USSR COAL INDUSTRY SHOWS GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DESPITE LAGS IN SPOTS

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CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4
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May 7, 1952
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/06: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4 CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE RMAT AGENCY INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS COUNTRY USSR SUBJECT Economic - Coal HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspapers WHERE. PUBLISHED USSR DATE PUBLISHED 18 Jan - 11 Mar 1952 LANGUAGE Russian TOIr rO fl UT collYlr IsterlATlOI unrnst no UATelu 5571st 0/ nr YllpiO stmt llvll nr lstllN or uMY.Arr AR re r. 1. C., rl Ale 11.11 Yrlpil. ITT HAIOIUI;I Or Tllr lpIIATCA er 1T Ceram U YT were TO Al IIUTlOrlrre piston lr pie. ^lemo n ul. stril0ll1Tn or Tllr roll lr PIOllllfe. REPORT CD NO. DATE OF INFORMATION 1951 - 1952 DATE DIST. l May 1952 NC. OF PAGES 3 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION USSR COAL INDUSTRY SHOWS GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DESPITE LAGS IN SPOTS NEW MINING METHOD TO STEP UP COAL PRODUCTION -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 18 Jan 52 The Minister of the Coal Industry has worked out a number of measures for the radical improvement of coal mining. These include a provision for the transition to the so-called retreatir..g method of mining by which coal extraction is started at the limits of the mine fie'd and the seam is worked back to the mine shaft. The new system offers wide possibilities for the better utiliza- tion of new techniques, further increase in coal output, a rise in labor pro- ductivitv, and a drop in production costs of coal. More exteusive mechanization and automatization of labor-consuming processes are also contemplated. In 1952, a great amount of development work must be completed in Donbass mines to make them ready for conversion to the retreating system of mining. -Miners must accelerate their speed in cutting passages considerably. In 4 years the new system of removing coal will be introduced at half the faces and sections of the Stalinugol' Trust. This will raise the coal output to 53 per- cent above the 1951 output. COAL HAULAGE IMPROVES IN STALINUGOL' COMBINE -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 28 Feb 52 Work on the reorganization of underground transport is under way in the Stalinugol' Combine and, in many mines, coal haulage by mine car is being re- placed by conveyer haulage. The first large conveyer line, already in opera- tion in the Petrovo-Lidiyevka Mine, and consisting of ten powerful conveyers with a total length of more than 1,000 meters, delivers the coal directly to the mine shaft where it reaches the surface by means ,-P skip hoists. The flow of coal has more than doubled since the conveyers wore put into operation. New conveyer lines are being constructed in 12 more mines of the combine. MT-NSRS FBI Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/06: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/06: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4 CONFIDENTIAL DONBASS COAL TRUST LAGS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 1 Mar 52 In 1951, the Kraenodonugol' Trust failed to fulfill the state plan for both the quantity and the quality of its output and owed the corntry dozens of trainloads of coking coal. In January the trust did fulfill the plan, but in the second half of February the work deteriorated again and the trust failed to deliver hundreds of tons of coal to the country. Since the begin- ning of 1952, orly half of the mines and mine administrations of the trust have been fulfilling the plan. A total of 22 faces have been converted to the cycle work schedule, but a large part of them are not fulfilling the cycle and output plan. AID3ALTSIKSE COAL INDUSTRY IMPROVES -- Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 22 Feb 52 Akhaltsikhe is an old coal region, but for years coal mining was carried out here only to satisfy local requirements. In postwar years the industrial importance of the region has grown greatly, and the Akhaltsikhe Mine Adminis- tration has entered the system of the Gruzugol' Combine. At the beginning of 1952, an increase in the Akhaltsikhe coal output was noted. Mine No 2, which lagged for a long time, had been fulfilling or ex- ceeding its daily quota since January 1952. Metal props have been installed in coal bed haulage drifts, coal transport in the crosscuts has been mechanized, and scraper conveyers are in wide use. Expenditures have been lessened and production costs of coal reduced. Mine No 2 fulfilled the January plan 143 percent and is achieving even better results in February. ACHIEV NTS, DEFECTS, REQUIREMENTS OF MOSCOW BASIN -- Moskovskaya Pravda, 11 Mar 52 The Moskvougol' Combine mined coal in excess of the 150,000 tons above plan which it had pledged for 1951. In Stalinogorsk Mine No 22 alone more than 40C workers have drawn up plans for increasing labor productivity. A competition has also started in many mines to reach the mines' planned productive capacity ahead of schedule. In the fourth quarter 1951, workers of Mine No j7 cuuoiuerably exceeded the mine's planned capacity for coal output. More than 50 mines r, the basin have achieved the same results. Enterprises of the combine have done extensive work in recent years on automatizing the control of machines. At almost all loading points mine cars areenved into position by car feeders, designed by local engineers. The majority of mining machines, particularly conveyers, have been converted to remote control. In 1951, Donbass combines ar^ived in a number of mines of the basin. This is not a bad machine, but it far from suited to the conditions of the Moscow coal basin. Three years ago Moscow basin engineers proposed a new design for the combine, and later the ministry commissioned Giprouglemash to work out the design. Two years have passed ane Giprouglemaeh has not yet carried out this task. The Moscow basin urgently needs a machine for carrying out drainage work in its mines. It also needs an improved design for mine props. The question has repeat 11,,, been raised of creating an affiliate of Giprouglemash for the Moe cow basin, to develop new machines especially for the Moscow basin coal mines, but with no results as yet. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/06: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/06: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4 COHBIDE1OTLAL 'he 1oscoN basin also has grievances against other ministries with which it has connection, in particular, the ministry of Traneportatiun, since rail- road workers supply the basin inadequately with empty mine cars. In addition to definite successes in the work of enterprises of the Moscow basin' tLere are also many defects. A number of mines are not fulfill the coal output plans and are utilizing mining techniques bad ing ly. Some faces con- 'Orted'to the cycle work schedule are not keeping to the established cycl: corm. Miners of the Moscow basin have pledged to mine 100,000 tons of coal above plan in 1952 and to deliver not less than 5 million rubles in above-plan accu- mulations. 50X1-HUM I , Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/06: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700060289-4