POSTWAR CONSTRUCTION IN USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 277
• Publication Date: January 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COLNTRY USSR
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - Construction INFORMATION 1939 - 1952
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, DATE DIST, ,0 Jan 1953
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WHERE periodicals
PUBLISHED USSR NO. OF PAGES 2
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PUBLISHED 4 Jun - Oct 1952
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POSTWAR CONSTRUCTION IN USSR
[Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources]
The 1951-55 Five :ear Plan for,municiral construction in the USSR provides
for investing 50 percent more rapi.tal than in 1946 - 1950. About 105 million
square meters of living space will be put into use in the cities and workers'
settlements of the USSR.(1)
During 1946 - 1950, 42.3 billion rubles or abcut three times more than
during the third Five-Year Plan were spent for resid-,ntial construction. Over
100 million square meters of living space were built and restored in cities and
workers' settlements. In addition, 2,700,000 dwelling houses were built and
restcred. During 1951 alone, 27 million square meters of living space were put
intc operation it towns ana settlements(2), while in rural areas, about 400,000
dwelling houses were built.(3)
At the beginning of 1952, the number of hospitals in cities and villages
was 30 percent higher than in 1940. The network of sanatoriums has also been
increased.'(4) In 1952, uver 315 million rubles will be'spent on construction,
capital repairs, and equipping sanatoriums. Labor unions today have over 1,000
sanatoriums and rest homes which can hold over 150,000 persons.(5) During the
postwar. years, 23,500 schools were built. The number of scientific and research
institutes, laboratories, and other scientific institutes in the USSR increased
from 1,560 in 1939, to 2,900 at the beginning of 1952. At present, there are
3:.3,000 libraries of all kinds in the country, which is an increase of 120000
over 1939.(4)
`ere are now 270 cities in the Soviet Union which have higher educatisnal
institutions. During the next few year.;, several tens of new buildings for
higher edh:cational institutions will he built in USSR cities. Buildings for
Belorussiac and Lithuanian agricultural academies and universities in Rostov and
Voronezh are plann"d and under construction. In Chelyabinsk, a building for the
PolytechnicalInstitute ,a being erected. It will have well-equipped laboratories,
light and airy auditoriums, a library, museum, and experimental workshopa.(6)
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During the postwar Five-Year Plan, 16,000 kilometers of, hard-surfgiced
automobile highway were built in the USSR. The highway between Moscow and
Simferopol' was put into operation. The length of the hard-,urface road network
was 2.51times greater at the end of the fourth Five-Year Plan than it was before
the war. Freight turnover for motor transport in 1950 increased 2.3 times over
1940, and was 20 percent more in 1951 than in 1950.(7)_
1. Moscow,. Izvestiya, 11 Sep 52
2. Moscow, Prdfessional'nyye Soyuzy,?No 7, Jul?52
3: Plena'Ata,?Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 15 Jan 52
4. Moscow, Arkhitektura SSSR, No 10, Oct 52
5. Moscow, Trud, 5 Sep 52
6. Moscow, Ogonek, No 38, Sep 52
7. Izvestiya, 4 Jun 52
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