RECONSTRUCTION PROGRESSES IN BELORUSSIA, UKRAINE, ESTONIA

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• Publication Date: January 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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PUBLISHED 31 Aug - 4 Nov 1949
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RECONS1Yi,4GTIuN FROGUSS.$ IN BELO$1.T38IA
!u AINE, ESTON-.A
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Belorussia
The Belorussian building industry has,e':,nded considerably in postwar
years. The city of Minsk alone is spending :?.?.e Million rubles daily for
reconst^uction and contt-uction work in 1c4).
Several large construction organizations of the republic have adopted high-
speed, assembly-line building me*.cdz. Construction trastb of "Glavprometroy"
(Main Administration of Industrial Coz,3truction) have made great progress.
Woodworking plants of these trusts produce nearly all wooden parts necessary for
housing construction, including vind5v and door frames, wall closets, paneling,
framework, floor boards, railings, etc. Construction organizations of "Glavpro-i-
stroy" are applying industrial building methods in 20 to 40 percent of their
operations. However, these methods should be applied more widely. In many
smaller construction projects industrialization is only in its first stages of
development. A large number of Minsk projects are using antiquated building
methods. (1)
Construction Yorkers of Minsk and Stalingrad have been competing with each
other in the fulfillment of their plans. Although both cities completed the
state plan for construction wcrk in the first 6 months of 1949, a number of
important pledges have not been fulfilled. For instance, neither one of the
cities met the plan for lowering production costs and releasing funds from their
working capital. Giavminakstroy is lagging behind Ulavetalingradstroy with re-
gard to housing construction. Stalingrad workers completed 67.8 percent of the
year plan for housing construction during the first 6 months of 1949, and
Glavminaketroy completed only 1,200 square meters of h9lasing area, out of a
total of 2,700 provided by plan. Minsk builders have been severely criticized
for not introducing prefabricated reinforced-concrete structures in their con-
struction projects. (2)
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Two large buildings are under construction in Mink. one 11-story building
on Privokzal'naya Floshchad', and one eight-story building on the corner of
Sovetskaya and D lgobrodskaya ulit-~a.
The Mos_oa architect Bar3hch is working on a plan for a new 13-story
building to be nsa acted at Dolgobrodakaya and Sovetskaya ulit3a. (1)
ae eight-apartment house and two 24-apartment houses were recently built
in Miaak. Three mnltistoried buildings have just been finished in the settle-
men' of the Belorussian Tractor Plant. Workers of this plant received 80 new
apartments. Construction of a multistoried apartment house on ulitsa Karla
Me..:kea will soon be completed.
There are many new buildings in other cities of Belorussia. A 16-apartment
hose has been built in Mozyr, a 32-apart-ent house for workers of local enter-
prises in Vitebsk, en the Technical School of Construction in Gomel' has received
a new building. (3)
General reconstruction plans have been worked out for the largest towns of
Bel~o.mo sia, including Brest, Baranovich., Grodno, Pinsk, Molodechno, and others.
Brest is to be transformed into a garden city. Construction plans for this
city include large-scale construction of dwellings and administrative buildings,
also a stadium, a hotel, and e general 3torc.
Molodechno and Baranovichi are to undergo great changes. A great deal of
construction work is in progress in these toms. (4)
QitxkuontheNanan.River '-as been completely transformed in the past 10 years.
Many new buildings have been constructed. The first unit of a nine-cloth com-
bine has been put into operation. A shoe factory with modern equipment has also
been established in Grodno. Leather plants, lumber mills, a tobacco factory,
and other enterprises have been reconstructed. it pedagogical institute, a
theater, and many secondary speciul schools have been opened in this town. The
ancient Grodno castle has been restored and transformed into a museum. (5)
A 20-year construction plan has been approved for the town of Mogilev.
The plan provides for the construction of new industrial enterprises, a dramatic
theater, clubr., schools, dispensaries, etc. The industrial districts wtli be
connected with the center of the town by streetcar lines. (6)
During postwar yearn, over 10,000 Belorussian villages have been reconstructed.
About 400,000 houses have been built in these villages. Every single village in
Belorussia has several new buildings. Puilding activities have been especially
extensive in the new kolkhozes of western Belorussian oblasts. The general recon-
struction plan is to be completed in 3 years. (7)
- The first Belorussian sugar refinery is being built in Skidel'skiy Rayon,
Grodno Oblast. Construction plans include the plant buildings, a power pla::t,
and a workers' settlement. (8)
During the war, 6,000 dwellings in Kiev were destroyed and burned. Until
now 600,000 square meters of living area have been reconstructed and newly built.
Eighty-eight dwellings were completed in 1949. Fifty houses are now under con-
struction on Bagrinovaya Gora. (9)
Two eight-story apartment houses are under construction on Kreshchatik, a
main thoroughfare in Kiev. These are the first large buildings to be constructed
according to the general plan The new houses will have 122 apartments with a
total living area of about 5,000 square meters. The first stories of the build-
ings will. be faced with red granite, the remaining stories with ceramic tiles.
All apartments will have central heating, gas, elevator service, garbage disposal, etc.
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astruction ie to be done by high-speed ae:sembly-i ns methcds, and
th the latesi mechanical equipment. ;10)
ouilding, a.-: well as light irdustry and food industry. Kiev enterprises have
mastered th,- production ?:,f marry new types of products, including motorcycles,
various gas installations, etc. Thu construction materials industry has
The ple fcr new tens rartio:_, especially housing, is being augmented from
year to year. --n 19,9 or_stru t~cc of sew buildings const_incted 10 per_ent
of the eat'-re en tr c.tion prcgram, whereas in 1949 it constitutes 50 percont.
(ii>
The "Kiv.:"~?i1stroy" Trust construction workers have finished building tiro
new school-%. No 14 on Kurenevka and No til on ulitsa Chekistov 2. A five-story
In the 1 acne, new school{ have been built. Following the >xample
of workers in Zhicomiz, Chernigoe, Kiev and other oblae.ts, 519 new schools have
been built in the Ukraine with the help of community building methods; and
28,974 schools have 'been repaired. About 6,000 schools have been equipped with
electricity. (13)
The number of new rlvellinge it Zaporozh'ye is increasing daily The
"Zaporozhatroy" Trust alone has built 89 houses during 1949, with a total
area of 37,000 square meters. This trust will soon complete construction of
40 more houses. Construction is done by high-speed methods. (14)
Individual building is derelopin in the Transcarpathian Obla,t. Daring
the 4 years of Soviet government, workers of this oblast built over 8,000 d,re1.1-
ings, Individuad builders received from the state 10 million bricks, over 4
million tiles, 66,000 cubic meters of timber, and large quantities of other
building materials. (15)
During the last 3 years, 116 factories and plants have been rebuilt and
newly built in the Transcarpathian Oblast of the Ukraine. The number of enter-
prises has increased six times, and the number of ti.orkers seven times; industrial
production has increased ten times. Five large sawmills have been built in Trans-
carpathia. (16)
Tallin is one of 12 cities of the Soviet Union which are under the ju Ls&ic-
tion of the new All-Union Ministry of Cicy Construction. A nbw general recon-
struction plan for Tallin has been, made and recsaetruction work begun. ,.reider-
able funds have been allocated in the 1950 budget for city constr.cc ns purposes.
By the end of 1951, Tallin is to reach its prewar level of living area and number
of other buildings. The basic area of land new occupied by the city will -b, pre-
served to its full extent and will reach from Pyaaskyula to Meri yal'ya. The
ancient, historical part of the city will be left Intact.
The most important construction project in the future center of the city is
the House of Ministries. This huge building is to have a capacity cf 128,000
cubic meters and a length of 150 meters. The general construction plan has been
approved. The new building will occupy a land area of 2 hectares and will extend
along the entire length of the new central square. The new administrative build-
ing of the Executive Committee of the City Soviet is to be built next to the House
of Ministries, at the corner of ulitsa Vira and Mere puyestee. (17)
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organizat..-ees mast continue to speed up housing constructs^n. (16)
The town and. railroad junction of Valga on the Estonian-Latvian border
was bs'y._y- damaged during the war, 1a the past 5 years, a great amount of
recons;ruc.ion work has been done. Sixty various industrial enterprises
have been rebuilt and 20 new ones built. Construction of a. new railroad
station building is near c,ttrpietion. !5
nor workers of the "Vol'ta" Plant, and houses for workers of other enter-
prises. Hovevsi, the steel for living area is still very great and city
i,;~luding two large settlemer.te far cor traction corkers, a large dwelling
During the pact 5 years: over. 1,300 dwellings :cvering an araa of more
than +00,00) s pare weters were reccnstructed and newly built in i'allin,
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80 percent of the prewar area. The city has three technical schools, 16 schools,
8 clubs, 5 movie theaters, a dramatic theater, 30 children's inat'_tutiose, and
severai hospitals. Streetcars have resumed operation.
One of the leading enterprises of the city is the "Proletariy" Cement Plant,
which has teen producing thous?.nds of tons of high-grade cement above plan each
month.
one of the met important ports of the Black Sea coast. During the war, nearly
all of Its dwellings a total of 9,000 buildings) were destroyed. At present
the city has about x00,000 square meters of living area
which is more than
Construction in Other. Parts of USSR
No*roroesiyak is now the largest industrial city of the Kuban' region and
Construction of new buildings i8 in full progress. The construction plan
has been fulfilled 106 percent, labor productivity has increased 16.2 percent
over 1948, production costs are 1.7 percent below plan. These results were
achieved mainly by mechanization of construction work.
Novorossiyck builders were the first in Krhsnoiar Kray to use col,red master.
Buildings covered with this type of plaster do not require painting or whitewash-
ing. Colored plaster is highly resistant to wind and rain. (19)
The ancient Russian city -f Bryansk was seriously damaged during the war.
It had to be practically rebuilt from its foundation. At present, 3n union-
republic and local enterprises in Bryansk have been reconstructed and new types
of industry have been created. The most important railroad Junctions have been
restored.
Great progress has been made in housing construction in the city. Over 165,000
square titers of living area have been rebuilt and newly built. The state has been
extremely helpful to workers in the construction of dwellings. Indiviiual 'builders
have built over 2,500 houses. The city has a number of multistoried buildings,
including the Hall of Soviets, the Forestry Institute, the Communications Adminis-
tration, offices of the State Bank, and the Oblast Committee of VKP(b). Over 80
buildings were built during 1949, of which 50 are dwellings. A new dramatic
theater -ith a seating capacity of 750 was rece,.tl.y opened. Mach 1,9s been done
in the reconstruction of schools, hospitals, and cultural instItutioas.
Two new bridges have been built across the Verkhniy and Nizhniy Su.dki ravines.
A new street, Fokinskaya, will run over these bridges. This is to be the main
thoroughfare of the city. (20)
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2. Sovetskaya Belorussi.ya, No 174, 2 Sep 49
3. Thud, No 261, 4 Nov 49
4. Pravda, No 277, 4 Oct 49
5. Sovetskaya Estoniya, No 222, 2G Sep 49
6. Sove`sk ya Litva, No 224, 22 Sep 49
8. Pravda, No 263, 2O Sep 49
9. Pravda, No 266, 23 Sep 49
11. Izvestiya, No 247, 19 Oct 49
12.. Pravda Ukrainy, Nc 205, 31 Aug 49
14. Pravda, No 292, 19 Oct 49
16. Pravda Ukrainy, No 249, 21 oct 49
11". Trasn?vy Flot, No 224, 22 Sep 49
1.9. Yrasnyy Fi.ot, No 219, 16 Sep 49
20. Izvostiya, No 246, 18 Oct 49
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