SOVIET STEEL OUTPUT INCREASING

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• Document Release Date: August 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: June 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
Economic - Ferrous metallurgy, output
Daily newspapers, periodical, book
USSR
1953-10 Mar 1954
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REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
SOVIET STEEL OUTPUT INCREASING
[Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
USSR
In 1953 the USSR produced nearly 15 million tons more steel than in
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1949
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over twice as much as in 1940. Rolled stock production in 1957 was
11 million tons (9.e., 2._ times) over the 1940 output.(l)
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On the eve of World War II, the Soviet Union produced 15 million tons of
cast iron, i.e., nearly 4 times as much as in 1913, and 18,300,000 tons of steel,
i.e., 4.5 times as much as in 1913.(2)
The USSR's output for the first half of 1953 exceeded first-half of 1952
output by the following: cast iron, 12 percent; steel, 9 percent; rolled
stock, 9 percent.(3)
The 1952 cast iron output in the Ukrainian ?SR was 4.5 times the pre-
revolutionary output; steel output was nearly 5 times the prerevolutionary
output. The 1953 Ukrainian iron ore, aluminum, and zinc production plans
were overfulfilled.(4)
About one third of all Soviet industrial output, over half the steel, and
over half the rolled stock were produced in the eastern USSR in 1951.
NAVY
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The Novo-Tagil'sk Metallurgical Plant has sharply increased its output.
In 1950 the plant produced 3.6 times more iron ore, 6 times more cast iron,
3 times more steel, and 8 times more rolled etoc.; than in 1940. In the Urals
as a whole, the 1950 output exceeded ..he 1940 output in cast iron by 2.6 times,
steel by 2.7 times, and rolleu stock by 2.8 times.
The blast-furnace operators of the Serov Metallurgical Plant, in their
efforts to increase productivity, have attained the world record in blast-
furnace ccef;icients of Performance during the 1Yr3t 2 years of the Fifth
Five 'fear Plan. In 1952, the average shop coefficient was 0.66.
During early 1953, many of th?: open-hearth shops of the Magnitogors:;
Metallurgical Combine ran as many as two thirds of their heats by high-speed
-methods.
Even as early as 1951, the percentage of high-speed heats was increased
from 36 to 50 percent at the Glavuralmet (Main Administration of the Ural
Metallurgical Industry) plants.
In the past, the Serov metallurGicts generally required 10 hours for their
heats; the heats now average 5 hours 10 minutes.
Every second heat was a high seed one at the Novo-Tagil'sitMetallurgical
Plant during 1952.
In 1952, the Chunovo' Plant, using the same equipment it had in 1946,
produced 73.6 percent more cast iron, 107.7 percent more steel, and 72.4
percent more rolled stock.(5)
SOURCES
1. Moscow, Prontyshlennost' itroitel'ny1:h Materialov, 10 Mar 54
2. Petrozevods,,, Leninskoye lnamya, 17 Nov 53
3. Moscow, Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 4, 193
4. Moscow, Pravda, 10 Mar 54
5. Moscow, Larodnoye Knozyaystvo v Pyatoy Pyatiletke, A. M.
Moshkin, Izdatel'stvo Znaniye, 193
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