SIX NEW STEEL PLANTS IN THE USSR

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• Publication Date: March 31, 1952
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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SIX NEW STEEL PLANTS IN THE USSR
CIA/RR 2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND REPORTS
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ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE REPC~tT
5IX NEW STEEL .PLANTS IN THE IISSR
C IA/RR 2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Research and Reports
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Stammary
1? Introduction ? ~ ?
2. Brief Descriptions of the Six New Steel Plants .
a. Baku .Pipe Rolling Mi17. ... .
b. Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant .
c? Kazakh Metallurgical Plant .., ... .
d. Orsk-Khalilovo Metallurgical Combine ...
e. Transcaucasian Metallurgical Plant
f. Uzbek Petallurgical Plant .
3. Estimated Status of Installations and Production
in 1951 .
Q. Reasons for-the Slow Progress in the Construction
of the New Steel Plants .
5: Estimated Status of T.nstallations and Production
in 1955
Angendixes
Appendix A. Tables . ~ . .
1. Timetable for the Six New Steel Plants of the USSR
2. Planned Capacities of the Six New Steel Plants
of the USSR .
3. Estimated Status of Installations and Production
in the Six New Steel Plants of the USSR in 1951
4. Estimated Status of Installations and. Production
in the Six P1ew Steel Plants of the USSR in 1955
Appendix B. Plant Studies ?, .
1. Baku Pipe Rolling r-?_ill .
2, Cherepovets P-'etallurgical Plant .
3. Kazakh 2~eta1lurgical Plant
4. Orsk-T~alilovo hetallurgical Combine .
5. Transcaucasian Tetallurgical Plant .
6. Uzbek Metallurgical Plant ?. ?
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Summary
The construction of new steel plants in the USa , initiated as part of
the Third Five Year Plan (1935-~), was held up by ?lorld ~?1ar II and has
since proceeded slowly and unevenl~r. fit the end of 1971 thhe new mills in
operation were contributing little, probably not more than 200,000 metric
tons, to the over-all Soviet iror. and steel production. Progress has been
hampered by shortages of construction materials and equipment, of in-
stallations and machinery needed for the equipment of the plants, and of
skilled labor needed both for-the building and for the operation of the
mills, trot one of the plants ilas been completed. :?vaila.ble evidence
indicates that installations for the production of not more ttw.~ 23 per-
cent of the planned capacity of-more than 11.5 million metric tons of raw
steel will be in oper~~tion by the end of 1955.
1. Introduction.
Long-range plans were made as early as the Third Five Year Plan (1935-
1,2) to increase the production of iron and steel in the L?SSF.. At that
time and since, specific plans have been announced to establish six new
steel combines, so located as to serve areas isolated from existing metal-
lurg~cal center's of the country and to exploit relatively Untouched sources
of raw materials.~# Preliminary surveys were made and some actual construc-
tion was begun before and during ~7orld ~7ar II, but most of the work accom-
plished to date has been done since the end of hostilities. The latest
known target date for any of the projects is 1960. 'when the last steel. center
is completed,#~# the following output is expected from the new plants:
~ This report contains information available to CI1 as of 31 December
1951.
~'~ The locations of the six new steel plants are indicatecl on a map
folllowing p. 2.
#~'# See Appendix A, Table 1, Timetable for the Six Trew Steel :'lants of
the USSR.
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Planned Capacities of the Six New Soviet Steel Plants+~
Pig Iron 8,630,000 to 9,130.,000
Raw Steel10,935,000 to 11,535,000
Rolled Products 7,400,000
2, Rri f Des riDtions of the Six NeL,t, Steel ,P1 ts.~
a, Baku Pine Rollins Mill.
In 1940, surveys were conducted to place an iron and steel mill
in the Transcauc~asus, the principal product of which would be pipe urgent-
ly needed in-the development of the oil fields in the region. -Blast fur-
naces were to operate on iron ore from the Dashkesan mines. A site was
selected at the town of Sumgait, just northwest of the city of Baku, and
building was begun. Installations at Sumgait were to include three blast
furnaces, seven open-hearth furnaces, and pipe and tube mills. The pipe
mills were to have an annual capacity of 350,000 metric tons.,
Building was interrupted during the war years but was resumed in
..1944. Evidence available at the end of 1951 indicated that none of the
three blast furnaces had been completed, that only one of the open hearths
had been placed in operation, and that only one of the rolling mills was
in operation. The slow progress of the construction of the mill has been
a matter of extreme concern to the Diinistry of heavy Industry. There is
no information available upon which to base an estimate of 1951 production.
b. Chere~ovets rietallur~ical Plant.
Plans to build a steel plant to serve the important industrial area
of Leningrad and to utilize the large amount of iron and steel scrap generated
by the large manufacturing plants in the locality, were not announced until
January 1948. Although a plant site was chosen at Cherepovets, here is no
evidence that construction of the mill has ever been started. The project
had serious drawbacks. Iron ore was to come from the Kola Peninsula, in the
Karelo-Finnish SSR, and yoking coal was to be shipped from the fields in the
Pechora Basin. From the sources of these important raw materials, which are
located north of the:rctic Circle, it is a long, costly rail haul to the pro-
posed plant site. For these reasons, the project probably has been abandoned
or indefinitely postponed.
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# See Appendix A, Table 2. Planned Capacities of the Six IvTew Steel Plants
of the USSR.
## For more detailed information, see Appendix B, Plant Studies.
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