SOVIET CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INDUSTRY MAKES STRIDES, BUT DOES MEET BUILDING DEMANDS

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• Document Release Date: September 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: August 24, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTIV USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Construction materials
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 18 May 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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INFORMATION 1939 - 1955
DATE DIST. 1 i Aug 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOVIET CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS INDUSTRY MAKES STRIDES,
BUT DOES NOT MEET BUILDING DEMANDS
According to P. Yudin, Minister of the Construction Materials Industry
USSR, the industry has been -raking strides within recent years but still has
not been able to keep pace with increased building demands.
Production of a number of new building materials has been mastered,
particularly clearer and larger-sized polarized glass, ornamented glass,
glass blocks and pipes, larger-sized pressed stained glass, and radiators
for thin w&. bui'.dings. The production of wooden prefabricated houses has
been increasing considerably.
However, in a number of rayons the lack of building materials has been
holding up constructions. The cost of brick, tile, facing ceramics, and gyp-
sum products remains enormous, while the quality of brick, glass, slate, sani-
tary-technical products, and other materials remains inferior.
Without exception, all branches of the construction materials industry
could make more efficient use of their enormous available reserves. However,
in a number of plants of the industry, the equipment is not utilized to full-
est capacity. Investigations have shown that the cement industry could in-
crease its output by 30-40 percent with mini,sum effort.
Labor. productivity could be increased considerably by mechanizing the
working operations. However, in a number of enterprises products are still
hauled within and between plant shops by unmechanized facilities. The opera-
tions in the warehouses are performed by manual labor. Quite frequently,
more workmen are employed in the servicing and subsidiary plant ohops than
in the basic producing shops.
t number of plants have been permitting production to decline during
the first 10 days of the month below the level of production of the last
10 days of the previous month. Cement, brick, 11. _, and ceramic, slate, and
sanitary-technical products are manufactured in spurts rather than in
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lation are to be met., the construction materials industry will have to in-
Plants subordinate to'the Ministry of Construction Materials Industry USSR
alone will manufacture more than 1.5 billion rubles' worth of materials for
sale to the public. The public will have the opportunity tc purchase through
assortment of building materials put out into the open market has been ex-
panded. In addition. to the basic building materials, the population can now
Capital investments allocated during the new Five Year Plan for recon-
structing existing plants and erecting new plants within the industry pro-
vide.f-r an expansive program three times greater than that in the Fourth
Five Year Plan. However, the builders erecting the inAustry's enterprises
have been fulfilling their assignment very slowly.
The construction materials industry has been lacking a considerable
amount of equipment and mechanisms. Despite this, their production by the
machine building ministries is still not organized*satisfactorily. It is im-
perative that the machine building ministries not only design new machinery
f.,r the manufacture of building. materials but increase its output as well
as improve its quality.
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