MINISTER DISCUSSES CONSTRUCTION OF SOVIET CONSUMER GOODS ENTERPRISES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: January 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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I.ffgISTER DISCUSSE3 CONSTRUCTION
01' SOVIET COI]SUMER GOODS SUT;;RPRI E3
At a Meeting of hrr,rkers hold on 29 October 1953, A. H. Kosygin, Minister of
Consumer Goods Industry U,;,-;R, discussed construction of consumes goods enter-
prises as follows:
The Ministry of Consumer Goods Industry USSR must prepare for a sherm in-
crease in capitol construction and, in the next 2 or 3 years, put Greater indus-
trial capacity I;to use. At present, the Ministry of Con:au;:er Goods Industry
USSR is building, at an estimated cost of core than CO billion rubles, 400 super-
limit projects /projects costing above a certain amount to construct, which must
be approved by the Council of Ministers U:SR/. Already work in the amount of 9
billion rubles has been conm-loted on these projects. All of these enterprises
must go completely or partially into operation in the neat 2 years. In addition,
reconstruction and expansion of 80O enterprises is going on. These fall into the
category of sub-lim t /
approved. by cinistry7 construction.
The most is not being Lade of capital investments in she consumer goods in-
dustry. This is "-cause the of construction organizations are poorly
staffed with wor,':ers and spsciali.:;tz and b,-cause labor at these construction proj-
ects is not organized officiontly. M ny =onsteuction projects are not provided
with estimates, blueprints, Lin(: specifications on tii..e, nor Cr: they regularly sup-
plied with materials. The Ai::inistratinn of Capital Construction of the Ministry
of Consumer Goods Industry USSR exercises only feeble control eve:' fulfillrent of
the construction plan.
The Clain Ad;:inistration of i;bo Cotton Industry of C , :settlements, the 1,ain
Administration of tlsn mutt. ; L lustr tb: il.i n , :ii:-t_, tion of the ?:ocl Indus-
try, the Cain Adninistration of the ,:111: Industry, and the i`_nin Administration
of the Footwear Industry share la:?,c rcupoiisibilii:?: for in.-casing industrial
capacity. And yet these uL.in ,.dndznistrations have thus rsdo no n cciablc
improvements in capital construction. The !,Lin Ar'minictj^t' of st`
ion o. Construction of
the Ministry of Constar:s: Goofs in a;st_y UIdR still utilP'ing machinery
we; 1, work schedules at the construction. sinus cure dir:?L.pied, labor is not organ-
ized -efficiently, and the inferior duality of tine wor;: which is completed results
in repairs which increase the cost of construction.
The work of the Ministry of Construction is also going badly. Work on the
large cotton combines which the Ministry of Construction is building in Pierson,
Engels, Kn..yshi.n, narnaul., and 3taiinabad is not progressing satisfactorily.
The Ministry of Consumer Good, Industry UL1S is suppo: ed to install eauipr.cnt and
put the first phase of the conbiiea in a.rnarl, anC Whereon into opera-
tion is
The eve -ni ent is r r c id I rr,n i car goods in-.
dus Lry ; chioil at tile
nd is t , on w;si.ble major deli
.
c Loncion in the Fork of cons t; i cti,;; ..n~l p i:nin o
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