INCREASING NUMBER OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN USSR CITIES SUPPLIED WITH GAS

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• Publication Date: February 9, 1954
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CLASSIFICATION CGNFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOI:UMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
SUBJECT Economic - Gas, output
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; weekly, monthly
periodicals
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 11 Apr 1952 - 31 Dec 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
INCREASING NUMBER OF RESIDERTIAL BUILDINGS
IN USSR CITIES SUPPLIED WITH GAS
umbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
Dlrectivea on the Fifth Five-Year Plan issued by the 19th Party Congress
call for an 80_percent increase in the annual output of gas, including natural
'gas, gas recovered from oil, and gas produced From coal and shale.
Workers who previously spent 50-60 rubles a month for fuel spent only 4-5
rubles a month for gas in 1952.(1)
Ae of September 1953, the number of apartments with gas in the RSFSR had
increased eightfold since the end of World War II. City gas systems had ex-
panded in Leningrad, Kuybyshev, Saratov, Kaliningrad, Buguruslan, Vyborg, and
other cities. Stavropol' and Dzaudzhikau were being gasified iii September 1953.
The population of Ryazan' was to receive gas from the Saratov-Moscow gas pipe-
line, and cities in Moskovskaya Oblast, including Kuntsevo, Kolomna, Naro-
F._lnsk, and others, were also to be provided with gas. Plans were being drawn
up for gasification of Rostov, Taganrog, Novocherkassk, Chistopol', Ivanovo,
Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Molotov, and other cities.(2)
,talingrad, Ufa, and Chernikovsk were to be gasified in 1953? By the end
of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, residential buildings in Kazan' are to be entirely
gasified. High-calorie gas from coke by-products plants may be used widely for
household needs in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, and Nizhniy Tagil.(1)
Under the Fifth Five-Year Plan the Ministry of Municipal Services RSFSR is
responsible for the gasification of Bryansk, Bezhitsa, Croznyy, Ufa, Krasnodar,
Tula, Kaluga, Dzaudzhikau, Kolomna, and other cities.(3)
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The amount of gas used by the population of Moscow between 1947 and 1952
was the equivalent of 5 million cubic meters of firewood, plus 3,250,000 tons
of coal, plus more than 500,000 tons of petroleum fuel. By 1952, nearly 800,000
gas stoves, water heaters, meters, and other gas appliances had been installed
in residential buildings; the length of the gas lines in Moscow was more than
2,000 kilometers.(1) In July 1952, Bas was supplied to 88 percent of the
people in Moscow. A total oi' 350,000 apartments were equipped to receive gas
at that time. Gasification of most of the residential buildings in Moscow
was to have been completed by the end of 1952?(4)
Under the 1953 p1s^ for gasification of Moscow, 65 million rubles
.'ere allocated for gasification; 380 kilometers of gas mains and pipelines
were to be built, and 30,000 apartments xere to be gasified, indluding 20,000
located in residential buildings of ministries and governmental departments.
In April 1953, 96 percent of the residential buildings controlled by the
Moscow Soviet and 70 percent of the residential buildings of ministries and
governmental departments were using gas.(5)
Between January and June 1953, 16,000 more apartments were gasified,
making a total of 380,000 gasified apartments iii Moscow. In the same period,
the city gas system was extended 104 kilometers.(6) Between January and Octo-
ber 1953, more than 23,000 apartments were connected to the gas system and sup-
plied with new gas equipment.(7)
Leningrad
Between 1947 and 1952, the length of the gas pipeline system in
Leningrad increased sevenfold.(8) As of April 1952; gas derived from shale
was being piped fx?om Kokhtla-yarve to Leningrad. This gas supplied 155,000
apartments in Leningrad. Compressor stations along the line brought,presaure
in the pipe up to 38 atmospheres. Over one million cubic meters of :gas were
being consumed in Leningrad during a normal 24-hour period. On and before
holidays, gas consumption increased to 1,500,000 cubic meters a day.(9) By
the end of 1952, gas consumption by the people of Leningrad was expected to
be twice as great as in 1951.(10)
A total of 21,000 apartments were to be gasified in Leningrad in
1952. During the first 3 months of the year, about 6,000 apartments, chiefly
in Zhdanovskiy, Petrogradskiy, and Vasileostrovskiy rayons, were supplied with
8as.(11) In this same period, 14 kilometers of gas pipelines were laid in
Leningrad, and construction of an annular gas supply :system for the center of
the 'city was planned.(12)
By June 1952, over 160,000 apartments in Leningrad had gas; Leninskiy,
Smol'ninskiy, Frunzenskiy, and Kuybyshevskiy rayons were completely gasified.(10)
By July 1952, over 1,500,000 Leningrad residents were using gas.(13) In ally
31,344 apartments in Leningrad were gasified during 1952.
By January 1953, 80 percent of the apartments in Leningrad had gas.(14)
By the end of 1953, 204,000 apartments were to be supplied with gas.(15) Be-
tween January and August 1953, more than 15,000 apartments were gasified in
Leningrad.(16) Between January and October 1953, 70 kilometers of gas mains
xere laid in Leningrad; 14 rayons of the city xere supplied with gas. By Octo-
ber 1953, a total of 200,000 apartments in Leningrad received gas.(17) A
total of 16,410 apartments were gasified in Leningrad during 1953?(18)
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The 1953 plans for gasification of Ryazan' included construction
of a gas system with 140 :cllometers of pipeline, gasification of 30,000
apartments, and gasification of hospitals, schools, children's institu-
tione~ sad municipal enterprises.(19)
Not long after World Wer II, the Soviet government appropriated
funds for gasification of Kuybyshev. By 1950, this city had a 200-kilometer
gas pipeline system; more than 7,500 apartments were gasified. At the be-
ginning of 1953, more than 18,000 apartments had been provided with gas,
sad 3,000 more apartments were scheduled to receive gas before the end of
the year.(20)
The first line in the gas system at the Kuybyshevskaya GES construc-
tion site was finished in August 1952. The builders ran the pipeline across
the bottom of the Volga River and 30 kilometers along the left bank of the
river to the village of Komsomol'skiy, A second line was being laid on the
right bank to the workers' settlement of Zhigulevsk in August 1952.(21)
Gasification of Dzaudzhikau was to begin in 1952? It was planned
to gasify 300 apartments in 1952 and 1,000 more in 1953?(22)
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In 1953, 25o apartments in Stavropol', Stavropol'skiy Kray, were
to be supplied with gas.(23)
In 1952, the Ministry of Municipal Services Bashkirskaya pSSR was
working on plans for reconstruction and expansion of the gas system is
Ishimbay, plans called For 18 new gas distributing stations sad 20 kilo-
meters of~gas lines in the-city of Oktyabr'skiy.(24) In September 1953,
Chernikovsk had 200 newly gasified apartments; 1,500 more apartments
were. to be gasified by the end of 1953.(25)
deconstruction of the gas system of Asekeyevo, Chkalovskaya Oblast,
was completed by 1953? All residential buildings and municipal entErprises
were heated by gas in January 1953, and a large rayon electric power station
operating oa gas had been built.(26)
Estonian SSR
Gas for domestic consumption 'was expected to reach Tallin via the
Kokhtla-verve --,Tallin main gas line by December 1952? By January 1953,
over 2,000 apartments were to be receiveing Kokhtla-Yarve gas. Although gas
mains will not be laid in all sections of the city, residents of these sec-
tions will receive bottled gas. One such bottle provides enough gas for 1.5-2
months for a two-burner atove.(27)
As of February 1953, 54,000 apartments remained to be supplied with gas
in Tallin; the city is to r?ceive 36 million cubic meters of gas a year.(28)
By the end of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, the entire city of Tallin is to
be gasified.(27)
Ukrainian SSR
Between the time that the main gas line from Dashava to Kiev was put
into use and August 1952, workers in Kiev received over one billion cubic
meters of natural gas. In 1952, the number of gasified apartments in Kiev
increased by more than 6,000; over 7,000 gas stoves and about 5,000 hot
water heaters were installed in them. By August 1952, 12,000 heaters had been
converted to gas.(29) More than 74,000 apartments had been gasified by Juae
1953.(30)
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During the Fifth Five-Year Plan, hundreds of thousands of apartments in
Dnepropetrovsk, Dneprodzerzhinsk, and other industrial centers are to receive
high-calorie gas from coke by_producta plants, ps of October 1952, it was
considered possible that gas Prom this source would be used for domestic needs
in Zhdanov as well.(1) In October 1952, the first kilometers of the gas system
in Dneprodzerzhinsk were built between the nitrogen fertilizer plant and the
city; pipes to residential buildings were being installed and apartments were
being equipped with gas stoves and hot water tanks. The central part of the
city was being converted to gas heat. Dnepropetrovsk and Krivoy Rog were also
to be gasified is 1952.(31)
In Kbsr'kov 1.5 kilometers of low-pressure gas pipelines and 4 kilometers
of high-pressure gas pipelines were to be put into aervice'in January 1953, sad
500 more apartments were to be gasified,(32)
Fourteen villages in L'vovskays Oblast were using natural gas in February
1953 Kolkhozea in the area were also being gasified.(34) By September 1953,
60,000 apartments in Lvov City were using gas; this was 7,000 more than in
1952. Expenditures for gasification of Lvov in 1952 and 1953 amounted to
17 aillion rubles.(33)
By the end of the Pifth Five-Year Plan, 2,500 apartments in Gorlovka
are to be gasified.
In June 1953, gasification of the cities and workers' settlements of
Stalinskaya Oblast, especially the city of Stalino, was in progress. Con-
struction of a new 2.5-kilometer gas supply line had started in the center
of town. By the end of 1953, there were to be 4,500 gasified apartments in
Stalino.(35)
Moldavia^ SSR
In 1952, 4,620 apartments in Kizhinev had gas, as did hospitals and
other medical facilities. Gas was to be provided fur apartments in newly
built apartment houses of the city.(36)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
More than 100,000 families of Baku were using gas in 1952? From 1950
to 1952, nearly 10,000 apartments had been gasified. pll new residential
buildings were being supplied with gas.(37) Rowever, in April 1953 the gas
system of Baku and its suburbs was reported to be in need o? reconstruction.
Nearly 80 percent of the workers' homes, especially in the oil field rayons of
the city, were using inferior equipment that wasted gas.(38) From the be-
ginning of 1953 to September 1953, nearly 4,000 apartments were gasified. The
total number of gasified apartments reached almost 100,000. During 1953,
3,500,000 more cubic meters of ga_ .+ere to be consumed than in 1952.(39)
Kazakh SSR
Construction of nex gas lines was started in 1952 at the oil fields of
Kul'sary, where 6 kilometers of pipe were laid. Tens of homes and industrial
buildings had been provided with gas in the village of Koshkar by April 1952.(40)
The Emba oil deposits have rich reserves of gas. In 1953, the villages
of Kul'sary, Koshkar, sad Koschagyl were almost completely converted to gas
heat.(41)
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Moscov, Trud, 29 Oct 52
Moscov, Komsomol'ekays Pravda, 23 Sep 53
Pravda, 5 oct 53
Ibid., 31 Dec 53
Ibid., 27 Sep 53
Moskovskaya Pravda, 18 Apr 2
Vechernyaya Moskva, 25 Apr 553
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