USSR COAL INDUSTRY, AUTUMN 1953

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• Publication Date: April 5, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Coal mining
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodicals, daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow, Kiev
DATE
PUBLISHED 8 Oct-25 Dec 1953
LANGUAGE Russian
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UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR COAL INDUSTRY AUTUMN 1953
[Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
General Situation
During 9 months of 1953, the gross production of the coal industry was
110.5 percent of that of the corresponding period of 1952. In 1953, as a
whole, the industry was to produce approximately 2 1/2 times as much as in
1940.
In the first 2 1/2 years of the Fifth Five-Year Plan, coal output rose
21.1 percent; the industry is faced with the task of raising it 43 percent
during the entire Fifth Five-year Pan.. Labor productivity rose 12.5 per-
cent ant production costs of coal dropped 10 percent during the 2
.
period. 1/2 year
During the 2 1/2 years, the number of coal combines operating at faces
doubled. The field for use of the combine expanded as a result of the in-
troduction of the UKT, the UKMG, and the Gornyak for thin, slightly dipping
seams. The number of rock-loading machines employed in development work al-
most doubled also in the same period. The productivity of combines rose 21
percent and that of loading machines 14 percent.
In the Fifth Five-Year Plan, work has been carried out on creating mech-
anized props. Such types have been tried out in Moscow basin and Donbass
mines. The cycle work schedule has spread in mines. Performance indexes
of the faces have improved, with the productivity of a face rising an average
of 33 percent and the length of the face increasing 15 percent. Coal cleaning
has also made advances, and the quality of coal has improved. Thousands of
miners have finished training in courses and schools, increasing their quali-
fications, becoming ' mastersin their profession, and skillfully employing the
new techniques and outstanding methods of work.(1)
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 ouccesses or Specific Coal Enterprises
The Chistyakovantrateit Trust, an Outstanding Donbass trust, fulfilled
the 1953 Plan ahead of schedule. Many faces and development work fronts in trust ization haseen the cycle
to increase work their schedule; othis utput progressive
steadily,eto oraisegan
labor productivity, to exploit more fully new mining techniques, and to de-
crease production costs of extracted fuel.
Particularly great success is being achieved at mines where all faces
and development work fronts are working on a schedule of one cycle per day;
for example, after all faces and development work fronts of the Mine imeni
Lutugin had been converted, the coal output rose almost 1,250 tons per day,
labor productivity doubled, and the average wages per miner rose 370 rubles
per month. The average productivity of the cutting machines in the mine rose
almost 2,000 tons per month, that of the loading machines more than doubled,
and that of electric locomotives increased 8,500 ton-kilometers. Production
costs per ton of coal also dropped considerably. After the Mine imeni Lutu-
gin had completed the 1953 year plan, it decided to give the country , by the
end of 1953, 37,000 tons of anthracite above the plan. As of 25 December the
mine was keeping its pledge.(2)
By 9 October 1953, Mine No 18 imeni Stalin of the Snezhyanantratsit Trust,
also in the Donbass, had delivered several trainloads of coal above the 11-month
plan and had reduced production costs 4 rubles 50 kopecks per ton. In 9 months
of 1953 the anthracite output was 400 tons per day above the same period of 1952.
Two operators of cutting machines cut 14,000 tons of coal per machine in
September ins:;ead of the planned 7,000 tons. One of these operators raised the
Productivity of his machine, in some months, up to 20y000 tons.(3)
The Nesvetayantratsit Trust, another Donbass coal trust, completed the
10-month plan ahead of schedule. It had given the country trainloads of an-
thracite above the plan since the beginning of 1953.
At the Zapadnaya Kapitallnaya Mine, of the above trust, multipurpose
brigades were organized at all faces for roof control and the preparation of
faces for coal extraction. As of 27 October 1953, labor productivity at this
mine had risen 6.7 percent in comparison with 1952.
Production costs of every ton of coal mined in the outstanding Mine imeni
OOPU were 3 rubles less in October 1953 than in 1952.(4)
Mine No 3-bis of the Karagandaugol' Combine works the Verkhnyaya Mariana
seam. Coal is transported to the surface along a sloping shaft 2,000 meters
long and with an angle of dip of 10 degrees. Until recently, haulage of coal
was carried or' by rail in mine cars with a one-ton capacity, and hoisting
winches were operating in the sloping shaft. Coal from beneath the faces was
transported by electric locomotives for a distance of up to 600 meters.
Flaws in the performance of endless cable haulage checked an increase in
the coal output of the mine. To remedy this, the endless cable was replaced by
conveyer belt. Conversion of underground transport completely to the conveyer
system had a favorable effect on the entire organization of production. Fifty-
three persons formerly employed in underground transport of the mine were freed
and transferred to other activities. Coal output increased considerably, pro-
duction costs were reduced, and hundreds of thousands of rubles were saved in
a year.(5)
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As of 8 October 1953, workers of the Mine imeni Zhdanov, .he largest mine
in the Karaganda basin, were delivering daily hundreds of tons of coal above
the plan. Since the beginning of the Fifth Five-Year Plan they had fulfilled
their 3-year quotas. In 1953 alone, they had shipped 92 trainloads of coal
above the plan.
The Mine imeni Zhdanov continually introduces new techniques and improves
work organization. In October 1953, labor productivity reached 1 1/2 times
that of 1950, and production costs of one ton of coal were 2 rubles 23 kopecks
below the plan.(6)
Failures of Specific Coal Enterprises
The Mine imeni Ordzhonikidze of the Krasnogvardeyskugol' Trust, Stalinugol'
Combine, operated very poorly in 1953. The mine completed the plan for coal
output from January to September only 76 percent and the plan for cutting mine
workings from January to August only 52.7 percent. As a result of lags in de-
velopment work, mining operations at the working front were restricted. On
10 October 1953, the line of the working fronts was 168 meters less than planned.
The plan for labor productivity for 8 months of 1953 was fulfilled only
74.6 percent. The mine, which yields about 1,200 tons of coal per day, owed
the country in 1953 more than 80,000 tons and incurred 7 million rubles of
above-plan losses.
Operations of Mine No 21 of the Snezhnyanantratsit Trust were still worse.
This mine fulfilled the plan for coal output from January to September 1953 only
74 percent and the plan for development work -- opening up a new line of the
faces -- only 31.1 percent. Labor productivity was 25 percent below the plan
and production costs of coal were considerably higher than planned.
Mine No 9-9-bis of the Voroshilovugol' Trust and Mine No 3 imeni Dzer-
zhinskiy of the Frunzeugol' Trust Voroshilovgradugol' Combine, were making a
very poor showing as of November 1953. Both mines were failing to fulfill the
plan for coal output, as well as the plans for cutting development workings,
for advance of the working front, and for reduction of production costs of
coal.(1)
Capital Construction in the Coal Industry
The coal industry has accumulated extensive experience in the field of
capital construction. In postwar years many mines, coal-cleaning plants, and
other types of plants and structures have been built. However, for several
years capital construction has been a lagging department of .he coal industry.
Starting with thr second quarter 1953, fulfillment of the plan for capital
construction began to improve. However, it still lagged behind tasks imposed
by the Fifth Five-Year Plan in regard to the capacity of coal mines, despite
the fact that the 19th Party Congress planned for a 30-percent increase in
their capacity as compared with the Fourth Five-Year Plan. The share of new
mines in the total output is to increase considerably.(1)
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SOURCES
1. Moscow" U90", No 11, Nov 53
2. Moscow, Pravda, 25 Dec 53
3. Kiev, Pravda Ukralny, 9 Oct 53
4. Moscow, Trud, 27 Oct 53
5. Moscow, Master Uglya, No 10, Oct 53
6. Pravda, 8 Oct 53
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