SOME DATA ON THE USSR FORESTRY AND TIMBER INDUSTRIES, AS OF SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1951

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February 11, 1952
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 LANGUAGE SUBJECT HOW PUBLISHED WHERE PUBLISHED DATE PUBLISHED INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL SECURITY INFORMAT 0 DATE OF - ------- -- - ---y anus Lrles Dally newspapers USSR 18 Sep - 28 Oct 1951 Txll OOCtltluT foxT?ltl ITO.tl?T1o. ?TfCTIN till IATIONAC Sins 01 ixa tlantl l4nl .ITxltl nt tltAtll.l tVl0tlA0l ?CT t0 S. a. C.. Il A.0 A.AL Atlatlot5. In nAxlnsnox 0. Till .STal?TOI Dl In Co.ntln Itl 1xT .Ltlll t0 ?tl V.Atln0.I0t0 .nt0. la r10. NURIO n u.. .IP.o.UCTIOS or Txu lou IS r.oxultlo. DATE DIST. II Feb 1952 SOi? DATE ON THE USSR FORESTRY AND TIMBER INDUSTRIES, AS OF SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1951 [Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources] Fall planting of shelter belts along rail lines has begun. Together with those planted last spring, shelter belts planted In 1951 along transport lines stretch out for a distance of 2?0 kilometers. Shelter belts protect the rail lines from snow and sand drifts. They minimize interruptions an communication lines and signal installations, shelter trains from wind=_, and at the same time raise crop yields on fields adjoining the rail lines. Shelter belts planted along rail lines under the Soviet regime stretch out for a total. distance of more than 29,000 kilometers. Belts totaling a dis- tance of 19,000 kilometers are sufficiently mature to protect the lines from snowdrifts. As a result, it has been possible to remove about 10 million wooden shields along the belt-protected lines and to eliminate 258 kilometers of permanent fences.(!) STATE ARMY - 1 - CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONROFOL NAVY AIR NSRB FBI DISTRIBUTION Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 Ukrainian SSR Plantings of Amur _ork trees (Phellodendron amurense), brought from the Far East to the Ukraine, have acclimatizeR ve37 wolf in the Ukrainian republic. The high-quality wood of this tree goes into the manufacture of furniture. The Amur cork tree has acclimatized and is growing in Kiev, Vinnitsa, lemenete-Podollsk, and other oblaata. The first trees were planted 20 years ago. At present, Amur cork trees occupy a total area of 2,180 hectares. (2) Eawakh SSR In the spring of 1951, a total of 13,396 hectares (100.3 percent of plan) were afforested in Kazakhstan by the forestry managements of the republic. In the fall of 1951, 5,640 hec- tares are to be planted with trees. (3) There are now 143 tractors of various models in use on the forestry managements of the republic. (4) Tnrkien $ t The Ministry of Forestry USSR has organized 10 steppe forestry managements in the zones of the great construction projects. Five of these have been created at points'along the route of the Main Turkmen Canal and will service the shelter belts along the canal. (511 09KHOENT+nl Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 !! MTL L CONFIDENTIAL Kere1o-Finnish SS? In 1951, the log_tng trusts of the Ministry of Timber Industry Karelo-Finnish SSR are obligated to build and pre- pare for Occupancy more than 45,000 square meters of living space. But during the first 8 months of the year, only 11,000 square meters have been buil+. and readied for occupancy. (6) During the fall and winter logging season which has just begun, the loggers of the Karolo-Finnish SSR face the task of providing the country with If times more timber than was felled and hauled during the name season last year. In the course of this year, the logging enterprises of the republic received hundred, of new machines and the number of permanent workers increased. Most enterprises have enough workers to convert to 2- or 3-shift operations. (7) The logging enterprises of the Karelo-Finnish SSR have sent 170 carloads of construction timber to the South Uk al- nien and North Crimean canal construction projects and 18 carloads of ties and such construction timber to Dneprostroy. This year, 31 carloads of timber in excess of plan have been dispatched to the Stalingrad and Kuybyshev hydroelectric prQj ' . CONFIDENI AL -CONHOENTIA. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 C!,'i!FIIn''r17 A L During the 4th quarter, 1951, 3b carloads of ties will be sent to the Kakhovka GF:; project. 'l'hin order will on fill,-d by the Shuya Flouting Office and a ler.hing center of Virandozoro Timber Management. Karell..., timber enterprioeu supply such timber for the construction of Moscow skyscrapers ine]tlni, Moscow Stnto University imoni M. V. Lomononnv. In Septomhnr ulone, Sum and other tin,bor martagementn dinpntchod 402 eerlondn of round timber to Moscow for the oonntructlon of those buildings. Almost all tlmh?r monagomonto of Yuchknre]les, Med-azht- yegorlon, Sego"hlen, and Sovknrellon trusts vend pit props and oonstructicn timber to the Doninnn and Moscow Region noel mines. In September, Shuyn F'luntlng Office n,,nt 115 carloads of props to the mines, and Suna Flatting Gfflco aunt 6 more carloads than planned. (8) The Ministry of Timber Indu ntry Karalo-F'inninh SSR reports that during the first 20 deyn of October 191 haulage of timber in the republic was 39.5 percent greeter than in the correspon- ding period of 1950. (9) Estonian SSl? In 1951, the timber management, of Estonian SSR received 13 mobile electric power plants with full nets of electric mews, 4 three-drum skidding winches, and other equipment. Equipment is, however, still inadequate. Inadequacy of equip.. wont was one of the main reasons why the Ministry of Timber Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011 Industry Estonian SSR failed to meet the 1950-1951 fall and winter legging season plan by 100,000 cubic asters of cou?er- cial timber. ;art season, the felling plan was met only 93 percent, the haulage plan only 81.4 percent. (10) Latvian SSR During the last three years, timber haulage machines have increased if times, mobile electric power plants 4 times, saws 3 times, and truck cranes 5 times in the timber in- dustry of the Latvian SSR. (11) Lit.huarfan ESE Mechanizsci0:1 has increased at the logging enterprises in the Lithuanian SSR; .11 times more electric saws will be in operation this season than last year. Mary logging points will be fully converted to mechanized felling. Many new gas- generator trucks have been added to the haulage fleet. (12) Belorussian SSR The Belorussian S2 supplies timber for the greet con- struction projects of communism, the coal mining, metal mining, and cellulose-paper industries, and other branches of the national economy. The legging enterprises of the republic are now equipped with mobile electric power plants, high-frequency K-5 electric saws, KT-12 skidding tractors, electric winches, loading cranes, CC4 F r9EF1T AI Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 COO~QEtI~;~~ CONFIDENTIAL and other equipment. SoTo timber managements are fully mechu_ ni,'ed. During the 1951-1952 fall and winter season, the logging industry of the republic m.st depend on seasonal workers for much assistance. It is, therefore, an important task of enterprise supervisors and trade union organizations to pay much attention to the seasonal workers and explain the new wage system to them. (13) Ukmainian SSA In a letter to the editor, I. Zhukov, chief of the Ukrai- nian Office of the MalAdministration of Mine Timber (Glav- ahakhtoles) writes: In 1950, the enterprises of the Ukrainian timber industry were 26,000 cubic meters short in their deliveries of conatruo- tion timber to the coal mining industry and 66,147 cubic meters short in their deliveries of pit props. In 1950, the Ukrainian timber industry paid 1,500,000 rubles in fines for delivery of low-quality pit-prop timber. The performance of the timber industry enterprises has not improved in 1951. Deliveries are slow and the timber is sent in an uneasorted manner. Supervisors of the logging trusts Stanislavlesprom, Zakerpatlesprom, and Zhitomirles complain that the cutting areas assigned to them lack timber of the required size. But - 6 - CONFIDENTIAL NTLA1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for CorarDE1 TIAL these explanations are invalid, beoause,of the timber which they eupply,40 percent is of the proper size. The Ukrainian enterprises and organizationo should emu. late the leading oblasta - Gor'kiy, Leningrad, Arkhangel'ek, and others - who,ae of Mineral Day 1951, had net the timber- delivery plan 114 percent. All timber reached the mines in assorted and grope, length form. Each cu5io meter of pit-prop timber permits the mining of 30 tons of coal, which in heat value replaces 150 cubic meters of wood. (14) ermoninn sgn During the last two years, the logging enterprises of the Ministry of Timber Industry Armenian SSR have put into use many new trucks, skidding tractors, mobile electric power plants, electric saws, and winches. }tilfillmont of the plan, will depend on how fully and productively the machines on hand will be utilized. (15) SR The 14 mechanized timber managements of Komiper'sles Trust, Komi-Permyok Nntionnl Okrug, give the country millions of cubic meters of timber annually. This fall, more than 1,600 electric saws, 240 mobile electric power plants, 300 tractors, more than 350 trucks, and 40 steam and motor loco. GONF6iENTIR Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 01- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for C01! ,177 1 it motives will be used in logging operations. Si ee the beginning of 1950, a total of 1,635 mechanics have been trained to maintain the logging equipment of the lumber drying r,ith high-frequency current has been adopted at Kazan' Lumber 615.11 No 1. The drier producer well-dried lumber. Up to 7 cubic motors of lumber are placed into the drier. Although it was thought that two kilowatt-hours of electric porter would be required to eliminate one kilogram of moisture, actually only 1.2 kilowatt-hours are expended. Such a high productivity of the drier was made possible by a number of changes in its design carried out by the mill's chief power engineer, N. A. Kalmykov. The drier was assembled and tested by mill workers. (17) Floating _n the Severnaya Dvina River basin is comirg to a close. The last raft has been dispatched from Kotlas to Arkhangel'ek. This year, 500,000 more cubic motors of timber than last year have reached their final destinations. Raft construction has been fully mechanized at Severnaya Dvina enterprises. Dvinosplev (Ovine Timber Floating) Trust has achieved a saving of a million rubles for the State. (18) The main mass of timber felled in Mari ASSR goes dorn the Volga to the builders of the Kuybyshov and Stalingrad hydro- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011 cc::r'IDEt In, electric stations and to the Donbass. Hundreds of thousands of cubic meters have already been dispatched and floating is continuing. (19) In 1951, 24 percent more timber was floated down the Kama River than in 1950. (20) The 3rd-quarter gross production plan of Ministry of Timber Industry enterprises located in the city of Leningrad and Leningrad Oblast was met 109 percent. (21) Salvage shops have been created at the timber managements in Leningrad Oblast. From waste wood, they produce packing_ case lumber, barrel staves, fence pickets, eta. Formerly, this wood became firewood. All work in the shops is fully mechanized. By the end of 1951, more than 30 of these shops will be in operation. (22) Kirgiz WR Timber flcn.ting on the rivers of Kirgizia has been com- pleted. Conditions for free floating were unfavorable in 1.951 due to low water levels. Timber industry workers are striving to provide the re- public with 20-30,000 cubic motors of timber in . -less of plan by the and of the year. (23) CONF!YY 17 ,I] Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5 CO? SOURCES 1. Kishinev, Sovetskaya kdoldaviya, 10 Oct 51 2. Minsk, Sc-7etakaya Beloruaaiya, 10 Oct 51 3. Alma-Ata, Kazakdistanekaya Pravda, 10 Oct 51 4. Ibid., 20 Oct 51 5. Leningradakays Pravda, 11 Oct 51 6. Perozavodak, Laninakoye Znaaya, 2 Oat 52- 7. Ibid., 3 Oct 51 3. Ibid., 6 Oct 51 9. Ibid., 26 Oat 5. 10. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoni;;a, 9 Oct 51 11. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 5 Oat 51 12. Vil'nyub, Sovetskaya Litva; 4 Oct 51 13. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorua3iya, 4 Oct 51 .14. Moscow, Leamya Progahlennoat', 7 Oct 51 -15. Yerevan, Komcuniat, 3 Oct 51 16. Moscow, Izvestiya, 18 Sep 51 17. Ibid., 12 Oct 51 18. Ibid., 13 Oct 51 19. Ibid., 19 Oct 51 20. Ibid., 23 Oct 51 21. Leningradskaya Pravda, 28 Oct 51 22. Moscow, Lesnaya Pronyshlennoat', 14 Oct 51 23. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 13 Oct 51 END - 10 - CONFIDENTIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040325-5