Heinkel drawings to the USSR ?

[Marcel Hogenhuis]

Hello all (and especially the Russian friends),

Who does know whether the Russian aircraft industry took an active interest in getting technical papers of the (captured) German aircraft manufacturers?
When they were hunting for German rocket scientists, they might have taken a similar effort to capture all technical drawings, photographs, production stats etc. but my knowledge is limited to something I have read a long time ago about Junkers/Dessau and aircraft designs former Junkers people made in the USSR and DDR after the war.

I am especially interested in the likely capture of the Heinkel papers from Vienna and the final destination (reed: Russian aircraft manufacturer) who got this stuff. One of the stories - told at the Deutsches Museum - is that the Heinkel photo archive was moved to the USSR.

We could assume that these pictures - if still existing - are not part of a national archive, so my last straw of hope is that the Heinkel photo's can still be there in an undisclosed archive of one of Russia's aircraft manufacturers.

Any info is welcomed! All the best, Marcel