URAL CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INDUSTRY DEVELOPS; ASBESTOS MINING ENTERPRISES CRITICIZED

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600300152-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 152
• Publication Date: April 7, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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rZ CLASSIFICA?ION SECRET SEG~L~'
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY P.EPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTu CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949 - ly^50
HOW
PU6LISHED
Weekly newspapers
DATE DIST. 7 Apr 1950
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
Moscow
N0. OF PAGES
2
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
2'T Ja?[, 17 Feb 1950
Russian
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
Txu oocuwaxr cownua urovvnox urranxa rxv x?noxu o[ruvv
or na uxmo vr?ro nnu rxv wvnxv ar unowwa ?a vo
w. v. c.. vi ?xo av. vs ?nxoao, m n?nuvnox ox rxv unc?nox
or m coxnxn ~x ?wr w?xwu m ?x ux?urxonuo rvnox a rva?
wunm n [?~. unaoucnox or rwu rovw a rxowuino.
URAL COHSTRUCTIOH MATERL9IS INDUS'iRY DEVELOPS;
ASHESTOS MININO ^N'1TRRPRISES CRITICI7.ED '-
Towns of the eastern Trsasural, including Asbest, ?ukhoy Log, Bogdano-
vich, Kamyahlov, and Talitsa; may be compared to workshops of a huge con-
struction materials combine. This area has the largest asbestos mines of
the cotntry, and plants of this region produce cement, slate, glass, pre-
fabricated houses, asbestos board, and asbestos pipes. During the past 4
years, ti:e industry in thls area has expanded and the population has grown.
Aabestcs mining is steadily developing and modern techniques have been in-
troduced in mines and plants.
Sukhoy Log, in the vicinity oP Asbest, has a number of important rl....ts.
The asbestos pipe plant in this town produces large quantities of roofing
slate. Sukhoy Log cement plants have produced thousands of tone of cement
for Ural construction projects. Housing construction in this to::n is pro-
gressing.
Several new towns and workers' settlements have grown up in the Trans-
ural during the past Pew years. The town of Bogdanovich is the center of
an industrial area producing refractories and ceramic construction materials.
This region hsa deposits of the best types of Ural clay. (1)
The asbestos industry operated successfully during 1949, but severs,:
enterprises of "Aeboruda" (Asbestos Ore) Trust and "Soyuzeabest" (Trust oP
Main Adr~inietration of Industrial Construction under Ministry oP Con~truc-
tion of Heavy Ir_dustry Enterprises) have recently relaxed their efforts.
As a result, asbestos mines PP11 short of producing a large quantity of raw
material during Tanuary 1950. A similar situation prevailed in concentrating
plants.
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Many enterprises in Asbeat were not sufficiently prepared for the
winter. Host of the mines had no heated rooms for the wines. *T~ prepa-
rations had been ~asde for snow removal. Snow drifts halted the operation
of rolling equipment. The available snowplow had not been repaired and
the tracks had to be cleaned by hand. Rothing had been done to provide
heat for excavators and electric locomotives. Only in January they were
provided with electric heaters.
Hanager Paehkin and chief engineEr Tutov of the "Asboruda" Trust had
not taken steps to prapare sufficient reserves of asbestos ore for mining.
In December, blast workers did not have a sufficient area oY operation.
Fort;? blast foremen had to be transferred to other work sectors. In Janu-
ary, drilling machines stood idle because of the lack of workers and there
was a shortage of blasted rock.
When the frosts and snowdrifts net in, cone of the factories had any
dry ore. In January, the ore received for processing wen moist and partly
covered with Anow. It was not dried sufficiently and clogged up the screens.
This caused numerous breakdowns of machinery.
Labor norms in asbestos mines have been greatly neglected. The norms
for mining brigades, established in 1937, nave not been revised in the past
13 Years and no longer correspon4 to existing conditions. (2)
SOURCES
1. Promyshlenaost' Stroitel'nykh Haterialov, Ao 5, 27 Jan 50
2. Proa~yshlennost' Stroitel'r~ykh Haterialov, Ro 8, 17 Feb 50
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