METALLURGY MINISTRY REORGANIZED, NEW MINISTERS APPOINTED; STEEL INDUSTRY EXCEEDS 1950 PLAN

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Iron and steel; nonferrous metals
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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DATE
PUBLISHED 25 Nov - 6 Jan 1951
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INFORMATION 1950-51
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
METALLURGY MINISTRY REORGANIZED, NEW MINISTERS APPOINTED;
STEEL INDUSTRY EXCEEDS 1950 PLAN
fRiumbers in parentheses refer to appended list of sources
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR issued a ukase dated 28 December
1950 which ordered the division of the Ministry of the Metallurgical Industry
USSR into two ministries, Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy USSR and Ministry of
Nonferrous Metallurgy USSR, and the transfer of enterprises' and organizations
to the respective ministries, according to a list approved by the Council of
Ministers USSR. The Presidium appointed Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, Deputy Chair-
man of the Council of Ministers USSR, as Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy and Petr
Fadeyevich Lomako as Minister of Nonferrous Metallurgy USSR. The Council of Min-
isters appointed Anatoliy Nikolayevich Kuz'min as First Deputy Minister of Ferrous
Metallurgy and Ivan Vasil'yevich Arkhipov as First Deputy Minister of Nonferrous
Metallurgy.(1)
On 6 January, Tevosyan, Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy, reported to Stalin
that the Ministry has reached the goal for 1950, as set forth in the Five-Year
Plan, in the production of pig iron, steel, rolled metal, and iron pipe. In
1950, the following items were produced above the Five-Year Plan goal: 2,200,000
tons of steel, 2,630,000 tons of pig iron, and 440,000 tons of iron pipe.(la)
Throughout the month of December, individual ferrous metallurgy
enterprises reported completion of the 1950 year plan and'of the Five-
Year Plan. There was less stress toward the end of the month on
fulfillment of orders for the new power projects, but there was con-
tinued reports of new production recc.cds 6.nd intraplant mechaniza-
tion and improvement.
By 30 December, the plants subordinated to "Glavura]met" (Main Administration
of the Ural Metallurgical Industry) completed the 1950 plan for production of pig
(iron and rolled metal. Ten plants of the administration completed the 1950 plan
for the entire production cycle. Among them are the Lys'va and Verkh-Isetskiy
metallurgical plants.(2) In 1950, the volume of gross production at the latter
plant increased 10.4 percent over the same period of 1949.(3)
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The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine imeni Stalin in Chelyabinsk Oblast
completed ahead of schedule the 1950 plan for the entire metallurgical cycle.
Miners of the Magnitnaya Mine led the competition in the combine and completed
the 1950 plan for ore mining on 24 November. The blast-furnace shop completed
the plan on 14 December. The combine's blast-furnace workers are producing the
cheapest pig iron in the USSR.(4) In 11 months of 1950, these workers increased
output and saved more than 3 million rubles above plan.(5) The combine as a
whole has given the state some 70 million rubles in profits above plan. (4) The
combine's steelworkers have also realized considerable savings. The three Stakh-
anovite shift foremen, operating furnace No 3, who proposed to save one million
rubles in 1950 by saving on materials, power, and fuel, and to produce above the
1950 plan 12,000 tons of steel, have exceeded their pledge. In 11 months, they
produced above plan 16,089 tons of steel and saved one million rubles.(6)
Blast-furnace workers at furnace No 1 of the Chusovoy Metallurgical Plant
considerably improved the coefficient for capacity furnace utilization, produc-
ing one ton of pig iron per 0.89 cubic meter of useful furnace volume as compared
with the norm of one ton per 0.92 cubic meter.(7)
The Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant has completed ahead of schedule the 1950
production plan. In 1950, steel smelting increased 12.4 percent over 1949 and
pipe production increased 48.5 percent. Labor productivity is above plan. In
11 months of 1950, the pipe rollers halve gained more than 10 million rubles in
accumulations above plan by decreasing production costs.(8)
The Sinarskiy Pipe Plant (director, S. Korepanov) has made great strides in
recent years by widely` extending the use of Stakhanovite methods throughout the
plant. The enterprise has-been able to make a steady increase in production rate
and a considerab~e'increase in output. Labor productivity per worker increased
in 1948 by 9.2 percent, in 1949 by 29.1 percent, and in 1950 by 38.4 percent.
Production costs decreased 22.2 percent over the actual production cost in 1947.
In the postwar plan, the plant was scheduled to increase considerably its
output of pipe. At the end of 1947, the plant had developed a new methodology
for studying and introducing generalized Stakhanovite experience. Thus, on the
basis of achievements of individual Stakhanovites, a single, uniform system of
organization of each industrial process was developed and put into effect. The
use of this methodolgy in the cold-drawing sector had the result of increasing
labor productivity of workers on pipe-drawing mills by 19.3 percent in 1948. In
the pipe-casting shop, output of six-inch pipe increased 17.8 percent even though
the same equipment and the came number of workers were used. This year, the work
of the pipe-rolling workers was organized anew, with the result that labor pro-
ductivity among pipe rollers increased 12.3 percent.
In July 1948, the pipe-casting shop was the first in the plant to be put
on the regulated schedule. This new schedule was based on a careful study which
determined the length of time required for each operation at each machine. Dis-
patcher control was introduced and telephone communication from the shop's dis-
patcher point to each boring and turning machine was installed. This new regu-
lated schedule was drawn up into a strict technological and production instruc-
tion. The new regime in the shop had the following results: production of pipe
increased 38.2 percent and labor productivity increased 34.3 percent. In 1949,
the schedule was revised three times and again changed in 1950. As a result of
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these further ltlljli`U VC1LCi1tD, the Davy_ i .iu 7/v pr0..,....,.. ~-. rerc-----en -- more than i t
had in 1947.(5) By 14 December, the plant's pipe-casting shop had completed the
1950 plan for production of cast-iron pipe.(9)
The Novo-Tagil'skiy Metallurgical Plant completed ahead of schedule the
1950 plan for smelting pig iron. In 1950, pig iron output increased 6.8 per-
cent over 1949 and labor productivity of blast-furnace workers increased 11.1
percent.(10)
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In honor of its 225th Anniversary, the Metallurgical Plant imeni Kuybyshev
in Nizhniy Tagil completed the 1950 plan for the production of steel and rolled
products.(11)
At the Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Plant, the leading steel brigade is striv-
ing to reach an average yield of 8 tons of steel per square meter of furnace
hearth.(12)
The open-hearth shop of the Izhevsk Metallurgical Plant, Udmurt ASSR, com-
pleted its 1950 plan on 9 December. The average recovery of steel per square
meter of hearth in 1950 was 7.24 tons, almost one ton above the norm and con-
siderably more than the 1949 average. In 31 months, the shop has saved 120
tons of ferromanganese, 1,200 tons of converter pig iron, 140 tons of magnesite
brick and powder, and 20 tons of nickel, 1,500 tons of dolomite, etc. By the
end of the year, the shop has plans for exceeding the second 6-month steel plan
by 20 percent and to produce above plan in 1951 as much metal as is produced an-
nually by one open-hearth furnace.
The shop has introduced a new combined brick checkerwork which has improved
the furnace heating system, a new type of ingot mold which enables the plant to
save 3,000 tons of metal annually, an improved method of drawing off the slag
from the furnace, and various changes in design of different units of the open-
hearth furnace. The charging system has been improved, helping to speed the
process by one hour. Two additional pouring beds have been added to the pouring
room. The time for holding the ingots in the molds has been cut in half without
any impairment in quality. Some of the steelworkers are now completing melts in
the record time of 42-5 hours.(13)
In the Kuzbass, the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine imeni Stalin has completed
the 1950 plan for the entire production cycle. In 11 months of 1950, the combine
has saved more than 19 million rubles by decreasing costs. In December, the out-
put of pig iron increased 9.3 percent over 1949 (14) On 23 December, blast-fur-
nace workers completed the 1950 plan for pig-iron smelting. In 1950, blast-fur-
nace workers have achieved a new coefficient for capacity utilization of the fur-
naces. This coefficient is now 0.85 on the average for the shop, as compared with
the mean progressive norm of 0.86. Furnace No 1 has achieved 0.79, as compared
with the norm of 0.84.(15)
The Petrovsko-Zabaykal'skiy Metallurgical Plant, Chita Oblast, completed
ahead of schedule its 1950 plan for the entire metallurgical cycle.(16)
By September 1948, steelworkers and rolling-mill workers at the Kazakh Metal-
lurgical Plant in Temir-Tau had achieved the production level planned for the end
of the Five-Year Plan. This level has now been exceeded almost 100 percent in steel
and more than 50 percent in rolled products. The planned capacity of the open-hearth
furnaces has been exceeded by 60 percent and the productivity of the "400" rolling
mill by one third.(17)
The Aktyubinsk Ferroalloy Plant in the Kazakh SSR completed the 1950 plan 5
days ahead of schedule. In comparison with 1946, output of production has increased
22 times.(18)
In 9 months of 1950, the volume of steel production in the Uzbek SSR was 347.5
percent of the product on volume for the same period of 1947 and the volume of rolled
metal, 350.4 percen?c,(19)
The sheet section of the rolling shop of the Uzbek Metallurgical Plant (dizec-
tor, I. F. Mukhamedov) is preparing to start production of fine-gauge sheet and 'ff-
millimeter roofing tin,(20)
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In the South, on 20 December, blast-furnace workers at the Metallurgical
Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy completed the 1950 plan for smelting pig iron. The
workers completed the Five-Year Plan for pig iron one month ago.(21)
A steelworker in the plant's open-hearth shop No 2 recently exceeded the
mean progressive norm almost lz times by producing 10.92 tons of steel per
square meter of hearth, and completed the heavy-weight melt in the record time
of 5 hours 20 minutes. One of the shop's Stekhanovites has made an important
contribution to the shop's operation by improving the quality of the charge.
Formerly, metal scrap was charged into the furnace without taking into account
the grade of steel. Much time was consumed in bringing the melt to the speci-
fied composition. This Stakhanovite was the first to begin to choose a charge,
the chemical composition of which would meet the necessary specifications. In
this way, he cut the length of the process of final melting in half. This op-
eration can now be done in 35-40 minutes as compared with the former 60-90 min-
utes, All steelworkers in the shop are now following this method and it has
been adopted in a technological instruction for the shop.(22)
In the second half of December, the wheel-rolling shop of the Metallurgi-
cal Plant imeni K. Libknekht in Dnepropetrovsk has been working on saved metal
and fuel. The shop has already produced enough seamless rolled wheel pairs
from saved metal and fuel for a train of cars more than one kilometer in length.(23)
The plant has completed ahead of schedule the first order for pipe for the Stalin-
grad power project.(24)
The Nikopol' Southern Pipe Plant, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, fulfilled orders
for pipe for the Tsimlyanskiy and Kuybyshev power projects almost one month ahead
of schedule.(25)
Metallurgical workers in the city of Zhdanov have produced and shipped ahead
of schedule a large consigment of railroad rails for the Kuybyshev project.(16)
The Zhdanov Metallurgical Plant imeni Il'ich is scheduled to supply rolled metal
to enterprises of the Ministry of Construction- and Road-Machine Building which
are producing equipment for the new power and irrigation projects. These enter-
prises are experiencing a severe shortage of rolled metal supplies. A shortage
of binding wire to pack the metal is the cause for the delay in shipment from
the Plant imeni I1'ich, which has a great quantity of finished rolled products
on hand ready for delivery.(26)
The Makeyevl:a Metallurgical Plant, Stalino Oblast, has delivered ahead of
schedule an order of rail fasteners to the Kuybyshev project.(16) A correspond-
ent of Pravda Ukrainy has previously reported that for a long time the Makeyevka
Plant has failed to meet its plans and that the plant's low level of labor and
production discipline is impairing technological procedures. Korenev, Secretary
of the Makeyevka City Party Committee, has informed the editors of Pravda Ukrainy
that their correspondent correctly analysed the causes for the lag at the plant.
The Bureau of the Makeyevka City Party Committee has outlined a number of meas-
ures designed to improve the plant's operations. The committee is demanding of
Lunina, secretary of the Plant Party Committee, a radical improvement in the man-
agement of mass political work at the plant.(27)
On 27 December, during the night shift, the Almaznaya Metallurgical Plant,
Voroshilovgrad Oblast, completed the 1950 plant for smelting metal. On 28 De-
^mbc^ the plant shipped out the first trainload of metal smelted tnward the
1951 plan.(28)
Planned repair of open-hearth furance No 5 at the Taganrog Metallurgical
Plant imeni Andreyev, Rostov Oblast, was completed in the record time of 62 work-
ing hours. Steelworkers were able to produce 500 tons of steel in the time saved
in repair work.(29)
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On 24 December, foundry workers, rolling mill workers, welders, and steel-
workers of the Moscow "Serp i molot" Plant reported completion of the 1950 plan
for the entire production cycle.(30) Workers at the plant's "750" rolling mill
are achieving record output. Recently, one shift rolled 610 billets in 8 hours,
a record never achieved at the plant nor at many metallurgical plants in the
UsSR.(31)
Leading steelworkers in the steel shop of the Gor'kiy Metallurgical Plant
recently achieved a yield of 7.25 tons of steel per square meter of furnace
hearth as compared 'ith the norm of 6.7 tons. The plant as a whole completed
ahead of schedule the 1950 plan for gross production and finished goods produc-
tion.(32)
In the mining industry, the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Basin completed ahead of
schedule the 1950 plan. Mining of iron ore increased 35.5 percent over 1949.(33)
Miners of the "Uralruda" Trust have completed ahead of schedule the 1950
plan for mining iron and manganese ores and fluxes. In comparison with 1949,
labor productivity has increased 7 percent, and in 11 months the mines have
approximately 4 million rubles by decreasing costs. The Vysokaya Gera, Leby-
azhinskiy, Polunochnyy, and Alapayevsk mines have already shipped to metal-
lurgical plants thousands of tons of iron and manganese ore above the 1950
plan.(23)
The Dzhezdy Manganese Mine, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, has completed
ahead of schedule its Five-Year Plan.(34)
The percent of mechanized mining of ore in the Mines imeni Lenin and imeni
Stalin of the Chiatura Manganese Trust has risen considerably as a result of the
use of scrapers in the stopes. The PML-4 loading machines are being used success-
fully in these mines.(35) Electric core drills, heavy-duty electric locomotives,
and many other machines are being used ever more extensively in these mines. The
entire process of bringing the ore from the stopes to the concentration plants
and from there to the railroad loading bunkers is completely mechanized.
Bukhrashvili, a mechanic of the Mine Administration imeni Ordzhonikidze, has
developed and built a winch for knocking out mine support pillars, and tests of
the machine have had outstanding results. The support pillars can be reused sev-
eral times. Engineers Dzhinchvelashvili, Modebadze, Gabechava, Akhvlediani and
others have made valuable proposals for improving the technology of ore concen-
tration.(36)
The Mine imeni Ordzhonikidze has developed a new field which will be mined
by the open-pit method to decrease the cost of the mined ore and to make great
savings in timbering material, as well as to facilitate labor conditions. For
this work, the trust has obtained and put into operation a heavy-duty, 3-cubic-
meter ESZ electric excavator produced by the "Uralmash" Plant. Excavators will
be used both for mining and loading the ore.(35)
1. Moscow, Pravda, 29 Dec 50
la. Moscow, Pravdrs, 6 Jau 51
2.
Moscow,
Pravda 30 Dec 50
3.
Moscow,
K:asnaya Zvezda, 13 Dec 50
4.
Moscow,
Pravda, 26 Dec 50
5.
Moscow,
Trud, 15 Dec 50
6.
Moscow,
Trud, 9 Dec 50
7.
Moscow,
Izvestiya, 3 Jan 51
8.
Moscow,
Pravda, 24 Dec 50
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Moscow, Trud, 14 Dec 50
Moscow, Pravda, 22 Dec 50
Moscow, Izvestiya, 28 Dec 50
Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 15 Dec 50
Moscow, Pravda, 31 Dec 50
Yerevan, Kommunist, 1 Jan 51
Moscow, Izvestiya, 24 Dec 50
Moscow, Pravda, 25 Dec 50
Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 4 Jan 51
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 31 Dec 50
Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 25 Nov 50
Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 1 Jan 51
Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 21 Dec 50
Moscow, Izvestiya, 8 Dec 50
Leningradsk"..ya Pravda, 27 Dec 50
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 16 Dec 50
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 4 Jan 51
Moscow, Trud, 24 Dec 50
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 14 Dec 50
Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 29 Dec 50
Moscow, Trud, 10 Dec 50
Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 26 Dec 50
Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 28 Dec 50
Moscow, Trud, 13 Dec 50
Moscow, Izvestiya, 30 Dec 50
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 30 Dec 50
Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 28 Dec 50
Moscow, Trud, 27 Dec 50
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