USSR MACHINERY PLANTS PRODUCE FARM EQUIPMENT, SPARE PARTS

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• Publication Date: May 21, 1954
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
DATE OF
l INFORMATION 1953
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Agricultu
ra
HOW machine building
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 20 Nov-4 Dec 1953
DATE DIST. a I May 1954
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR MACHIITERY PLANTS PRODUCE FARM EQUIPMENT SPARE PARTS
ARIENIAN INDUSTRIAL COOPERATIVES TO JIM OUTPUT OF FARM EQUIPMENT -- Yerevan,
Kommunist, 20 Nov 53
Industrial cooperatives of the Armenian SSR produce over 30 items for farm
use. The cooperatives supply farms with zigzag harrows, plowshares, chain-type
tethers for cattle, wheel grease, rope, vans and carts, and other items.
G. Pogosyan, chief of the Production and Technical Department, Armpromsovet
(Armenian Industrial Council), states that a recently held meeting of the council,
it was decided to increase the production assignments of industrial cooperatives.
In 1956, plans call for the following increases in production, as compared with
1953 production figures: 195 percent for shovels, 419.2 percent for plowshares,
146.9 percent for zigzag harrows, 258 percent for harness equipment, 378 percent
for rope, 315 percent for vans and carts, and 188 percent for wooden wheels fitted
with iron rims.
Plans also call for the construction of new enterprises for producing and
repairing farm equipment and enlarging the existing industrial cooperative enter-
prises.
PRODUCE FARM EQUIPMENT, PARTS FOR COTTON CLEANERS -- Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra,
27 Nov 53
The Ashkhabad Machinery and Repair Plant imeni 20 let Turkmen SSR has organ-
ized the production of mineral-fertilizer pulverizers. The plant expects to pro-
duce dozens of fertilizer pulverizers before the end of 1953.
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The plant is shipping pulley parts to every corner of the USSR. It also
ships many 'educing gears for cotton cleaners to coan tton-growing zes in
Central
Central Asia. At present, the plant is working on order for 5 500,,000000 Plow-
The plant has made machine tools for the production of machines for molding
pots out of peat and humus.
SHORTC0? S AT UZBEK SSR FARM MACHINERY PLANT -- Moscow, Trud, 27 Nov 53
The Tashkent Uzbeksel'mash Agricultural Machine Building Plant chronically
fails to fulfill its production plans.
Stykaylo, plant director; and Sergeyev, chief engineer attribute the plant's
failure to fulfill production plans to a shortage of metal. However
showed check
showed that for the completion of the production plan for the first 9, months of
1953, the plant lacked only several hundred kilograms of metal of small cross
section, and had an abundant supply of metal of large cross section.
It is evident that the unfounded complaint about shortages of metal is used
for covering up shortcomings at the plant.
A large number of machines have been returned by the Ministry of Agriculture
USSR because of defects. Defects are caused by the poor-quality work of many
plant shoos.
In 1953, defective production at the foundry has increased 5.6 percent for
gray iron and 8.3 percent for malleable iron, as compared with 1952 figures.
Failure to organize current production at the plant reflects on the pro-
duction of new equipment. In may 1953, the plant was supposed to produce experi-
mental models of garden insecticide sprayers and to begin their series production
in August of the same year. The plant failed to carry out the plan for the pro-
duction of insecticide sprayers.
The Ministry of Machine Building USSR is managing the Uzbeksel'mash Plant
very poorly. Recently, the ministry assigned to the plant the production of
seven new machines. The plant has spent much tire and money in preparing for the
production of these machines. However, when the plant was ready to produce the
new machines, it did not get the order from the ministry for their series pro-
duction.
UZBEK SSR ENTERPRISES PRODUCE ;.GP.ICULTUtAL EQUIPMr IIP -- Tashkent, Pravda Fostoka,
It Dec 53
In 1954, MTS of the Uzbek SSR will be supplied with SG-4 checks-ow planters,
OUN-4 dusters and sprayers, FKh-4 cotton-pruning machines, and rotary hoes.
Uzbek machine building enterprises are making a good showing in fulfilling
their production plans for agricultural machines and spare parts.
The Tashkent Plant imeni Chkalov, Ministry of Local and Fuel Industry Uzbek
SSR, produces spare parts for tractors and agricultural machines.
The Tashl:cnt Milling and Elevator Machinery Plant, Ministry of Machine
Building USSR fulfilled its production plan for units for cotton dryers ahead of
schedule.
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The Tashkent Machinery and Repair Plant, Ministry of Construction Materials
Industry Uzbek SSR, produced 150 above-plan fans for cotton dryers.
There are, however, enterprises in the Uzbek SSR, which do not fulfill their
production plans for agricultural machines and spare parts.
In the first 10 months of 1953, the Tashkent Tashsel'mash Agricultural
Machine Building Plant was short 370,000 rubles' worth of spare parts for cotton
pickers and cotton-cleaning machines. The Chirchik Chirchiksel'mash Agricultural
Machine Building Plant was short 721 IIKU-2.8 cultivators. The Tashkent Uzbeksel'-
mash Agricultural Machine Building -1ant was short over one million rubles' worth
of spare parts. The Samarkand Krasnyy Dvigatel' Plant did not fulfill its plans
for spare parts.
Many plants are slow in organizing the production of new agricultural equip-
ment. The Chirchiksel'mash Plant has not yet organized the production of a ferti-
lizer-spreading unit for the NKU-2.8 cultivator.
The Uzbeksel'mash Plant is delaying the production of experimental models of
the OUN-4 sprayer and duster. As a result of this delay, OUII-4 sprayers and
dusters will be delivered to kolkhozes in 1954 without preliminary tests.
The Central Asiatic Testing Station, Ministry of Agriculture USSR, very often
gives incorrect evaluations and recommendations of machines it tests.
MOSCOW ENTERPRISES PRODUCE SPARE. PARTS FOR AGRICULTURAL MACHINES -- Moscow,
Vechernyaya Moskva, 4 Dec 53
Most Moscow plants producing spare parts for agricultural machines have com-
pleted the orders placed by the Moscow Oblast Administration of Agriculture and
Procurement ahead of schedule.
The Motor Vehicle Plant imeni Stalin filled an order for 18,000 malleable-
iron spare parts for potato planters ahead of schedule.
The Dinamo Plant imeni Kirov produces spare parts for potato-harvesting
machines, plows, and planters. The plant fulfilled its production plan on sched-
ule.
The Plant imeni Voytovich fulfilled a large order for snare parts for
potato-harvesting machines, plows, planters, and combines ahead of schedule.
In 1953, the Plant ineni Vladimir Il'ich produced 3,000 axles for planters,
many bushings, and other parts.
The Rostokinskiy Construction Machinery Plant produced 1,000 sprocket wheels.
The Metallist Plant is completing an order for conveyer parts for a self-
propelled combine. The plant will produce 131,000 parts of four type designations.
The Tool Plant has produced cutting tools for ensilage cutters and various
parts for self-propelled combines.
The Kotlopostroy Artel' produced 20,000 plowshares and 30,000 landsides for
plows.
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The Pump Plant furniture factories of the Mosgormebel' prom (Moscow Furniture~IndustrylTrust)nd
have completed their 1953 assignments for spare parts for agricultural machines.
Some plants have not fulfilled their assignments. The Small Displacement
Motor Vehicle Plant was assigned the production of 1,000 crankshafts for planters
during 1953. The plant failed to produce a single crankshaft.
The Karacharovskiy Combine (Belevich, director) failed to fulfill an order
for wooden parts for self-propelled combines.
The Furniture Factory No 2 (Orlovskiy, director) was to produce 2,150 parts,
but has failed to deliver a single part.
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