On December 11, 1933, the Council of Labor and Defense of the USSR issued a decree establishing the Road Construction Directorate of Eastern Siberia and the Far East, to be headquartered in Khabarovsk and known by the Russian abbreviation "Daldorstroi" (from the words for "far" [east], "road," and "construction"). It was assigned the task of building strategic highways in the regions of Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. The construction plans were announced at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1934 as part of the second Soviet Five-Year Plan. The plan outlined construction of the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk highway with a hard (gravel) surface and a length of .