ECONOMIC - COAL MINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240370-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 370
• Publication Date: July 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/07/07: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240370-4
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SUBJECT Economic - Coal mining
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Daily newspapers
USSR
3 - 26 Sep 1948
NEW MINES AND MACHINES IN DONBA;S -- Pravda Ukrainy, No 229, 26 Sep 48
"Novo-Grodovka" Mine No 1 of the "Kraenoarmeyskugol'" Trust vill be put
into operation in several days. 7nnstruction has already been complated on
the reinforoei-concrete loading bunkers and on the dreveing plant. A ro'i-
dreasing machine to be installed viii be the first in the Donbass. A new
mt.nere' settlement is being zonetruoted near the mi.nc.
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A bridge excavator operated by hydraulic traction was recently installed
at the Baydakovekiy open-pit coal mine (Kirovograd Oblast). Its productivity
nxeeeds 6,000 cubic meters of earth a day.
The Al!bertovekoye Mine Administration in the Donbass fulfilled the year
plan for mining coal and produced 14,000 tons of coal above plan by Miner's Day
on 29 August. The miners have pledged to mine many thousands of tone of coal
above the plan by the end of the year.
RAIL FACILITIES SLOW BASIN DEONILOPMENT -- Pravda Vostok., No 189, 22 Sep 48
The Angren Coal Basin is of primary economic importance to Uzbekistan and
the whole of Central Asia. The Angren Basis contributed 30 percent of the coal
mined by "Sredazugoll" Combine in 1948. This ragiun may be considered as a
future coal basin of the Soviet Union. Its location and gaol^gical formations
will permit wide application of open-pit mining methods. .. strip pit and Mine
N-I 9 were put into operation in 1948.' In the first half of 1948, "Uzbekugol'"
Trust mined 350 percent mire coal than in the corresponding period of 1947.
Coal production has progressively increased during the second lialf of this year.
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