DEVELOPMENTS IN USSR FORESTRY, TIMBER, PAPER AND WOOD-PROCESSING, MARCH 1953

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• Publication Date: September 18, 1953
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CLASSIFICATION COONFIDENTIAL
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INFORMATION FROM
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SUBJECT Economic - Forestry, timber, paper and INFORMATION 1953
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DEVELOPMENTS IN USSR FORESTRY TIMBER PAPER AP1D
WOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRIES MARCH 1953
Karelo-Finnich SSR
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the first-quarter 1953
and the 1952 - 1953 fall-winter season plans for timber haulage in the okrugs
of the republic:
10 Mar 1 Mar (2) 20 Mar (3) 25 Mar (4)
lst 1st 1st 1s
Okrug t
ter quarter Season quarter Season Quarter Season
Petrozavodskiy 69.6 77.0 85.2 85.1 90.1 93.2 94.9
Segezhakiy 63.4 70.5 85.0 .78.7 90.0 87.4 95.4
Production of wood chemicals is increasing every year in the Karelo-Finnish
SSR. Artels for the distillation of resin, manufacture of turpentine, and prep-
aration of charcoal are in operation at 114 places in the republic.
In 1952, workers of these artels provided the country with hundreds of tons
of products. In 1953, prndnction of wood chemical products in to increase con-
siderably. New resin distillation equipment Is to he put in operation in the
Medvezh'yegorsk and Segezha areas and in the vicinity of Petrozavodsk. Workers
of the Zaonezhskiy Wood Chemical Artel intended to tap and collect about 40 tons
of pine resin during spring 1953?(5)
Estonian SSR
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 - 1953 fall-
winter season plans for timber felling and nk:idding and haulage in oblasts of
the republic:
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10 Mar (7)
Oblast
Felling
Skidding ani?i~-e
Felling
Skidding MIEL2EA Haulage
Pyarnuskaya
72.3
45.7
77.6
54.2
Tallinskaya
77.3
43.7
82.3
52.2
Tartuskaya
Lithuanian SSR
78.2
54.2
83.5
63.6
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 - 1953 fall-
rwinter epublic: season plans
for timber felling, skidding, and haulage in oblasts of the
Oblast
Fell
Skidding
Haulage
Fe111ng
Skidding
H e
28 Feb (8)
10 Mar (9)
Kaunasskaya
75.4
62.9
67.2
80.7
=5.3
78.4
Klaypedskaya
89.8
87.3
66.7
93.7
92.2
68.1
Shyaulyayskaya
86.2
72.4
54.5
94.0
84.8
70.6
Vil'nyusskaya
75.4
=9.1
44.9
82.4
75.4
57.7
15 Mar (10)
20 Mar (11)
Kaunasskaya
83.2
70.3
85.9
88.7
77.3
93.1
Klaypedskaya
95.7
89.8
84.6
97.9
93.6
88.6
Shyaulyayskaya
92.5
93.8
80.9
94.9
95.9
93.2
Vil'nyusskaya
87.5
80.0
67.1
94.8
84.2
80.9
Pantsyrcv, a carpenter at the shipbuilding yards of the Administration of
the Trawler Fleet, has developed a combination woodworking tool which has aroused
a great deal of interest. This machine saws, planes, and drills wood. Yearly
savings effected through use of this tool in wooden shipbuilding work amount to
36,000 rubles.(12)
Belorussian SSR
The following table shove percentage fulfillment of the 1952 - 1953 fall-
winter season plans for timber e1L ng, skidding, and haulage in oblasts of the
republic:
Oblast
Felling
!. Mar 3)
Skiddi
ng
Haul-age
Baranovichskaya
68.3
46.o
75.1
Bobruyskaya
76.9
51.0
67.1
Brestskaya
65.7
51.8
63.5
Gomel'skaya
117.9
95.6
92.7
20 Mar (14 )
Fellira
Skidding
Haulage
79.5
55.6
86.o
93.5
59.
82.6
81.6
63.6
87.3
141.3
116.3
113.9
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Minskaya
66.8
46.8
51.8
80.5
Mogilevskaya
77.7
66.8
66.0
85.6
Molodecbnenskaya
63.6
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5.6
73.3
Pinskaya
103.8
77.6
93.3
116.4
Polesskaya
P
74.7
48.3
68.9
88.7
olotskaya
62.4
41-8
54.4
73.2
Vitebskaya
67.6
45.1
49.7
79.6
Ukrainian SSR
20 Mar (14)
Skidding
Aa~7a e
55.9
75.0
72.0
52.4
78.6
87.7
109.8
56.9
83.5
49.2
65.8
52.3
59.1
in StanislavThe Lespromichoz (Timber Management) of Stanislav Timber Trust
fell
from this timberyamanagementsuccessfully fulfilled its fall-winter season timber
ing Plan. More than 10,000 cubic meters of timber above plan were shipped
Oblast to the great construction projects.(3)
Geian SSg
A new furniture combine was under constructed in Tbilisi in March 1953; first shops were expected to begin operations during 195. This combine is to
be the largest furniture enterprise in the republic. A new factory is also to
The Georgian SSR furniture industry has increased its productive capacity
considerably. A new shop for the production of furniture accessories has been
built at the Tbilisi Plywood Plant. The Batumi Plywood Plant, where period
ng produced, has been enlarged considerably. The rn err-
prises
prises of the republic are being supplied with the newest ctnteequipment.
enter-
Drying devices, polishing machines, and other types been in-
stalled in the shops. Ypes of machines have bia-
During the Fifth Five-Year Plan, furniture enterprises of the Georgian SSR
are to increase their , mua 7 production by 35 percent, as compared with 1950;
production of bentwood furniture is to fe almost four times as great by the end
of the plan period as it was in 1950.(15)
The products of the Marelisi Bentwood Furniture Factory are well known.
However, the factory does not meet even half of the demand for furniture, espe-
cially chairs, made upon it. The principal, reason for this is a lack of plan-
ning in supplying the factory with rev materials. This results in uch lost
time, reduced labor productivity, and Increased cost of Production.'
The factory has a yearly product?.on capacity of 2.70,000 cha..rs alone, and
upon completion of reconstruction work in 1954 will be able to produce up to
200,000.(16)
RSFSR
of th Udtmu-tskaya ASSR have chipped construction timber
to more than a thousand projects. Every day,
Timber managements trains loaded with first-class
timber leave the 30 loading points in the republic for various parts of the
country.
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Udmurt timber has been shipped to such great projects as the Tsimlyanskaya.
Kuybyshevskaya, and Stalingradskaya GES projects
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Takhia-Tash. The timber managements of the republic completed the first-quarter
1953 plan for loading of timber intended for the Kuybyshevskaya GES project
about 20 March; more than 450 carloads of telegraph poles, ties, and other high-
quality timber were dispatched to this project.(17)
A new shop has been established at the Novo-Lyalya Paper Combine; it uti-
lizes lumber and pap,:' production waste in the manufacture of wood fiber boards.
The shop has rlready shipped eight carloads of wood fiber boards to the Main
Turkmen Canal project.(18)
The Leningrad Papermaking Equipment Factory imeni Vtoroy Pyatiletki has
just celebrated its 100th anniversary. Before the Revolution, it was a small
enterprise producing cast-iron products, scal:s, beds, and safes; now, the fac-
tory is equipped with first-class Soviet-made lathes and machines.
The workers of the factory were pioneers in the building of Soviet paper-
making machinery. During the period of the Stalin five-year plans, they built
numerous complex machines for producing different types of paper, artificial
leather, and cellophane. In 1951, the factory built two of the first Soviet-
made machines for the manufacture of cigarette and other fine papers.
The production of machines for the film industry and for manufacturing
corrugated cardboard and fine papers is on the factory's program for 1953?(19)
Timber Industry Worker Production Data
At the Krasnovskiy Lespromkhoz of the Onega Timber Trust, labor produc-
tivity rose sharply during the first quarter 1953. Felling production per
man-day amounted to 3.8 cubic meters, as compared with a norm of 3.5 cubic
metero; tractor skidding production per machine-shift was 51.1 cubic meters
an compared .rith the plan figure of h5 cubic meters.
At the Syavski.y Lespromkhoz, during February, average production per man-
day for sorting and loading was 25.3 cubic motors of timber, as compared with
a norm of 20 cubic meters.
At the Kerchevskiy Reyd (Roadstead) of the Kamlesosplav (Kama Timber
Floating) Trust, the brigades headed by Stest:kin, Petrunenko, Kovtun, and Cor-
deyev have regularly flcated from 2,000 to 2,500 cubic meters of timber and on
some days as many as 3,000 cubic meters, as compared with a norm of 1,580
cubic meters. 20)
Machine productivity is very low at enterprises of the Kotlas Timber Trust.
Skidding production of a KT-12 tractor per machine?sh.ift averages only 22.5
cubic meters, as compared with a norm of 27 cubic meters; sl:iddin production
of a TL- 3 ,.inch per shift averages only 24.3 cubic meters, as Compared with a
norm of 30 cubic meters.(18)
During the first quarter 1953, each locomotive at the Dere~ryanskiy Leeprom-
khoz of the Southern Karelian Timber Trust hauled 11,240 cubic meters of timber,
as compared with a norm of 10,000 cubic rreters.(21)
A. A. 'hukov, winch operator of the Yurinski^ Lespromkhoz, Mari Timber
Trust, skids in average of 46 cubic meters of timber, as compared with a norm
of 27-30 cubic meters.(22)
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SOURCES
1. Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Zramya, 14 Mar 53
2. 'bid., 19 Mar 53
3. Ibid., 24 Mar 53
4. ibid., 28 Mar 53
5. Ibid., 22 Max 53
6. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 4 Mar 53
7. Ibid., 14 Mar 53
8. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 4 Mar 53
9. Ibid., 14 Mar 53
10. Ibid., 18 Mar 53
11. Ibid., 24 Mar 53
12. Ibid., 22 Mar 53
13. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 4 Mar 53
14. Ibid., 24 Max 53
15. Sovetskaya Estcniya, 25 Mar 53
16. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 27 Mar 53
17. Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pr-vds, 24 Mar 53
18. Moscow, Lesnaya ProAy hlennost', 26 Mar 53
19. LeninEradakaya Pravda, 24 Mar 53
20. Lesnaya Promyshlennost', 19 Mar 53
21. Ibid., 28 Mar 53
22. Ibid., 31 Max 53
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