The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-15
SOVIET INDUSTRY
CHIEFS ARRIVED
IN UNITED STATES
200 Experts Here at
Present Time

B. Kuritzin, Chairman of the So
Wet State Machine Building Cor
poration, M. Nikiforov, Chairman of
the Rubber Trust, w. S. Matlin,
Vice Chairman of the Electrotechni-
cal Trust N. Levchenko, Vice-Chair-
man of the Donugol Coal Trust and
as other Soviet executives and en-
gineers have arrived in the United
States during the past week, it was
announced by the Amtorg Trading
Corporation.
Among the new group of Soviet
industrial representatives who came
to this country to study the Ameri-
can industry and in connection with
the several recently concluded con-
tracts are 20 engineers of the Auto
stroy (the Automobile Plant Con-
struction Corporation) who will par
ticipate in the work of designing an
automobile factory to be erected at
Mimi Novgorod with the technical
assistance of the Ford Motor Co.
Others represent the electrical, coal,
chemical, agricultural, machine
building, construction, metallurgical,
rubber and transportation indus
tries, and the State Institute for the
Designing of Metal Works.
A total of nearly 200 Soviet exec
utives and engineers are at present
in the United States on various bust
ness missions.
William S. Matlin of the State
Electrotechnical Trust will organize
technical bureau to be located with
the International General Electric
Company at Schenectady. This
bureau which will have a staff of
six or seven Soviet engineers is be-
ing formed in accordance with the
technical assistance agreement re-
Gently concluded between the Soviet
Electrotechnical Trust and tn e
American concern. A similar bureau
of American engineers is being
created in Moscow. The Soviet
bureau will study American methods
of production of various electrotech-
nical products. Several more repre-
sentatives of the Soviet Electrotech-
nical Trust, including some of the
principal engineers, will arrive in
the United States shortly.
Aside from the % engineers and
executives of the Autostroy at pres
ent in this country, 40 more techni-
cal men are expected. The en-
gineers of the Autostroy will par
ticipate in completing the designs
for two assembly plants to be built
at Nizhni Novgorod and Moscow
and then will take up the work on
the preparation of plans for the con-
struction of the 100000 cars at Niz-
hni Novgorod automobile factory.
A number of the Autostroy en-
gineers will work in Ford factories.
Mr.. S. Dybbets, Chairman of the
Autostroy, stated that the Mimi
Novgorod assembly plant will be
ready next December, while the
Moscow assembly plant is scheduled
for completion in April, 1880. These
plants will at first assemble cars
from parts imported from the
United States. The Bureau of the
Autostroy is located at Dearborn,
Mich.
Representatives of the Khimstroy
chemical Plant Construction Cor
poration) have arrived in this coun-
try in connection with the technical
assistance contracts with the Nitro
gen Engineering Company and Du-
Pont de Nemours Company. The
delegation of the Donugol Trust,
which has technical assistance con-
tracts with Stuart, James & Cook
and Roberts & Schaefer, will study
the American coal industry.