SOME DATA ON INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE USSR

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Industrial construction
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily, semiweekly newspapers; weekly,
DATE
PUBLISHED 10 Apr 1952-14 Oct 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
DATE DIST. /'j Jen 1954
bimonthly,
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
SOME DATA ON INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION IN THE USSR
umbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
In the First Five-Year Plan, more than 1,500 new factories and plants were
put into operation in the USSR. In the Second Five-Year Plan, 4,500 xere built,
and in. 3 years of the Th'_rd Five-Year Plan, nearly 3,000 such buildings were
completed. In the Fourth Five-Year Plan, nearly 7,000 large state industrial
enterprises were restored, built, or put into operation. Directives of the 19th
Party Congress envisage a 90-percent increase in +,he volume of state capital
construction in the Fifth Five-Year Plan (1951-1955) over the Fourth Five-Year
Plan, including a 100-percent increase in industrial construction.(1) Appropri-
ations wi11 increase only 60 percent, the remaining 30 percent to be covered by
lower costs of construction through increased productivity of labor, reduction
of overhead expenses, and lower costs of construction materials and equipment.(2)
In 1952, over half the funds allotted for financing the national economy
were to be used for capital constn3ction.(3) The volume of state capital con-
struction in the first half of 1953 was 104 percent of that in the first half
of 1952? This included increases of 8 percent in the metallurgical industry,
2 percent in the fuel industry, 5 percent in electric poxer stations and the
electrical industry, 8 percent in the machine building industry, 8 percent in
the construction materials industry, 9 percent is the wood and paper industry,
and 8 percent in the .light and food industries.(4) In October 1953, construction
or x?econstruction of textile, weaving, and shoe factories, creameries, fats com-
bines, and Pish-canning enterprises -- including nearly 1,300 large enterprises
and more than 10,000 small-scale enterprises and plants -- was under way through-
out the country.(5) More than 50 enterprises of the food industry were under
construction in September 1953?(6)
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Textile Indust
Construction of a cotton combine was in progress in September 1953 in
the city of Yartsevo, Smoleaskaya Oblast.(9)
On the outskirts of fingel's, Ssxatovskaya Oblast, one of the largest
cotton combines is the country is being built. The first section is to go into
operation at the en3 of 1954.(10)
In the Kamyshinskiy Cotton Combine, Stalingradskaya Oblast, work has
begun on a spinning mill which will be flnish~. in 1954. In sll, there will
be four ;pinning e.nd four weaving mills in the combine.(11)
A new sewing factory with 2,000 square meters of floor space has been
constructed in Kamyshlov, Sverdlovskaya Oblast.(12)
On the left bank of the Yenisey River in Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarskiy
Kray, s silk-weaving combine was under construction in August 1953? It will
have factories for spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing.(13)
Food Products Industr
A confectionery factory was to be built in Leningrad in 1953?(6) New
enterprises of the food products ind??~+,ry appeared in Sverdlovsk in 1953? New
buildings in the southern outskirts oY the city will house a fats combine and
poultry plant. by the end of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, 11 plants, 2 factories,
and ?t new shops in existing plants will be in operation.(14)
A new canning factory has been completed in Azov, Rostovskaya Oblast (15),
and a new sugar plant has been built in Voronezhskays Oblast.(16)
In Chelyabinskays Oblast, a mechanized bakery in Troitsk and s bread-
baking plant in Magnitogorsk were under construction in Pugust 1953?(17)
In 1953, a large mechanized creamery was put into operation in Kuragino,
Krasnoyarakiy Kray; a dried skim milk manufacturing plant will also be built in
Kuragino. New creameries being built in Krasnoturanskiy and Daurskiy rayons of
Krasnoyarekiy Kray were to be finished for the 36th anniversary of the October
Revolution. A milk combine was also being built in Krasnoyarsk in September
1953?(18)
Construction Materials Industry
Near Belgorod, Kurskaya Oblast, an asbestos-slate combine was under con-
struction in April 1953? A brick combine was to be built in Kursk in 1953? ?On
the outskirts of Oboyan in Kurskaya Oblast, construction of a plant producing
insulation slabs manufactured from straw was nearing completion in peril 1953?(19)
The Moskovskiy and Lyuberetskiy plants for reinforced-concrete products
were to go into operation in 1952 in Moscow.(7)
Woodworking Industry
In 1952, the Ministry of Paper and Woodworking Industry started to build
12 new furniture enterprises and to renovate eight existing ones. Great atten-
tion was given to the location of such enterprises in an effort to eliminate long-
distance hauling. Construction of furniture factories in Molotov, Khabarovsk,
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factory being built in Velikiye Luki had started producti.onobyeFebruaryu1953 (20)
Chemical Industry
Not far from Ivdel', Sverdlovskaya Oblast, the largest hydrolysis plant
in the country is under construction. The first section was nearing completion
in September 1953?(21)
Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, and Biysk had also begun, and a
large one was being built in Moscow.(8) The first t'
Karelo-Finnish SSR
The construction of a furniture factory for the Ministry of Local Industry
has begun in Pervomayskiy Rayon of Petrozavodsk. It is to be completed by the
end of 1954. Construction of an industrial cooperative furniture Factory on
L~lotnaya ulitsa in Petrozavodsk has also started.(22) In additiou to furniture
factories, a knitwear factory was under construction in August 1953?(23)
Estonian SSR ?
A large new weaving factory was built in Narva in 1952? In Vyru, a plant
for the primary procc.~sing of flax went into production in 1952, and two linen
plants xere being built in Py1'va and Antsla.(24)
A new printing house was being built in Koseskiy Rayon of Tr.111n?in Septem-
ber 1953? There are newly constructed printing enterprises in Kiviyli, in Narva,
and on Sarema Island.(25)
Latvian SSR
Construction of afish-processing plant, which will have salting and smok-
ing shops as well as a storehouse, was under way in Rezekne in 1952?(26)
Large Furniture factories were under construction in Ventspils, Tukum, and
Autse, Liyepayskays Oblast, in July 1952. In Autse, construction of a new brick
plant xas nearing completion.(27)
In the period 1951-1955, 50 percent more automobile enterprises are to be
built or renovated in the Latvian SSR than Prom 1946 to 1950. Primarily affected
xill be the area along the Baltic Sea.(28)
Lithuanian SSR
Postwar industrial construction in Mariyampole includes a sugar plant, a
new thermal electric power station completed in 1952, and the large "Mishkas"
Furniture Factory, which has risen on the site of a small carpenter's shop.(29)
In the Lithuanian SSR, 35 interkolkhoz brick plants had been put into oper-
ation by August 1952, and 65 more were to be built by the end of the year.(3O)
The largest silicate tirick plant in the republic was under construction in Vil'-
nyus in May 1953?(31)
In Nuvo-Vil'ny^, Vil'nyusskaya Oblast, the first machine-tool-manufacturing
plant of the republic, "Zhal'giris," was being built in 1952? A paint-spraying-
equipment plant, a home-building combine, and other enterprises appeared in the
outskirts of Novo-Vil'nya in 1952?(32)
In the postwar years, over 40 new printing houses have been opened in the
Lithuanian SSR. A three-story printing house was to be completed in Vil'nyus in
1953? The "Vayzdas" printing house, also in Vil'nyus, was adding a new two-story
building. Nearly 2 million rubles were appropriated for reconstructi~R of the
enterprise.(33)
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The central building oP r canning factory being constructed 1n Kedaynysy
was to have gone into service by 21 July 1953?(34)
Belorussian SSR
Nearly 150 million rubles were appropriated ir. 1953 for the construction
of food factories in the republic. q butter and casein factory has been com-
pleted in Krichev, and a creamery is planned. Dfinsk has a nex biscuit Factory,
and in 195 a meat comb+ne is to be constructed there. There are new bread-
baking plants in Pinsk, Mozyr', Baranovichi, and Lida.(35) As of February 1953,
construction oP a creamery in Dobrush had begun, and the re-equipping of the
cheese plant in Buda-Koshelevakiy Rayon had been nearly completed. A large plant
for producing butter and dried and condensed silk is to be built in Terekhovka.(36)
In recent years, 25 brick plants and three lime plants have been built in
Baranovichskaya Oblast. In 1952, 30 more brick plants were to be built.(37)
As of August 1952, thirty brick plants had been built in Minsk since the begin-
ning of the year, and about 70 more were to be built before the end of the year.
(38) In 1952, a factory for heating equipment and sewer pipes was built in
Minsk.(39) ps of 13 June 1953, the foundations for one of the largest poly-
graphic enterprises of the country had been laid in Minsk. (40)
A nex melange fabric combine being built in Minsk will be one of the largest
in the country. The combine's largest building rill cover an area of 6 hectares.
(41)
Ukrainian SSR
In connection with the Fifth Five-year Plan, 23 newly constructed or re-
built food enterprises xere to go into production in 1953? These included a
yeast plant and biscuit factory in Kharkov; a confectionery factory in Niko-
layev; fats and oils combines in Odessa and Kirovograd; fruit-canning plants in
Kamenets-Podol'skiy and Bol'shaya Novoselka (Stalinskaya Oblast); a winery in
I,'vov; breweries in Odessa, Kirovogrsd, Kupyansk, Kherson, Yenakiyevo, Roven'ki,
Zhdanov, and Voroshilovgrad; and vegetable-drying plants in Chervonoarmeysk and
Dubno, Rovenskays Oblast, in Piryatin, Poltavskaya Oblast, and in Yavorov, L'vov-
skaya Oblast. A complete reconstruction of the Sivashskiy Salt Field installa-
tions in Khersonskaya Oblast was under way in January 1953? By the end of the
Fifth Five-Year Pian, 46 large new enterprises of the food industry will have
been built or rebuilt in Ukrainian SSR.(42)
Reconstruction and new building under way in Poltavskaya Oblast in 1953
included milk-canning plants in Karlovskiy and KobelysY.skiy rayons, vegetable-
drying plants in Piryatinskiy and Zolotonoshskiy rayons, sugar granulating and
refining plants in Leshchinovka, Kobelyakskiy Rayon, and new food enterprises
in Lubenskiy, Orzhitskiy, Chernobayevskiy, and Reshetilovskiy rayons.(43) p
nex sugar factory has been built in Krasnenskiy Rayon, L'vovskaya Oblast.(44)
Construction of afish-canning plant was completed in Ochakov, Nikolayevskaya
Oblast, in February 1953?(45)
A meat combine, a brewery, s macaroni factory, a margarine plant, and a
caramel and biscuit factory were under construction in Stalino in August 1953.
Ccastruction of a metal rolling plant has begun and e, plastics plant in planned.
A radio receiver plant and a children's bicycle plant are planned for Kuybyskev-
skiy Rayon of the city. In bfakeyevka, a building for an aluminum dishxare plant
and a plant for. nickel-plated bedsteads were under cDastruction in August 1953.
In Konstantinovka, preparations for construction oP a colored glass plant were
under way. In 1954, an enamelware plant is to be built in Gorlovka. Breweries
were being built in Konstantinovka and Katyk in August 1953?(46)
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In 1952, s cotton spinning mill was completed in Poltava and a new lute
factory in Odessa started prod:?ction. A shoe factory was to go into operation
in 1953? The Kiev Sewing Factory imeni Smirnov-Laitochkin has been expanded
to trice its former size.(47) The foundations were laid and the cement walls
xere being built for the Khersonskiy Cotton Combine durinG the summer of 1953?
The combine will occupy an area of 200 hectares; the central section is to be
a spinning and weaving factory.(48)
In Kiev, two large buildings to house a large polygraphic combine xere
under construction in June 1953 on a 7-hectare site.(49)
Moldavian SSR
Wide industrial construction was carried out in Bendery in 1953? A silk
combine and a starch and molasses factory were under construction, and a sewing
machine factory was completed.(5O) Anew xinery was built in Strashenakiy Rayon
of the Moldavian SSR in 1953? In 1954, more wineries are to be built there.
Three mechanized wineries are to be built in Risporenskiy and rravichskiy rayons.
A wine and cognac plant is to be started in 1954 in Kala'rash, and a xine plant
is planned for Korneshtskiy Rayon.(51)
Georgian SSR
In Dranda, Abkhanskays ASSR, construction of a nex tea factury began in
1952.(52) tiot far from Batumi, the Khelvachaurskaya Tea Factory has been com-
pleted. In 1953, two more tea factories were to be built in Okumi and Baileti.
Other completed industrial construction includes three wineries and a bread-
baking plant in Tbilisi, a sausage plant in Telavi, and a refrigzrator factory
in Gori. Zn the suburbs of Tbilisi a number of food enterprises were under con-
struction in August 1953? These included a confectionery factory and large win-
eries in Sagaredzhoyskiy, Kaspskiy, Mayakovskiy, and Signakhskiy rayons of the
republic. In 1954, a mineral water bottling plant is to be built in Borzhomi.(53)
2echanized dairies were being built in Kutaisi, Batumi, Sukhumi, Gagry, Akhal_
tsinhe, and Bogdanovka in August 1953?(54) Also, milk-processing plants, includ-
ing creameries in Bogdanovskiy and Tsalkinskiy rayons, were being built in the
Georgian SSR in September 1953?(55)
A new industrial region has grown up at the confluence of the Liakhva and
Kura rivers. The Goriyskiy Cotton Combine was under construction here in 1952.(56)
Industrial construction in progress in Kutaisi in September 1953 included work on
a furniture factory and afish-freezing plant; a mechanized bread-baking plant
was to be completed in mid-1954.(57)
Armenian SSR
A new silk factory was under constructic?~ in Beriyevskiy Rayan, Armenian
SSR, in 1952? It was to be several times the size of the existing one and was
scheduled to go into operation in 1953?(58) In the vicinity of Yerevan, a large
brick and tale plant was put into operation in 1952.(59)
Azerba zhan SSR
The first dried milk plant in the Transcaucasus, the Geokchayskiy plant,
was built in 1952. The Khaldanskiy creamery was under construction in 1952. 0)
Kazakh SSR
In the Rayon imeni 28 Gvardeytsev, Taldy-Kurganskaya Oblast, a brick factory
was being built in August 1953; there are nexly constructed tale factories in
Leninskiy Rayon, Severo-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast, and in Dzhambulskaya and Kustanay-
skaya oblasts.(61) In 1952, a brick plant and the first chops of an auto repair
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plant were built in Pavlodar.(62) In Chimkent, a karakul wool plant was nearing
completion in 1952 and was scheduled to go into operation at the beginning of
1953.(63)
The Creamery imeni Krasin and a cheese and produce storage building were
being rebuilt in Ust'-Kame'iogorsk in August 1953. The meat combine was being
expanded, and a large milk plant is to be copleted in 1954.(64)
Uzbek SSR
In the rayon center of Uch-Kurgan, Namanganskays Oblast, one of the largest
plants oP the Uzbek food industry -- a creamery -- has been finished. Two more
creameries were being built in Kokand and Bukhara in August 1953? A fats and
oils combin?, as well as a champagne plant, are to be built in Tashkent in 1954,
In the rayon center of Kitab, Kashka-Par'inskaya Oblast, a second section of the
canning plant was under construction in August.(65)
Construction in Samarkand in 1952 included tobacco-fermentation and spin-
ning factoz?ies, a tannery, new buildings for silk-textile and silk-weaving fac-
tories, and a public services combine.(66) The Samarkand cotton-spinning fac-
tory, begun in 1949, had not yet been finished :~ April 1952.(67) Construction
of a ,jute and hemp plant in Verkhne-Chirchikskiy dayon, Tashkentskaya Oblast,
was completed early in 1952. Five more ,jute and hemp plants were to be built
in the Uzbek SSR in 1952.(6II)
Tadzhik SSR
During the past years, the miners' settlement of Shurab has become an in-
dustrial center. A lime plant, a central power machinery plant, abread-baking
plant, and other industrial enterprises have been b?~ilt.(69)
A second~.,jute plant was under construction in Kirovabad early in 1953.(70)
Kirgiz SSR
The largest meat combine in the republic was being built in August 1953 on
the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul'. The meat combine in Frunze has continually ex-
panded.(71) The refrigeration section of the Frunze Combine had been finished
by September 1953 (72), and a confectionery factory was nearing compl^tion:(73)
A creamery was under construction in August 1953 in the city of Naryn, Tyan'-
Shanskaya Oblast.(74) In Karagandinskaya Oblast, new creameries were being
built in September 1953, one in Osakarovskiy Rayon and another in Chetskiy Rayon.
In all, 25 creameries were being built or rebuilt.(751
Other Kirgiz industrial construction under way in 1953 included a furniture
factory being built in Dzhalal-Abad.(76)
SOURCES
1. Tallin, S~vetsknya Estoniya, 29 Nov 52
2. Moscow, Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 1, Jan-Feb 53
3. Vi1'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 29 April 52
4. Moscow, Promyshlennost' Stroitel'nykh Materialov, 18 Jul 53
5? Ibid., 14 Oct 53
6. Moscou, Trud, 12 Sep 53
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7. Moscow, Vecherayaya Moskva, 20 Jun 52
8. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 12 Sep 52
9? Tashkent, Pravda Voatoka, 13 Sep 53
10. Ibid., 13 Feb 53'
11. Sovetskaya Litva, 23 Sep 53
12. Moscow, Ogonek, No 41, ll Oct 53
13? Moscow, Izvestiys, 27 Aug 53
14. Sovetskaya Litva, 20 Aug 53
15. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 9 Jun 53
16. Moscow, Pravda, 25 Aug 53
17. Izvestiys, 18 Aug 53
18. Trud, 23 Sep 53
19? Sovetskaya Lat~?iya, 29 Apr 53
20. Vechernyaya Moskva, 6 Feb 53
21: Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 22 SeP 53
22. Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znemya, 13 Aug 53
23? Izvestiys, 22 Sep 53
24. Ibid., 22 Oct 52
25. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 4 Sep 53
26. Sovetskaya Latviys, 12 Jun 52
27. ibid., 2 Jul 52
28. Ibis., 13 sun 53
29. Sovetskaya Litva, 4 Sep 53
30. ibis., 10 Aug 5z
31. ibid., 9 Map 53
32. Trud, 25 Apr 52
33. Sovetskaya Litva, 11 Feb 53
34. Ibid., 16 May 53
35? Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 2 Jun 53
36. Sovetskaya Helorussiya, 12 Feb 53
37. Ibid., 12 sun 52
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38. Trud, 8 Aug 52
39. Sovetskaya Eelorussiya, 14 Jun 53
40. Pravda, 13 sun 53
41. Komaomol'akays Pravda, 13 Aug 53
42. Pravda tJl~ainy, 13 Jan 53
43. Ibid., 25 Aug 53
44. Sovetskaya Latviya, 14 Aug 53
45. Trud, 20 Feb 53
46. Pravda Ukrainy, 15 Aug 53
47. Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 16 Nov 52
48. Leninskoye Znamya, 4 Sep 53
49. Pravda, 16 Jun 53
50. Trud, 14 Aug 53
52. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 8 Aug 53
53? Leninskoye Znamya, 22 Aug 53
54? Pravda t7krainy, 15 Aug 53
55. Izvestiys, 9 Sep 53
56. Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 1 Aug. 52
57. Zarya Vostoka, 11 Sep 53
58. Yerevan, Kommunist, 6 May 52
59. Ibid., 5 Jul 52
60. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 15 Aug 52
61. .Pravda, 17 Aug 53
62. Alma-Ata, F:azakhstanskaya Pravda, 10 Tun
63. Ibid., 27 Dec 52
64. Ibid., 3o Aug 53
65. Pravda, 29 Aug 53
66. ;zvestiya, 29 May 52
67. Pravda Vostoka, 10 Apr 52
68. Leninakoye Znamya, 28 May 5?_
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69. Stalinabed, Ko~unist Tadzhikistana, 4 Jan
70: Ibid., 25 Apr 53
71. Komaomol'ekaye Pravda, 14 ;.ug 53
72. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 19 Sep 53
73? Ibid., 22 Sep 53
74: Pravda, 16 Aug 53
75: Izvestiya, 23 Sep 53
76: Pravda, 13 Aug 53
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