THE ECONOMY OF TUVA AUTONOMOUS OBLAST

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2011
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• Publication Date: January 9, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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THE ECONOMY OF TWA AUTONOMOUS OBLAST
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The following table shows the relative importance of various branches of
the economy in Tuva Autonomous Oblast in 1947:
Percentage of Total
Agriculture 61.9
Industry 21.4
Hunting industry 16.7
In 1948 over one third of all Tuvinian agriculture was collectivized. In
1949 there were 100 kolkhozes and 51 livestock-farming cooperatives.
Tuva has great potentialities for large-scale development of livestock
raising. Out of a total area of 17,130,000 hectares, 5,720,000 hectares, or
one third of the total area is pasture land.
Transportation and industry have also developed durin3 the last few years.
In 1941 there were several small electric power plants, saw mills, automobile
repair shops, brick factories, food and sewing combines, mills, and other small
enterprises in Tuva. Between 1941 and 1945, Tuvinian industry. doubled.
In 1948 the -blast had 14 local industry enterprises of which seven sub-
mmital'repair shops. There were also the following seven regional industrial com-
bines located in various regions of the oblast: Turanskiy, Znamenskiy, Shagonar-
skiy, Chadanskiy, Biykhemskiy, Kyzylmazhalykskiy, and Erzinskiy. These regional
industrial enterprises-produce for oblast consumption. During the curr'nt Five-
Year Flan, prrduction of local industry will expand 3.5 times.
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Various raw materials for the production of construction materials and
industrial and food proaucts are available in Tuva. The existence of raw
materials favors rapid development of the local industry. Water power sup-
plied by mountain-fed streams at present is almost completely unexploited
and can be a decisiv:: factor in the electrification of the oblast. Small
rivers can be utilized for hydroelectric power plants with 15-40 kilowatt
capacity which will serve agriculture. The existing power plants which
have a capacity of 15-20 kilowatts (Turan, Shagonar, Chadan, Baykhak) opir-
ate in villages and serve local purposes-only. The mechanization and expan-
sion of existing enterprises and the construction of new enterprises will
require rapid expansion in electrification. At present, the construction
of an electric power plant with a capacity of up to 1,500 kilowatts has been
planned for the Elegest River.(1)
A tenfold increase in the power sources of Tuva Oblast has been planned
for the period 1944 - 1949. All MTS, state, and cooperative farms are to be
electrified. In addition to the 17 electric power plants now in operation
19 rural hydroelectric power plants and three steam-electric power plants are
being constructed.(2)
Out of a total area of 17.3 million hectares in the oblast, 13 million
are utilized for hunting. The most important animals are the squirrel and
sable which are especially numerous in the eastern Tuva Highlands.. The fly-
ing squirrel, sought for its valuable fur, is found only in pine forests.
Next to the squirrel, the sable is of great importance to hunters. As
a result of special government licensing to hunt sables, the sable has again
appeared in Kyzylskiy and Buykhemskiy rayons where formerly it was almost
exterminated. Other animals hunted include the elk, maral, argali, and musk
deer.(l)
1. Leningrad, Izvestiya Vsesoyuznogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva,
May/Jun 1950
2. Moscow, V Tsentre Aziatskogo Materika, Goskul'tprosvetizdat, Moscow
1950, p 12
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