OPTICAL PLANT IN LYTKORINO

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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY
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PLACE
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USSR (Moscow Oblast)
optical Plant in Lytkorino
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Idarch to r;ecismber 1947
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1, Location:
Optical Plant No 230 was about 330 feet NE of the small
town of L7TfK_OiuNO (37054'x/55?34' t) inn wooded terrain.
The Moskva River is one to two miles ~ to the west
20 Plant area
About Ooh square mi.los. Built-up area: about 004 square
rail es
3 , The r. Win administration and offices were in MOSCOVti
4. Plant histo
Brected during the Tsar's rer irae, uncareu-for, and a,rain
put in service during, the last war. The buildings, dilapi-
dated-due to ago., were partially under conversion and
reconstruction.
rci. Orgsanation:
Administration building with laboratory, mechanical
section (factory loci smith's workshop etc.), motor vehic-
les section (about 40 trucks and tractors), pumping sta-
tion, (glass nieltin~r furnace shop, finished goods store,
store for chemical products, power station (output of
rs own power A __ 'If' 4~, 1FIn HP), sand pit.
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6 "echanical ecgui t,:
bad, u~-.cared-for equ.ipx.aent; 50 to 60 ?rinding u:x.i polishin;r
machines; material dismantled in the JENA Zeiss Plant.
Glass path about 50o x 13 feet.
7. Labor force:
Six hundred including 240 PWs and 80 elderly men, the re-
mainder being women.
?~. Eaorkinr* time:
Three 8-hour shifts.
G. J'roduction:
Optical ;-lasses and m: rors. Conversion to the manufac-
ture of safety ^lass 1?r aircraft was being done. The
?)Toduction was in its o,ar1y stages and the output was rather
loor. Practically spct.kinv, it was still in its experimental
s':ag e and expert workers were lacking. A German PV%, a rnlass
rainc1er by trade, was io be employed as an instructor.
10. A .7i.ilroad branch line joininEr the TIOSCOW-hYAZAN line coring
fr. ou the north ended i- the glass works. Locomotives beloM
ink .o the plant were : vailable.
11. The plant haca its own fire brigade. There Saar also A. facto-
ry po1..ce of rifle-arnrjd women. All ser~,tions were guarded
and ideatif ication car3r were checked. 4
~ ebruary l946 toe-ber 1947
12. Location:
The :factory was in the .vood.s about 1,600 feet NE of
LYTKORZN'1.
13. Area.:
About 1 x 0.75 m'.les.
14. L3uildin~Ts :
a. I wooden .,uardhouse, 13 x 13 feet.
b. : 5-story stone administration building about 330x65 feet,
rrodorn.
c. I stone and steal wo:7:cshop, 1,350 x 230 feet, with
grinding and polishing eq ipment;
d. I stone and steel wovrshop, 1,000 x 230 feet, used as
a ::noltin7 shop and glass foundry;
e. I stone buildin>7, 380 x 100 feet, for making glass nth
p 44t as Fea.?Iw'
f. I buildinrr iervins: as boiler house, about S80 x 100 x 60
feat, of stone with steel structure;
3 wooden cooling, towca,s, about 65x65x180 feet,; one 80-foot
,=;a.: line at a height of 3.i feet, leading from building e to
workshop d. A factor7f a Ldin : led northward from t he factory.
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15. Mechanical e qu1 ment: 3-
a. 3 large f-rindinc machines, diameter 65.5 feet; 100 small
::!ri.ndinFr ;machines. (Other grindin-.7 mnachines, dismantled in
the Zeiss Vierke, were being erected.)
b. 2 ,Tla: s melting furnaces for window ;lass, each 200 x 65 x
65 feet; underground depth unknown.
el ulaz as cutting shop, glass foundry with 25 furnaces.
(5 furnaces for searchlight glass, 5 furnaces for cooling
the !'-lass., and 15 furnaces for liquefying, the glass. )
d. Mixing rooms.
16. Plcnt histor
The factory was built about 1940 and is continually being
anlar ;ed. The machines coming from the Zeiss Werke, JENA,
were ur 1oaaded at the edge of site as dismantled goods. (New
building site.) The now buildings were for the precision
instruments aection,.which was re=established there.
17. Many Geeranan engineers of the Zeiss firm were employed in
the factory. They had been transferred there with their
faanilies. Among them vas am renowned (professor who was said
to be a gl?ags-cutting specialist.
Three 8-hour shifts a There were 250 PV:s and 250 Soviets
in each shift. For night shifts, fewer PV s were employed.
19. Production.-
W`indov.f glas, searchlight glass, aircraft panes, triangular
mirrors (prisms ?) for armored vehicles, end glass plates 30x30
cm and 5 cm thick.
20. T: eliverr of ?oods :
Chemicals, coal, peat were delivered by rail, coming from
the north. Temporarily, glass arrived from Czechoslovakia
and was re-pressed ab the factory.
March 1945 to ;,larch 1948
21. Labor force
About 700 Ger..mai PV ,,s and about 1,500 Soviet civilian workers
and 5 German engineers of the JENA Zeiss Nerke.
22. Working time: Uninterruptedly in three shifts
23. Production
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a. Until late in 1946: Voindow glass c' inferior qu:ality.
b. From the spring of 1947: Erection of a number of
glass furnaces and a mechanical section for the production
of mirror reflectors for searchlights. Installation of dis-
mantled glass-grinding machines from the JENA Zeiss Werke.
24. Production bo;~n late in 1947 with a weekly output of about 30
railroad carloads of searchlight mirrors.
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25. iaetory-owned power station provided the electric current.
.s was delivered by a 40-inch gas pipe line.
26, Shi Rin
`ixished goods were shipped by rail (factory-owned branch
line) in the direction of r1OSCOV
No data are available on the LYTKOfIND optiaasi plant.. An
aircraft accessories plant No 230 which produced electrical
flying, instruments was transferred from MOSCOd to 1ZA;'AN
early in 1942. Part of this factory was allegedly rem
transferred to MOSCOW during 1942. No other data concerning;
this factory are available. The transfer of parts of the
JENA Zeiss plant to LYTKORINC was hitherto unknown*
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