VOZNESENKA MACHINE TRACTOR STATION/GRAIN ELEVATORS/MAKINSK AND VICINITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600060136-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 136
• Publication Date: July 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
and an attached storage shed. The a large garage
garage shop with several lathes and milling machines and a contained a a blacksmith ak cshoe
The machine aho occ s ashop.
farm asional~v produced parts to repair tractor A.nri
machinery. In requentiy, some part! were obtained from Petropavlovsk.
The machine tractor station repaired tractors, seeding drills, discs,
plows, combines, and mowers. Normally, approximately ten tractors would
be under repair at any one time. Most of the tractors, as well as other
farm machinery, required extensive repbirs, especially after each harvest.
Storage factlitlee for oil, lubricants, and gasoline were nearby. They
were kept out in the open and were net covered even during weather. AIJ. machinery and tractors were of s.,4 the severe
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INFORMATION REPORT
CLASSIFICATION r-oI& n-4TIP..L
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE
ACQUIRED
Voznesenka Machine Tractor Station/Grain
Elevators/Makinak and Vicinity
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w.re ~-7-- - esenaa, aswell 4as in neighboring kolkhozes,
werkhoz. Mj~t of ye he built to ,o satiety only the needs of each
the field during rain was loaded unto wagons and Zis trucks in
wthe harvest and transported to grain storage warehouses
located a+, railroad stations, From the warehouses the grain was shipped
by rail to.
o all parts of the TBSR. In 1940, when a record crap wee harvested,
much of the grain was piled in the open fields and later spoiled.
Principal crops Laised at Voznesenkug were wheat, aate and
x-cuory, orerntinq 24 hours daily, was located on the
road from Vozne!Pnkn ? Chelyabinsk Another tractor facto
midway betwneL Petr pavlovsk tad Akmolinsk 'n the village located
Kokschetav was also the location of a potato and genie e of f alcoholl refinery.
refinery.
~? The sketch below shows only the center of the town of Makinsk. In 1941
Makinsk had aPprosietelf 2,000 population. Its lain streets were
lightly gravelled while all others were dirt. !!lost of the buildings
in Xakinsk were constructed of a u,*.xture of clay and stray. The only
CLASSIFICATION ccpr~rLL
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exception was the worker's apartments which were of wood. During the rainy
season town scads were impassable. The town looked like it was constructed
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Garage & repairing station
Worker's apartments