TECHNICAL RUBBER PRODUCTS PLANT (RTI) NEAR SVERDLOVSK

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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STATE ARMY NAVY x AIR X JFBI I JAEC
USSR (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
Technical Rubber Products Plant (RTI)
near Sverdlovsk
23 June 1954
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1. The Technical Rubber Products Plant, RTI, (Rezinovyye Tekhnicheskiye Izdeliya)
was located south of Sverdlovsk ( N 56-50, E 60-40),
web sus, southwest o a large airfield, and north of a slaughter house
or meat factory,which was separated from the rubber factory by a road. The
plant had a railroad connection to the Sverdlovsk - Uktus - Chelyabinsk (N 55--10,
E 61-25) railroad line,and streetcar connection to Sverdlovkk. (See location
sketch on page 6a1
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the plant was scheduled to be completed in 1954 25X1
in addition to those buildings under construction by
September , o . r buildings were planned. By September 1953, two production
shops, known as Korpus D and Kleyevaya; the sawmill; the concrete factory; and
the transformer station were already in operation. Workshops Korpus A, V, B,
G, and E, as well as a large boiler house, were under construction or in pro-
cess of being installed during the reported period.
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lZae ru er plant was subordinate to the UNR 754
Concern (sic). Construction work on the plant was started in 1950. The meat
factory had housed a rubber plant transferred thete from Moscow during the
war. The rubber producing facilities were to be transferred to the RTI plant,
and production was to be widely extended. The new production program was to
include the manufacture of tires for motor vehicles and bicycles.
the plant covered a site about 250 x 250 m with five
production sops, two o hem in operation and three underacnstruction; a
transformer station; water supply installations; and auxiliary construction
shops. Power was supplied from Sverdlovsk via an underground high-tension
cable. with a voltage of 30 kv(sic). No plant-owned power source was
available or under construction. Steam was to be supplied by the new boiler
house, rior to September 1953, steam for power and
heitin was supp-Lied by the o rubber factory installed in the meat planti
Isteam was produced in the basement of Korpus
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and fed to the other workshops via a pipe line, 30 cm in diameter. Water
supply difficulties were to be solved by speeding up the constructioi of the
reservoirs and the water tower. (See plant layout sketch on page 3)
~+. Production was carried on in two workshops. Rubber solution and gummed
fabrics were manufactured in the workshop referred to as Kleyevaya. Gloves,
bowls, mats, and various small articles such as rubber discs, footrests and
saddles for motorcycles, protective caps for ignition cables, cone belts, thin
rubber hoses, and conveyor belts, 50 to 150 cm wide and one-and-a-half cm wide,
were manufactured in the workshop called Korpus II. Since the sources had no
access to the fenced-in operating workshops, the type of production could only
be guessed from the waste piled up near the workshops. No information was avail-
able on the output.
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5. Raw materials received at the plant included bales of yellow caoutchouc,which
allegedly came from India, Borneo, and the United States;a:nd bales of black caoutchouc
and synthetic rubber, the supply of which was increased during the last months
before September 1953. Sacks filled with a soot-like fine powder referred to asGuma
(sic), bales of cotton and linen fabrics, and an inflammable liquid for the pro-
duction of rubber solutions? which arrived in railroad task cars, were also received
at the plant.
6. The staff of the rubber plant included one Lermann (fnu)
who was chief of the construction company, and Makarov nu
construction superintendent. the pro uctive work
force of the plant amounted to [--
TO 2-50 persons per each of the three eight-
hour shifts.
The plant area was surrounded by a board fence, three meters high. Watchttowersa
had been erected along the fence. The Korpus D and Kleyevaya workshops were
seperately fenced in. Passes with photographs were required for access to the
plant area, which was guarded by MVD sentries.
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L out. of RTI Rubbed Plant
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Legend for Layout Sketch on page 3
1. Billets of an MVD guard detail of 120 men.
2. Main transformer station with three large transformers. (See sketch on page 7,),
2a. 30-IW underground power transmitting cable.
3. Two-story transformer house or switching station, 8 x 15 meters.
?+, Boiler house, 25 x 60 meters.
a. Four-story office section of building.
b. Three-story section of building, about 10 meters high, equipped with
three or six modern boilers. The boilers came from a German machine
factory in Greiz. The coal dust was fed through pipe lines from bunkers
installed over the boilers.
c Two-story part of building, about 5 meters high.
d. Brick smokestack. 60.5 meters high.
e. Coal elevator.
f. Coal grinding shop with six to eight coal mills.
g. Coal elevator.
h. Automatic unloading devices used to unload coal from railroad cars and
bunkers.
5. Finished products store and fire department.
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two new buildings under construction at this place,
allegedly a gas Forks.
Large workshop under construction, 100 to 120 meters long,with two side
wings.
Korpus A. A two-,wing: building, equipped with overhead crane installations
It was unknown whether the 100 to 150 ventilators'stored iu the building
would be installed.
Korpus B.
c. Korpus V.
d. Transformer cabins.
8. Korpus G, under construction, 20 x 100 meters. The foundations were com-
pleted.
9. New building, 10 x 14 meters, with ground-floor living accomodations.
10. Forge and fitting shop, 6 x 6 meters, equipped with one coal-burning forge
fire, one lathe, one boring machinesand one grinding machine.
11. Guard house.
12. Three-story administration building, 8 x15 m.
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13. Korpus D, about 20 x 100 meters, in operation since 1952 and off limits
all PWs.
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la concrete wall, 5 meters high, south of item 13;
purpose unknown.
1i+.. Three concrete water containers, 5 meters deep, 8 to 9 metersin diameter,
for the water supply of the plant.
15. Concrete building, 8 x 12 meters, whic oused
a transformer station. Ian iron pipe line,
30 cm in diameter, extending from the cooling tower to Korpus E, passed
through this building.
16. Water cooling tower, wooden structure, 20 to 24+ meters high. The water
basin installed was 10::x 10 meters large.
this building as a hydrogenation plant.
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17. Korpus E, 20 x 100 meters. The building was being installed in September 1953.
a. Two-story part of the building with many small roams equipped with
concrete foundations for machinery. One room housed a riveted iron
tank, 1.5 meters in diameter and 4 meters high.
b. Two-story part of the building with various large foundations for
heavy machines. Large rolls and presses were being installed.
110 rolling machines with rolls 1.5 meters long and
60 cm in diameter. arious Soviet machine
tools such as 30 to 0 lathes, four or five grinding machines. The
floor was provided with many channels for cables.
c. Five-story part of the building with small tiled rooms on the ground
floor; one corridor with rooms on either side on the second and fourth
floors; and one large vacant hall on the third floor.
18. Kleyevaya Workshop, 12 x 25 meters, in operation since 1952. No information
was available on the installations. It was noticed from without that the
building was equipped with an extensive ventilator system and that it had
no lights. The workshop produced rubber solution which was shipped in
sheetmetal containers. I large bales of linen(or
other fabrics were shipped to the building and gummed, black cloth
left the workshop. Triethyl chloride supplied n s eel bottles was allegedly
used in the workshop.
'19. New building, probably for the storage of raw caoutchouc and other raw materials.
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up 51 x 50 x 5 meters.
20. Timber dump.
21. Saw frame.
22:., Concrete plant, wooden building with four concrete mixers working for plant
requirements.
23. Tools and construction materials store.
24. PW Camp No. 6118/o.
25. Three stores with food and consumer goods.
26.: Fence-
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Location Sketch of RTI Rubber
Legend
Scale 1:25,000
1. Airfield.
2. RTI Rubber Plant.
3. Old Rubber Plant installed in meat factory,
4. Cold storages of meat factory.
5. PW Camp
6. Ceramics factory,
7. Road with streetcar line leading to Sverdlovsk.
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Main Transformer Station of the RTI Rubber Plant
Not to scale
Legend
a. Three large cabins on the floor, along with
transformer moving on rails.
the building. A wooden frame with hoist was available.
b. Transformer installations on an elevated floor, equipped with ventilators.
c. Part of building with nine vacant cabins. Current-conducting rails with
porcelain insulators ran along the ceiling of the cabins.
d. Elevated floor with iron switch boxes.
e. Singl6-story hall with one center aisle and small cabins on either
side with one or two switch boxes arranged one above the other.
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