THE LISICHANSK CHEMICAL COMBINE AT SEVERODONETSK

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CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3
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RIPPUB
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S
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4
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December 27, 2016
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January 10, 2014
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1
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Publication Date: 
December 29, 1964
Content Type: 
REPORT
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Declassified in Part-Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 JM INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT 50X1-HUM CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United states within the meaning of th Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law. S-E-C-R-E-T COUNTRY USSR (Lugansk Oblast) REPORT SUBJECT The Lisichansk Chemical Combine DATE DISTR. 29 at Severodonetsk NO. PAGES 4 REFERENCES DATE OF INFO. PLACE & DATE ACQ. December 1964 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM1 THIS is uNEYALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. 1. The Lisichansk Chemical Combine is located north of Lisichansk at Severodonetsk [N 48-58, E 38-261 at the head of a bridge .over the Donets River. The combine is surrounded by a wall and anyone entering the combine is required to .show an entrance permit. Civilian guards, armed with pistols and revolvers, are posted at the main entrance and guards assigned to the various factories carry rifles. 2. Within the combine are a number of chemical plants, including a citric acid plant two ammonia pinnts, 50X1-HUM a nitric acid factory and a urea plant which is under construc- tion. Red fuming nitric acid is also produced, but further details on production processes and materials are not known. An electiical generating station and three steel towers for a high-tension line are located ,in the combine, but it is not known whether or not the high-tenSion lines are fed from the generating station. Outside the combine there are also three steel high-tension towers. 3, Floods which occurred at Lisichansk in June and July 1964 .4(., detrimental effect on operations at the cumbine as the terrain of .he factory area lies some two meters higher than that flooded by the overflowing Donets River. 4. On page 4 is a sketch showing the layout of the combine. S-F-C-R.F.T 50X1-HUM 5 50X1-HUM 3 2 1 GROUP ' eseludild hem go:moil{ dowtogroding good declasslfmalle. STATE I DIA I ARMY I NAVY I AIR I NSA Nmi NIC I (Note: Field distribution indicated by "*".) 50X1-HUM 1 INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 C.P.C.P P.T -3- Oblect Index for Chemical Combine 1. Lisichansk .Chemical Combine at Severodonetsk. The combine is surrounded by a wall which is marked by a heavy line. 2. flain building of the combine. 3. Eai.n entrance of the combine. 4. Jrawing room, J, Elevated bridge over the road connecting the drawing room and the administration building. 6. Administration building. 7. A citric acid factory 50X1-HUM 8. Two-lane asphalt road. 9, High chimney for the removal of nitrous fumes from the nitric acid factory. A heavy red-brown smoke comes out of this chimney. 10. Ammonia factory. 11. Nitric acid factory. 12. Ammonia factory. This factory is smaller than the one noted under point 10, 13. Urea factory under construction. 14. Unidentified factory, 15. iailroad track, double rails. 16. Generating station of the combine. 17. .:ater pumping station. Cool water is supplied to the combine via this station, 18. Entrance and exit of the combine. 19. Eater towers, 20, Steel mast towers for high-tension cable on the grounds c7-' the combine. 21. Steel mast towers for high-tension cable outside the grouns of the combine. 50X1-HUM 7077Tn7 Tir-7=/(.) Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3 S-E-C-R-E-T _ 4 _ Lisichansk Chemical Combine It ;t0 :Tot to Scale -4-- 14 S-E-C-R-E-T 50X1-HUM1 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part-Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/10: CIA-RDP80-00247A000400390001-3