REVIEW OF SOVIET MOTOR TRANSPORT, 1924 - 1948

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• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Transportation - Motor
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PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 1948
LANGUAGE Russian
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INFORMATION 1924 - 1948
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REVIEW OF SOVIET MOTOR TRANSPORT 1924 - 1948
L. A. Bronshteyn, F. N. Budrin
On. 7 November 1924, the first ten Soviet AMO automobiles passed throu
Squaremobile,PlantFiveimeniyears latMolotover, in 1929, construction was started on the Gor'kiy Auto-
. A Red
was built with the AMO gigantic plant, the Automobile Plant imeni StalBhin,
plar;t In
Moscow as a heavy trucks was built with an automobile repair sshop dat Yaroslavl- asoa basis.
By 1932, the LSSR had produced about 25,000 motor vehicles. During the first
rive.-Yeas. Plan,, 57,000 automobiles were produced and during the second Five-Year
producedPlanj
motorsvehpiduced icles,, 184,ofOwhich3werentrucks,Joviet automobile plants
Durin1 World War II, an automobile plant (Mias-ZIS) was built in the Urals
and construction was begun on a large automobile plant in the Volga region.
By the end e as as many as France, and19401,.4thtimee
GreatnBritain. aIns 1.5 times
lionth automobile was produced in the USSR. 1939, the mil-
In number of trucks, the USSR was second in the world even before the war
and trucks were used in the USSR 2 - 2,5 times more than in the United States.
The following table shows a comparison between the USSR and the United States in
the use of trucks before the war.
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USSR
USA
Comparison of
USA With USSR
(percent)
Annual vehicle run (kilometers)
40,000
18,000
45
Freight turnover per unit (tons per year)
1,490
542
36
Average carrying capacity of vehicle
(tons)
2.1
1.4
67
Annual output for one machine-ton (tons)
705.5
385
52
Average hauling distance (kilometers)
10.4
28.2
270
Truck performance (ton-kilometers per
year)
15,500
15,300
99.8
Of the 500,000 automobiles to be produced in the last year of the postwar
Five-Year Plan, 428,000 will be trucks, 65,600 passenger cars, and 6;400 busses.
By the end of 1950, the motor-vehicle fleet of the USSR will be double that
of the prewar period and the volume of hauling will increase 2.2 times. in tons
and nearly 3 times in ton-kilometers over 1940. Motor transport will haul al-
most 2.5 times more freight (in million tons) than all other types of transport
combined. The total freight turnover for all types of freight will increase
from 483 billion ton-kilometers in 1940 to 657.5 billion ton-kilometers in 1950,
or 36 percent. This will represent an increase of 28 percent for rail, 38 per-
cent for water, and 185 percent for motor transport.
By the end of 1950, the operating expenses,of motor transport, which van
before the war were almost 90 percent of those of railroads, will surpass those
of all other weans of transport.
Considerable funds are being appropriated during 1946 - 1950 for the reor-
ganization of automobile transport e??d for the construction of modern roads.
The network of modern main highways within the Soviet Union will be increased
by 11,500 kilometers.
The concrete objectives of the postwar Five-Year Plan regarding motor trans-
port are: to double the size of the motor-vehicle fleet over that of the prewar
period; to increase the.. use of diesel engines, higher :ompression gasoline en-
gines, gas-cylinder,' and gas-generating vehicles, capable of operating on local
types of fuel; to increase the number of self-unloading trucks; to establish com-
mon-carrier hauling en