INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300260008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

SUBJECT Industrial Developp ents
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v On the who7e Bulgarian indust7, is considered by the people to be in
worse eonc a tr_(-?n a ? Vie p ?-;sent time than it was before the warn The
constriction of new industries is being car,.-,,-led out, primarily on a. s &i
local basis rather than on a nation,) scaa1e. Some of the -major constrnetion
works under -L,!; !3r and worthy of mention are described. below.
A hydro electric plant on the I%irx'atsa itiver at Dirdtiovgr?nd and en
artificial fertilizer plant also in DirAtr ovgrad are nee,arin campletion~
The fertilizer plant will bear the name Stalin when ccr?plote& Work
on both plants is being conducted on a roiaxad-the-cloc : schedule0 A total
of approximately 700 workers are employed o f both project s3 most of Thom are
Trudovaks; a number of people serving herd labor sentences are also used.
The work is exclusively supervised by soviet experts., The daily salary of
the laborers is 350 --k-ever of which 180 levy is expended for ? pals apt the
project mess,, The food: although of good cyiaa .ty, can be obtained only
enw;Ll quantities and Vie workers` are overcrowded and infested
with lice. Because of the limited food ra.t_onq the peer quaxters read
the repeated delays in payment of ;F,lar?ieo,, many workers have delayed, the
completion of the project0 On frequent occasions, workers are kno nr to have
abandoned their jobs and bled the area.,
An electro.-porcelain (sic) establishment recently was completed and is
located between the towns of Kazanluk .= d Nova Zagora ., exactly 900
meters west of the Kazanluk railroad station, The ?aoia two-stox;y
building of the f aac'cory i6, very large by Bu]q xi an standards o
A factory for the construction of composition floors aind wooden tables
has been rraoda=dzed and has resumed op oration. Located in the Village
of Reanovtse ;, near Vr aatsa the factory operates two shifts composed of
25 nren ea .hr The aver age production for one shift is 10 cubic meters of
composition flooring., The director of ti,e factory i . a forr;.er tesaher,
Krsto Todorov, who is now secretary of the ( B for the village of ilcanovtsa0
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A factory for the mar rxi ac?raar of sp rite and alcohol, located in i,eskc.oi.k_
was completed in October 7.950 ?aac. hrs operated since that time. 1, stove
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factory in Leskovik i.s now in fu3I operation, it manufactiures 1. rt;e
?'s ~ c?avt. iron s for head offices and 1ZOmOBo The #ac cry has
ample supply of construction material on hand, and about 100
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