REFERENCES IN SOVIET PUBLICATIONS TO PRODUCTION OF TRACTORS AT DNEPROPETROVSK

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REFERENCES IN SOVIET PUBLICATIONS
TO PRODUCTION OF TRACTORS AT DNEPROPETROVSK*
There is no known reference in a Soviet publication that pinpoints
25X1 DAZ by name as a producer of tractors.1 A 25X1C
25X1 C In addi-
tion, there are a number of other Soviet publications that specifically
identify the city of Dnepropetrovsk as the location of a plant produc-
ing Belarus' tractors. The publications cited below date from 1955 to
late 1960.
A. 1955
A spare parts catalog for row-crop tractors published in 1955 con-
tained the following notations 35/:
1. The D08SO1 oil pump was installed on Belarus' tractors
produced at MTZ up to 1955. The D08SOlA oil pump had been installed
on all Belarus' tractors produced at the plant 25X1C
2. The D11SOlG water pump was installed on Belarus tractors
produced at MTZ beginning with the fourth Quarter of 1 4 and on all
Belarus' tractors produced at the plant 25X1C
3. For part number D24SOlB assigned to the PD-10 starting
motor assembly, there is a footnote which states that starting motor
No. 36-1015510 is being installed on the Belarus' tractors produced
at MTZ. Parts D24Sll and D24S16A are being replaced in motor No. 36-
1015510 by parts 36-1015530 and 36-1015520, respectively. On the
Belarus' tractors produced by the plant a 25X1C
modernized starting motor, D24SO1V, is being installed.
* Publications of 1954 and 1956 referred to the fact that MTZ was not
the only plant producing Belarus' tractors. 36/ These indirect refer-
ences to production outside Minsk have not been included in this Appen-
dix. Omitted as well are two 1960 references 37/ that discussed the
Belarus' E-50 high-speed wheeled tractor without relating it to a par-
ticular plant, even though the nature of the articles was such that
it might have been expected that the plant would have been named.
The producers of the other tractor models mentioned in the articles
were named. The E-50 is connected with DAZ by two Soviet publications,
as indicated in this Appendix.
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B. 1953
In October 1957 a Soviet newspaper stated that several models of
Belarus' cultivating tractors with diesel engines were being produced
by the tractor builders in Minsk and Dnepropetrovsk. 38/
C C. 1958
The July 1958 issue of a Soviet technical journal reported that the
plants of the Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz were delaying the supply of fuel
apparatus and batteries to plants of the Belorussian and Dnepropetrovsk
Sovnarkhozes where they were needed for production of row-crop trac-
tors. 39/
D. 1959
A Soviet technical journal reported in its April 1959 issue that a
Belarus' E-50 tractor manufactured in Dnepropetrovsk Sovnarkhoz was
on display in Moscow at the industrial exhibit in January-February 1959.
The tractor was equipped with a 50-hp SMD-l engine. i+0/ (The SMD-l-
is a Serp i Molot diesel produced by the Serp i Molot Plant in Khar'kov.)
Field tests were run on this tractor in 1959 in Omskaya Oblast and in
the Kuban'. Three E-50 tractors were used in the tests in Omskaya
Oblast. Li
25X1 C that cylinder block cast-
ings are machined at the Novgorod Machinery and Repair Plant for in-
stallation in Belarus' tractors produced at the Dnepropetrovsk Trac-
tor Plant. !+2/
A Soviet English-language newspaper reported in October 1959 in a
discussion of agricultural developments in the Ukrainian SSR that the
Belarus' Plant had scrapped its plans for production of the older
models of tractors and was going to switch over in 1960 to production
of "the speedier type of wheeled tractor." / Presumably this ref-
erence is to the E-50 high-speed wheeled tractor mentioned in an
earlier paragraph in the same article.
E. 1960
25X1 C that
120 tractors from Dnepropetrovsk had arrived there that day. )4i-/ The
Ural'sk area was to receive 1,000 tractors of various makes in 1960,
but the report did not indicate the share to be supplied by Dnepro-
petrovsk.
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An agricultural journal of May 1960 reported that the Minsk and
Dnepropetrovsk plants were producing the high-speed MTZ-5MS wheeled
tractor and that these tractors were already being received at col-
lective and state farms in 45/
A Moldavian agricultural journal reported in its November 1960
issue on a seminar held in 1960 at the Armavir testing station of the
All-Union Mechanization Institute on the use of tractors and agricul-
tural machinery at increased speeds. Among the more than 150 engineer-
mechanics who attended the seminar were "engineer-designers of the
Kharkov, Minsk, and Dnepropetrovsk tractor plants." L6
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