- 3 - - rats Doom comma 0p_ __eL_mc 332 001 19m SECRET lewenher 9 191 6 mm lane 1 Harvey Chief lantern lurepean Branch It ie reqneeted that your office cake a preliainary eeareh and report en graphite plants in the Soviet Union It would be appreciated that if poeeihle thie prelininary report be Iade available by love-her 23 The following infomtion of varying reliability available from other eonmee nay eerwe an an aid in your search a There is a very good carbon electrode lant near Chelyabinsk poeeibly naned Blektrodny Zebredic Up to 1938 they could not ache graphite electrodes Poctwar infor nation obtained fro returning Pl'e indicatee that graphite electrodee are Iade here but it is not clear in thoee reportw Ihether the infer-ante would know the difference between car- bon and graphite electrodes b There ie a natural-gramte concentration plant at called the Tadjinaki Grafitowi Conbinat laid to produce 15 tone of graphite and conewhat acre corundnn per We c leer RR station Kudinovo near Noginsk in the Blekto- Ugli Factory which in acid to lake carbon electrodes for electric notore aearchlighte etc 6 Pravda 27 July 191 5 boasted about a large increase in the production of electrode grade coke in the Kemerovo eoke-chenicnl plant e Prior to the war there was a Dniprorcki electrode factory attached to the alnainun plant near Zaporoahe It in enapected that it produced electrode carbons exclusively and wae deatroyed during the war along with the alnninun plant f Graphite electrodes are aade from either petroleu coke or low aeh coal ooh binded with either coal tar pitch or petrolenn pitch Th l AA gzv c SECRET 3'1 Rf SECRET nals in thin ropcrt should ho placcd on artificial graph plant- and production including an couplcta dctail ac pouiblo on location nanc organiutional connections nan of by adliniltrativo aourcca of rat natoriala and dutinaticnl of tiniahod product Carbon plants should alac ho includcd cinco than arc often nadc prior to graphitisa- ticn Also to be included arc plants concentrating natural graphite cm or Iaking tron natural gramito Alulinun plants which in tho 1383 usually haw carbon notion in tho can- complex light also bc included 2- Ir Chan of 0 110 and Ir licdcnann haw already dia- cuucd this latter infer-ally R Gordon incacn Us cam-c SECRET DECLASSIFIED mli gl This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu