KAZAKH SSR INCREASES METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION; LEAD AND COPPER INDUSTRIES LAGGING

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATISQN CONFIDENTIAL cpNFIDENTIAL
ECURTTY INFORMAT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR - Kazakh SSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
SUBJECT Economic - Metallurgy, ferrous and nonferrous
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Alma-Ata NO. OF PAGES 2
DATE
PUBLISHED 16, 19 Dec 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
KAZAKH SSR INCREASES METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION;
LEAD AND COPPER INDUSTRIES LAGGING
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources-.7
The metallurgical industry of the Kazakh SSR fulfilled the postwar Five-
Year Plan as follows: blister copper, 100.5 percent; zinc, 113.2 percent; fer-
roalloys, 109.2 percent; Steel, 10''.2 percent; nonferrous rolled products, 100.7
percent; rolled steel products, lOh.S percent; copper ore mining, 102.1 percent;
nickel ore, 104.1 percent; chromite ore, 113.9 percent; manganese ore, 111.2
-'ercent; tin concentrates, 117 percent, procurement of ferrous metal scrap,
100.8 percent. Production of nonferrous and rare metals considerably exceeded
the prewar level. However. :he Kazakh metallurgical industry as a whole, and
especially the lead and copper industries, are seriously lagging behind the de-
mands of national economy, mainly because of the delay in starting new enter-
prises and the Inadequate utilization of production capacities in existing en-
terprises.
During 11 months of 1951, the republic completed only 97.3 percent of the
plan for copper smelting. Not a single enterprise of the copper industry (with
the exception of the irtysh Plant and the Uspenskiy Mine) was able to fulfill
the plan.
The over-all production plan for lead smelting was not fulfilled by the
republic during 1949 - 1950. During 11 months of 1951, the plan for lead
smelting was fulfilled 100.3 percent by the Chimkent Lead Plant and 84.3 per-
cent by the Lentnogorsk Lead Plant.
Despite the equipment of mines with modern machinery, mechanization of la-
bor, especially of underground mining operations, is still on a low level and
efficient mining methods are not used sufficiently. Concentration plants in
enterprises of the lead industry are permitting great losses of metal in the
:oncentration of ores.
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Enterprises of the rare-metals industry fulfilled the Five-Year Plan suc-
cessfully, but lowered the level of their work during 1951.
Ferrous metallurgy enterprises are continuing to speed up production of
steel, rolled steel, ferroalloys, chromite and manganese ore; many of these
enterprises, including the Kazakh Metallurgical Plant, the Aktyubinsk Ferroal-
loye Plant, and the Donskoye and Dzhezdy mine administratioi,s, are meeting
their production quotas.(l)
The Aktyubinsk Ferroalloys Plant began to operate during World War II.
The plant has made considerable progress during 1951 and has by now reached or
even exceeded the production level of the Chelyabinsk Ferroalloys Plant. How-
ever, much still remains to be done to utilize all production reserves of the
plant. Ferrochrome produced by the Aktyubinsk Plant is much more expensive
than that produced by the Chelyabinsk Plant. This is due to the fact that coal,
limestone, and quartzite for the Aktyubinsk Plant have to be hauled from a long
distance. It is urgently necessary to exploit the local deposits of brown coal
and limestone. Ferrochrome produced in Kazakhstan should be the cheapest in the
USSR.(2)
The further development of nonferrous metallurgy to a point where it would
satisfy all the growing demands of national economy is one of the most important
tasks of the Kazakh SSR's party organization. The first step would be to elimi-
nate in as short a time as possible the lag in the lead and copper industries
and to guarantee fulfillment of production plans for the mining and processing
of ore and for smelting of lead and copper. In the copper and lead industries,
construction of new enterprises must be speeded up, existing production capaci-
ties must be completely utilized, production techniques must be regulated, and
losses of metal must be eliminated. The mines must meet their production quotas
with rege-d to copper content of the ore. By complete mechanization of mining
operations and introduction of more efficient labor methods, labor productivity
in mines, concentration plants, and metallurgical plants must be increased con-
siderably. The large turnover of workers in the copper and lead industry should
be eliminated.
The lead industry must create a raw-material base, so that it would be un-
necessary in the future to ship lead ore from other republics.
As regards to ferrous metallurgy in the Kazakh SSR, steel smelting and
production of rolled steel and ferroal'.o;:s in existing plants must be further
increased.
Capital construction In the Kazakh metallurgical industry is far from
meeting current demands. The Fourth Five-Year Plan and the 1951 plan for capi-
tal construction were not fulfilled. The "Altaysvinetsntroy" (Altay Lead Mine
Const-?ctien) Trust improved its operation slightly; however, the "LeninoRor-
sksvinetsstrov" (Leninogorsl: Lead Mine f'o"struction), "Zyryanovskstroy" (Zrya-
novsk Mine Construction) and "Mirgalimsaysvinetsstroy" (Mirgalimsay Lead Mine
Construction) trusts are lagging considerably.(1)
SOURCES
1. Aina??Ata, Kazaldistanskaya Pravda, 16 Dec 51
2. Ibid., 19 Dec 51
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