USSR MINISTRIES LAG IN 1949 HOUSING CONSTRUCTION

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• Publication Date: January 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Economic - Rousing 17orstru_`ion
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USSR MINISTRIES LAG IN 1949 ROUSING CONSTRUCTION
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Ministry of Constrv:ti.on of Heavy Industry Enterprises
The progress of housing construction by the Ministry of Cona ruction of
Heavy Industry Enterprisea was discussed at a session of the Second Plenum of
the VTsSPS on 20 August. D. Ye. Rayzer, Vice Minister of Construction of
Heavy Industry linterprises, atate3 in his report that the ministry is building
a great amount of housing as well as heavy industry enterprises. The volume
of this construction work has steadily increased.
The Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry Enterprises completed
582,000 square meters of housing in 1947, 884,000 square meters in 1948, and
=At construct 1,192,000 square meters of housing in 1949. However, the
ministry has failed to construct during 1949 thousands of square meters of
housing space for metallurgical, chemical, and machine-building industry
workers. It completed only 347,000 of the 418,000 square meters planned
during the first half of 1949. Moreover, the July results show that the
building organizations are still operating unsatisfactorily.
The construction of homes for workers at the Magnitogorsk Combine, the .
Makeyevka and Yenakiyevo plants, Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, Lipetak and
Kharkov tractor iilants, Novo-Tnl'skiy and Ziatoust metallurgical plants, and
the Gorlovka. Dneprodzerzhinsk, and Dnepropetrovsk coke and chemical plants
has been inadequate.
Rayzer remarked t;,at directors of construction organizations and in
administrations of the ministry devo,,a more attention to industrial construc-
con-
tion than ip housing. industrial n Lhi ds and r haiiizativ n used in
structing industrial buildings should be applied to housing construction, he
said. (1)
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66.4 percent of the 1948 plan for housing construction and was completely un-
satisfactory in meeting the 6-month 1949 plan (?), although the volume of
housing construction during the first half of 1949 increased 38 percent over
the same period of 1948. Out of 63 trusts of the Ministry of Construction of
Heavy Industry Enterprises, only 28 trusts fulfilled the 6-month plan. Only
one third of the year plan for volume of construction work was completed: by
the ministry in the first 6 months.
ization. Industrial, ass,,bly-line construction methods are used by many
builders in Moscow, Leningrad, Magnitogorsk, Zaporozh'ye, Stalingrad, and
other cities. However, not everywhere are these n?thod ATFlted, As en ex-
and Chelyabinsk. Two large trusts operate in these cities, the Tagil Trust
headed by Kratenko, and the Chelyabinsk Trust headed by Terent'yev. The
working conditions of Loth trusts are similar, but the results are different.
While the Tagil Trust completed only two tLirds of the 6-month plan for
housing construction, the Chelyabinsk Trust exceeded the plan. A comparison
of both operations shows that problems of mechanizaticn and labor organization
^e neglected in Nizhniy Tagil, while they are given primary consideration in
Autry and its main administrations are not taking active measures for con
ple,,tng the plan for mechanization of construction operations. The Second
Plenum of the VToSFS, in considering this problem, drew up a concrete plan pro-
viding an increase in the rate of housing construction and in improvement of
its quality, improvement of labor organization, and increase in the control on
the progress of housing construction. The plenum gave considerable attention
to improvir, the housing and cultural services for construction workers. (2)
Housing construction has recently been handled to a large extent by non-
construction enterprises, such as coal combines, metallurgical and other plants.
In spite of the fact that these e-iterprises have no building experience, they
exceed their construct co plans, sometimes by 100 percent, while the special-
ized construction trusts fail to meet their production quotas. This has hap-
pened in the past and again in 1949 in the Kuzbass, where only one out of three
trusts fulfilled the plan. A similar situation exists in. the Urals and in the
Donbass. (3)
In th_ '_a-et few year a, building organizations of the Ministry of Con-
struction of F.crvy Industry Enterprises have restored and built over 2 million
square meters of housing, as well as a large number of schools, hospitals,
clubs, kindergartens, bathing establishments, laundry establishments, and stores
for enterprises in various branches of industry. However, the following ad-
ministrations and trus,.s have been unable to meet their quotas: "Glavchermet-
stroy Vostoka" (Main Administration for Construction of Ferrous Metallurgy
Enterprises of the East), "Gla'-uralstroy" (Main Administration for Constructic1
of Ural Enterprises), "Glavsibsredazetroy" (Main Administration for Con-
struction of Siberian and Central Asian Enterprises). "Tag'otrc; " Trust,
Makeyevka Construction Trust, and "Magnicostroy" Trust.
The ministry is not meeting the plan for construction of new house-building
combines and the production of prefabricated souses, as well as the plan far
production of construction materials in existing enterprises.
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Industry. Metallurgical workers should obtain 760,000 square meters of housing
during 1949; 89,000 square meters of housing is to be constructed for sale to
workers, and aid will be given for the construction of more than 3,000 individu-
al houses. The agreements provide also for construction of 68 clubs and cultural
c?nters, 41 bathhouses and laundries, 49 schools 18 polyclinics and hospitals,
i imtry or Metallurgical Industry
eeded the 6-month housing construction plan, and more than 17,500 equare meters
a the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Plant imeni Karl Libknekht.
The majority of metallurgical enterprises in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast ex-
A new workers' settlement of 40 slag concrete houses is under construction
or 27.4 percent or the year plan, were completed.
Since the beginning of 1949, there has been a serious lag in housing con
etructionfor the industry. In 6 months, only 208,000 square meters of housing
From 1 :January to 1 August 1949, 49 percent of the plan for capital con-
struction by Khabarovsk Kray enterprises was completed; 55 percent of the year
pl.an for housing construction was completed during that period. Since the be-
ginning of 1949, 31,500 sgaare meters of housing have been out into service.
Enterprises of the Ministry of Fish Industry have not been utilizing
funds satisfactorily and completed only 42 percent of the year plan for capital
construction in 7 months. (6)
Housing Construction in Khabarovsk K r
1. Trud, No 197. 21 Aug 49
2. V Pomoshch' F7) C, Vol 10, No 17, Sep 49
3. Izvestiya, No 207, 2 Sep 49
4. V Pomoshch' FZMK, Vol 10, No 18, Sep 49
5. V Pomoshch' FZ14C, Vol 10, No 16, Aug 49
6. Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda. No 197, 21 Aug 49
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