USSR PLANTS FAIL TO MEET NEW GOALS FOR FARM MACHINES, TRACTORS, AND PARTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150448-7
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 448
• Publication Date: December 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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MAR 1952 51-4"
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 1' , Nov 1953
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Economic; Technological - Machine building,
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REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. ,Z8' Dec 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR PLAN'T'S FAIL TO MEET NEW GOALS
FOR FARM MACHINES, TRACTORS, AND PARTS
Many plants are making wholehearted efforts to fulfill the goals set by
the September Plenty: of the Central Cocaai,tae CPSU and to supply more machines,
materials, and spare parts to MIS, sovkhozes, and kolkhozes. The Khar'1:ov
Tractor Plant shipped many tractors an:i u large quantity of spare parts above
its assignment for the first 10 months of 1~53. The Lvov L'vovsei'mash Plant
produced many above-plan fodder steamers for animal husbandry farms.
However, many enterprises and some rulnistriec are not taking concrete
measures to improve the supply of agricultural equipment and materials. In
the first 10 months of 1.953, agricultural machine building enterprises :'ailed
to deliver thousands of tractor cultivators, and hundreds of cotton air:e rs,
self-propelled mowers, and sugar-beet harvesting combines. New machines for
mechanizing the growing of potatoes and other vegetables, and for mechanizing
tasks in animal husbandry, are not being readied for production with sufficient
speed. Shipulin, director of the Frunze Agricultural Machine Building Plant,
asserted in September that his plant. would not only make up its production
deficit, but also fulfill the 19+53 plan ahead of schedule. But in October, his
plant fulfilled the plan for hay stac::rr b- lens than half, and failed to meet
its plan for the production of a number of otL r machines.
The Ministry of Machine Building xas assigned to produce and deliver in
1953 additional plowing tractors and a nuclor of new machines for erowine ?..i
harvesting potatoes and other v. t rb;c?: :?,r?;; of::.ay of tn,,ecr ehiae:; iI
not ;;et be:;ur . Such t:ut . annct ba tolerate:;
number of enterprises vt tnc? cr iv,;hine ilullding have been assigned
to cooperate with the Ryazan' Ryazsel're.;;h F1ant in the production of KOK-2
potato harvesting combiner. The directors of these enterprises received their
assignments for making parts and units vi potato harvesting combines at the
beginning of September, but many of them took an irreeponsiblc attitude tows rd
these orders. The foscou First State Bearing Plant (director, Devyatov). did
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not send the Ryazsel'mash Plant a single Searin$7 unit for combines in Sep-
tember and October. The Moscow Small Displacement Motor Vehicle Plant was
assigned to make 1,400 transmissions for KOK-2 combines, but Yakovlev, direc-
tor of the plant, pigeonholed the order. The Moscow plant has not delivered
a single combine transmission to date.
Main administrations of the Ministry of Machine Building issue aecrees
and orders calling for increased output of equipment for agricultural purposes,
but there is no effective system for seeing that these decrees and orders are
carried out.
Other ministries and enterprises are failing to carry out their assignments
for supplying materials and equipment for the needs of agriculture. In the first
10 months of 1953, the Ministry of Timber and Paper Industry fulfilled its plan
for delivering logs and lumber by only 60 percent. The Arkhangel'sk, Kirov, and
Sverdlovsk administrations of Glavlesosbyt (Main Administration of Timber Sales)
have been particularly remiss in shipping timber products for agricultural needs.
Some enterprises of the Ministry of Electric Pcwer Stations and Electrical
Industry are behind schedule in deliveries of electric motors, power transformers,
armored cable, and a number of other products to MTS, sovkhozes, and kolkhozes.
Among the plants not fulfilling their assignments are the Yerevan and Baku trans-
former plants, the Leningrad Sevkabel' Plant, end others.
The Ministry of Machine Building and the Ministry of Transport and Heavy
Machine Building have not taken effective measures to increase the output of
tractor spare parts and to make up the production deficit incurred in tractor
spare parts in the first three quarters of 1953? In the first 10 months of 1953,
the Ministry of Machine Building failed to fulfill its plan for 23 designations
of tractor parts in short supply; while the Ministry of Transport and Heavy Ma-
chine Building failed to fulfill its plan for 26 designations of parts. Failure
to produce sufficient spare parts at large enterprises such as the Stalingrad and
Rubtsovsk Altay tractor plants and the Omsk Sibzavod Plant cannot be tolerated.
Drastic measures are needed to increase the output of spare parts for agri-
cultural machines at the Lyubertsy Plant irteni Ukhtomskiy, the Tashkent Uzbek-
sel'mach Plant, and other plants.
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