEW MODELS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2011
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• Publication Date: March 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Tractor industry
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, monthly periodical DATE DIST. a9 Mar 1954
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PUBLISHED 2 Oct-Dec 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR BOOSTS TRACTOR OUTPUT BUILDS NEW MODELS
SPEED OUTPUT OF KhTZ-7 TRACTORS -- Moscow, Pravda, 2 Oct 53
th workers of the Kharkov Tractor Assembly Plant have promised to complete
e 1953 plan ahead of schedule, produce 1,000 additional tractors by the end
of the year, and save 4 million rubles by reducing production costs.
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 11 Oct 53
Workers of the Kharkov Tractor Assembly Plant have promised to produce
1,000 above-plan KhTZ-7 row-crop tractors in 1953, and are preparing to pro-
duce twice as many tractors in 1954 as they did in 1953. The plant has al-
ready produced hundreds of above-plan tractors.
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 24 Oct 53
The Kharkov Tractor Assembly Plant has fulfilled its 11-month plan for
KhTZ-7 tractors one month and 8 days ahead of schedule. In 1953, the plant
has already produced as many tractors as it did in all of 1952. Plant workers
have already built 500 of the 1,000 above-plan tractors they promised to build
in 1953? Production cost of the tractors is almost 3,500 rubles below the plan.
Kiev, Pravda;Ukrainy, 25 Oct 53
The Khartkov Tractor Assembly Plant has built 414 of the 1,000 above-plan
tractors promised for 1953.
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KHAR'KOV PLANT IMPROVES TRACTORS -- Moscow, Pravda, 21 Oct 53
The Kharkov Tractor Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze produces the DT-54 diesel
tractor and most of the parts and units for the KhTZ-7 tractor, which is made
by the Kharkov Tractor Assembly Plant.
The plant is currently improving the design of the DT-54 tractor. The
crankshaft and lower end of the connecting rod are being strengthened, an im-
proved water pump is being used, the air filter is being improved, and the
fuel equipment has been redesigned. In 1954, the cooling and lubricating
systems of the tractor will be improved, and a more efficient starting motor,
equipped with a muffler, will be used. The rear axle and clutch will be com-
pletely redesigned.
The plant is developing a diesel engine for the KhTZ-7 row-crop tractor.
Experimental models of this engine are now being tested at the plant.
The plant has made considerable progress in developing an electric crawler
tractor, but many units of the tractor require further improvement.
Planned 1954 output of KhTZ-7 tractors will be twice [the 1953 output] and
1955 output will be about four times [the 1953 output].
The expanded production program necessitates added industrial construction,
including completion of the new machine assembly building No 3 and construction
of housing, schools, hospitals, nurseries, and recreation facilities.
Industrial construction is being held up by a shortage of metal, cement,
lumber,:earth-moving machinery, and motor transport. Construction Trust No 86,
headed by Lelichenko, has not fulfilled its plan for months. The Kharkov
Tractor Plant has repeatedly informed Dygay, Minister of Construction USSR,
and Fedorov, chief of Glavyugpromstroy (Main Administration for Industrial Con-
struction in the South), of this situation, but no effective action has yet
been taken.
The Kharkov planning organizations, Giproavtotraktoroprom (State In-
stitute for Planning Motor Vehicle and Tractor Industry Enterprises) and
.Promstroyproyekt (Office of Planning Industrial Construction) have not yet
supplied the plant with documents for several structures that will be put into
use in 1954.
Glavmetallosbyt (MaLn Administration for the Sale of Metals) is supplying
the Kharkov plant with metal from the Magnitogorsk Combine and ether Ural
plants. Even when these suppliers ship steel, brass, and copper rolled stock
in time, the plant cannot be sure of a steady supply of metal. Meta]. should
be supplied by metallurgical plants in the south, which are fully capable of
filling the plant's orders. -- M. Pashin, director, Kharkov Tractor Plant
imeni Ordzhonikidze
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 22 Oct 53
In 1948, the Kharkov Tractor Plant stopped receiving a state subsidy.
In less than 5 years, the plant has saved the government about 67 million
rubles above the plan. All plant shops and more than 250 production sections
have been put on a cost-acco''nting basis.
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Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 23 Oct 53
The Kharkov Tractor Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze has fulfilled its 9-month
plan for commodity output ahead of schedule. The plant has produced 3 1/2 mil-
lion rubles' worth of above-plan spare parts in 1953. The plant has also in-
creased the output of DT-54 tractors. The plant has saved 5 1/2 million rubles
above the plan.
MINSK PLANT PRODUCES BELARUS' TRACTOR -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 11 Oct 53
In the past 15 days, tractor shop No .. of the Minsk Tractor Plant has
organized the production of approximately 200 type designations of parts for
the Belarus' tractor. The first of these tractors are already being assembled
on the 150-meter conveyer in the shop.
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 17 Oct 53
The Minsk Tractor Plant is now turning out Belarus' and KT-12 tractors
simultaneously from its two main conveyers.
In preparation for the production of Belarus' tractors, the machine as-
sembly building was rebuilt and re-equipped, and means of transportation was
extended to it,, all in the course of a year.
The transmission of the Belarus' is of a new design that makes it more
wear resistant. -- P. Prokhorov, chief engineer, Minsk Tractor Plant
Moscow, Trud, 18 Oct 53
The Minsk Tractor Plant, which recently started mass production of the
Belarus' tractor after long delays, would have started output much sooner if
the Gor'kiy Motor Vehicle Plant and the Kharkov and Lipetsk tractor plants
had supplied parts on time.
Minsk, Sovetskaya'Belorussiya, 6 Oct 53
The Minsk Tractor Plant has built hundreds of above-plan starting engines
and shipped them to MIS and to the Rubtsovsk Altay Tractor Plant.
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 16 Oct 53
The first Belarus' tractor,,which recently rolled off the assembly line
of the Minsk Tractor Plant, bore plant serial No 000001.
A third model of the Belarus', the MTZ-3, is being developed for use in
cotton growing.
Moscow, Byulleten' Stroitel'noy Tekhniki, No 17, Dec 53
At the Minsk Tractor Plant, the new.shop for producing Belarus' tractors
was built and put into operation in 17 months (July 1952-October 1953).
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PLANT SHIPS TRACTORS -- Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 15 Oct 53
In recent months, the Rubtsovsk Altay Tractor Plant has shipped 50 DT-54
tractors to Semipalatinskaya Oblast. The oblast has received 164 DT-54 tractors
since the beginning of 1953.
DEVELOP NEW TRACTORS -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 4 Nov 53
Designers of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant are developing a new tractor
that will be greatly superior to the DT-54 tractor that the plant is now pro-
ducing. The new tractor will have a heated cab and will be designed primarily
for use with mounted implements. -The technical project of the tractor will be
submitted for ministry approval in December.
Mosccw, Izvestiya, 5 Nov 53
The Stalingrad Tractor Plant is testing two new types of tractor, one for
use on swampy land and the other for use on steep slopes.
CRITICIZE?KDP-35 TRACTOR -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy,.11 Nov 53
The KDP-35 tractors produced by the Lipetsk Tractor Plant have a serious
shortcoming -- on turns, the tracks spread apart and eventually come off, break-
ing the pivot-shaft bearings. Sometimes the tracks fall off the sprocket wheels
and it requires at least 2 hours to get them back on. One MTS solved this prob-
lem by welding additional brackets to the track roller frames, and prevented the
frames from separating by connecting them with a ball-and-socket joint.
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