ECONOMIC

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• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: March 31, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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'sing 1947, restoration and develapzant of the national economy of
the USSR passed the mark for fulfillment and orerin1f!i. c:snt of re-juire-
~aouts fvr the second year of the postwar Rive-Tear Plan.
The work of industry, agriculture, and transportation, the scope of
capital operations and istail merch.ndise turnover, the training of per-
sonnel, and culfurel development in the USSR during 1947-the second year
of the poo.war Five-Year Plan--are characterized as follows:
11w production plan for 1947 in terms of gross production by tha
enterprises of separate ministries was completed as follows:
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Coal Inietry of Seetsrn Regions
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Petroleum Induutr5, of Southern and
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Petroleum: Industry of tiastern Regions
107
k ,ectrio Power Plants
101
Chemical Industry
114
Electrical Industry
Communications Industry
1
08
Heavy Machine Building
:.05
Aatoaobils and Tractor Industry
98
Machine Tool Bui1Mt g
l9
Machine and Irstrwnent Buildings
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Road and Construction 1achine Building
115
Transportation Machine Building
94
Agricultural Machine Building
1(X)
Building Materials Industry of the USSR
101
Timber InBietry of the USSR
96
Cellulose and Paper Industry
98
Rubber Industry
107
is i:.e Industry of the USSR
103
Light Industry of the USSR
106
Fish Industry of Western Regions of the USSR
1C4
Fish Industry of Eastern Regions of the USSR
96
",,.eat and hairy Industry of the USSR
107
Food Industry of the USSR
109
Gustatory Industry of the US=
113
Union Republic .Ministries of Local Industry
and Local Fuel Industry
111
Ths 1947 clan for gross production in all USSR industry was fulfilled
103.5 percent. The gross production plan for industry in the U9sit for the
first two years of tha Five-Year Plan (1946-19147) has been met 100 percent.
'Xtput of the most important kinds of industrial products during
1947 showed the following results as compared with 1946:
1947 (in percentaces of 1946)
Pig iron
Steel
Rolled steel
Copper
Zinc
Lead
Coal
Petroleum
Gasoline
Reroesne
Natural gas
Electric power
main-line loooeotives
Troller buses
Auto.eb les
Ban bearings
oteea turbines
Iaectric rotors (up to 100 kilowatts)
Aectrie motors (over 100 kilowatts)
Special and complex metal-cutting machine tools
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9piraing Jsnnies
za~ctorw
Agricnltal. machines
Llneral fertilisers (superphosphate, nitrogen,
potassium)
snthstic tree
Automobile tires
Wood pulp
Paper
Cement
Window glass
Pliant roofing material
Cotton fabric
Woolen fabric
leather footwear
Rubber footwear
Animal on
Vegetable oil
Fish
9AW
Soap
Gross production of all industry of the USSR in 1947 rose 22 percent
in oompsrison with 1946, including production by the textile and light
industries, whose production showed an increase of 33 percent.
Dearing 1947 the tempo of the growth of industrial production steadily
increased. Gab is production as compared with corresponding quarters in
1946 was as follawet first quarter, =2 percent; second quarter, 18 percent;
third quarter, 26 percent; fourth grsrter, 30 percent.
?!n fourth q' rtn,~ of 191.? en' inb,,trir.l prochtction attain the level
of that reached during the prewar year of 1940.
The gross production during 1947 of agriculture /as a whoie7 increased
by 32 percent over 1946, while the production of faring (teal eliye; in-
creased 48 nwrgent. The total harvest of grain and of industrial crops rose
in coiparison with 1946 as follows: grain, 58 percent; -oottcn, 21 percent;
potatoes, 30 percent; sugar beets, 190 percent; sunflowers, 79 percent;
11-ax fiber,.29 percent; heap fitter, 78 percent. Harvesting o." grain :.ropy
during 1947 attained the bevel. !oatshsd before the war.
In 1947, 3,300,000 more hectares were plant-1 with winter crops for
the nest year's harvest than In 1946. Plowing in 1947 for the nest year's
harvest amounted to sight aillion more hectares than in 1946.
Doting 1947, 29 percent ante tractor work was dons than during 1946.
Ths plan for sprits plowing, cultivation prier to sowing, planting of the
sumsse crop, incwssatae.the fertility of fallow soil, eel planting of
winter crop by the t ram ter stations sus ft am-t. pcrk ace ?+~ 1 e?ss4 per
single tractor was raised 21 percent over the 1946 figure.
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Railroad freigls6 turnover in 1947 we increased in comparison with
1946. Average daily freight loading (pogratka) was 10 percent above the
1946 amount, with the following increases for particular items: coal,
11 poromnt; ferrous metals, 13 percentZ petroleum, 18 percent; timber,
13 percent; cement, li times greater.
Freight turnover for river transport increased 28 percent in 1947
oar 1946. The year's plan for freighting by river transport was ful-
filled 102 percent.
Freighting by sea transport in 1947 exceeded that in 1946 ty 15
percent; the year's plan was overfulfilled 8 percent.
The volume of all capital operations in 1947 for the whole national
econcc' amounted to 110 percent of that of 1946, including 109 percent
for the coal industry, l04 percent for electric power plants, 1:30 percent
for light industry and food industry, and 108 percent for the transport
industry.
Oaring 1946 and 1947, approximately 1,900 state enterpriser were con-
structed, restored, and put in operation.
Nearly nine million square meters cf living quarters were built or
restored by state enterprises, L--atitutions, and local soviets during 1947.
In addition, four million square meters of houses were built by individuals
in cities and workers' settlements, through savings gained from their labor.
The retail tar..'er cf merchandise in state and cooperativo trade
during 1947 r;,Wr'wed (in comparative prices) 117 percent of that of 1946.
The volume of cooperative trade in cities during 1947 amounted to
22,4e.00,000,000 rubles. In the fourth quarter of 1947 the volume of co-
operative trade in cities amounted to almost twice the fib for the
f first quarter .,f 1947.
As a rceralt of the rise in industry and agriculture dur!M 1947,
the radon system for provisions and Industrial goods was ebol'iahed, as
the high oormer4al prices, and there was effected a change to
a vystsen o sale of rods by onitore government prices, with a loser-
of the ration prices of t.rea4 and anal.
Doe to the lowi.ring of the state retail prices alone, the masses of
the Sorlet union will receive in the course of the year a net gain of
mare then 57 billion rubles.
In oonoection, with the preparation for ab..1is:.m nt of the ration
system and transition to open trade with uniform prices, 55,000 new stomas,
shops, and stands were opened during 1947 by eta.e and cooperative organ-
isutiuos.
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The number of workers and employees in the national economy of the
USSR during the course of 1947 increased by almost 1,200,000 persons,
-Through a stepping up of productive labor, the majority of the
branches of industry fulfilled their quotas as set by state planning
during 1947; in this way the work of industriall, -,orkers rose almost 13
percent above that of 1946.
.The amount of wages of workers and employees in the national
economy rose da percent in J.ywi over that of 1y4o. in 194?, 'lyu,Uui
young, trained workers were graduated from the industrial and rail-
road colleges (uchilishche) and schools for factory and shop instruction.
By means if individual and group (brigadnoye) apprenticeship and train-
ing courses, 2,2W,000 newly qualified persons were trained for industry
and the qualifications of'3,200,000 others were raised.
The number of 'students in primary and secondary schools incresed by
860,000 over 1946. The number of students in technical sachools and other
specialized secondary educational institutions increased by 36,000 persons
daring the year and the number of students in higher institutions of learn--
ing by 56,000.
In 1947, the number of medical institutions, sanitt.riwn , rest hones,
and mzrserias increased,
During 1947, capital operations in the amount of more than 18 billion
rubles, not counting decentralized capital investawnts, were carried out
for the restoration of the econonpr of -neiona occupied durint; the war,
Groan production of industry of regions which suffered occupation
increased by 33 percent in 1947 as coeparad with 1946. The production of
pig iron rose 30 percent; rolled iron, 35 percent; coal output in the
Donate Basin., 19 percent; production of electric power, 35 percent; cement,
48 percent; sugar, 123 percent.
In the districts liberated from the German occupation, there were
built or restore,. in 1947 more than five rzllllon square meters of dwelling
space in the cities and 370,000 houses in rural areas.
T e fulfillment of the plan for gross industrial production by
Union 4ppilics in terms of the percentage of the 1947 plan completed
is eho a below: -
RS,7SR
166
Mrair4an -W
C.19
Deloraaian 33R
iQ2
Usbek SSR
lclb
Kauakh SSR
1(4
Georgian SSR
110
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Lithuanian 3SR 102
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Ltvian SSR
117
Kirghiz SSR
109
Tadzhik SSH
12
Arsswuiaa 63R
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Turkasn SSR
106
Estonian MR
113
Karelo?-Finntph SSR
fib
which have enoraswus significance in the strengthening and continued
growth of s 11et eoonagy.
As a result of these aaaoetary reforms, the purchaai.ng power of the
ruble inezrsased remarkably, for the old money was taken out of circula-
tion and new money of full value was returned to circula.tion.
of nccial-tst? coapetition participated in i the entire population.
Started off by the workers of Leningrad, there is ;ieveloping exten-
movement for fa era y lnent of the Five-laar Plan in four j ears - a t uUILA.-
cunt of the plan ahead of schedule.
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