DEVELOPMENTS IN USSR LOCAL AND COOPERATIVE INDUSTRIES, JULY-SEPTEMBER 1953

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• Publication Date: April 21, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic, - Local and cooperative industries
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 Jul-26 Sep 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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[Comment: This report presents information, from July-September
1953 Soviet newspapers, on the fulfillment of 1953 production plans
enterprises " U;;19 1oca1 and cooperative indust,rinn. Tiis report
gives a great number of increased pledges that appeared in the August
and September Soviet provincial press for the 1953 above-plan produc-
tion of consumer goods. In connection with the new consumer goods
production drive, there is noted a greater emphasis than ever on con-
struction, reconstruction, and mechanization of enterprises of local
and cooperative industries.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.)
In August 1953, there were nearly 126,000 enterprises and shops of USSR in-
dustrial cooperatives, employing 1,865,000 men. These cooperative industry en-
terprises accounted for an important part of the total USSR consumer goods pro-
duction. For exampfe, in August 1953, these enterprises were producing 40 per-
cent of the total USSR production of furniture, 35 percent of the sewn goods,
40 percent of the knitted outerwear, 35 percent of the metal beds, more than
35 nercent of the felt footwear, and 50 percent of the carts and wagons. In
August 1953, the network of USSR repair shops comprised 45,000 enterprises. (_)
Industrial cooperatives of the ICarelo-Finnish S3R were to produce 18 per-
cent more consumer goods in 1953 than they produced in 1952 and three times as
much in 1955 as in 1953.
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The Petrozavodsk Furniture Factory, which was under construction in August
1.953, in scheduled for operation in 1951+. A sewing and knitwear factory Which
11 to be completed in 1953
953 will produce 25 million rubles' worth of goods an-
nually. an-
y. In August, workshops of the DerevoobdelochniY Artel were being recon-
structed.
In August, a new shop was being constructed in the Petrozavodsk Metal Plant
of the usormnetal Artel.
izecl household goods The shop will produce 1,
t
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Production of enamelware. 500 metric tons of
and will be the first plant in the republic to organize th
A woodworking combine with an annual output valued
to be nstructed at 1.5 million rubles in
co in 1955 in Medvezh'yegorsk. A toy factory, also to be con-
paperstructindustred in will produce 200,000 toys annually free waste products of the
Pc_sonal services combines were under construction in Petrozavodsk, Segzha,
Spass:,aya Gub, Ukhta, and other cities of the republic in Aug e
ust.l953?(2)
Local industry of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was to produce 43.5 nili_on rubles'
worth of goods in 1953 and is to almost double that amount in 1956rayon.indIun Austryucost
it was Planned that in the near future eight brick Plants of
bines would be reconstructed, enabling them to produce up to t3 m llion bricksm-
annually. (3)
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By the end of 1954, the Ministry of Local and Fuel Industry Karclo-Finnish
33R is to complete construction of two furniture factories and a knitwear and
sewing factory in Petrozavodskc, a weaving shop of the Sortavala ilool Fabric bill
with a production of 190,000 meters of fabrics, two ski shops in Kondopog for
the production of 50,000 pairs of skis, and many other enternriscs.(4)
The Impilakhti Knitwear Factory produced more than 4,500 pieces of knitted
outerwear and 10,500 pieces of knitted underwear above the plan for the first 7
months of 1953.(5) The Sortavala Sewing Factory pledged to fulfill the 1953
plan by 1 December and to produce by the end of the year 5,000 wool suits above
plan.(6)
Latvian SSR
Enterprise, of local and cooperative industries
produce more than 30 m_llion b_ic%s in 1)53, wi:`ch in ;}; e Latvian SSR were to
1952 and 49 percent more than in 1
951 u bliceen r.;ore than in
The number of republic enterprises pro_
doting brick has increased from 31;
producing; lime from 17 in 1 in 1950 to 63 by the and 1)52 and those
950 to 23 by the end f l.',152- ilove vcz?, in ?oust
1953 there ve?r e. no cn ch at iscs producing, I men:l bri.cl: soar rayons of the
republic. To remedy this situation
or reconstructed in 25 rayons lime bvich and lime Plants arc to be constructed
or reconstructed , and e and firing plants are to be constructed
in tlu?ec rayons by the end of 1955?(7)
Belu_ussian Son
Industrial cooperative enterprises of the Belorussian SSR p1cd1,ed to
fill the 1.'53 plan ahead of schedule and to ?oducc above of the
year 2 million Pieces of knitted underwear 1 beds, by the r and of oho
speai:urs, 50 metric tons of enaneluare ' trio can of ds, 30,000 ,^d _0 loucl-
actric tons of industrial cord 20,700,000 , 30 u lor o avticl, , a
100
500,000 rubles' worth of fit rubles' les worth of scent articles, and
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Local and cooperative industr'? of Goncl? in the Belorussian SSR fell ,^,i:ort
of plan quotas for the first 7 months of 1953 by 9,000 Hairs of footwear,
32,008 Pieces Of -knitted outerwear, more than 19,000 -airs of hosiery, and 240
metric tons of metalware.(9)
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the workers' Village of the Minsk Automobile Plant. The combine will have eight
shops. It was planned that the same type of combine would be constructed at the
t40tor-Bicycle Plant. In 1953, 28 large, new personal services enterpriseu were
to open in Minsk. Personal services combines were also to be opened in Vitebsk,
Baranovichi, and Grodno. New pavilions for personal services were to be opened
in 37 cities and rayon centers of the republic by the end of 1)53.(10)-
Ukrainian
Local and cooperative industries of the U:rainian S3R Toro to increase -,"a-
duction in 1953 to 9,730 metric tons of zalvanizcd dis;:ware, 350,000 beds, 6,350
pianos, and 100,000 accordions and concertinas.
Since production of cast-iron, galvanized, enamel, and alumina'.:;;ish;;are
:could have to be doubled to meet consumer demands, in Se?tenber it was planned
that in the near future four netr enterprises to produce thene products would be
constructed, the six existin,, enterprises would be reconstructed, and a new
ceramic works with an annual production of 25 r:'.1'-on _r-aces of dish a:
be co. =
Zstructed, c would
In September 1953, it was planned that the three new, lame enterprise:: of
industrial cooperatives would double their production of beds. If the bed Pro-
duction of local industry and shops of union subordir.tion is added to this
amo:nt, the Unrair-ian SSR could produce more than 2 r.:illion beds annually.
In September, construction of a sheet r011'iu mil at the Dnepropetrovsk
Industrial Combine was being completed. The nill will have an arrual production
capacity of 12,000 metric tons of roofin3 tin-(11)
Moldavian 33R
Republic enterp