CLASSIFICATION, CHARACTERISTICS, AND UTILIZATION OF USSR COALS

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• Publication Date: September 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
cuRIT 'ZRF ITION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
LANGUAGE
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Coal
HOW
PUBLISHED Books, monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow/Leningrad, Hamburg
DATE
PUBLISHED 1946 - Apr 1953
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REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
LThis report presents data, from 1946 - 1953 sources, on the
classification, characteristics, and utilization of USSR coals. The
first part of the report includes tables on the classification of
Donbass, Kuzbass, and Karaganda coals, from a Russian book on coal-
cleaning principles.
The second part consists of a table giving data from two sources,
a German periodical and a Russian railroad ~.ictionary, on types of
coal found in the various USSR coal regions and their subdivisions.
The two sources differ considerably in their coverage, the former
being more complete. The railroad dictionary, however, Gives geo-
graphical locations of some Kuzbass enterprises and gives subdivi-
sions of Moscow basin coal by sizes.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources'
I. DONBASS, KUZBASS, AND.KARAGANDA COALS
Bituminous coals of the Donbass are divided into six classes depending
on their content of volatile substances, as is shown in the following table:
50X1-HUM
50X1-HUM
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Lean (toshchiy) T Less than 17 Does not 3.1-4.8
cake
Steam-caking PS
(parovichno-
spekayuahchiysya)
12-18 Cakes
slightly
Free Hydro-
ger. Content Calorific
(%) Value (Cal) Use
3.5-5.0
ro
Steam-fat
(p arovichno-
zhirnyy)
Gaa (gazovyy)
Cakes
2.0-4.9
slightly
Long-flame D
(dlinnoplamennyy)
stance Content Coking
Leac that, 42 Does not
cake
Additive in
coking in-
dustry
8,650_ Coking in-
dustry
8,500 Additive in
coking in-
dustry
7,850 For fuel and
chemical ic-
dustry
7,600 For fuel and
chemical in-
dustry
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Coals of the Kuzbass are classified according to their coking properties, as follows:
Volatile
Z Me of Coal Moisture
Designation ~, Sulfur Substances Calorific
(.) A h ) W (c) Value Cal)
Coking K 2.5-)1.5 8.0- 9.0
?4-?5 20.0-25.0 8,000-8,500
K2 2.5-4.5 7.5.- 8.5 .4-.5 17.0-20.0 8,300-8,650
Slightly caking SS 2.5-5.0 4.0-10.0
(slabo spekayu- 3-?5 11.0-33.0 8,200-8,500
shchiyVa)
Coking
2ULc_itZ Use
Cakes well For coking
Cakes For coking
Cakes Partly for
slightly coking,
mainly for
fuel
5-'8 -- 8,100-8,6oo Cakes Partly for
slightly coking,
mainly for
fuel
Karaganda coals are also classified according to their coking properties, as indicated in the following table:
Tye of Coal
Coking
Steen-fat
Steam-caking
Lignite (buryy)
Volatile Sub-
stance Content Coking
(~%O~ Ca acit
Cakes
slightly I
8,400-8,500 Does not
cake
Average Ash
Content ( )
Does not 1k.5
cake
For coking after
being cleaned
For coking after
being cleaned
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om to m 0.d 5 to 1.2 percent, but the some case
basin, the sv.lfur content of coal is fro
it is as higt. as 2.5 to , sur, in frme Oases,
to 1.0 3 percent; for the Kuzbass, the figures range from 0.3
percent. (1)
The sul"Lr content of coal deposits varies considerably and does not depend,
on the type of coal. For Donbass coals, it ranges from one to seven percent,
but, in the majority of cases it is fr 1 1.
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Kuzbass
Anzherskaya
Kemerovo
Leninak
II. TYPES OP COAL FOUND IN USSR Cot:L RiGioIS
Source 2 Data
(Plita -- slab anthracite;
krupnyy ore]:h -- 1ar2e nut
D
G
PZ h
P.P, AK
ASSh, ARSh, ASh
(semyachko So ahtybom -- pea
coal with cuts; ryadovoy antratsit
so shtybom -- run-of-the-mine an-
thracite with culm; shtyb -- culn)
PPn, PPo
LLoosibly parovichno-plamenyiy. Steam-flaw-7
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Source 3 Data
Region, Subdivision,
or r;,erarise
Donbass
Leninugol' Trust
(formerly Kol'chugino)
b]olotolrugol' Trust
(Ooinovakiy Rayon)
fog'' I
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Prokop'yevzk SS
Kiselevak SS
Aralichevskiy T
Pechora Dasin
Vorkuta PZh
Ukrainian SSR
Alekaandriya B
Kemerovugol' ffrustj
Prokop'yevskugol' Trust
Stalinugol' Trust
Kaganovichugol' Trust
(Kiselevskiy Rayon)
Kemerovugol' Trust
Anzherougol' Trust
Stalinugol' Trust
(Prokop'yevskiy Rayon)
Prokop'yevskugol' Trust
Kaganovichugol' Trust
BK
BO
BM
(meloch' --
fines)
BR
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Georgian SSR
Tkvarcheli PZh
Tkibuli G
Urals
Kizel PZh
Bogoslovskiy B
Volchanek B
Yegorshino A
Chelyabinsk B
Korkino B
Central Asia
Lenger B
Sulyukta B
Kyzyl-Kiya B
Kok-Yangak D
be Angre7
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Urals.
Kizel
Bogoslovskiy
Yegorshino, Poltavakiy,
and Bredins''ciy
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West Siberia
West Liberia (except Kuzbass)
Kanak
Minusinsk
East Siberia
Chercmihovo .
Guoinoye Ozero
B
D
D
:2
Kanak
tdinusinsk
Transbaykal
Chernovskiy
n
0
Raychiidhinsi:
Primorskiy fray
B
Far East
0
Artem
Suchan
B
PZ11
Kividinskiy and laychikhinak
B
r-;
Podgorodncnakiy
T (2)
Artem
Suchan
B
PZh (3)
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1. Moscow/Leningrad, Osnovy Obogashcheniya Uglya (Coal-Cleaning Principles)
Ugletekhizdat, 1950
2. Hamburg, Erdoel and Kohle, Ito 4, Apr 1953
3. Moscow, Kratkiy Tekhnicheskiy Zheleznodorozhnyy Slovar' (Short Technical
Railroad Dictionary), Gosudaratvennoye Transportnoye Zbeleznodorozhnoye
Izdatel'atvo, 1946
COIFIDE;TIAL
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