ECONOMIC - GENERAL DEVELOPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220570-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 570
• Publication Date: April 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL.INTE IGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY l7SSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1849
SUBJECT Eccnr,,mlc - General aevelopment
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BASHSIR ASSF. PROGRESS OUTLINED -- Rrasnays Zvezda, No 68, 23 Mar 49
G. Nigmadzhanov, chairman cf Presidium of Supreme Soviet
Bashkir ASSR, states that during the years of the Fine-Year Plans
and the war, Bashkir industry expanded to 28 times +.ts prererolu-
tionafiy size. Eighty-two heavy, and hundreds oP medium and light
industrial en:erpris~a have been set up.
The area of cultivated ground increased 79 percent, andyield
froo agriculture doubled. Seven million hectares aTe cultivated
each year by kolkhozes, which are served by 140 MTSa.
There are at present 300 motion picture nouaes, 114 radio
broadcasting and receiving units, and ?69 libraries. Twenty scien-
tific research in9titutions are in operation. There are about
10,000 speciallsts with higher education end about }1,000 with
secondary education. Bach year about 2,800,000 books are printed
in the Bashkir and Russian languages by the Bashkir State Publish-
ing E~us~.
FEBRUARY PRODUCTION COOD IN TBILISI --?Zarya Vostokn, No 47,
11 Mar 4g
During February, gross production by industry of Tbilisi,
Georgian SSR, was 106.2 percent oP the plan. Trade coaperative
artela completed their pan 106.5 percent and invnl.ids' coopera-
tive artels 104 percent. Enterprises of ministries of Georgian
SSR fulfilled their February plans in percent as Pollowae Meat
arai Dairy Industry, 197.8; Food Industry, 112.3; Automobile Trans-
port, 104; Local Industry, 103.8; Light Industry, 103,
Machine-building plants imeni girov and "Stanok", the auto-
mobile repair foundry, the knitted-fabric spinning combine, and
the worsted and tea-compoun3ing factories succeaafully completed
the January.February elan,
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The following were behind schedule: the dry-goods, saddle,
and film-copying factories, the pharmaceutical plant, and a
series of other enterprises.
MIN$$ INDUSTRY TO SPEED CA?ITAL TIIRNOVER -- Sovatsk,aya Ralorussi~a,
~?0 50, 1i Mar 4g
In 1948 4Sinek and Minsk Oblast industry produced l63
million rubles worth of goods more than in 1947 and accumulated
58.5 mi111oax rubles above the plan. Leading industrial enter-
prises iJ Minsk kaace pledged to speed up the turnover of working
capital and release 14.2 million rubles in .1949?,. :Borisov warl.ers
hewn promised to reload.e 4.6 million rubles, and Mlnak area workers
of the kes'te,rn Railroad System have pledged 1,341,000 rubles. Six
gnterprses of ~oroshilovskiy Rayon -- the Radio Plant imeni
Malotov, the knitted t'abrica and dry-goods. 4ombine, the ?lent StK.eZi
Chka].ov, and the .gxygeny tile, and machinery repair plants -- Nava
pledged to release ~;OgS,575 'rubles.
In the? Minsk Tool Plant imeni Chkalov, the produ?ticn of
threading dice has been aaitched from lathes to revolving automatic
end se~aiautomatc machines vlaich ?omtina the first five operations.
NEW VILLAGE BUILT IN CftIT$OTSA -- Molodly Dai'nevost?ochnik, No 24,
12 Feb 49
Anadyr' -- One year ago, nomad kalkhoz workers of the
"Turvaugin" Artel, Markovskiy Rnyun, Chukot Nstional Okrug, decided
to guild a permanent settlement at the foot oP the Stogonov volcano
on she upper part of the Anadyr' River. A construction brigade,
headed by the chairman oP the kolkhoa, built an bntire village..
It is situated along the shore of the river end contains a school
building, a medical center, a store, two warehouaea, and four 2-
apartment houses. "_'he kolkhoz workers havc+ decided to construct
a rural club building, a kolkhoz office, and ?',ve 2-apartment
houses in 1949?
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