CONSTRUCTION OF A RUBBER PLANT AT KADIYEVKA

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• Publication Date: February 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEML)ELIG n GENCY REPOR
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR(Ukrainian SSR )
SUBJECT Construction of a Rubber Plant at
Kadiyevka
THIS DOCUMENT. CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 783
Plant
the plant was referred to
ent names- Resins roi, by the oviets; Rubb
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rtment, and Rubber Plant Assembly Department
2. One Shesnikov- (f nu) was chief manager., and one itai_yev, (fnu) was
technical manager.
Plant History
3. ork_ on construction of the plant started in 1947. Soviet ti d
that a rubber plant dismantled in Germany is allegedly bei 'd
in adiyevka. I" 1o information was available on which rubbe sac.
structural parts in stor
broduction was to start in one or', e
buildings in November 19 9. bu
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34' N/38o40' li) is in the Ukrainian~IS.S.RR., north-northwest
Ir Stalin, in the area of the Donets River, Donetski
nt is on. the western outskirts of Kadiyevkai, on the
a highway leading to the northwest, in the direction of
DATE DISTR. 18 February 192
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6. The fenced-in area of the plant covers about 90.0 x 450 meters.
Tnstallatio is
7. There was a wooden shed, about.8 x 60 meters, which was used as a depot
for cement, gypsum and other building materials. Window glass, sewage
pipes Arid 'other pipes were stored outside the shed.
8. The construction workshop was a wooden structure of 60 x 10 meters. Struc-
tural iron for use` in the--buildings and installations was produced here.
depot and an office for FWs was also in this workshop..
One building under construction had, steel framework and brick walls. It vias
60 x 15 meters and was 8 meters in height. The wing of the building was 18
meters high. There was still no roof on the building. Only Soviet convicts
were employed on this project.
10. An asselibly workshop was under construction. This building was st and brick
construction. The parts used for the building were old and were originally
used in a German rubber plant, according to the soviets. The steel girders were
painted a greyish+reen over a primer of red. The workshop covers an area cif
18 to 20 x 85 meters and is 84 meters high. When the old workshop cove rzived
Arowaftany a skylight was installed. There were foundations for the steel-
work but none. for t4a machines.
and was 1~ meters high. The walls were
air work was done in this building
12. The sawmill was a ing then under. construction. The
area covered b t meters. A foundation pit of 8 x 20
meters had been. excavated.to a dep,71 .8 meters; within the foundation pit
a square of I x ) meters had been excavated an additional 50 cm,'or a total
depth of 2.3 meters.
13. There were, two concrete mixers, each 2 to 5 meters high, which were. built for
*ransportation by truck, but which were still not completed. Other machines
included stone crushers. The concrete mixers and the 50X1-HUM
stone crushers were connec ed by a field railway about 25 meters long which
was equipped with a motor-driven winch. The tracks sloped upward to the
elevated mixers.
Ilk. There were two oil tanks, each 9.75 meters high and 11.35 meters in diameter,
The thickness of the walls of these tanks was 5 rm.. The tanks, which had no
foundations,, were set on a bed of sand. The cap-roofs had not yet been installed
on the tanks, An opening 50 cm in diameter had been cut at a he?_ght of 60 cm,
but no plug, filler neck or drain could . be seen. 50X1-HUM
15. There was one horizontal, rectangular oil tank. This tank was 1.5 x 1'.4 meters
and was constructed of +1i1( !,k. tank had been completed to a
length of 50 meters and an additional 10 meters were to be con-
structed. A coiled tube , t mm passe through the tank, which was intended
for use as a boiler. Io.connections to the tank could be observed.
16. There were two oil tanks, each 42 meters high and 5.7 meters in diameter.
These tanks were constructed of metal 5 mm thick. There were no foundations
and the tanks were set on a bed of sand. The roofs had not yet been installed.
No openings or drain pieces could be seen.
17. There was an excavation 2 meters deep and 150 x 30 meters in.ar:ea intended for
use in the foundation of a workshop,
18. A workshop building was under construction. The excavation was 150 x 30,x 2
. meters, The walls had been completed 2 meters below grouiad and 3 meters above-
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19. fie steel and brick workshop had been completed,. This building was 60 x 25
meters and was about 8.5 meters high. It had a lean-to type roof that was
covered with rE"(ellen-Eter1;sitH slabs, each of 1.4 x 1.7 meters., Equipment
had. not been installed by' September 19L1.9.
20. Another workshop was next to the building described above. This was a stone
building of about 60 x 15 meters and was about 8.5 meters high,
21. One workshop was about 25 x 40 meters and about 25 meters high. This was a
steel framework structure which was to be brick-faced.
22. The steel framework of one workshop had been completed. This building was to
be faced with bricks. The size was about 40 x 100 meters and it was about
15. to 18 meters in height. It had a flat roof and 16 sheet-iron ventilators
in two rows of eight each. These ventilators were about 90 cm in diameter and
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23. Another installation was a depot for machines and implements.
Traffic Facilities.
24. A highway 6 meters wide ran between Kadiyevka a
improved: road b was not hard-surfaced.. A bra
800 meters long7led to the rubber plant, but wa
because of lack of funds. An extension
the road reached the fenced-in area of t
as an
e arcl about
allegedly
efore
25. Railroad spur tracks lead from the ese tracks also run
inside the plant area.
26 The railroad line paralleling the Kadi ay is an industrial
line without regular passenger or frei southern corner
of the plant this line runs in a strai mately southeastern
direction, passing the power plant, whi a branch line cro sses the road to the
plant, terminating at 114ine 3/3 Bis.
27. A truck ride from PIN Camp 7144/1 to the rubber plant took 10 to 15 minutes.
The trip to the cement storage plant required an additional 10 minutes.
Machines and Equipment.
28. The construction workshop was equipped with 4 electric wtlders which were
old Russian machines, an old German punch and cutting machine which could
process plates up to 12 mm thickness, angle iron up to 10 mm, and round iron
up to 50.8 mm, and which could cut up to a thickness of 25 mm gauge; 2 German
drilling machines manufactured in 1939, allegedly dismantled machinery, which
were 1.6 to 1.8 meters high; a drilling machine, table of 25 x 25 cm; drills
of up to 25 mm, although most of the work was done with 18 mm drills; and
3 old oxyacetylene welding machines of Russian make.
29. Two double runways for traveling cranes had been installed in the assembly
shop by FINs. The cranes themselves had not yet been installed.
30. The production workshop was equipped with one 1.8 meter lathe, one 1.5 meter
lathe, one planing and milling machine with a bench 70 x 60 cm, and one
planing and milling machine with a bench of 60 x 50 cm. From 35 to 40 plates
were planed once every two weeks. These were old pieces which measured
20 35 cm and which were 6 to 7 mm thick. They looked like lids and had
circular holes5 ciA in diameter in the center; two circular holes, each about
2 cm in dig eter in one end- and one rectangular aperture of 8 x 2 cm in the
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31, A large part of the machinery and equipment stored in the depot for machines
and implements was rusted, broken or bent. The various items stored there
included the following:
a. About 15 boilers which were riveted and which were 6 meters long
and 2 meters in diemAter.
b. Ten twin sets of filters. Each individual 50X1-HUM
filter was 2 meters high and 2 meters in diameter, There was a
partition wall in the center of each filter.
side of the device
0 devices called Schneckenwatlen (worm shaft tubs)
These were sheet metal containers which were about 50X1 H U M
tainer. Six furnace d
a coupling disk. A she
shaft protruded from one
thread passed through the
edge of the top opening.
for use in fastening either
conically tapered and open.
80 devices cal warren (gas burner tubs)
Each of these was a x O a meters and about 1, me ers
The base was similar tub. A-gas pipe with about 12 50X1-HUM
ing inscriptions. in H 25 such
boxes were unloaded.
vertical extensions ran through the center of the container. Gas
taps with Lund caps were at the end of these extensions. The taps
extended from thqpening in the container. Most of the tubs were
old, but the Sotiets brought in some new ones which seemed to be
of recent manufacture. These .new tubs were packed in boxes bear- 50X1-HUM
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e. Semi-cylindrical pieces called Blechtunnel (sheet metal tunne'l
These pieces were in lenghs of 20 cm, 1 meter, and 50X1-HUM,
the interior diameter was 30 cm and the wall thickness was 10 cm. The
outer wally was of sheet metal and the inner well of iron, with a
layer of spun glass between the walls serving as insulation. 50X1-HUM
f. About 30 large Siemens 'Schuckert electric motors. The number 500
was discernible on the plaques of the motors, but all other inscrip-
tions were illegible.
outside of the housing.
i number of devices called Blechkegel (sheet metal cones)
g. About 50 small electric motors of 5 to 10 HP.
h. There were 2 or 3 transformers, each 2.5 meters high, with an oval
housing and 4 small wheels for transportation. Coils were on. the
7 x 0.8 meters and about 1.4 meters high. The upper. part was
_1he.cylindrical lower part was 1.4 meters high and meter
was ..2 meters high and had an openin of 1 cm the ton. ~
about 20 such cones in the depot
in arrieter.and was closed at the bottom. The conical upper -part
J. Various other pieces of equipment, as well as pipes for smokest4cks
or ventilators, were stored in the depot. There were nommachine
tools,
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k. From 80 to 100 trucks were parked in the Resinsklad (tire depot)'
garage at the southern corner of the plant area.
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Drill holes, believed to be intended
ee container or the lid, were at. the
cm thick. and with a work
of the container.- This
tainer and was. equipped with
as at . the bottom of the con
of unbreakable glass were at ,the
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Power Supply.
32. Electric currebt was supplied by the power plant west of Kadiyevka, about
t km from the southern coiner of the rubber plant, at the industrial
railroad line leading to the mine installations near Kadiyevka.
33. The power plant covers an area of about 190 x 300 meters. There was one
iron smokestack about 300 meters high.
34. High-tension. lattice masts of angle iron were built by the Ms. These mas+.a
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rubber plant and the power plant. A total of.30 masts were erected
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yet been strung on the masts in September 194
a new power plant was. to be constructed,
35., Lines had no
36. About 2,000 men working in a daytime shift of 8 hours were employed in con-
struction of the plant. The employees included70 to 80 civilians, 30 Fits,
and the inmates of a penal camp at the southeastern side of the plant area..
Production.
Employees
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37. Production had not et started, but it waq ed 0 that Buna was to
be produced, since that was to be the product
and because the bu ng parts an equipmen came from a dismantled German
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Security.
38. A double barbed wire fence surrounded the entire plant area, but there were
numerous openings for vehicular traffic, since the road to the camp had not
been completed,
additional barbed wire fence and was strictly guarded
39. The plant area proper, where Soviets were employed for most
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