DNEPROPETROVSK AUTOMOBILE PLANT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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I WOR IOIN REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY U:S (Ukrainian 'cm)
SUBJECT ' Dnepropetrrovsk Autoa~ obilo plant
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
DATE DISTR. 15 Nov. 1951
NO. OF PAGES 6
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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1. - Lo ati on : The plant is located on a hill near the village of Krasnonolyo
about I mile east of the village
between the erropetrovsk-A7)osto ovo- arson railroad line
and the tcra.voi Rog line branching off south of the plant. It presumably
extends on both sides of the Dnepropetrovsk-'"a;,.-srozh+ .-Romakovka high-
way. A ' 23--foot wide asphalt highway and a double-track streetcar
line leads from the plant to the town.
the p t is located in the oven country and surrounded by kolkhozy.
An airfield is said to be north of the plant which allegedly has several
hangars with curve ing and a radio direction-finder control station
A six track loading station is at the Dnepropetrovsk-,Apostolovo
railroad line. This station has a sour track to the plant . with sidings
to the different departments I.
1'. cant lax: Construction of the plant started in 1945
The foundations of some workshops,
already built before the Gerr:azi occuxation and which remained after the
workshops were blasted by the retreating Gernans, were allegedly utilized
in the new construction work. The first building series is scheduled to
be completed by 1950 the construction
of sore workshops, including workshop building No,, 1, is projected in
the current Five-Year Plan. However, the final bui l activities will
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work was especially Pushed with all available means In 1945
The ?Yushavtostroi Trust is in charge of the plant construction
The plant includes the pomstroi I Plant (the proper automobile plant)
and the ?'omstrol II Plant, which comprises the auxiliary ) denarbse7t~
such as the sawmill, concrete plant, and the slegbiock factory The distance between the Pr,rnstroi I and the Pometroi II
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Pomstroi I
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Plants i s about I.. to 2 males The warkshopa are iron , and
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crete structures built on ron.conorete fousdatione 50X1-HUM
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A great number of 4meriean machines as .well as machines di miantledl in 50X1-HUM
the Soviet Zone of ' Germany were used as equ4pmerrt in the plant. The
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palm . Benz0 Gloeeknser Krupp, Siemens-Schueke> t and Brawn..'
Work..
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Platinstallations: The, entire building project (including settlement
offYoe and Workshop No, 10 Souse ? deparrtments are '50X1-HUM
intercch~ane a an underground chann,a sy em (for long..distaursce heat.
i ~ . chit es) All departments of the Pomstrcn . II ~tst Warne 50X1 -HU M
in operation.
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X0 16 ork op (boiler bou e) Workshop No. 7 (b ildingF^.,4
shop (173) 'the wheell, department (81), the instrument department, and 50X1-HUM
the punching shop (81) ? W orkahop No; 2 (forge) Worksho
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Plant were ins; operation
shop No. 1 (c6assis de can which includes thift
and awdliarsy plants) cover ",area area of about 1,000 acre
plant exterW 2, 5, miles . The follows work sh a of the
The. n'omstro I Automobile Plant includes the workshop buildings No, 1
to 10 and 17 to 19, while the nomatro TI Auxili~_ MM- of comprised
of workshop buildings No. U to 3.6
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feet wide a This structures which is on a cons foundations ours-HUM
in about. 3 feet 3 inches thick On with longitudinal side 50X1-HUM
of the workshop is a canal lfnod .with. cement slabs which is 10
feet wide and 8 feet deep. Outside the i tilding the canals ea 50X1-HUM
ti=0 as tunnels in both dirdeti 32 to 50 feet a e r_
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case leads to the bottom of canal These ceirsala are
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b assembly pits. Also nng the longitudinal side of
the workshop is a conveyor belt abou 650 feet long, and four feet
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'traveling crabs are located in this w katsop The work-
shop is partitions wa1 .s [ Theme is one,section for 50X1-HUM
the administration one section for the millin and drib 50X1-HUM
ice.:. shop, and one se on for the hardening shop 77 The won ?. 50X1-HUM
shop Vas completed The 00 or:,belt. was
still under corsstruc on and was tested after 50X1-HUM
Production n s workshop started
ao ?auinment: The following nachins+a were installed
turret lathes and vertical turnine and bori
welding apparatus?_Jcar body presses and eig t
maonlnesi PuM rss crru.ling machines grinding machines
milling machines plate
saes 77 r vatin ha sera
fi~c3a~ fo~gaes
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Items produced included
gear wheels, min es izs liar titer (nor
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and nuts., mfting tools or ragUne tools in the P
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and sepia and mill cutterp, The aces ; of trucks
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delivered - wag ~s
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the aatte desipn as Workshon no_ ,1
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(2) The building is an iron-co ncree structure It has
ui jent: Consists of German and American m chines. It includes
cis extre neiy heavy and two mediurd'-size eumatio hommers$ eight
electric forge Baas our auto enone welding 50X1-HUM
installations and iron
shears for all garages
b. . ' ction: Soning -plates
{ t) Foa? ' .qdjZt It is housed in an iron-concrete ntrimt.1-1yom
oducti ri t Single ')arts
mep 00AC3-Lats of arc thr
workshots buildings. They are
iron..concreto s ec The roof i e covered 'with slag
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concrete slabs A e?#,rack nlrint tai lroad line rues betwtezi
the taar1cceho bui Binge This de mane
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5) b 1.0 T kh-b7o or de artmen t This depart..
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on with workshop No. 4 DOTS
are ou. ed
In the sa.e workshop Wilding.
the foundry and the forge {department No 2)~
the _aurtd
tree war's oti buildings situated 'side by side
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'as excavato aces
two furnaces, each 10 feet
high and 4 feet in acne er, were under construction. Each kurnace
has a fir') olaca and a metal woke. stack rising 6.5 feet above the
roofing r
b. o eta ort According to Its dosignation, the foundry orodaces
snare Harts for repairs,
a? fo the basement for three Ea
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?'y .n : This foundry- was under construotion 1 50X1-HUM
1t[a4Ta r_ l mall-on, al -1--
(6) Boiler housot It has a high smoke stack. Construction was conpleted
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entire plant.
Nildina office
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his installation was scheduled to heat the
A two-story brickwork building
Wopkah!)p- buildings The steel. "tractions for this buildin and h
'Lions for the n chiney were completed
A foasaclry will alle
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Workshop building: This building had only one large f rnaes
Workshop buildino: It was almoat completed
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for three furnaces have been eaxcavated
{tea.) C e e f`eoi.a a ezo..Hetau i akh) a The concrete factory was one
of the rat buildings completed The produced concrete is used
for plant construction work In the northwest of the plant
area i s the mixing mill wi e _ o owing mixers one
large mixer for two mixtures, one medium mixer for one m tutee - a
one email, mixer for One- half to th a? quarter n, I xture. one sidxture
consists of one wheelbarrow-load of cement,, three vhselt owx .loads
of gravel, two' -wheolbarrow.?loada of mod, and two wheelbarrow ioada of
slag. The actual time consumed filling the rimer is appr imate1 ' five
minutes, while the mixing operation.. lasts from two to three minutes.
Detwovn $20 and 190 mixtures were t'aduced.daily. Most of the work wary
done in two shifts of about 30 men' each. The concrete is shipped in
four dump trucks (during rush hours in six dump trucks) to the. varl pas
The forge was ')u Into onefttlon
It allegedly. has rail conneb..
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Work is done in two asbif is of thirty men eat,
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departments of the. plant , Each track cores four mixture oads 50X1 -HUM
Of tm without gra a9nd five mixture-loads of concrete with gravel
Concrete slabs measuring 92 x 20 inches and 60 x 22 Inches were 50X1 -HUM
Produced
(12) Saraiu (tap. Tsekh) Stone building
a. Acadwasts Equipment in the plant includes four verttaai
. The shift-norm was 76 Cubto motors
2 aflt ' Boards and planks, one. to five 11~&es think
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,(13) Carpenta (R:P.Ps Dok . Work is done in two shifts
mien each, >ir C on included windows and door
(14) S1Fa faoto s
as Ei menu two presses.
b. Pro onion, It includes the ,roduotion of a Eficlal stones made
produce. The hollow at-mia weighed 3?4 kg; ile the valght of the
solid stones was 24 kg A31egediT, the daily output was 5,000 50X1 -HUM
. also housed in this building
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factory is to be rased , after c p s or the plant con oticn
o ect to make way for workshop buildings of the automo .e `plant
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(1b) Truck rei a .
vehicles
and 70,
t aentt Garage and re,aaif'shou for plant-owned
V&G dedgaa A ('1) according to Jiou
(1?) W? rksh buildings 4 B etmetuire was campia' in rough
No interior equipment had been installed yet
(18) a eE nta A cantonment building F
hon ng an >a.ectr~.c
workshop for plat require emte, .
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(19) 1orkahoa bui3dis : Only the . steel structure was con plated t(ir July 1948.50X1-HUM
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T h e haueinp . ee t t 7 . e m e M consisted o f t h r e e stone bull 1 ' Ju3y.
.1948.' Foss builciings-were ntiU under cobstruotion Former bujld.?5OX1-HUM
were allegedly razed in 391x7 to make wasp far, workshop buildings
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(21) Sous' f.C ? s ' This group e?naais 20, to 30sssiagie?a Itorr _ hausee
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v i r ~ o o n p l e t e d J u l y 3948 These hcnzs gez"d as ng
quarters for, the technical pereonaie~.
about 300 sprenticea were housed in ch Ish Before was
desisted Komsomolska settlement; the asad ins tration 50X1-HUM
was hged in. this block. A ssettle~ is pro3ected with hour for
50,000 1aorkmen including'a hospital, clubhouse,, a 50X1-HUM
(22) f a r. l3 di ,,.e'G~` ~4,1~rYY!_ station the Z `syshe Power F 1G
i no sac y 5 0 o ]mesa am led from this a op 50X1-HUM
to the automobile plant.
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connooted with Krivoi ' Rog and Kirovograd Tht-noles of the over.
heard system eupporh three two.4nch. gunge cables
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T",6- " a3tr " ): The' Wirer station was still under cosstraeitan in
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b. Automobile park
7. The following installations
e, Engine departncnt F
were mentianedt 50X1-HUM
of about 306 trizoks (US make) in need of repair.
q Technical designinp office u ?
d. Four bunkers (fuel dumps?) were built about eight feet underground with
a concrete bottom. Track installations to the bunker entrances were
under construction The roof consisted of a protmed up
12-inch bee r? supOrim,oe a 12,-to 16~,nah -concrete layer and od:~
covered with 6.5 .feet of earth
Pipe line 8 to 32 inches ? thi This pine line system was
probably tu~. It is locatsd about 20 feet
underground and allegedly will interconnecctt all buildings (49)(long-
distance heating) 14
fa .ckiaorks, connected with the plant by a cable way L
g. Cement works. It Is housed in workeh building No, 34
slabs and cement bricks were produced
h. Locksmith's ashen working for pl -nt requirer^ents
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3. Kitchen house and several achniniastration buildings.
Warehouse I and storage places for building material end crated
machines of Germn and allegedly also ftrerican origin,
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a. Kind oduat on. The assembly of aalks started about the middle
of 1947.- Until then on1v work and tooling of material. 50X1 -HU M
.for plant cons? otic L wwas done, Tools and single p u a xch as 50X1-HUM
+cy3inders steering gear as, Oardan shafts, front axles, rear 50X1-HUM'
axle parts, and brake levers were produced. The first test tr+uak
model "DAZ 150'? was (assembled fry 50X1-HUM
single parts sunpli by the 6scow Stalin-Plant), The "DAZ.150" built
by the. Stalin Plant under the designation "ZIZ 150" as ' a u improved vary Yt
Of the old "ZIZ 5" id a truck with a closed driver4 a cabin It. ice . a 50X1-H U M
90 H" vehicle with two axles. It is equipped with a saaix cylinder Otto
engine and carries a useful load of 3.5 tons This truck is ache-, 50X1-HUM
doled to be built pair ly in Noccoi, but mainly n the Kuxaiajannd 50X1-HUM
Dnepropetrorra AntomolAle T-]ante. 'The rodu;ti on of three.-ton - auto- 50X1-HUM
mobile cranes , type 9K.31" was started 50X1-HUM
Mass production o a type started after it had passed govegument toot,
The cranes are mounted' on completed ZIZ `trsiakas 0, These 50X1-HUM
ape ruc can be used for repair work in garages (lifting of es 50X1-HUM
and of.tractors) and for planting large trees in forest reserves 50X1-HUM
?Mass production of them truck cranes reportedly started in the Lvov Aesembly
Plant This plant will also vrroduoe truck cranes with a load 50X1-HUM
capacity of f Ve tonss ~
b- Amt of product n
(1) oduc.on of trucks: The monthly assembly capacity was 500 .unite
tirxtnaesem o
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be assumed that the trucks will be
tmaanufaetured. in the plant; The 50X1-HUM
schedule r-ao es for a xroduction of 25?000 units. The 50X1-HUM
annual plant capacity will be 60,000 units (presussably to be reached
in 1955),
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The first seric a of cranes (5o unite) was cop..
plated between
and a half tines
scheduled
cranes were corn et
The output increased two
Five hundred units ware 50X1 -HUM
canine estimated that about 130
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9. materials and rarer.
Power 1#i. A plant-ojned TETs paver station was under cons
truotian
Power for thb Pomstroi II Plant is allegedly tenaicn system !'fort the ow
0 Dmpropetrovsk Power Plant
b. Steel is supplied by the ZaTorcahatal Steelworks Steel and-
iron structure* required for plant Bonn tsuction t from the
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oQ Sbtpprents ofL~building_,material, such as bricks,, cement, slag and tim..
bar erne in by q%.4 9
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d. Parts are delivered by the Stalin Plant in oseoy Completed 50X1-HUM
trucks also core from the Moscow Plant k They are converted into
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100 Work LOW The work force employed in the production de Darteents probably
numbers about 3,000 men, Almost all We. are assigned to building work, Part
of the Sbviet 8411" workmen art Juveniles trained for their assignments
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in rush revs The FW engineers enrloyed in construction work. were
in leading Positions. Soviet convicts were also employed in the plant,
Work was done in two and sometir.-es in three shifts of eight hours each,
316 Semis The pant is g rded by military sentries.
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