ADVANCE IN SOVIET METALLURGY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100020100-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2012
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: October 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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Tsarist Russia was 25 to ,50 years behl y,eading countries
it respect to the production of ferrous metals. Thv Ruasian r ta1-
iurcoal industry produC d 4,216,000 tors Of pig iron and 4,230,000
tone of steel in 1913? Suck* a level of produati.on was att&ined by
R land in 163, the Unitid Status in 1835 and 0s sany in 1891.
The produettYs cape-City of RUaaiara yet X81 C$1 plants
which be an falling iaiuediateiy following the outbreak of World Warr 3,
declined ore w.arp1Y durir& the period c-f intervention acrd civil war,
ea ttxat in 1920 production of pig iron and stet amounted to 2.7 amt
s ctiTe ', of the 1913 output. The Pre- or1d ~Jaar I
~.~ percent, repe
level of production of steel was not attained anti. 1928, a of p
iron, is .929?
Ma .tiflurgica1 plants with an output sad teoh i. igica1
staffs equal to that of leading enterprises o, the world were
Five Tear Plan. These planets had blast furnaces
built during, t ftst
with a daily out t of about 1500 tons cif pig iron, open heaZrh
furnaces with a 180 350 ton cape;oity, 1OOLaitIg arms which turned
t 1,600,000 tone of iota each, per year (output of the I(ue tek
ou
rOU' - 11 , was about 2 mtUioocl tO Z$ of in Ota per year),
.1ant
duty pisAts which produced about 750,000 tons each p year, a
continuo _.t, row thu with a capacity of aoo,ooo sheeta per
ear cold r.i pi nts, t ibe c a deeig by Mann
and &tjetel, a other apeoialieed p+1an .
In 1940, t1 eastern regione o the U3 produced steel
at a rate 1.4 i s greater than pre'revoluti? Russia did in 1913,
oa1 t 1,7 t* greater, and 'tom prods ctiof of tat working and
a1 iodratri+$ of eastern regions of the U$Sf was tens of tiaee
ehec.c
..,,~t industries of Tesrist Russia.
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t end of the ico rd Five ear klan (1937) soviet.
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r aUuw r produced 2. $ x iU,ion tor a of epecira1iaed atee1e a-nd aattefied
, the needs fox highly dev'eioped oviet >nach1ne ciaatruotion. The
Soviets were surpassed only by the United Stateai iiii tiau produatimn df
electric steel.
Ltgat yearn aft'r ruachig the pre.revolUtt4 Y level in
the p roduation or p iron (1929) , Soviet ataiurgy &ttaained a yearly
output of 14.4 a illi nu tors of pi iron in 1937.
Prior to the ~erlAun invasion, the &sviet Union level of
production of pig iron was from 46 .~ 47 thousan i tone and 58 - 59
thousaind tee of steel daily. During the Est pre war econouic year
(1940) , 15 ~aailhion tons of pig iron and 18.3 ndllioin tons of steel
were produced. Tice southern regions, tem poraari ` lost to the USSR
during the war, produc$d 68 pcrcaent of the pig, iron grad 58 percent of
the steel.
During the three years of war (194 1946), 24 blast u
furnaces I# 8sa r converter~-, 70 alectria furnaces; 56
l2$ Martin
rolling 4115 anti 67 cok in g ovens were put into operation in the
ferroua Letallur c ai. 1n1uetrt $ of the USSR.
i nta with a total anzzuai. capacity of about 9 lion tone
tat were denio1ished by the erafs. To restoro these entorprises
of
will require about 700,000 man years and 1,500 nii ion work hours.
The Fourth Five hoar a n Ins pzopoeed to turn out 19,5 aaillian tons
3.7. icon tons cif'
of p iron, 25.4 tUton toms of steel a "?
ro1.led-iron. This is io percent lees than the quantity pianneGi before
t gar for the year 1942, at 35 percent aaore than was aetuaUy
produced in 1940.
During the yourth Five Xear I n it has been proposed to
build arad reata 4 blast .furnaces with a capacity of 12.8 rn Ui.on
tone of pi iron annuaUy, 165 open"hearth fur Bae, 15 convertere and
90 eleetria furnaces ,th a total capacity of 16.2 aail1ion tone of
steel, 1Crolling aa~s nth a capacity 11.7 million tone of rolled-
,inn, 6 ~- cake bam y tarie capable of producing 19.1 nilhion tone of coke
c a
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and iron mii with a capaoity of 35.6 ad.liion toz of ore per year.
r~1OXir. he
The Five Year ~1&n for r~ro~tora~; - _. wi 4
rtttt.Ol. ecarloU-is being carried out, auoceaafu1iy: kccordir g to the
rr~~'
r ta11 'gicui In4uatriee U3$R, hw , oat set for he third
~.nt.~try of
quarter nx 194 ~-: fulfilled by 113 pert e, t. The output of pi iron
tor tho 14 uartt i, aw cca i ar~d with tie third quar?tar of 1%7, was
improved 1 ~rcent, steal and rolled iron by 25 and 26 perccnty
~e'i. by' ~
reepectirrely. 1n Pravioualy occupie i reg one tho output of pig iron
percent, stce~. by 63 percent Fni the produotiQA of
was increased by 9
ro11d-4ron by 35 portente
w'iet wnineerini. roA]i :ed ry brilliant achtevemeute in
o
d o1iatred by the C 'i S it t1Ie SOUth. The pride of
re,stozic-g plants
S the restoration Of the apOrO hSta1' Plant. This
Soviet eniering ~.
word in , ata11urgic engineering, apeciaUy in wheet~
p1ant. is the 1e-st~
r~. The continuptL e atae+e --rolli atU and cold roU.ed
~11ing productio
sheet prate a der .~rtaut to autotbilr aarnfacturir~g. The
~'
orator was of great sigaitl c ca to the rmtion econ '.
rapid mat
po -b L'i Year P1-an calls for moderni~atiof ae weld.
The
as rea on of :routrn tallur',cal. plante. lci order to increase
~-orat~.
the pr+xtuctity of labor the p n requires rs tul.ur, iate to iritrOdW3 ,
~~.
ra a with. e, echantZatior of a~ au lry proceaaea 1.n the
n ~
restoration of p]Ji ta.
talin in a speech before th 1ectors of the Stalin
1.
Rayon of kaco on 9 Lemma 1946, stated that the goal for the nat
? ne is to increase he annual Level of production
three Five dear
iron and 60 million tone of steel, It is the
to : Dior, tOflS Of p
to obtain 1eade:Sip is and the highest productian
aim of the ~odet
of rerx -ca iLt4111urgy in the entire r1d.
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