MINISTER CITES USSR MACHINE BUILDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 502
• Publication Date: December 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION 1953
SUBJECT Economic; Technological -Machine buildinC,
consumers' goods
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDEIITIhL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY ~gR DATE OF
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 Aug 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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DATr. DIST. 2 ~ Dec 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
S. A. Akopov
!a riat.er of idachine Duilding USSR
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In the first ~': months of 1953, i:nder fire 1y53 reduced wholesale prices,
enterprises of the iinistry of I;achine Duildin~ USSR showed a profit of 3.8
percent, as com~ared with 1.8 percent i.n 1952. ?.s a result, 1953 F~ymerts
into the ~tate~ budget by the ministry i:;crensed 1.9 times as compared with
1952. In the first 6 mot:ths of 1953, the ministry fuli'i11ed its gross pro-
duction plan. However, in the firs. ~uart.er 1?53, production costs were re-
duced only 5.7 percent instend of a plan figure o:' 7.7 rercent. In June, pro-
duction costs were reduced 10 percent, as against e second quarter plan of o.7
percent.
A number of ministry enterprises :oiled to fulfill both their production
plans and their plans for reducing production costs, including such plants as
the Novosibirsk Tya:.hstankogidropress P1nnt, the Delinslay Agricultural tda-
chine Duilding Plant, and others. The ministry still has n number of enter-
prises that ire operating at a: loss.
Overexpenditure of wade funds and cc_`..eri~ls still takes plncc, and
losses due to rejects care still lrigh, sorneticres a~,ounting to 1.8 percent of
the cost of gross production.
Directives oi' the 19th Party Congress celled for an increase in the pro-
duction rate oi' machine building and metalworking products of almost 200 per-
cent during the Fifth Five-Year Plan.
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Comrade 2,verev LI?;;mister of i..~..~ce U.^,~R~ hcs rLec:d~- rel:ort,ed o.; the con-
ciderublc amount of funds thr.t has uee:: essigaed for t.l:e further ex:au:;ion o:
agriculture. To czie this e:;,*,;nsion possible, the i;iaistry oi' 6:achine Buil.dinE;
mill have to furnish equipment for the raechani::; t' c:: of labor-censumirg a~ i-
cultural tasis.
Ia the nost::'cr xriod, the machine bu"d~a4, indu:''.ry it~~ ?~roducui. -..n
th^., 8.5 :ci11:1o:t _sr;or?ed agx?icultur;._ .....,..~..__. p_.,-"_';1;.~ - _
inL figure.% The industry it nreducin- ?_ cor,si&~r.~%r?e nuc:irer-of .new-ty"c,:
chi::es, including sugar-beet h_r?;e:;ters, :o".,,:, ,'~_-?:erc Lei-?-urone'_1ed : o-:er,
hay stac::ers, end other machines.
:io:r ti:ct ti!r_ problem of mechanizir,;; r-rt:in ,=c::ing and 1'c'r?restin~ h:e '. tea
col?red, ae c':ua direct our attentio^ to r_r. c'r.: :..:an, r.ll _,haroc of tis c;rn:~:.;;:;
and Y.urvc~t:i:~~ of industrial crops -- sotto;;, =1::;:, he^.r, cad suges iicet:.
Similarly, the growing of potatoes, ether :e,et~.ble,, :rd fodder crops, ?rd
the ,, _. .., co^,necCCd with animal husba::dr;~ ,.~__~, ,._ :;ec1:.ased.
It muci i:c ];oi^.ted ou*. that we are t:.;:i r too ;ruck tlme to deselo7 the
derir;ne c:',' ;:o7n new `;;zricultural% ^cchinec.
The cutnit o~ tractors and truc:.~ it a exranded cersiderably in the n,~ct-
w:u? ;;cr: cd. i6.(,-percent increnee in ^..ct.or vehicle oroductior. is ;,t t?_rt
for 1y5:~: over t.hc 195=' figure. ?
Tits i;.aicary of "etroleum Ind::r.cr~r, i the near future, should imm?ovc rc-
fiui:: erOrn.^-r.?c^ and or,^ani~e the ??oduc~ion o' ~i~}:-quality gnsolines ,.
meet the renuircr:en'?a of modern :..;cr.:ciivc e:;;:ines. ~~
Construction of r..;:chine tool. uildmg, plants and Wrens and forgin; :::r-
chine bulldmg p7:~.:as ;:lreedy st::clod Host be ,:omnieted at a nuicker ~: ec.
The 1?anistry of Gonstruetion US::D; ~.aret elir:.: ie the lag in the r_oart.t?ur.':ion
of the lard?est r.:cchine tool Uuildin~: p1ca:: ,
The t-iinictry of Fiarhine Building moot ir:orove the quality, iarre ::c the
variety, and increae the out?ta v. c?onsu,^.ere' crods In the past, ve:cr; ,
cinistry enternricr.: i7ave produced ;; re ti:::n ,( r..illion clocYs anti tr