MACHINERY AND MACHINE TOOL FACTORIES

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• Publication Date: October 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFTIWPIAL SECURITY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE DISTR. !9 Oct 1953
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NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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lJZT PAGE O! > ^!ECT & AREA CODES
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comrimmu AL SECURITY INFO[tMMTION
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1. Akmolinsk Machine To,:,l Factory
I do not know what kind of tools this factory made but it is
an old factory, built in the 1920's, and it vas considered
rather important.
2. Baku Dzerzhinsky Heavey Machine
This was a big factory which did not make machine tools in my day.
It made heavy machinery for oil pumping and refining.
3. Batumi Agriculture Machine Factory
This factory specialized in orchard machinery, particularly for
picking and transporting fruit. There was no machine tool factory
in the town as of the time the USSR became involved in World War II.
4. Bobruisk Stalin Factory
I heard once or twice about this installation which was a rather
small repair shop for local farm machinery and which had nothing
to do with the manufacture of machine tools.
5. Buzuluk ICulbyshsv Machine Factory
This factory made certain small kinds of agricultural machinery,
according to 'what I hoard, and was also a center for general repairs.
My recollection is that it was neither large nor very important.
6. Chelyabinsk Abrazith Grinder Factory
In 1939 this factory was manufacturing about 50% of the abrasive
grinding tools made in the USSR. I never had anything to do
with the plant and can offer no additional details.
Machine suildint and Tool Factory
It vas a wall shop for repairing mining
lead, tin, and gold mines.
Krosoy Dvimatel Iron
The factory made small motors and parts for irrigating equipment,
and repaired agricultural mschiaery.
9. Cbkalo? Iteist
Cbhslov was as importaat eb meal .eater 'where poison fss vii sup-
posed to to made. It was pomerally hawa that the tvssspoopho,
most of rhea rise wlepod in the chwiasl ice, gunge had
yell" basis. - I bee maser hosed at the feateey ns^sd Mstailist
but my gals is that it refer. to s wall installation in the tow
rhich macs spsais . rohinsry for the local iadstry.
This ., l ;a l rm0. to omo of swag Mau d"" in the
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11. Dnepropetrovsk Ilich Machine Equipment Plant
This factory made heavy machines for finishing steel into rails
and sheets. I believe it made other kinds of steel mill machinery
as well. The factory vent into production sometime between
1924 and 1927?
Khatayevich (Kaganovich) Metallurgy Equipment
This factory built lifting and transporting machinery, used in the
making of alloy steels. I do not know what other kinds of
equipment it may also have made. The factory was built at about
the same time as the Ilich plant.
12. orevsk Komsomolets
This factory specialized in gear-cutting tools. The first Soviet
tools of this type were made here. I first knew of the place in
1927 when it was , very 1935 it smylo3rei from 1500 to 2000 amall, By well-trained workers.
high speed gears. At that time the factory was making machines
for finishing gears with the shaving process. It also made a
the of universal machine for Army use and for tractor repair.
and was working M on cutting specialised types of high speed
pars for other Soviet factories.
13. Lists llachi a Vaildim and Metal
I recall hearing one or two references to this place which had
nothing to do with machine tools. It was a relatively swell
factory making equipment for the building industry, especially
concrete slurs.
14. Zrovan Diershiaski Machine Plant
To the best of ny recollection, this plant sale certain kinds of
mining equipment and was not concerned with the manufacture of
machine tools.
1541, G_1 Gowsi Lathe Works
This was a small and comparatively unimportant plant which started
production in 1934 or 1935 of es sill }atheo for use by repair shops.
The p31wt ns wiped out by the t ui as.
16. Gorki 1Drasnara Eton Rollins Mill
This in an old factory dating back to Tsarist: days and I know that
it was quite large as of the late 1930's. It was at that tine the
basic plant for the whole central ME for msaafacturiag wails and
wire of every kind. It say also be" produced special iron for
transformers but it aside no machine tools.
17. Kalinin Saveloy Mstalluro Mont
If it exis it was built during or after World War II.
in 1941 and it was not there at that tine.
18.' charkov brine and Polisbims Machine Tool Plant
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Y which was built is the late 1920's or
This vas as loportaat.factor
early _1930*s-iced which started' : ra ice 1932 at radial boring
Meliaaiigg; tie i~ide_s or?3adere~- !The pleat later went
itls_3~ ..pre tisa^et ar.f' r .: t o..aaels_i~"llsimllss-atrslama.
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19. Gorki Machine Tool Facto
This factory, which was completed in 1931, manufactured very
high-quality. automatic lathes for finishing screws and other
small parts. The factory employed two to three thousand workers
persons were
during the nits , evacuation during that World War 11.
involved i
20. Kos tr a KrusinMacchinee fstors'
This . factory, made.special agricultural machinery of a type
I have forgotten, if Fever knee exactly. It did not make
machine tools.
21. Krmatorsk Stalin Heavy Machine Building Plant
This factory made machinery for steel mills and did not make any
machine tools.
22. Krung k Machine Tool Factory
This was a small plant for. the repair of machine tools in the
area and not,for the manufacture of new machine tools.
23. Kuibyshey Maslenikov Machine Tool Plant
This was a medium-sized factory which begin production sometime
between 1931 and 1935 and which employed one thousand to fifteen
hundred people during the late 1930's. I do not quite trust the
accuracy of my memory on what the plant made, but I think it was
probably gear finishing tools.
24- Leningrad Sverdlov Machine Tool Construction
This factory was built sometime during the period 1925-27 on
the basis, I an fairly certain, of an existing machinery shop
dating back to Tsarist days. By the late 1930's it employed
more than two thousand workers and was one of the largest
produc i. of. horizontal boring and milling machines. In
addition, the factory made special large-size lathes for heavy
artillery production and special tools for finishing airplane
motors. The plant's products were of very high quality.
25. Linty Krasny Proletari Machine
I recE1]. one or two references to this as a machine tool repair
plant.
26. Lyubts3!_ fttical Plant
Thin plant built special: photographic equipment for the military,
especially for aerial photography. None of its production
was for civilian use.
27. laiko Media Machine Tool Factory
wu located at 1Lrasnodar in the norther Ca s t for
Matkop. The factory. manufactured l~rauli e
vertical borias machines and other types of machine tools.
28. Holitopol October 23rd ?R Plant
?11.1 knot about this plant is bat it made cooling machinery oY
COMMIRL Menem
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29. Minsk Cbkalov Machine Tool Plant
This plant was built 'in the late 1930'9 or early 1940'. and
produced small, low quality lathes, drill pr,ases, and
shapers for general machinery repair purposes.
30. Moscow grip Dividing Machine
This factory was started in 1931 and was in production by
1934 or 1949. It produced dividing machines for all of
Soviet industry.
Ilich (Vladimir Ilich)
This factory was developed from an old general machinery repair
shop and was employing about four thousand people in the early
1930'9. It specialized in very heavy machine tools of various
types and its total production was for military use. It may also
have made special heavy machinery, other than machine tools, for
military use.
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This factory, was finished. in 1929 and was the first Soviet
factory for the prodnotioa of calipers, aiore^stsrs, and other
msuurinp toils sad lastrr sots. Previously, shout all such
items had teen iyorw from deraay. 't'his plant was the prototype
for other such pleats to he built hlasAa h is the ~ to serve
other industrial canylenss. It employed snarly, two thessad
people in the early 1930's- - Wo of these wars emgimoirs being
trained as the person" nacloi for the future plants of this
hind.
International 2n d am lrotort
This factory started production in 1932 of a epeaial type of
grinding machine for finishing cyliad er s. I happen to remember
that its ssuual production was about 60 mite o? *t12- the
middle 1930'.. I heard that the plant and its graduation had
ayaedad comsiderabh by the early 1940'..
staok
This factory was built duri; 1937-38 on the basis of as existing
repair shop. It psedueed standard parts - bolts, ser vu, pars,
shafts etc - for mashies tools built "ad usenet at other
plants throughout the, 19M. It eePloged 7400 persona when it
want .into .prstaetioa and had a popish of absent In thsnsamd when
the M beoaM involved in World WW II. IV rseelisetion is
that this factary p:edncet, or was eyscttd to prOduaa, saamob
of the.. sta^rard party for all. lath", unify 800h,0401 ad
grinding maeh4 s farmed oat by the who1 lorist uaehias tool
imdmstry. '.... ,
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31., Hum Stankopa machine Tool Plant
This factory was developed in the early 1930's in a four-story
building which had housed a textile plant the L IM
earlier as a complete unit from either the US or Germany.
Its early payroll was 200 to 250 people and it produced only,
machine irises (jacks). I heard that by the middle 1930's the
factory had been greatly enlarged by the addition of new buildings
and that it was making these jacks for the whole LOW.
32. Sarapul Turbo Drill Factory
I recall hearing about people working on the design of oil
drilling equipment to be made by this factory. I do not think
this plant had anything to do with the manufacture of machine
tools.
Voskow Machine Tool Plant
This is an old munitions factory whose history I do not know
but which in.1930 or a little earlier was manufacturing small,
light, special lathes for finishing infantry rifles. I recall
that it bad about two thousand employees in theearly 1930's.
Bevtrud Iron Foundry
This was a very old castiron foundry which in my time was
making shafts for agricultural machinery. It did not sake
machine tools.
35. Tashkent Aksw Machine Building Factory
This plant did not uske machine tools. It. produced farm machinery
such as cotton pickers.
37. Vitebsk > kkMtallist Machias
This factory made hand tools, door hinges, locks and other
small hardwire. No machine tools were turned out here.
38? FlldinL
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Son tern
This was a military plant for the production of light artillery.
Os"o Machine, Toot Factory
wrs built-tbsrs in 1935, boserer, for the manufacture of typewriters
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