USSR MINISTRIES LAG IN 1949 HOUSING CONSTRUCTION

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January 20, 1950
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/22 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280239-6 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION FROM USSR SUBJECT Economic - Rousing 17orstru_`ion HOW WHERE PUBLISHED ;T;SR TN19 0000YIYT CONTAIYO INIOtlYAT10N A,Yf OTIMC TOO .......0010301 001 YYI100 0TA100 .-IN TOO f[ANIo. 01 001tONAN[ 001 YO b. i. C.. 0I A.0 00. A* ?010010. ITS I- 1100100 O1 TN[ f[YtlRT100 NIY1110 IT LA01. 1 00100b00TIOY OY TIll FBAIItl II 0000I...TOO. 'f INO SOURCE Newspapers and periodical as indicated. USSR MINISTRIES LAG IN 1949 ROUSING CONSTRUCTION umbers in parentheses refer to the sources listed at the ena_7 Ministry of Constrv:ti.on of Heavy Industry Enterprises The progress of housing construction by the Ministry of Cona ruction of Heavy Industry Enterprisea was discussed at a session of the Second Plenum of the VTsSPS on 20 August. D. Ye. Rayzer, Vice Minister of Construction of Heavy Industry linterprises, atate3 in his report that the ministry is building a great amount of housing as well as heavy industry enterprises. The volume of this construction work has steadily increased. The Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry Enterprises completed 582,000 square meters of housing in 1947, 884,000 square meters in 1948, and =At construct 1,192,000 square meters of housing in 1949. However, the ministry has failed to construct during 1949 thousands of square meters of housing space for metallurgical, chemical, and machine-building industry workers. It completed only 347,000 of the 418,000 square meters planned during the first half of 1949. Moreover, the July results show that the building organizations are still operating unsatisfactorily. The construction of homes for workers at the Magnitogorsk Combine, the . Makeyevka and Yenakiyevo plants, Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, Lipetak and Kharkov tractor iilants, Novo-Tnl'skiy and Ziatoust metallurgical plants, and the Gorlovka. Dneprodzerzhinsk, and Dnepropetrovsk coke and chemical plants has been inadequate. Rayzer remarked t;,at directors of construction organizations and in administrations of the ministry devo,,a more attention to industrial construc- con- tion than ip housing. industrial n Lhi ds and r haiiizativ n used in structing industrial buildings should be applied to housing construction, he said. (1) SECRET REPORT CD NO. DATE OF INFORMATION 1949 DATE DIST. ,1,6 Jan 1950 NO. OF PAGES 3 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. ARMY AIR i FBI I i I Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/22: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280239-6 CLASSIFICATION SECRET erArr MAW NSRB DISTRIBUTION CLAS IFI%ATION SECRET SECRET Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/22 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280239-6 SECRET 66.4 percent of the 1948 plan for housing construction and was completely un- satisfactory in meeting the 6-month 1949 plan (?), although the volume of housing construction during the first half of 1949 increased 38 percent over the same period of 1948. Out of 63 trusts of the Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry Enterprises, only 28 trusts fulfilled the 6-month plan. Only one third of the year plan for volume of construction work was completed: by the ministry in the first 6 months. ization. Industrial, ass,,bly-line construction methods are used by many builders in Moscow, Leningrad, Magnitogorsk, Zaporozh'ye, Stalingrad, and other cities. However, not everywhere are these n?thod ATFlted, As en ex- and Chelyabinsk. Two large trusts operate in these cities, the Tagil Trust headed by Kratenko, and the Chelyabinsk Trust headed by Terent'yev. The working conditions of Loth trusts are similar, but the results are different. While the Tagil Trust completed only two tLirds of the 6-month plan for housing construction, the Chelyabinsk Trust exceeded the plan. A comparison of both operations shows that problems of mechanizaticn and labor organization ^e neglected in Nizhniy Tagil, while they are given primary consideration in Autry and its main administrations are not taking active measures for con ple,,tng the plan for mechanization of construction operations. The Second Plenum of the VToSFS, in considering this problem, drew up a concrete plan pro- viding an increase in the rate of housing construction and in improvement of its quality, improvement of labor organization, and increase in the control on the progress of housing construction. The plenum gave considerable attention to improvir, the housing and cultural services for construction workers. (2) Housing construction has recently been handled to a large extent by non- construction enterprises, such as coal combines, metallurgical and other plants. In spite of the fact that these e-iterprises have no building experience, they exceed their construct co plans, sometimes by 100 percent, while the special- ized construction trusts fail to meet their production quotas. This has hap- pened in the past and again in 1949 in the Kuzbass, where only one out of three trusts fulfilled the plan. A similar situation exists in. the Urals and in the Donbass. (3) In th_ '_a-et few year a, building organizations of the Ministry of Con- struction of F.crvy Industry Enterprises have restored and built over 2 million square meters of housing, as well as a large number of schools, hospitals, clubs, kindergartens, bathing establishments, laundry establishments, and stores for enterprises in various branches of industry. However, the following ad- ministrations and trus,.s have been unable to meet their quotas: "Glavchermet- stroy Vostoka" (Main Administration for Construction of Ferrous Metallurgy Enterprises of the East), "Gla'-uralstroy" (Main Administration for Constructic1 of Ural Enterprises), "Glavsibsredazetroy" (Main Administration for Con- struction of Siberian and Central Asian Enterprises). "Tag'otrc; " Trust, Makeyevka Construction Trust, and "Magnicostroy" Trust. The ministry is not meeting the plan for construction of new house-building combines and the production of prefabricated souses, as well as the plan far production of construction materials in existing enterprises. SECRET Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/22 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280239-6 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/22 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280239-6 SE E1 Industry. Metallurgical workers should obtain 760,000 square meters of housing during 1949; 89,000 square meters of housing is to be constructed for sale to workers, and aid will be given for the construction of more than 3,000 individu- al houses. The agreements provide also for construction of 68 clubs and cultural c?nters, 41 bathhouses and laundries, 49 schools 18 polyclinics and hospitals, i imtry or Metallurgical Industry eeded the 6-month housing construction plan, and more than 17,500 equare meters a the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Plant imeni Karl Libknekht. The majority of metallurgical enterprises in Dnepropetrovsk Oblast ex- A new workers' settlement of 40 slag concrete houses is under construction or 27.4 percent or the year plan, were completed. Since the beginning of 1949, there has been a serious lag in housing con etructionfor the industry. In 6 months, only 208,000 square meters of housing From 1 :January to 1 August 1949, 49 percent of the plan for capital con- struction by Khabarovsk Kray enterprises was completed; 55 percent of the year pl.an for housing construction was completed during that period. Since the be- ginning of 1949, 31,500 sgaare meters of housing have been out into service. Enterprises of the Ministry of Fish Industry have not been utilizing funds satisfactorily and completed only 42 percent of the year plan for capital construction in 7 months. (6) Housing Construction in Khabarovsk K r 1. Trud, No 197. 21 Aug 49 2. V Pomoshch' F7) C, Vol 10, No 17, Sep 49 3. Izvestiya, No 207, 2 Sep 49 4. V Pomoshch' FZMK, Vol 10, No 18, Sep 49 5. V Pomoshch' FZ14C, Vol 10, No 16, Aug 49 6. Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda. No 197, 21 Aug 49 SECRET SECS . Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/22: CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280239-6