ECONOMIC - HEAVY MACHINERY

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• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1174
• Publication Date: May 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION 1948
SUBJECT E-,)nomic - heavy industry
CLASSIFICAa"CN c IAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR'
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSF, DATE OF
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
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PUBLISHED Moscow
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PUBL"HED =',ag 1948
LANGUAGE Russian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Stroitel, Ptoxv?hlennost, No 8,, 1948.
INDUSTRIAL H TERPRI8 FOR CONSTRUCTION CF
Fffi~I008 113TALUTBGICAI. ?NSTALLATIONS
S. L. Eaplun and
R. S. Zelldovich, Engre
In 1948, a large number of blast furnaces, open-hearth furnace.i,
Bessemer converters, rolling mills, coke batteries, and other important
facilities for ferrous metallurgy are to be constructed and put into opera-
tion by the Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry Enterprioes.
In the first half of 1948, the Ministry completed constriction or
reconstruction of a number of principal facilities of.ferrous metallurgy.
Two blast furnaces were put into operation, one of them a large-cepae-
ity, all-velddd furnace in the Zaporozhetall Plant, and one in the Stalin
Metallurgical Plant.
Ten open-hearth furnaces were put into operation: two in the Makeyevka
Metallurgioa. Plant, three In the 7aporozhatell Metallurgical Plant, and one
each in the Weta`lmZical Plant imeai Petrov and the Erasnyy Oktyabrl Plant,
the Pipe-Rolling Plant imeni H. Libne;tht, the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical
Combine, and the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant.
In the first half of the preceding year, only three open-hearth furnaces
started operations.
Seven coke batteries were started. These went into the Chelyabinsk
Metallurgical Plant and the Dnepropetrovsk, Semerovo, Novo-Makeyewkn, Novo-
Tenakiyevo, Zaporoshlye, and Smolyaninov Coke-Chemicaal Plante.
Only three coke batteries vent into operation in the same period last
Three t;arbogeneretore and 17 bc:lers were started in operation in
metallurgical plants in 1948.
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Ir_ addition, the Ninlsi.ry completed and put in one'ration 80 Installs-
tries, ? it the metallurgical and chemical i u?=tries, in heavy- ara traneport-
= e T iliing, and in the automobile and trac;,or industry. These installs-
c:e +^avered a total area of 130,480 square meters.
urn=traction organizations ci the Ministry of Construction of Heavy
Industry Enterprises have a broad industrial base. It consists of mechanized
open pits fcr extraction of gravel, stone and sand; brick and cinder-block
plants, 1 me 'c-h, c ?pst.:.. pian;.s, plants for reinforced-concrete
gewcnills arpea rv ;l.pe and 1 products,
ogging cleanizationd. In 1948, these organi-
t,.nns ar=, 'c to n nu' prod.u_ts having a total. value of 500 million rubles.
A signllficar_t part of this enormous system cos teen created only in
the past 3-5 years.
In 1948, the ca nufaoturing enterprises of trusts concerned with ferrous
metallurgical fa il.iies will p:tt out 320 million brick;;, 260 million pieces
of brick aubetituto ?eind.er blocks, etc), 140 thousatd tone of lime, 30 thou-
sand tons of gypsum, 1,080,000 cubic. meters of ?_uahed crone, etc.
Ti Zaporozhstroy Trust set up a powerful woodworking :ombine, which
provided soratrunion 1,=Aber , millwork products, crosstiee, wooden paving
blocks,,etc. This permitted rapid completion of a large amount of indus-
trial and housing construction.
Last year, builders of the Zaporozhetal' Plant had to acquire bricks,
reinforced-concrete slabs and other products from other construction organiza-
tions. This year, the Zaporozhstroy Trust has succeeded in supplying its own
materials.
The Nikopol'stroy Trust industrial base consists of mechanized quarries,
cinder block and brick plants, plants for reinforced-conoreto products, mill-
work plants with driers, etc. It is now able to assist other construction
organizations in the Dnepr region with local materials,
Along with construction of a large rail mannc?nt?ri"v ai,op, the
Azovetalletroy Trust is continuing to enlarge its industrial base, which is
made up of brick and plaster (gyps,mi) plants, a cinder-block plant, an enorabua
millwork shop, a milling (pomol'nyy.) installation, a shop for reinforced-
concrete
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The Maketroy Trust, in constructing the Makeyevka Metallurgical and
Coke-Chemical Plants, and the Zhartsyz Steel-Wire and Cable Plant, also
created the necessary industrial base. which prove to b
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Such a situation also exists in a group of other construction outfits
the Donbass and Dnepr Regions.
The greatest trusts -- Magnitoatroy, Tagiletroy, Stalinskpromatroy,
C`nelynbmetallargetzoy, o othera -- before World war 11, and especially during
the war, widely expanded their industrial bases, and at the present, time
are constructing ferrous metallurgical enterprises in the Urals.
The Zakavkazmetallurgstroy Trust, in builds ; the Transcaucasus Metallur-
gical Plant, created its own industrial base, incluiirg plants for concreta,
reinforced-concrete products, red brick, cinder blocks, and lime burning; a
sawmill, a structural-steal plant, stone quarries, an oxygen plant, etc.
The etructural-et eel plants at Dnepropetrovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kuznetsk,
Mariupol, Zelnrozb'ye cnd eloewhere, having been provided with necessary
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equipment and skilled personnel are now f'1.1,5 able to ^:e.rry out plane
for construction or reconstruction of ferrous metallurgical enterprises.
aii'.'ev'er, to realize the large program for reconstruction of southern
ferro!l_-metallurgical enterprises during 1948-1950, construction organiza-
tior.3 of the Ministry must mechanize and expand, and also open new sand and.
eto.ie quarries in the Donbass and Dnepr regions. Annual capacity must be
raised as follows (in cubic meters): sand, 1948 from 390,000 to 700,000;
1949 to 900,000; 1950 to 1,100,000; quarrystone, 1948 from 180,000 to 310,000;
1949 to 400,000; 1950 to 480,000, Crushed stone, 1948 from 145,000 to
345 000; 1949 to 470,000; 1950 to 580,000.
~zisting brick plants must be expanded and new ones built so as to
a'`?tain (in million bricks per year): 1.948 from 83 to 120; 1949 to 143;
1950 to 173.
existing cinder-block plants must be expanded and new ones built in
the Donbass and Dnepr regiot.3 so as to attain (in million blocks per year):
1948 from 37 to 90; 1949 to 110; 1950 to 130.
The Ministry =at increase mechanization In construction and reconatruo-
tion of southern ferroue?-metallurgical enterprises as follows: earth work in
1948 to 70 percent; 1949 to 75 percent; 1950 to 80 percent; concrete pour-
ing in 1948 to 70 percent; 1949 to 75 percent; 1950 to '80 percent; stone
crashing in 1948 to 95' percent; 1949 to 98 percent; 1950 to 100 percent;
erection of metal structures in 1948 to 95 percent; 1949 to 97 percent; 1950
to 98 percent.
Along with the large amount of construction and erection work in the
reconstruction and expansion of existing ferrous-metallurgical enterprises in
the south, the Ministry must construct new metallurgical and pipe-oiling
plants.
The Ministry is faced with construction of a new metallurgical plant
in a northwestern region of our country. The products which this plant will
manufacture will assist the further development of the mechlne-building indus-
try of this region.
In order to supply this construction project with the necessary materials,
a powerful irdopend.ent construction base must be set up.
In a number of trusts of our Ministry, insufficient attention is being
given to problems of creation and development of independent production bases
for the exploitation of local materials. Without this development, the tar-
gets for 1948 cannot be reached, and the program for completion of the Five-
Year Plan in 4 years will be threatened.
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