STATE BUDGET OF THE BELORUSSIAN SSR FOR 1952

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Economic - Republic budgets
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Minsk
26, 29 Mar 1952
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STATE BUDGET OF THE BELORUSSIAN SSR FOR 1952
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I. REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF FINANCE ON THE 1952 BUDGET
The Minister of Finance Belorussian SSR, F. L. Kokhonov, reports that the
total State Budget of the Belorussian SSR for 1952, allowing for the reduction
of wholesale prices and tariffs beginning 1 January 1952, is established at
3,718,386,000 rubles.
Important tasks of further developing the national economy and culture are
entrusted to the local soviets. To carry out these tasks, the volume of the
local budgets for 1952, including revenues and expenditures, is established at
2,606,328,000 rubles, or 70 percent of the total State Budget Belorussian SSR.
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Revenues
The revenues of the State Budget Belorussian SSP. for 1952 are established
at 3,718,386,000 rubles.
Receipts from state and cooperative enterprises and organizations constitute
a major soTTrce of revenue and make up 2,792,300,000 rubles, or 75.1 percent of
the total budget; receipts from state taxes and levies constitute 467,962,000
:cables or 12.6 percent of the budget; and the state loans subscribed to by the
population constitute only 333,750,000 rubles, or 9 percent of the total budget.
Deductions from the turnover tax for the 1952 budget of the Belorussian
SSR are fixed at 1,826,348,000 rubles. Deductions from profits of state enter-
prises and economic organizations are fixed at 613,528,000 rubles, an increase
of 79,307,000 rubles over 1951.
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Total accumulations of republic and local economic organizations in 1952
will be 874,358,000 rubles, as against 800,543,000 rubles in 1951.
Deductions from the income of MTS into the State Budget of the Belorussian
SSR for 1952 are fixed at 15,850,000 rubles.
Expenditures
The total volume of expenditures of the State Budget Belorussian SSR for
1952 is established at 3,718,386,000 rubles.
The major part of the expenditures, 87.9 percent, is for financing the
national economy and social and cultural enterprises and is distributed as fol-
lows: 722,151,000 rubles, or 19.4 percent, for financing the national economy
(in addition, considerable sums for this purpose will come from the profits of
economic organizations); and 2,547,257,000 rubles, or 68.5 percent, for financ-
ing educational, public health, physical education, social security, and scien-
tific activities, an increase of 1,249,100,000 rubles over the 1940 budget.
The funds allocated to the national economy will be distnbu`,ed as fol-
lows: industry, 180,759,000 rubles; agriculture and forestry, 240,010,000 rubles;
housing and municipal services, 158,684,000 rubles; transport and communica-
tions, 44,774,000 rubles; trade, 14,880,000 rubles; and capital construction,
370,833,000 rubles, with an additional 212,957,000 rubles to come from enter-
prises' own funds. In 1952, in anticipation of the further growth of production
and commodity turnover, a general increase in the internal working capital of
the enterprises and economic organizations is established at 96,383,300 rubles,
of which 32,983,000 rubles will be provided by the budget.
Out of the total appropriation of 240,010,000 for agriculture and forestry
for 1952, 99,995,000 rubles will be allocated to enterprises of the Ministry of
Agriculture, 40,126,000 to the Ministry of State Farms, 32,082,000 to the Minis-
try of Land Improvement, and 67,1-LO,000 rubles to the Ministry of Forestry.
The 1952 budget appropriations for housing and municipal services, total-
ing 158,684,000 rubles, will be used for the additional expansion of munici-
pal enterprises and improvement of municipal services to the population. In the
budgets of the local soviets 28,804,000 rubles will be appropriated for resi-
dential construction alone.
In 1952, the State Budget Belorussian SSR provides 1,746,685,000 rubles
for public education; of this, 950,352,000 rubles will be allotted for main-
tenance of general education (vseobuch) schools.
The problem of general 7-year and secondary education is being dealt with
successfully. In 1952, 11,650 primary, 7-year, and secondary schools with an
enrollment of 1,450,000 children will be in operation in the republic. To pro-
vide a 7-year education for all children, the number of boarding schools was
also increased. Over 297 million rubles are allocated for maintenance of
kindergartens and homes for children.
Allocations for training of personnel for the national economy, cultural
development, and science total 272,618,000 rubles. Allocations for maintenance
of cultural and educational institution are increased over the previous year
by 7,461,000 rubles and total 71,044,000 rubles, of which 7,698,000 rubles are
allocated to libraries alone. The 1952 budget also allows for the opening of
277 additional rural clubs, 50 children's libraries and 217 rural libraries.
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Of the total expenditures for social and cultural measures, 664,154,000 are
allocated for public health and physical education. These allocations guarantee
further development of medical and children's institutions and sanatoriums, and
carrying out of extensive measures for physical education.
To improve medical assistance to the population, the number of beds in city
and rural hospitals is being increased by 1,200 and the network of fel'dsher-
midwife cebters in rural localities is being expanded. Medical institutions
will be equipped with new X-ray machines and other medical equipment.
The budget also provides 5,807,000 rubles for sanatorium and spa treat-
ment and individual assistance to war invalids and families of soldiers killed
in the war; 1.0,365,000 rubles for maintenance of invalids' homes; and 99,699,000
rubles for payments of pensions to those incapacitated on the job.
In addition, the 1952 budget allocates a total of 379,845,000 rubles for
maintenance of state administrative organizations.
Budgets of the Local Soviets
Of the total expenditures of the local budgets, 232,992,000 rubles are ap-
propriated for financing the national economy and 2,110,569,000 for financing
social and cultural measures.
More than 80 percent of all expenditures of the local budgets are allocated
for education, public health, social security, and physical education.
Recommendations by Budget Commission
The following changes in the 1952 budget were recommended by the Budget
Commision:
1. To increase the incomes of enterprises, organizations, ministries, and
departments of the Belorussian SSR by 11,232,000 rubles, including meat and
dairy industry 4,824,000 rubles, light industry 2,700,000 rubles, food industry
2,700,000 rubles, trade 510,000 rubles, and the Main Administration of Supply,
Council of Ministers Belorussian SSR, 498,000 rubles.
2. To decrease payments into the budget by 1,232,000 rubles, including
510,000 rubles from the turnover tax and 722,000 rubles from the profit deduc-
tions of the Main Power Administration, Council of Ministers Belorussian SSR.
3. To apply the additional incomes of ministries and departments for -
financing planned expenditures, and decrease republic budget allocations accord-
ingly as follows: meat and dairy industry 4,824,000 rubles, light industry
2,476,000 rubles, and food industry 2,700,000 rubles, a total of 10 pillion
rubles. This sum will be reallocated as follows: 6,500,000 rubles for resi-
dential housing construction in cities of the republic, and 1,500,000 rubles
for Minsk City development.(l)
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II. LAW ON THE STATE BUDGET BELORUSSIAN SSR FOR 1952
The Supreme Soviet Belorussian SSR decree--
1. To approve the State Budget of the Belorussian SSR for 1952 submitted
by the Council of Ministers Belorussian SSR, with amendments proposed by the
Budget Commission of the Supreme Soviet Belorussian SSR as follows:
Total revenue 3,718,386,000 rubles
Total expenditures 3,718,386,000 rubles
Transferable balance of budget funds of 111,552,000 rubles to be carried
over to 1 January 1953
2. To approve, in accordance with Article 1 of the present law, the Re-
public Budget for 1952 as follows:
Revenue 3,320,252,000 rubles
Expenditures 1,111,404,000 rubles
Transferable balance of budget funds of 20,952,000 rubles to be carried
over to 1 January 1953
3. To approve 1952 budgets for Minsk City and the various oblasts as fol-
lows (in thousands of rubles):
Transferable Balance
of Budget Funds to be
Carried Over to 1 Jan
Oblast or City
Revenue
Expenditures
1953
Minsk City
164,743
164,743
2,400
Baranovichi
198,017
19,017
7,400
Bobruysk
219,140
219,140
8,200
Brest
.160,060
160,060
5,400
Vitebsk
273,244
273,244
8,800
Gomel'
253,940
253,940
8,800
Grodno
189,343
189,343
6
700
Minsk
232,959
232,959
,
8,900
Mogilev
286,480
286,480
11,000
Molodecbno
158,999
158,999
6,100
Pinsk
134,790
134,790
4900
,
Poles 'ye
170,357
170,357
6
200
Polotsk
164,910
164,910
5,800
4. To fix deductions from the republic budget for the 1952 budgets of the
local soviets as follows (in thousands of rubles):
Oblast or City
Minsk City
100,365
Baranovicbi
170,2142
Bobruysk
183,499
Brest
136,330
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Vitebsk
233,322
Gomel'
205,407
Grodno
162,176
Minsk
201,027
Mogilev
250,594
Molodechno
142,960
Pinsk
118,874
Poles 'ye
154,599
Polotsk
149,453
5. To fix deductions for the 1952 budgets of Minsk City and the various
oblasta from the turnover tax, the income tax on population, the agricultural
tax from kolkhoz and individual peasant farmers, and from the state loan sub-
scribed to by the population as follows:
Oblast or City
From
Turnover
Tax
From
Income
Tax
From
Agricultural
Tax on Kolkhoz
and Peasant
Farmers
From
State
Loan
Minsk City
2.7
9
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20
Baranovichi
38.3
25
25
40
Bobruysk
23.8
25
20
40
Brest
30.5
25
30
40
Vitebsk
19.7
25
25
40
Gomel'
17.7
20
20
40
Grodno
27.2
25
20
40
Minsk
17.7
25
20
50
Mogilev
30.4
25
20
50
Molodechno
62.2
50
30
50
Pinsk
55.1
50
30
50
Poles'ye
51.9
50
30
50
Polotak
46.7
50
30
50
6. To fix deductions for the 1952 oblast budgets as follows: (a) 40 per-
cent of kolkhoz income tax receipts, (b) 20 percent of income of MTS, (c) 50
percent.of income from forestry; and (d) 75 percent of the state tax on horses
of individual peasant farmers; and for the budgets of Minsk City.and the various
oblasts, 50 percent of tax receipts from bachelors, single persons, and married
persons with small families.
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To include in the local budgets tax returns from noncommodity operations
beginning 1 January 1952.
V. Kozlov, Chairman
D. Lukas hevich, Secretary
Supreme Soviet Beliuussiac SSR
Minsk City, 27 March 1952
SOURCES
1. Minsk, Sovetskaya Beloruesiya, 26 Mar 52
2. Ibid., 29 Mar 52
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