USSR CONCENTRATES INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION PLANNING IN ONE TOP ORGANIZATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 460
• Publication Date: March 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
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SUBJECT
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Economic - Construction planning
Monthly and irregular periodical
Moscow
1949 -;Dec 1950
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR CONCENPRATES INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION
PLANNING IN-OM TOP.QRaRIZATION
HISTORY OF "PROMSTROYPROYEIST" TRUST -- Moscow,,Arkhitektura Promyshlennykh
Sooruzheniy, 1949
The trust for construction planning of machine-building and metallurgical
plants (Gosproyektstroy 1) was formed in 1930. It made architectural and con-
struction plans for all important building projects at Magnitogorsk, Kuznetsk,
Chelyabtraktorostroy (Construction of Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant), Krammashstroy
(Construction'of Kramatorsk Machine-Building Plant), Sharikopodshipnikstroy (Con-
struction of Ball Bearings Plant),_,Luganstroy (Construction of Luganskoye Rail-
road-Car Building Plant), Kharkov Tractor Plant, and many others.
The planning section of "Tekstil'stroy" Trust was reorganized into "Gospro-
yektstroy 2" Trust, later called "Mashinostroyproyekt." This trust also was con-
verted to planning heavy-industry plants. Both of these large trusts were sub-
sequently combined under the name "Metallostroyproyekt." This later became known
as "Promstroyproyekt." Almost all planning of machine-building and metallurgical
enterprises of the USSR was concentrated in this planning organization.
"PROMSTROYPROYEKT" TRUST CUTS CONSTRUCTION COSTS -- Moscow, Stroitel'naya Promy-
shlennost', Dec 1950
One of the present functions of "Promatroyproyekt" Trust is to revise con-
struction plans and estimates, in connection with the decree of the Council of
Ministers USSR dated 1 July 1950, regarding reduction of construction costs by
25 percent, which includes the elimination of excess items in plans and estimates
on an average of 15 percent. This revision is done in two stages. The first in-
cludes the listing of all construction projects and determining the steps to be
taken to lower construction costs for each project, submitting the necessary
proof for each proposed reduction. The second stage of the work begins only after
the customers, i.e. the building organizations, have approved the official rec-
ords. At this time, corrections are made in the plans and estimates.
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"Promstroyproyekt" Trust has revised plans and refigured general estimates
for 18 large construction projects for the Ministry of Construction of Heavy
Industry Enterprises. In the process of revision, it was discovered that the
plans included excessively large plant areas and communications systems, exces-
sive areas and.capacities of auxiliary structures, as well as the use of old--
fashioned construction methods. It has been established that over 30 million
rubles have been saved only by eliminating excess items in planning, which is
15.1 percent of the remaining uncompleted portion of construction work as of
1 July 1950.
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