THE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY INDUSTRY OF THE SOVIET BLOC

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 StCRbT--, ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT N? 73 THE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY INDUSTRY OF THE SOVIET BLOC CIA/RR 80 28 September 1956 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the espionage laws, Title 18, USC, Secs. 793 and 794, the trans- mission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 THE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY INDUSTRY OF THE SOVIET BLOC CIA/RR 80 (ORR Project 36.520) Office of Research and Reports Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 FOREWORD This report summarizes and brings up to date the available in-. telligence on the electrical machinery industry of the Soviet Bloc. For the purposes of this report, the electrical machinery industry includes motors, generators, power and distribution transformers, switchgear, switchboard equipment, and electric wire and cable. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 S-E-C-R-E-T A. Definition and Description . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Importance of Electrical Machinery . . . . 4 B. History and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Electrical Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Electric Wire and Cable . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1. USSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3. Czechoslovakia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4. East Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7. Rumania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 A. Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 B. Estimates of Production . . . . . . . .... . . . . . 15 III. Use Pattern and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 A. Use Pattern . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 B. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . 20 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Page A. East-West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 B. Within the Sino-Soviet Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . 22 V. Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 VI. Capabilities, Vulnerabilities, and Intentions . . . . 24 A. Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 B. Vulnerabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 C. Intentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Appendixes Appendix A. Statistical Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Appendix B. Principal-Electrical Machinery Plants in the Soviet Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . . Appendix C. Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 45 Tables 1. Estimated Volume of Production of Motors, Generators, and Power and Distribution Transformers of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2. Estimated Value of Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc, 1946 and 1955 . . . . . . 3. Estimated Use Pattern of Heavy Electric Motors and Generators in the USSR, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . 19 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Page 4. Planned Use Pattern of Alternating Current Motors of 1 to 100 Kilowatts in East Germany, 1951 . . . . 20 5. Estimated Value of Imports of Electrical Machinery from the West by the Soviet Bloc, 1954 . . . . . . . 22 6. Estimated Value of Trade in Electrical Machinery Within the Sino-Soviet Bloc, 1954 . . . . . . . . . 23 7. Estimated Requirements for Selected Inputs for Pro- duction of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc, by Country, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 8. Estimated Annual Rate of Increase in Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc, January 1954-December 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 9. Estimated Volume of Production of Electric Motors of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, Prewar and 1946-60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10. Estimated Value of Production of Electric Motors of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, Prewar and 1946-6o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Estimated Volume of Production of Electric Generators of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, Prewar and 1946-6o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Estimated Value of Production of Electric Generators of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, Prewar and 1946-60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13. Estimated Volume of Production of Power and Distri- bution Transformers of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, Prewar and 1946-60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 14. Estimated Value of Production of Power and Distri- bution Transformers of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc, Prewar and 1946-60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Page 15. Estimated Value of Production of Electric Wire and Cable in the Soviet Bloc, 19+6-60 . . . . . . . 36 16. Estimated Value of Production of Switchgear and Switchboard Equipment in the Soviet Bloc, 37 Prewar and 191+6-60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17. Estimates of Selected Input Factors for Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc by Type of Product, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 CIA/RR 80 S-E-C-R-E-T (ORR Project 36.520) THE ELECTRICAL MACHINERY INDUSTRY OF THE SOVIET BLOC* The estimated value of production of electrical machinery** in 1955 amounted to approximately US $2.8 billion*** for the entire Soviet Bloc. This figure includes $800 million for motors, $170 million for genera- tors, and $240 million for transformers -- a total of $1.2 billion; $1.1 billion for electric wire and cable; and $390 million for switch- gear. In 1955, Soviet production provided almost 65 percent of the to- tal value of production, the remainder being divided among the European Satellites as follows: East Germany, 10 percent; Czechoslovakia, 9.3 percent.; Poland, 7.5 percent; Hungary, 4.7 percent; Rumania, 2.3 percent; and Bulgaria, 1.3 percent. Albania does not produce significant quanti- ties of electrical machinery. Based on a value added of 55 percent of the value of production, in 1955 production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc was less than one-half that of the US in 1954. By 1956 the estimated value of production of electrical machinery in, the Soviet Bloc will increase to approximately US $3.0 billion. Of this total, motors, generators, and transformers will account for $1.4 billion; electric wire.and cable, for $1.2 billion; and Bwitchgear, for $440 million. Because the entire economy of the Soviet Bloc is dependent upon electrical machinery for the generation, distribution, and application of electrical energy, any reduction in the production of electrical machinery will hinder future expansion of heavy industry or will * The estimates and conclusions contained in this report represent the best judgment of ORR as of 15 July 1956. XX The term electrical machinery as used in this report includes motors, generators, power and distribution transformers, switchgear, switchboard equipment, and electric wire and cable. xxx Unless otherwise indicated, values are given in 1953 US dollars throughout this report. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 necessitate reallocation of available electrical equipment to the more critical sectors of industry. The major potential vulnerabilities of the electrical machinery industry of the Bloc are the concentration of plants and personnel in a few industrial areas, shortages of high- quality material inputs, and a dependence upon imports to relieve these shortages. The general level of technology in the electrical machinery industry of the USSR is only a few years behind that in the US, and the European Satellites are considerably behind the USSR in technology. The order of quantitative importance among the members of the Soviet Bloc is also indicative of the relative technological proficiency of the USSR and the European Satellites. The USSR, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia have highly developed industries producing complete lines of electrical machinery. Only the USSR is capable of producing very large generating machines comparable to those made in the US in the early 1950`s, such as 150-megawatt turbogenerators. The Satellites do not build such large machinery, and the line of products becomes increasingly smaller among the less industrialized Satellites. In terms of value the annual rate of increase in production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc is presently about 12 percent in the USSR and ranges from 5 percent to 10 percent in the European Satellites, except in Rumania, where the rate is 25 percent. The value of production in Rumania is so small that the high rate of growth is relatively insignificant. These annual percentage rates are expected to decline slightly during 1955-60, but the absolute increase in the value of annual production probably will remain about the same. I. Introduction. A. Definition and Description. 1. Definition. For the purpose of this report, electrical machinery is defined as including the following products of the electrotechnical industry: Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 S-E-C-R-E-T a. Electric motors of all sizes which operate on alternating current (AC), single and polyphase, and on direct current (DC), but not starting motors for internal combustion engines or precision devices such as synchronous motors or gyro- motors. b. Electric generators of all sizes, from small portable units to the largest machines used by central power stations, which operate on AC, single and polyphase, and on DC, but not battery- charging generators. for internal combustion engines or precision devices such as synchronous generators or servorate generators. c. Power and distribution transformers of all sizes, but not specialty transformers or those designed primarily for use in electronic equipment. d. Switchgear including air and oil circuit breakers, power switches, switchboards, and associated equipment, but not small switches or equipment used in appliances and lighting fixtures, e. Bare and insulated wire and cable for both power and communications transmission, but not bare conductor shapes (other than magnet wire) that enter directly into the construction. of motors, generators, and transformers. The basic units for rating the power of generators are the kilowatt (kw) and the megawatt (mw), which is 1,000 kw. These units are used also for motors because in the Soviet Bloc motors are rated in the electrical equivalent of their mechanical output. Transformers are reported in terms of the kilovolt-ampere (kva) and the megavolt-ampere (mva), which is 1,000 kva. The kva and the mva are comparable to the kw or the mw as measures of physical production. Production of switchgear is given in terms of-dollars. Because of the heterogeneous nature of the equipment, there.is no satisfactory single physical unit for rating switchgear. This report traces the development of the electrical ma- chinery industry of the Soviet Bloc for the years 19+6-55, compares this development with a selected year before World War II, and projects the development for the years 1956-60. The countries of the Bloc considered in this report are the USSR, Bulgaria, Czecho- slovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Rumania. Figures are -3- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 not given for Albania, because it has no known plants producing elec- trical machinery. 3. Importance of Electrical Machinery. The types of electrical machinery considered in this re- port are the major items of equipment for the production and trans- mission of electrical energy and for the application of electrical energy to military, industrial, and agricultural purposes. Elec- trical energy likewise may be expected to become increasingly impor- tant in the development and use of atomic energy. Production of electrical equipment for military end items does not account for a large percentage of the total production of electrical machinery. Many of the items produced are of high stra- tegic importance,. however, and in some cases there is no satisfactory substitute. Examples of such items are the following: propulsion motors for submarines; auxiliary motors for guided missiles, radar antennas, gun mounts, and tanks; and portable generator units for field forces and for remote radar stations. The principal use of electrical machinery is in industrial production. Large generators, transformers, and electric wire and cable are necessary for the production and transmission of energy to industry. Typical industrial consumers of electrical energy are mining machinery, locomotives, rolling mills, and machine tools. Moreover, through the power used by industry, including the atomic energy program, electrical machinery also makes a substantial in- direct contribution to military capabilities. Agricultural uses account for only a small part of the production of electrical machinery. Because of the importance of agriculture to the economy of the Soviet Bloc, however, the use of electrical machinery by agriculture is more important than the quan- tity of machinery employed might indicate. The electrical machinery industry contributes to the development of agriculture by providing rural electrification, portable generating units in remote areas, electrically driven tractors, and other farm equipment. - 4 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 B. History and Technology. 1. Electrical Machinery. a. USSR. During World War II, severe damage was suffered by the electrical machinery industry of the USSR, concentrated at that time in Leningrad, Moscow, and Kharkov. It is estimated that 60 percent or more of the Soviet production of electrical machinery, together with a similar proportion of Soviet electrical generating capacity, was lost during the war. i/* After World War II, many of the damaged facilities were rebuilt. By 1947 or 1948 these facilities and the plants that had been evacuated from Leningrad and Moscow to the east had increased their productive capacity to the level of prewar pro- duction. (See Tables 9, 11,, and 13.**) Since 1948, because of continued capital expansion and increased productivity, production of electrical machinery has increased much more rapidly than be- fore World War II and also more rapidly than the 4- to 5-percent increase estimated for the Soviet economy as a whole.. Although the technological level of the Soviet electrical machinery industry is.continually improving and is sub- stantially better than that of the European Satellites, this level is still behind that of the US industry. Soviet engineers and scientists devote considerable attention to automatic controls for industrial operations, but there is no evidence that in the elec- trical machinery industry of the USSR automatically controlled machines are being integrated into continuous production lines by means of automatic transfer equipment. This measure, known as "automation," has been introduced into the US electrical machinery industry for such operations as the manufacture of medium motors. Soviet technology approximates that of the US in the production of hydrogenerators*** but is behind US technology ** Pp. 30, 32, and 34, respectively, below, in Appendix A. *** The term hydrogenerator refers to generators dr.ven by hy- draulic turbines. -5- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 in the production of turbogenerators.* If size alone is used as an equating factor, the USSR has produced a hydrogenerator as large as any produced in the US. This 123-mw hydrogenerator, however, operates at considerably fewer revolutions per minute (rpm) than its US counter- part. / The USSR is presently designing hydrogenerators with capacities of 250 to 400 mw, V has produced turbogenerators of 150-mw capacity, Although Soviet turbogenerators have utilized hydrogen cooling for about 10 years, the USSR has indicated only recently that it intended to introduce the internal cooling of the generator windings by passing the hydrogen through hollow conductors. Y This practice has been in use in. the US for several years and may explain the present US advantage over the USSR in the construction of turbogenerators. The USSR is building a large power transformer rated at 180 mva. J The capacity of this transformer is far below that of the 315-mva transformer which was installed in the US in 1955. The Soviet plants which build the largest motors and generators have been, and may still be, short of large lathes, large vertical boring mills, and heavy presses. Much of the equip- ment acquired during World War II is obsolescent, but the new equip- ment being delivered is of high quality and includes some single- purpose machine tools for which there are no Western counterparts. These machines and the increased use of automatic controls are contributing to the continuing improvement of the productivity of the Soviet electrical machinery industry. 9 The quality of Soviet-electrical machinery generally appears to be adequate. Outer finish and appearance are sometimes below US standards, but materials and workmanship of the functional parts are good. 10 Although there are occasional complaints about the poor quality of electrical machinery, these complaints are neither so frequent nor so universal in the USSR as in the European Satellites. ll In the USSR there is likewise no evidence of the forced substitution of less desirable materials such as is found in the Satellites -- for example, the use of aluminum for machine windings instead of copper. * The term turbogenerator refers to generators driven by steam or gas turbines. - 6 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 b. Bulgaria. Bulgaria did not produce electrical machinery until after World War II. As a part of the general development of indus- try at that time, Bulgaria built new plants and began producing small and medium electric motors in 1948 and power and distribution trans- formers in 1949. Since 1950, Bulgaria has had an exportable surplus of motors, and since 1954 probably has been self-sufficient in the production of transformers, except for the largest sizes. Bulgaria produces transformers of capacities up to 20,000 kva, both high- and low-voltage switchgear, and small generators. All the large genera- tors used by the central power stations for the power expansion pro- gram, however, must be imported. 12 Before World War II the electrical machinery indus- try of Czechoslovakia included part of the Skoda combine and some other long-established enterprises dating back to 1900. After World War II, war damage was repaired, new facilities were built, and prewar levels of production were reached by about 1947. Rapid growth has continued since 1947. Among the European Satellites, Czechoslovakia ranks first in the technological level attained. Czechoslovakia is capable of producing a hydrogen-cooled turbogenerator rated at 50 mw, and transformers of 100 mva at 220 kilovolts (kv) are also produced. A 125-mva turbogenerator was scheduled for design in 1955. 13 Czechoslovakia produces a complete line of motors up to 2,200 kw, generators, transformers, switchgear, and modern control apparatus which are somewhat inferior to Soviet equipment in quality and design. In Czechoslovakia, as in the other Satellites, there is a shortage of winding copper, particularly for machinery built for countries other than the USSR, and the substitution of aluminum is becoming more common. Complaints of poor design and failure to meet operating specifications are especially common in reference to motors. Some of these complaints may be the result of attempts at a difficult-to-detect form of sabotage. 14 The lack of transformer and dynamo sheet steel with lower power loss also contributes to in- ferior quality. J Here again the quality of production in the Satellites ranks below that in the USSR, which, in turn, is somewhat below the US and other Western countries in the quality of its pro- duction. -7 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 S -E -C -R-E-T d. East Germany, Before World War II, Germany had one of the-most highly developed electrical machinery industries in Europe, and many of the present plants in other European Satellites were part of large German combines such as AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitaets Gesellschaft) or Siemens. After the partition of Germany, East Germany had some motor plants and facilities for the production of transformers but no plants capable of making large generators. Because of severe war damage to facilities and power plants and the dismantling of plants by the USSR, production of electrical machinery in East Germany did not begin to recover until after 1947. Production of generators was even more retarded because new plants had to be built and for several years had to devote most of their facilities to the repair of damaged generators. Substantial production of new generators was not begun until 1952 and 1953. Exceptions were the Soviet-controlled SAG (Sowjetische Aktiengesellschaft) plants, which were not dismantled but were quickly rehabilitated to produce solely for export to the USSR. L6/ Despite many obstacles, East Germany has far sur- passed prewar levels of production for the area which it covers and is second only to Czechoslovakia among the European Satellites in technological proficiency. East Germany produces a complete line of motors of all sizes up to 3,800 kw, transformers up to 125 mva, and turbogenerators up to 50 mw. Development is in progress on 75-mw generators, and a 150-mva transformer has recently been com- pleted. 17 As in the other Satellites, copper and low-loss trans- former and dynamo sheet steel are in short supply. Aluminum . windings are substituted for copper in some classes of motors and, as of 1955, were to be used in transformers. Much of the delay in the development of the 150-mva transformer was attributable to overheating caused by poor-quality (high-loss) transformer sheet steel. The. lack of satisfactory transformer oil also is. a bottle- neck. Complaints regarding the inferior quality of motors are numerous and even have been noted in one case of aluminum-wound motors delivered to the USSR. Failure of large transformers may have been caused by sabotage, as was publicly announced, or by poor workmanship. 18 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 e. Hungary. Before World War II the electrical machinery industry of Hungary was small compared with that of Czechoslovakia or East Germany. Approximately 70 percent of Hungary's most important plant was damaged in World War II. 19 With the implementation of the Three and Five Year Plans, starting in 1947 and 1950, respectively, production in Hungary soon surpassed prewar levels and increased to such an extent that the position of Hungary as a producer is close to that of Czechoslovakia and of East Germany and. about equal to that of Poland. Hungary produces a complete line of motors, genera- tors, transformers, and switchgear at a technological level somewhat below that of Czechoslovakia. The largest units are motors of 300 horsepower (hp) or larger, transformers up to 45 mva, and turbo- generators up to 32 mw, although none of the turbogenerators are known to use hydrogen cooling. 20 Because of the shortage of cop- per, aluminum is being substituted in some machine windings. There are also shortages of alloy steel for generator rotor forgings and of electric power. The shortage of power, which appears to have been partly responsible for delays in production at electrical machinery plants, has been made acute by the loss of generating capacity re- moved to the USSR. Replacement of this lost generating capacity has been made more difficult because of the forced delivery to the USSR of new generators manufactured for Hungarian electric power stations. 21 f . Poland. The electrical machinery industry of Poland before World War II was somewhat larger than that of-Hungary except in, the production of generators. War damage to the major plants was severe, .and prewar levels of production were not reached until about 1949. Production of motors and transformers in Poland has increased steadily since 1949 and is now greater than that in Hungary. Production of generators has increased much more slowly. Although a new plant was built in Warsaw in 1947-51 to manufacture turbogenerators of capaci- ties up to 50 mw, actual production of this plant has fallen far short of its planned production. 22 Poland stands in fourth place among the European Satellites in technological development, ranking below Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Hungary, although surpassing Hungary in the volume - 9 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 of production of some items. Poland produces a generally complete line of motors and transformers and a rather limited line of switch- gear. Motors range up to 4,500 kw, and transformers, up to 31 mva. Transformers and switchgear are limited in voltage, however, to 110 kv, compared with the 220-kv designs used in Czechoslivakia and East Germany. Poland's capacity to produce large generators is limited by a lack of plant facilities. Poland plans to build turbogenerators of 100 mw by 1960. Inferior quality, resulting from poor workmanship and low-grade materials -- for example, low-loss transformer sheet steel of poor mechanical finish -- is one of the weaknesses designated for correction under a new plan initiated in 1954. Insulation materials, iron castings, and copper are in short supply. 23 g. Rumania. Before World War II and for several years after the war, the electrical machinery industry of Rumania was not very impor- tant, being limited to the production of small quantities of motors and transformers. About 1948, construction of new plants was begun. Upon the completion of these plants, production was substantially in- creased and was expanded to include generators and switchgear. 24 Rumania ranks just above Bulgaria among the European Satellites in the production of electrical machinery, although Bulgaria probably produces more motors than Rumania. The new Rumanian plants, which were beginning production in the early 1950's, have advanced rapidly but are still far from the technological pro- ficiency of the plants of Czechoslovakia and East Germany, which have had long experience in production of electrical machinery. In 1955 the largest machines in production in Rumania were 1,000-kw motors, 15-mva transformers, and generators of at least 3,000 kw and possibly as large as 6,000 kw. The electrical machinery industry is one of the less developed branches of the Rumanian economy in spite of technical aid from the USSR in the form of new automatically controlled machine tools and modern machining methods. Shortages of copper and skilled labor have hindered development in the past few years, and aluminum has been used in some motors since 1951. 25 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 2. Electric Wire and Cable. 26 Production of electric wire and cable is treated separately from that of electrical machinery because wire and cable require dif- ferent and more specialized types of machinery in their production. The two most important types required are wire-drawing machinery and cabling and insulating machinery. Wire-drawing machinery is used to make wire from bulk conductor metal, and cabling and insulating ma- chinery is used to weave the individual wires into various types of cable and to insulate this cable with nonconducting material. Most of the Soviet Bloc relies heavily on machinery of German origin. The USSR, for example, uses German machinery acquired by purchase before World War II or confiscated at the end of the war from East Germany. Machinery of this same design is still produced in the USSR, although some machinery of Soviet design has been de- veloped and produced since the war. 27 The dependence of the Bloc upon outdated German machinery indicates that the average age of machinery probably is greater in the USSR than in the US, although the over-all quality of Soviet equipment is only slightly inferior to that of US equipment. As a result of their reliance on old German and Hungarian machinery purchased before World War II, the European Satellites are handicapped with equipment which is even older than that of the USSR. Satellite technology therefore lags behind that of the USSR. The purity of conductor metals and the electrical proper- ties of the insulating materials limit the quality of electric wire and cable produced regardless of the superiority of the fabricating machinery used. As was true of electrical machinery, the European Satellites are substantially behind the USSR in the quality of materials used for wire and cable. The USSR, in turn, lags behind the US by a somewhat greater margin in the quality of wire and cable than in the quality of electrical machinery produced. C. Administrative Structure and Personnel. The first organization in the USSR to have sole responsi- bility for the production of electrical machinery was the People's Commissariat of the Electrical Industry, established in 1939. This organization became the Ministry of the Electrical Industry (Ministerstvo Elektricheskoy Promyshlennosti) in 1946. After the death of Stalin Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 in 1953 the Ministry of the Electrical Industry was combined with the Ministry of Electric Power Stations and the Ministry of Com- munications Equipment into a single Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry. At the beginning of 1954 the electrical industry was again placed under a separate ministry which on 17 April 1954 was named the Ministry of the Electrotechnical Industry (Ministerstvo Elektrotekhnicheskoy Promyshlennosti). 28 The Ministry of the Electrotechnical Industry is headed by I.T. Skidanenko 29 and has jurisdiction over at least 10 main administrations.* Of these 10 main administrations, the following 7 are responsible for the production of the most important items of J: GLAVKABEL' (Wire and Cable), GLAVENERGOPROM electrical machinery 30 (Power Equipment Industry**), GLAVELEKTROMASHPROM (Electrical Machinery Industry), GLAVELEKTROTRANSMASH (Electrical Transport Machines), GLAVELEKTROAPPARAT (Electrical Apparatus), GLAVELEKTROTOCHPRIBOR (Electrical Precision Instruments), and GLAVELEKTROIZOLYATORPROM (Electrical Insulator Industry). The division of products among the main administrations is not entirely clear. GLAVELEKTROMASHPROM builds primarily motors and generators but also includes some plants building transformers. Plants under GLAVELEKTROTRANSMASHPROM build motors and generators for transportation equipment. Switchgear generally is produced by plants under GLAVELEKTROAPPARAT, but some of these same plants also build transformers. GLAVENERGOPROM is a new administration which apparently has taken over some of the plants making heavy electrical machinery. 31 Some electrical equipment, particularly motors, which falls within the scope of this report is produced in plants sub- ordinate to other all-union ministries -- such as the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, the Ministry of Shipbuilding, the Ministry of the Aviation Industry, and the Ministry of Automobile, Tractor, and Agricultural Machine Building -- or to ministries of local in- dustry. * Main Administration -- Glavnoye Upravleniye, or GLAV. Probable expansion of ENERGOPROM. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 2. Bulgaria. All electrical machinery plants in Bulgaria are sub- ordinate to the Ministry of Electrification, headed by Kimen Georgiyev. This Ministry is responsible for the electric power system as well as for the production of electrical machinery. The subgroup responsible for the production of electrical machinery is called ELPROM (Elektricheska Promishlenost -- State Electrical and Industrial Association), and D. Stanev is the director of this or- ganization. 32 All electrical machinery plants of appreciable size are nationalized enterprises in Czechoslovakia. Plants with an average of more than 500 employees were nationalized in October 1945, and subsequently plants with more'than 50 employees were nationalized. After a series of organizational changes, including splits and mergers of ministries, the present Ministry of Engineering was established on 11 September 1953, with Karel Polacek as Minister. The majority of electrical machinery plants are subordinate to the Main Administration of Electrical Engineering of this Ministry. It is possible that one or more small motor plants are under the Ministry of Light Industry. 33 One of the largest generator plants, the electrical division of the V.I. Lenin Works at Doudlevce, was part of the for- mer Skoda combine. It is not known whether or not this plant is subordinate to the Main Administration of Electrical Engineering or reports directly to the Ministry. Two groups of plants account for a large share of the production of the electrical machinery industry. One group is CKD (Ceskomoravska-Kolben-Danek), and the other is MEZ (Moravska Elektriche Zavody -- Moravian Electrotechnical Factories), which has been composed of several independent plants since 1949. 34 4. East.Germany. The administrative structure of East German industry has changed several times since World War II. An important organizational change took place in late 1953 and early 1954 when three ministries were merged to form the Ministry for Machine Building. This Ministry, headed by Heinrich Rau, took over the formerly Soviet-controlled SAG Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 plants as they were returned to the East Germans. Under this system the following main administrations* were responsible for electrical machinery as defined in this report 35/: HV** Energie- and Kraftmaschinenbau (Power Machine Building) (includes some generator production), HV 8 Elektromaschinenbau (Electric Machine Building), HV 13 Radio- and Fernmeldetechnik (Radio and Communications) (in- cludes some small motors), and HV 15 Kabel- and Apparatebau (Cable and Apparatus Building). Since mid-1955 the former Ministry for Machine Building has been split into two elements, the Ministry for Heavy Machine Building and the Ministry for General Machine Building. 36/ It is not possible to identify the subordination of all main administra- tions and their plants within the new ministries. Moreover, for accounting purposes the old system has been used through 1955- 5. Hungary. In Hungary, electrical machinery is produced in plants subordinate to the Ministry of Metallurgy and Machine Industry, headed by Janos Csergo. Some electrical machinery plants probably are under the Main Administration of Heavy Electrical Engineering, but whether there are other administrations for small machinery, electric cable, and switchgear is not known. 37 6. Poland. In Poland, electrical machinery plants are subordinate to the Ministry of the Machine Industry, headed by Julian Tokarski. The subgroup responsible for electrical machinery is the Central Administration of the Electrotechnical Industry (Centralny Zarzod Przemyshe.Elektryeznego -- CZPE). 38 7. Rumania. In Rumania the Ministry of Electric Power and the Elec- trotechnical Industry, like its counterpart in Bulgaria, is responsible for the electric power system as well as for the production of elec- trical machinery. The Minister is Gheorghe Cioara. The electrical machinery plants are subordinate to the Main Administration of Elec- trical Equipment. 39 * Main Administration -- Hauptverwaltung, or HV. ** HV 6 (Boiler and Turbine Building) and IN 7 (Power Machinery Build- ing) were combined on 1 January 1955. The number of the new HV is not known. -14- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 A. Facilities. Electrical machinery plants may be classified as follows: (1) large plants which are well known and concerning which there is relatively complete information; (2) medium or small plants concerning which available information varies from minimal to relatively complete; and (3) plants of unknown size concerning which it is known only that they exist. It is also possible that there are other plants of which nothing is known. In Appendix B, 43 plants in the USSR and 65 plants in the European Satellites, including all those in category 1, and the most important of those in category 2, above, are listed.* In addition, there are approximately 120 Soviet and 60 Satellite plants which are either minor producers or concerning which no detailed information is available. These plants and any unknown plants which may exist probably account for a very small proportion of the production of electrical machinery because of the small size of the plants and of the electrical machinery built in these plants. Detailed estimates of production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1946-60, by country, are shown in Appendix A, Tables 9 through 16.** In most of the tables, figures for a pre- war year are also shown for comparison. For each product except switchgear and electric wire and cable, 2 tables are included, 1 in terms of units produced and 1 in terms of value. Value figures only are shown for switchgear and electric wire and cable because the heterogeneous nature of this equipment precludes the use of a sat- isfactory single physical unit. The value figures, given in millions of 1953 US dollars, are the product of physical production times the value per physical unit of the product involved. Thus the value figures are really dollar measures of physical production and do not include * As is discussed more fully in Appendix C, Methodology, estimates of production were made on a countrywide basis rather than by in- dividual plant studies. Thus the list of plants in Appendix B serves to identify and locate the principal production facilities rather than to form a quantitative basis for estimates of production. ** Pp. 30-37, below. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 such factors as variation in the product mix occasioned by trade between countries or by differences in quality of product or in manufacturing methods.* The estimated volume of production of motors, generators, and power and distribution transformers of all sizes in the Soviet Bloc in 1955 is shown in Table l.** This table.shows that the USSR produced about 61 percent of the total and that Czechoslovakia and East Germany led the European Satellites in the production of the remaining 39 percent. The estimated value of production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1946 and 1955 is shown in Table 2.*** This table shows that in 1955 the Bloc produced electrical machinery with a value of ap- proximately $2.8 billion, compared with a value of approximately $1+10 million in 191+6. The ratio of increase between 191+6 and 1955 for the USSR was approximately 6, whereas those for Czechoslovakia and East Germany, the 2 European Satellites which had well-developed electrical machinery industries before World War II, were about 5 and 6, respec- tively. The ratios for the other Satellites were much larger, ranging from 19 for Poland to 33 for Bulgaria. In these countries, however, the electrical machinery industries had never been developed or had been damaged severely during World War II. Thus impressive rates of growth in these countries do not result in large absolute values of production. It is interesting to note also that the rapid increase in the rate of production in the less industrialized Satellites has been offset by the slower rate of increase in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, so that the relative contribution of .the Satellites to the total production of the Soviet Bloc remained about the same in 191+6 as in-1955. By 1956 the estimated value of production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc will increase to approximately US $3.0 billion. Of this total, motors, generators, and transformers will account for $1.1+ billion; electric wire and cable for $1.2 billion; and.switchgear for $141+0 million. * For a more complete discussion, see Appendix C, Methodology. Table 1 follows on p. 17. * Table 2 follows on p. 18. - 16 - S-E-C-R-E-T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 If the value added is estimated at 55 percent of the value of production, production of electrical machinery in the USSR in 1953 represented 0.5 percent of the gross national product and 1.5 percent of total industrial production. 40 Production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1955, based on the value added, was less than one-half that in the US in 1954. 41 Estimated Volume of Production of Motors, Generators, and Power and Distribution Transformers of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc a/ 1955 Motors Generators Transformers Percent Country Megawatts Megawatts (Megavolt-Amperes) Total J of Total USSR 11,000 5,800 14,000 31,000 61 Bulgaria 470 17 300 790 1.6 Czechoslovakia 2,600 980 1,600 5,200 10" East Germany .1,800 1,000 3,200 6,000 12 Hungary 900 300 1,300 2,800 4.9 Poland 1,000 20 2,600 3,600 7.3 Rumania 430 190 850 1,500 3.0 Total 18,000 8,300 24,000 51,000 100 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals and percentages are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. Technically, megawatts and megavolt-amperes should not be added, but in this case their sum is a meaningful measure of total production in physical units. - 17 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Estimated Value of Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc a/ 1946 and 1955 1946 1955 Ratio of Increase Country Million 1953 US $ Percent Million 1953 US $ Percent 1955 over 1946 USSR 290 71 1,800 65 6.2 Bulgaria 1.1 0.30 36 1.3 33 Czechoslovakia 53 13 260 9.3 4.9 East Germany 49 12 290 10 5.9 Hungary 4.4 1.1 130 4.7 34 Poland 11 2.7 210 7.5 19 Rumania 2.1 0.50 65 2.3 31 410 100 2,800 100 6.8 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals and percentages are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 III. Use Pattern and Requirements:. The products of the electrical machinery industry that are concerned with the generation and distribution of bulk power -- for example, large generators and transformers, heavy switchgear, and power cable -- are used almost entirely by the electric power industry or by large industrial complexes that have their own generating plants. These products contribute to the atomic energy program in direct proportion to the power used for that purpose. Motors and the smaller sizes of transformers and switchgear have far more direct application in industry. Table 3 shows the estimated use pattern of heavy electric motors and generators in the USSR in 1955. Table 4* shows the planned use pattern of AC motors of 1 to 100 kw in East Germany in 1951. Estimated Use Pattern of Heavy Electric Motors and Generators in the USSR a/ 1955 Consuming Industry Motors Generators Electric power, including the atomic energy program 23 87 Naval shipbuilding 5 5 Railroad transportation 10 3 Steel 18 b Chemicals and petroleum 16 b .Mining 6 Aviation 7 Other 15 5 Total 100 100 a. ?2j b. Included under either "Electric power" or "Other." Table 4 follows on p. 20. - 19 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Table 4 Planned Use Pattern of Alternating Current Motors of 1 to 100 Kilowatts in.East Germany a/ 1951 Consuming Sector Percent Consumed Industrial production 55.0 Industrial investment 19.1 Agriculture o.6 Transportation 0.2 Reparations and government orders 0.6 Exports 20.7 Operational reserve 1.1 Other 0.7 Stockpile 2.0 Total 100.0 a. B. Requirements. In the USSR, production of electrical machinery, together with imports from the European Satellites, appears to be meeting the requirements of the electric power program and the most impor- tant needs of industry. Large-scale production of consumer goods and a substantial export program, however, could not be undertaken, in addition to existing commitments, without a considerable increase in capital investment. There is evidence neither of overproduction nor of an undesired accumulation of inventory. There is also no evidence of a serious shortage of critical input materials, because the USSR has top priority for any such materials available within the .Soviet Bloc. The electrical machinery that remains in the European Satellites after export commitments to the USSR have been met falls far short of domestic needs.. In Hungary and East Germany, production of generators available for the domestic power program is so small that repeated Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 reductions in plans for expansion or chronic shortages of power are caused. Rumania and Bulgaria build neither large generators nor the largest transformers, thus failing completely to meet the requirements of their power systems for these products. As pointed out in I, B,* of this report, the European Satel- lites are chronically short of critical input materials, particularly high-grade electrical copper and low-loss transformer and dynamo sheet steel. Table 5** shows the estimated value of imports of electrical machinery from the West by the Soviet Bloc in 1954. These imports amounted to about.$53 million, or a little less than 3 percent of the estimated value of production in the Bloc in 1954. (Exports of electrical machinery from the Bloc to the West, estimated at $5 mil- lion per year, are not shown in Table 5.) Although the value of imports into the Bloc is only a small percentage of Bloc produc- tion, these imports are important in meeting the need for specialized equipment not mass-produced in the Bloc. The estimates of value are based on reported items of open trade which are identifiable as electrical machinery. The estimates probably are conservative be- cause both clandestine shipments and electrical machinery included in shipments reported only as "electrical equipment" are omitted. 44 The present trend is toward a decreasing dependence upon Western sources of supply and an increasing dependence upon domestic production and trade within the Sino-Soviet Bloc. (See B, be- low.) The pattern of East-West trade is also changing. Switzerland and the UK are supplying proportionately less of the electrical machinery imported by the Soviet Bloc,, whereas Sweden and West Ger- many are supplying proportionately more. Although the Soviet Bloc has repeatedly expressed a desire to increase imports of electrical machinery, its purchases have been limited by the export controls imposed by the US and other Western countries. Consequently, the Soviet Bloc has had to pay high prices that otherwise might have been reduced by strong competition in the West for markets in the Soviet. Bloc. Although there has been no evidence that specific electrical * Pp. 7-10. Table 5 follows on p. 22. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 machinery has been imported for the sole purpose of learning new technological methods, such exploitation of imported machinery probably does occur. Table 5 Estimated Value of Imports of Electrical Machinery from the West by the Soviet Bloc a 1954 Million 1953 US Country Exports to the Bloc Austria 10 Belgium, Luxembourg 2 Finland 2 France 3 Italy 3 Netherlands 3 Sweden 6 Switzerland 5 UK 15 West Germany 4 53 a. B. Within the Sino-Soviet Bloc.* Table 6** shows the estimated value of trade in electrical machinery within the Sino-Soviet Bloc in 1954. As indicated by the table, the principal exporting Satellites are Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Hungary. The USSR draws on these Satellites for some products, such as large generators up to 50,000 kw, while assisting the less industrialized countries of the Bloc. The total'volume of * Communist China is included in this section because it is a major importer of electrical machinery from other members of the Sino-Soviet Bloc. ** Table 6 follows on p. 23. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 trade within the Bloc is approximately 7 times the imports from the West and involves about 19 percent of the production of electrical machinery by the Bloc. The estimated value of trade within the Sino- Soviet Bloc was derived from studies of individual installations. These estimates are probably conservative because some items of elec- trical machinery are included in end products, the final shipment of which is not reported as electrical equipment. Table 6 Estimated Value of Trade in Electrical Machinery Within the Sino-Soviet Bloc al 1954 Million 1953 us-$ Country Exports Imports Balance of Trade USSR 120 155 -35 Albania Negligible 9 -9 Bulgaria 6 19 -13 Czechoslovakia 81 9 +72 Communist China Negligible 100 -100 East Germany 120 10 +110 Hungary 32 10 +22 Poland 8 .29 -21 Rumania 3 29 -26 370 370 a V. Inputs. Table 7* shows the estimated requirements for selected inputs for the production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1955. The column headed Steel includes the carbon and the alloy steel mill shapes and steel castings that enter into the mechanical structure of electrical machinery. This column does not include transformer and dynamo sheet steel, which is shown separately in the column headed Electrical Sheet Steel. Electrical sheet steel has special magnetic properties and is used for the magnetic flux-carrying por- tion, or "core," of electrical equipment. Table 7 follows on p. 24. For methodology, see Appendix B. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Table 7 Estimated Requirements for Selected Inputs for Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc, by Country a 1955 Country Steel Electrical Sheet Steel Iron Castings Aluminum Copper USSR 170 240 78 71 240 Bulgaria 5.3 6.0 2.7 0.16 3.3 Czechoslovakia 26 46 17 10 28 East Germany 27 44 14 4.0 36 Hungary 13 18 6.1 4.0 16 Poland 17 22 6.2 1.7 21 Rumania 3.7 10 2.9 4.3 9.1 Total 260 390 130 95 350 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. VI. Capabilities, Vulnerabilities, and Intentions. A. Capabilities. The USSR is technically capable of producing a complete line of electrical machinery of satisfactory quality in sizes up to the largest built in the US in the early 1950's. Over-all production meets. planned goals, although occasionally goals for some specific items are not met. The need for imports from the European Satellites and from the West is evidence that production does not meet all re- quirements. Imports of generators especially are required for ex- pansion of the power system, although exports to Communist China constitute a part of this requirement. The capabilities of the European Satellites vary widely. Czechoslovakia and East Germany produce complete lines of electrical machinery, but the largest units are substantially smaller than those - 24 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 made in the USSR. These countries are capable of producing machinery of good quality, but frequently the quality is not. satisfactory be- cause of shortages of good materials or because of inferior workman- ship. Bulgaria produces a limited line of relatively small equip- ment, and Albania is not known to produce any electrical machinery at all. Hungary, Poland, and Rumania rank between East Germany and Czechoslovakia on the one hand and Bulgaria on the other. Although the European Satellites generally report fulfill- ment of their plans, they fail to meet the actual requirements of their own power programs. Deliveries to the USSR and to Communist China contribute to the failure. B. Vulnerabilities. Because of the primary importance of electrical machinery in the supply and conversion of power for all industrial operations, any reduction in production of electrical machinery will hinder fur ther expansion of heavy industry or will necessitate the reallocation of available electrical machinery to the more critical sectors of in- dustry. The potential vulnerabilities of the electrical machinery industry itself are the geographical concentrations of plants and personnel, the shortages of materials, and the dependence upon im- ports. Vital segments of the electrical machinery industry of the Soviet Bloc are geographically concentrated in the USSR. Plants located in Moscow, Leningrad, Khar'kov, Sverdlovsk, Yerevan, Baku, and Zaporozh'ye account for almost the entire production of the large generators and the transformers necessary to expand or re- habilitate the electric power system. In the European Satellites the concentration of the electrical machinery industry is even greater. There are only 1 or 2 plants in each country capable of making the larger types of equipment. Almost all of the Satellite production of electrical machinery is centered in the cities of Sofia, Prague, Pilsen, East Berlin, Dresden, Budapest, Wroclaw, Zychlin, and Craiova. The vulnerability of the Soviet Bloc with regard to personnel is linked to the geographical concentration of plants. The skilled workers and engineers, without whom it would be most difficult to operate the electrical machinery industry, are concentrated in the same general areas as are the plant facilities. - 25 - S-E-C-R-E-T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 The vulnerability of the Soviet Bloc with regard to shortages of materials is reflected in continuing reports of failures by the European Satellites to meet quotas for machinery because of the lack .of high-grade copper, electrical sheet steel, and transformer oil. It is possible that these shortages could be overcome by lowering the standards for the input materials, but there has been no indication that the Bloc would accept the lower grade, higher cost end products that would result from lowered standards. For example, aluminum wire has been used to replace copper in certain instances, but the result has been negligible in overcoming the shortage of copper. The European Satellites depend upon imports for approximately 54 percent of the high-grade copper, 35 percent o?' the electrical sheet steel, and 33 percent of the transformer oil required for electrical ma- chinery and electric wire and cable. The USSR, however, does not appear to be short of these materials and in rare cases even has delivered copper and electrical sheet steel to the Satellites for the purpose of expediting deliveries of electrical machinery to the USSR. The effects of shortages of strategic materials are widespread. Delays in the delivery of electrical sheet steel and copper or non- delivery of these materials hinder the production of manufactured goods. Because the manufacturers of electrical machinery must re- schedule their production on the basis of a limited supply of materials, the efficiency of their plants is lowered. The delivery schedules of other industries dependent upon electrical machinery in the manu- facture of their products also are disturbed, and the Soviet Bloc may be forced to allocate additional investment funds for copper and other strategic materials in order to relieve the shortages. A total embargo on exports of essential materials by the West might reduce the production of finished electrical machinery by the Soviet Bloc by a factor of 4 to 5 times the value of the materials themselves. There are no substitutes for most of the end products of the electrical machinery industry. The increase in the value of production of electrical ma- chinery in the Soviet Bloc, shown in Table 2,* indicates an intention * P. 18, above. - 26 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 to provide the power and the conversion equipment necessary for the con- tinued expansion of heavy industry. The estimated annual rate of increase in production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc from January 195+ through December 1955 is shown in Table 8. The figures in this table apply, within a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percent, both to the total volume of production of motors, generators, and transformers and to the total value of production of electrical machinery as defined in this report. These annual percentage rates are expected to decline slightly during 1955-60, but the absolute increase in the value of annual produc- tion probably will remain about the same. Estimated Annual Rate of Increase in Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc January 195+-December 1955 Country Percentage Increase USSR 12 Bulgaria 5.0 Czechoslovakia 9.0 East Germany 8.0 Hungary 10 Poland 8.0 Rumania 25 The rate of increase in the USSR of 12 percent failed to meet the goal of 13 percent announced in the Fifth Five Year Plan (1951-55). This rate of increase was slightly less than the amount required to double production in 5 years, the goal set for the increase of elec- tric-generating capacity. ~+7 With one exception, the estimated rates of increase were smaller in the European Satellites than in the USSR. In Rumania the rate of increase is still high because of a late start in developing the industry. The 25-percent rate of increase shown for Rumania was calculated from the tables of estimated production and was confirmed by a Rumanian press release. 1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 S-E-C-R-E-T APPENDIX A STATISTICAL TABLES Estimates of the volume of production of specific categories of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc are shown for a prewar year and for 1946-60 in Tables 9, 11, and 13.* Estimates of the value of production of specific categories of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc are shown for a prewar year and for 1946-6o in Tables 10, 12, 14, 15, and 16.** Pp. 30, 32, and 34, respectively, below. PP. 31, 33, 35, 36, and 37, respectively, below. - 29 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 3-. -U-x-h=1 Estimated Volume of Production of Electric Motors of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc a/ Prewar and 1946-60 Country Prewar 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR 2,300 2,300 3,300 5,200 7,100 8,500 8,900 9,300 9,800 10,000 11,000 12,000 13,000 14,000 15,000 17,000 (59) (68) (77) (79) (78) (74) (68) (66) (63) (64) (61) (57) (59) (61) (58) (59) Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible 30 110 200 250 320 380 450 470 500 520 550 570 600 Czechoslovakia 380 580 680 800 940 1,200 1,400 1,700 2,000 2,300 2,600 3,000 3,200 3,600 3,900 4,200 East Germany 1,000 400 200 300 500 900 1,500 1,4oo 1,600 1,800 1,800 2,000 2,200 2,300 2,400 2,600 Hungary 60 20 50 140 210 320 500 620 720 800 900 980 1,100 1,200 1,300 1,400 Poland 200 70 110 190 200 300 480 680 760 970 1,000 1,200 1,300 1,400 1,500 1,600 Rumania 10 2 5 10 15 45 120 190 260 340 430 500 580 660 740 830 Total 4,000 3,400 4,300 6,700 91100 11,500 13,000 14,000 3.6,000 17,000 18,000 20,000 22,000 24,000 25,000 28,000 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals and percentages are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. - 30 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 S-E-C-R-E-T Estimated Value of Production of Electric Motors of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc 1 Prewar and 1946-60 Million 1953 US $ Country Prewar Y 1946 1947 1948 11949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR 100 100 140 230 310 370 390 400 430 450 480 530 570 630 680 750 Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible 1.3 4.8 8.6 11 14 17 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Czechoslovakia 17 25 30 35 41 52 62 75 87 100 110 130 140 160 170 180 East Germany 44 18 8.8 13 22 40 64 62, 73 77 81 88 95 100 110 120 Hungary 2.6 0.88 2.2 6.2 9.2 14 22 27 32 35 40 43 47 51 55 60 Poland 8.8 3.0 5.0 8.1 8.8 13 21 30 33 43 46 52 56 62 66 70 Rumania 0.40 0.088 0.22 0.44 0.67 2.0 5.0 8.1 11 15 19 22 26 29 33 37 170 150 190 290 400 500 890 960 1,000 1,100 1,200 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. - 31 - S -E -C -R-E -T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 S -E -C -R -E -T Estimated Volume of Production of Electric Generators of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc a, Prewar and 1946-60 Country Prewar J 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 J USSR 720 560 680 820 1,000 1,200 2,400 3,200 4,500 4,900 5,800 6,900 8,200 9,800 11,000 14,000 Percent of total (65) (67) (65) (58) (61) (61) (70) (70) (72) (69) (70) (71) ((72) (74) (76) (78) Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 4.0 7.0 9.0 11 14 16 17 19 21 23 25 27 Czechoslovakia a 340 250 340 440 550 620 700 750 820 900 980 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,200 1,390 E st Germany 35 20 10 15 20 50 140 350 560 890 1,000 1,200 1,300 1,400 1,500 1,600 Hungary 20 10 20 40 70 100 160 200 230 260 300 340 370 410 440 480 Poland Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 5 15 20 45 70 100 120 150 Rumania Negligible Negligible Negligible 105 0.8 8 15 75 110 150 190 220 250 270 320 350 Total 11100 840 11000 1,400 1,600 2,000 3,400 4 600 200 6 100 7 8 300 9 700 11 000 13 000 000 15 000 18 , , , , , , , , , a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals-and percentages are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; Bulgaria, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. c. Based on Plan data where available. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Estimated Value of Production of Electric Generators of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc a] Prewar and 1946-60 Country Prewar J 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR 15 12 14 17 21 25 51 67 94 100 120 140 170 200 250 300 Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 0.084 0.14 0.19 0.23 0.29 0.34 0.36 0.40 0.44 o.48 4 0.53 0.57 2 Czechoslovakia 7.1 5.3 7.1 9.2 12 13 15 16 17 19 21 22 23 2 25 7 4 East Germany 0.74 0.42 0.21 0.32 0.42 1.1 2.9 7.4 12 19 22 25 27 29 31 3 Hungary 0.42 0.21 0.42 o.84 1.5 2.1 3.4 4.2 4.8 5.5 6.3 7.1 7.8 8.6 9.2 10 Poland Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 0.10 0.32 0.42 0.95 1.5 2.1 2.6 6 3.1 Rumania Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 0.17 0.31 1.6 2.3 3.1 3.9 4.6 5.2 5.7 .7 7.2 Total 23 18 22 27 35 42 72 96 130 150 170 200 230 270 330 380 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; Bulgaria, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. S -E-C -R-E -T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Estimated Volume of Production of Power and Distribution Transformers of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc a Prewar and 1946-60 Country Prewar 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 '1951 1952. 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR 2,700 1,900 2,900 4,500 6,100 7,300 8,300 9,500 11,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 19,000 22,000 25,000 29,000 Percent of total (47) (59) (67) (67) (66) (62) (63) (58) (56) (58) (58) (60) (62) (64) (66) (68) Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 20 80 130 170 260 280 300 320 340 360 380 400 Czechoslovakia 600 450 600 800 980 1,100 1,200 1,300 1,400 1,500 1,600 1,700 1,800 2,000 2,000 2,200 East Germany 1,900 700 400 500 1,000 1,700 1,800 2,300 2,900 3,000 3,200 3,400 3,500 3,600 3,800 4,000 Hungary 100 60 130 210 320 480 750 930 1,100 1,200 1,300 1,500 1,600 1,800 1,900 2,000 Poland 390 75 300 700 810 1,100 1,400 1,800 2,300 2,400 2,600 2,800 2,900 3,000 3,200 3,300 Rumania 30 10 15 25 50 90 200 360 500 680 850 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,500 1,700 Total 5,700 3,200 4,300 6,700 9,300 12,000 114,000 )6,000 19,000 21,000 24,000 27,000 30,000 34,000 38,000 43,000 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals and percentages are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; Bulgaria, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. -34- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Estimated Value of Production of Power and Distribution Transformers of All Sizes in the Soviet Bloc a/ Prewar and 1946-60 Country Prewar 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR 27 19 29 45 61 73 83 95 110 120 14o 160 190 220 250 290 Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 0.20 0.8 1.3 1.7 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.1 3.4 3.6 3.8 4..0 Czechoslovakia 6.0 4.5 6.0 8.0 9.8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 East Germany 19 7.0 4.o 5.0 10 17 18 23 29 30 32 34 35 37 38 4o Hungary 1.0 o.6o 1.3 2.1 3.2 4.8 7.5 9.3 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20 Poland 3.9 0.75 3.0 7.0 8.1 11 14 18 23 24 26 28 29 30 32 33 Rumania 0.30 0.10 0.15 0.25 0.50 0.90 2.0 3.6 5.0 6.8 8.5 10 12 14 15 17 Total 57 32 43 67 93 120 140 16o 190 210 240 270 300 340 380 430 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; Bulgaria, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. - 35 - S -E-C -R-E -T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Estimated Value of Production of Electric Wire and Cable in the Soviet Bloc a/ 1946-60 Country Prewar,1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955. 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR uo 130 180 240 310 360 440 540 660 710 780 860 950 1,000 1,100 1,300 Bulgaria Negl. Negl. Negl. 0.4 0.8 1.0 1.7 2.2 5.1 5.6 6.1 6.8 7.4 8.2 9.0 9.9 Czechoslovakia 30 13 18 24 30 37 45 54 65 75 87 97 110 120 140 150 East Germany 150 44 44 53 58 72 79 92 100 92 100 110 120 130 140 160 Hungary 7.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 8.0 11 15 20 27 34 41 47 54 59 65 68 Poland 20 9.0 18 31 34 41 -44 48 52 57 63 69 76 84 92 100 Bulgaria 3.0 2.0 3.0 6.0 9.0 15 17 24 26 29 32 36 40 44 49 55 Total 320 200 270 - 360 450 540 640 780 940 1,000 1,100 1,200 1,400 1,400 1,600 1,800 a. All data are rounded to two significant fi gores. Totals are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown, b. All countries, 1938? - 36 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Estimated Value of Production of Switchgear and Switchboard Equipment in the Soviet Bloc a/ Prewar and 1946-60 Country Prewar 2 .1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 USSR 50 30 50 80 110 130 150 170 190 210 240 280 330 380 440 510 Percent of total (53) (59) (71) (73) (71) (66) (64) (61) (59) (60) (61) (63) (66) (68) (7Q) (72) Bulgaria Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 0.35 1.5 2.4 3.1 4.7 5.1 5.5 5.7 6.2 6.5 6.9 7.3 Czechoslovakia 10 8.8 10 14 17 19 21 23 25 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 East Germany 33 12 7.0 8.8 17 30 32 40 51 52 56 59 61 63 66 70 Hungary 2.1 0.70 1.8 5.0 7.4 11 18 22 26 28 32 34 38 41 44 48 Poland Negligible Negligible 1.0 2.3 4.0 5.5 11 21 25 27 29 31 32 33 35 37 Rumania Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible Negligible 1.0 1.4 1.7 2.0 2.4 2.7 3.0 3.4 Total 100 50 70 110 160 200 230 280 320 350 390 440 500 560 630 710 a. All data are rounded to two significant figures. Totals and percentages are derived from unrounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. b. East Germany, 1936; USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania, 1937; Hungary, 1938. - 37 - S -E-C -R-E -T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 S -E-C -R-E -T APPENDIX B PRINCIPAL ELECTRICAL MACHINERY PLANTS IN THE SOVIET BLOC The principal electrical machinery plants in the Soviet Bloc are listed below. The size, location, and most important products of these plants are shown. - 39 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad Leningrad Riga (IIa) Tallinn (IIa) Dnepropetrovsk (III) Kharkov (III) Kharkov Khar'kav Khar' kw Kiev (III) Pervomaysk (III) Zaporozh'ye (III) Baku (V) Yerevan (v) N.A. Transformers up to 500 kva, generators up to 100 kw, small motors. L Current transformers and switchgear for up to 500 kw. G N.A. Power system switchboards. 51 VL Turbogenerators up to 150 mw, hydrogenerators up to 123 mw, motors up to 7,000' /hp. 5 L Motors up to 100 hp. f L Power, control, and communications cable; bare, weather- ,proof, field, and magnet wire; coaxial cable. VL Iydrogenerators up to 25 mw, motors up to 4,500 kw, switchgear. 521 N.A. Hydrogen-cooled turbogenerators up to 150 mw. N.A. Small and medium motors. 6 L Power, control, and communications cable; bare, weather- proof, field, and magnet wire. 62/ L Motors up to 150 kw. M Transformers up to 20 mva, transformers and circuit breakers for up to 400 kv. !L4/ L Motors up to ~12~0~ kw, transformers up to 350 kva, mobile generators. mil/ N.A. Power cable; bare, weatherproof, and magnet wire. 66 * Size designations are: S, small, 100 to 500 employees; M, medium, 501 to 1,000 employees; L, large 1,001 to 5,000 employees; VL, very large, more than 5,000 employees. In the case of plants primarily engaged in nonelectr; l work. the designation is based on the electrical portion only. ** Numbers in parentheses refer to +1.e e ---- * This plant name has been observed: the plant appears to be associated with, or part of, the Kharkov complex. - 40 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 S -E-C -R -E-T Yerevan Kuybyshev (VI) Bryansk (VII) Kirs (VII) Kol'chugino (VII) Moscow (VII) Moscow Moscow Moscow Podol'sk (VII) Tambov (VII) Yaroslavl' (VII) Baranchinskiy (VIII) Sverdlovsk (VIII) Sverdlovsk Ufa (VIII) Kemerovo (1X) Tomsk (IX) Tomsk Stalinabad (X) Tashkent (X) Atka (XII) Vladivostok (XII) L Distribution transformers, mobile generators. N.A. Medium motors, mobile generators. 68 ~n/ N.A. Power and telephone cable, magnet wire. N.A. Turbogenerators up to 25 mw. LOJ N.A. Power cable. Ili N.A. Power, control, and communications cable. 2 VL Traction and mill motors up to 250 kw. J3 VL Motors 40 to 400 kw, rural station generators. L L Power cable, bare and weatherproof wire. VL Transformers up to 180 mva, 400 kv; switchgear. L6J VL Gas-filled power cable; control and communications cable; bare, weatherproof, and magnet wire. proof, and field wire. L8J N.A. Medium motors, portable generators. L Medium motors. 80 N.A. Motors up to 340 kw. 81 12/ VL Hydrogenerators up to 21 mw, motors up to 2,370 kw, medium transformers, switchgear, power rectifiers. 82 L Power and telephone cable, field and magnet wire. L L High- and low-voltage wire and cable. 84 L Mine motors up to 250 hp. L Telephone cable, magnet wire. 86 VL Motors up to 100 kw, small generators.. N.A. Motors, generators, transformers for agriculture. 88 L Power, control, communications cable; bare, weather- S Medium motors and switchboards. v - 41 - S-E-C -R-E-T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 S -E -C -R -E -T Burgas Sofia Bratislava Bratislava Brno Brno Decin/Podmokly Decin/Podmokly Doudlevice Frenstat Kladno Mohelnice Prague/Vysocany Prague Vsetin East Germany Berlin/Oberschoenweide Berlin/Oberschoenweide Berlin/Koepenick Berlin/Treptow Berlin! Weiss ensee Vasil Kolarov Wire Plant S Power cable, telephone wire. 92 L Motors up to 160 hp, hydrogenerators up to 4,000 kw, trans- formers up to 20,000 kva, switchgear. 93 Electrotechnical Plant (BEZ) (formerly CKD Krivan) L Kablo Plant L Julius Fucik Electrotechnical Plant MEZ -- Zidenice (formerly Svet) CKD -- Podmokly (formerly AEG) Kablo Plant V.I. Lenin Plant, "Gigant" (formerly Skoda) MEZ -- Frenstat Kablo Plant MEZ -- Mohelnice (formerly Siemens) CKD -- Stalingrad (formerly "Marshal Tito") Kabelwerk Oberspree Karl Liebknecht Transformer Plant (TRO) Kabelwerk Koepenick J.W. Stalin Plant (EAW) Karl Liebknecht Transformer Plant II (formerly Ziehl-Abegg) -42 - S -E-C -R-E-T Medium motors and transformers. 94 Power, control and communications cable; bare, weather- proof, and field wire. 95 L Current transformers, high- and low-voltage switchgear. J L Motors up to 5 hp, amplidynes. 97 L Motors up to 5 kw, welding transformers. 2Y M Telephone and high-voltage cable. 99 VL Turbogenerators up to 45 mw, motors up to 2,200 kw, trans- formers up to 20 mva, switchgear. LL L Medium induction and synchronous motors. 101 L Power cable. 102 L Small and medium motors. 2,03 VL Hydrogen-cooled turbogenerators up to 50 mw, motors up to 2,000 kw, transformers up to 100 mva, switchgear. 104 L Coaxial, power, control, and communications cable; field wire. 11,05 L Generators up to 5,000 kw, motors up to 600 hp. 106 VL Power, control and communications cable; bare, weather- proof, and magnet wire. 107 L Transformers up to 125 mva, current and potential trans- formers up to 220 kv, high-voltage switchgear. 108 L Coaxial, power, control and communications cable; bare, weatherproof, and magnet wire. 109 VL Industrial switchboards. 110 M Switchboards and switchgear. 111 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 East Germany (Continued) Berlin/Wilhelmsruh Dessau Dresden Finsterwal'de Gruenhain Hartha Heidenau Leipzig Muskau Niedersedlitz Oschersleben Plauen Radeberg Reichenbach Thurm Wernigerode Hungary Budapest Budapest Budapest Budapest Bergmann-Borsig Plant L VEB Elektromotorenwerk Dessau (formerly Bamag) L Trans?ormatoren and Roentgenwerk (Tra Roe) L (formerly Koch and Sterzel) Fimag Machine Plant L Elektromotorenwerk Gruenhain L VEB KLeinstmotorenwerk (formerly Alfred Oemig M and Company) VEB Elmo Werk (formerly Elbtalwerk) L VEB Galvanotechnikwerk Plant II (formerly Langbein L and Pfannhaeuser) VEB Hans Beimler (LEW) Switch Plant Sachsenwerk Niedersedlitz Electric Motor Plant Leitungwerk Plauen Sachsenwerk Radeberg Rectifier and Transformer Plant VEB Elektromotorenwerk Thurm (formerly Stephan Werke) VEB Elektromotorenwerk Wernigerode Turbogenerators up to 32 mw (turbines). 112 Motors up to 1,000 kw. 113 Transformers up to 70 mva, instrument and X-ray trans- formers, switchgear. 114/ Generators up to 60 kw, portable generators. 115 Motors, 0.25 to 250 kw; generators, 40 to 100 kw. 116 Small precision motors, gyroscopes, converters. 117 Motors up to 250 kw, motor generators. 118 Motors and generators up to 200 kw. 119 L Turbogenerators up to 25 mw, traction motors (loco- motive). 120 M Power, control and communications cable; bare, weather- -proof, and magnet wire. 121 M High-voltage switchgear. 122 VL Turbogenerators up to 12 mw, motors up to 3,800 kw. 123 S Medium motors. LL M Power cable; bare, weatherproof, and magnet wire. 125 L Small motors (electronic equipment). 126 S Transformers up to 200 kva. 127 M Small and medium motors. 128 L Motors up to 250 kw. 129 Cable and Synthetic Materials Plant (formerly L subsidiary of Felton and Guilleaume) Cable and Wire Rope Plant (formerly Felton and L Guilleaume) Electric Motor and Cable Plant (formerly Siemens) L Power, control and communications cable; field wire. 130 Power, control and communications cable; field and magnet wire. 131 Medium motors; power, control and communications cable; field and magnet wire. 132 Ganz Switch and Apparatus Plant M Switchgear and switchboards. 133 - 43 - S -E-C -R-E -T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 S-E-C -R-E-T Budapest Budapest Kisforgogebgyar Plant Klement Gottwald Electrical Plant M Small motors. 134 VL Turbogenerators up to 34 mw, motors up to 3,000 hp, trans- formers up to 45 mva, switchgear. 135 L Transformers up to 1,500 kva, current transformers, switch- gear. 1,36 Bedzin Bielsko Bydgoszcz Cieszyn Dziedzice Krakow Lodz Miedzylesie Ozarow Tarnow Warsaw Wire and Cable Plant M4 Electric Motor Plant Polish Cable Company M2 Electric Motor Plant State Cable Plant Krakow Cable Plant M3 Transformer Plant A10 High-Voltage Switch Plant Ozarow Cable Plant Southern Electric Motor Plant Gheorghi Dimitrov Electrical Plant (formerly Zwann) M5 Heavy Electrical Machinery Plant imeni F. Dzierzynskiego Ml Electric Machine and Transformer Plant imeni Wilhelm Pieck (formerly Rohn-Zielinsky) N.A. Telephone and high-voltage cable; field wire. 137 L Motors up to 55 hp. 138 M High- and low-voltage cable. 139/ L Motors up to 250 hp. 140 N.A. Telephone wire. 141 L Power cable, field wire. 142 L Transformers up to 25 mva, 110 kv; motors up to 250 hp. 143 L High-voltage switchgear. 144 L Power cable, field and magnet wire. 145 M Medium motors. 146 L Current transformers for up to 220 kv, high-voltage switch- gear. 147 L Turbogenerators up to 2 mw, motors up to 2,800 hp. M Motors up to 4,500 hp; transformers up to 31 mva, 110 kv. 149 Brasov (Stalin) Bucharest Bucharest Bucharest Electro-Precisia Dynamo Electrocablul Klement Gottwald M Motors, 0.15 to 22 kw. 150 L Generators up to 300 kw, motors up to 480 hp, transformers up to 5,000 kw. 151 M N.A. 152 M Medium motors, transformers up to 300 kva, generators up to 25 kw. 153 L Generators up to 3,000 kw, motors up to 1,000 kw, trans- formers up to 15 mva, switchgear. 154 Recita Timisoara Sovrom Utilaj Petrolifer Plant (former Caros Judet) L Turbogenerators up to 3,000 kw, motors up to 600 kw. 155 Electromotor Timisoara M Motors, 1 to 30 hp. 156/ - 44 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 S-E-C-R-E-T APPENDIX C METHODOLOGY 1. Accuracy. All data in the tables on production in this report are rounded-to two significant figures. Totals and percentages are derived from un- rounded figures and do not always agree with rounded data shown. The range of error in the estimates varies up to plus or minus 20 percent for the years through 1955 and up to plus or minus 30 percent for the years 1956-60. The data for the USSR generally represent officially published sta- tistical information as do the data for East Germany in many cases. Among the other members of the Soviet Bloc, statistical information at the industry level was relatively complete except for Czechoslovakia. The over-all totals of electrical machinery for each country and for the Soviet Bloc as a whole probably are more accurate than the indi- yidual. estimate of a single product in a particular country. 2. Motors and Generators. After all the available data on plans and their fulfillment were assembled, the production of motors and generators in each year was expressed in terms of a base year. The overlapping sets of data were then combined into a single time series of index numbers. The index numbers were converted to estimates of production by the use of the production year for which the most accurate information was available. The resulting figures were checked for order of magni- tude and reasonableness against the capacity of known facilities for production on the basis of individual plant studies or of number of employees. Absolute figures on production usually were derived from pub- lished data on production or plans for 1 or 2 types of machinery and projected to cover all types of machinery by means of an assumed product mix. The completeness of the available data varied widely from one country to another, but the procedure used in de- riving estimates for the USSR is typical. -4+5- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 The USSR has published absolute figures for the two main categories of motors for prewar years and for the years 1950, 1951, and 1955. 1'57/ Percentage increases were available for the years 1946-50, 15 leaving only three years for which no figures were available. Prewar data from the USSR and postwar data from the US indicated that the two main categories of motors represented about 80 percent of the total production of all motors. 159 The output of all motors was estimated to be 1.25 times the total of the two main categories of motors. The figures for motors reasonably check with correlation factors-associating electric power, generators, and transformers with motors. The figures for motors also were checked by reconstructing the end use requirements of major categories of motors other than the two main categories for which data were avail- able. In these estimates an average value was assigned to groups of motors such as fractional-horsepower motors for consumer goods and direct-current traction motors, for which end product requirements were approximately known. Estimates of possible production of various categories of motors in 1960 were derived from Plan figures by the use of corelation factors, and the entire series was extra- polated from 1956 to 1960. The USSR has published prewar data, data for 1950, 1954--55, and 1960 Plan data for the two major categories of large generators. 160 Data on Plan fulfillment were published in the form of percentage in- creases for the years from 1951-53, 161 but data for 1946-1+9 were not given. These latter years were estimated by correlation factors as- sociating electric power and turbines with generators. All years were checked by plant estimates. Plant estimates were most complete for the years 191+6-1+9 These data were further checked by estimates of the production of generators used in equipment and of engine-driven generators. The resultant totals represent 95 percent of all genera- tors. The planned output of large generators was given for 1960, and the years 1956-60 were obtained by semilogarithmic extrapolation. 162 -46- 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 b. European Satellites. A procedure similar to that used in deriving estimates for the USSR was used to estimate production of motors and generators in Czech- oslovakia, 163 East Germany, 164 Poland, 116L5/ and Rumania. 166 For these European Satellites, some data usually were available in terms of kilowatts of motors or generators, instead of numbers of units. In some cases, figures on actual production, as contrasted with planned goals, were available. In the case of Hungary, 167 the reported produc- tion of the one major electrical machinery plant was used as the basis for determining production in several plants. In the case of Bulgaria, 168 a much less satisfactory method was employed. In the absence of any quan- titative data, production of motors was estimated at 2.5 times the annual increase in generating capacity, a ratio somewhat lower than that of the US or the USSR because Bulgaria does not make or use so many large motors as a more industrialized country. 3. Transformers and Switchgear. a. Transformers. Absolute figures for postwar production of transformers in the USSR were not available. Because the relationship between 1950, 1955, and plans for 1960 was expressed, however, it was possible to set up a complete production series for transformers once the figure for 1955 had been established. Several methods were used to obtain the figure for production of transformers in 1955, as follows: (1) Estimates of production in specific plants were totaled; (2) Production of kw of large motors was multiplied by a factor of 1.75 to give kva of transformers; (3) Production of kw of large generators was multiplied by a factor of 3.25 to give kva of transformers; (4) The annual power increase in 1,000 kwh was multiplied by a factor of .78 to give kva of transformers. All these methods yielded closely comparable outputs. With 1955 as a base year, the figures for 1956-60 were extrapolated and modified by possible limits on production. Given the 1955 relationship to 1950, it was only necessary to interpolate between.1950-55 and to extrapolate back to 1946 to complete the series. All figures were checked against produc- tion of the individual plants. - 47 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 The general procedure for estimating production of transformers in the Satellites was similar to that for production of motors and gen- erators. Absolute figures for at least one year were available for Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, and Rumania in the same sources given for the estimates of production of motors and generators. In the case of Hungary, production of the two known major plants was used. In the case of Bulgaria, the estimate was based on the annual increase in generating capacity, allowing for the fact that Bulgaria imported the larger transformers until 1954. 169 b. Switchgear. Switchgear, considered as a function of generating capacity, may be measured by transformer capacity inasmuch as switchgear and transformers are often ordered as a unit. There were enough data to establish a ratio between switchgear and transformers in several countries. For countries such as Hungary, however, where the produc- tion of transformers was not known, switchgear was valued at 0.3 times motors, based on US data for 1947. On the same basis, a value ratio for switchgear of 1.76 times the value of transformers was used in the USSR, and a ratio of 1.75 was used for East Germany, Bulgaria and' Czechoslovakia. Information on Poland was sufficient to permit inde- pendent estimates. Information on Rumania indicates very limited production of switchgear, which was estimated at a nominal figure of 20 percent of the value of transformers, based on employment totals in manufacturing plants. 4. Electric Wire and Cable. 170 a. General. Estimates for each member of the Soviet Bloc were made on the basis of plant studies covering a prewar year and the period 1946-55. Total production for selected years was established for the various countries by adding plant estimates. Time series of annual production in each country were established on the basis of published indexes, 171 reference to data on utilization of capacity in given years, probable war damage, and interpolation between years on the.basis of plant studies. 172 The country estimates were checked by analogy with the, US. The relationship of the value of insulated electric wire and cable to the value of selected items of electrical machinery and electronic and telecommunications equipment was computed for the US and the USSR for selected years and compared. This comparison and a similar comparison -48- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 for. the ratio of increase in the annual value of production of insulated wire and cable over the increase in production of electric power during selected years indicated that the Bloc estimates were of a reasonable order of magnitude. The estimates were then extended to 1960 on the basis of rates of increase obtaining in the past, modified by informa- tion on expansion plans and possibilities. 171 The value of production of individual plants in the Soviet Bloc was derived by. estimating the labor productivity of the plants in rela- tion to the average labor productivity obtaining-in four Soviet plants. The estimated labor productivity times the estimated labor force produced the estimated value of production for each Bloc plant studied. The reasonability of the estimates was checked by reference to the labor productivity of eight East German plants. An estimate of labor produc- tivity was then made for the 4 Soviet and the 8 East German plants because the value of production and the labor forces of the various plants could be independently estimated. 172 Because electric wire and cable is a non-homogeneous product, only value was used to measure its produc- tion. 5. Estimates of Value. Estimates of the value of annual production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc are given in 1953 US dollars and are proportional to estimates of physical production of motors, generators, and transformers. Estimates of the value of production of switchgear were discussed above.* Coefficients such as dollars per kilowatt wexe derived from the US fig- ures for 1947 adjusted to 1953. 173 These coefficients are based on US costs, methods, and product mix and do not reflect differences in these factors between the US and the various countries of the Soviet Bloc. The specific coefficients are: $44 per kw for motors, $21 per kw for generators, and $10 per kva for transformers. 6. Projections. Estimates of production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1954-60 were projected on a straight-line basis for all items except electric wire and cable. Estimates of wire and cable were extended to P. 48, above. - 49 - S-E-C-R-E-T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 1960 by the use of rates of increase of electric power as a correlation coefficient. The totals were modified on the basis of expansion capa- bilities. Because current information on plants indicates the continu- ing expansion of manufacturing facilities, production is expected to increase. The very high rate of annual increase in production since 1946, however, may be attributed in part to the low initial value of an industry badly damaged by war, and this rate may not be sustained in- definitely. 7. Estimates of Selected Inputs. a. Motors, Generators, Transformers, and Switchgear. Inputs of steel, iron castings, aluminum, and copper for produc- tion of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1955 were calculated from estimates of the value of production in 1955, and input factors in terms of metric tons per million dollars of value were obtained from the 1947 US Census of Manufactures. Transformer and dynamo sheet steel fac- tors were based on the reported requirements of the USSR and East Germany and the estimate of production in each country in the year for which the requirement was given. 174 Table 17* shows estimates of selected input factors for production of electrical machinery in the Soviet Bloc in 1955. Estimates of inputs for production of electric wire and cable are revisions derived directly from estimates for 1955 Approximately 9 percent of the copper input represents magnet wire, which is used principally in the manufacture of electrical machinery and appa- ratus. 8. Estimates of Trade. * Table 17 follows on p. 51. - 50 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Table 17 Estimates of Selected Input Factors for Production of Electrical Machinery in the Soviet Bloc, by Type of Product 1955 Metric Tons per Unit of Production Product Unit of Production Q/ Steel J Transformer Sheet Steel Dynamo Sheet Steel Iron Castings Aluminum Copper Motors and generators Million 1953 US $ 420 120 6.9 29 Megawatts 11 Transformers Million 1953 us $ 450 7.7 1.4 71 Megawatts 4 Switchgear Million 1953 Us $ 180 8.1 3.1 35 a. Includes carbon and alloy steels, steel castings, and transformer and dynamo sheet steel. b. Includes wire mill shapes and forms but not magnet wire. - 51 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 : CIA-RDP79RO1141A000700060002-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/21 CIA-RDP79RO1141 A000700060002-5 either to the relative value of plant production shipped to other Bloc countries or to specific pieces of equipment produced for delivery within the Bloc. All information obtained was converted to percentages of total production, representing trade within the Bloc. For this purpose the estimated average of exports of several large and typical plants in each country were considered to be representative of the country being studied. The value of production of electrical machinery for each country, shown in Table 2,* was multi- plied by the percentage contributed by that country to trade within the Bloc. Another pattern of distribution of trade within the Sino-Soviet Bloc was derived by estimating the total imports received by each coun- try without regard to the country of origin. The value of such imports for each country then was adjusted on the basis of the estimated value of trade within the Bloc. The necessary adjustment downward was less than 10 percent for each country. The margin of error of the estimates for trade is plus or minus 30 percent. P. 18, above. 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