The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-07
The Great Building Achievements
of the Five Year Plan

THE KARA expedition, which has carried
l. out regular journeys with icebreakers
and steamships to the mouths of the Rivers
OBJ and YeniSei, was successfully concluded in
the middle of October The expeditions for
merly bore a certain experimental character,
but the great expedition this year bore all the
marks of regular shipping undertaking with
a fixed timetable and all those arrangements
which characterize normal shipping The
fury old idea of reaching the North Coast of
Asia from Europe by the sea has now been
carried out after innumerahle attempts, heavy
sacrifices and numerous successes.
Siberia, which was termed by Narsen in
1913 as the mysterious country of the future,
is now living in the present and experiencing
tremendous things. Where once the brave sea-
men sailed into the unknown, there are now
modern signals, radio stations and automatic
buoys, where the Tunguse fed his reindeer only
a few months ago, hydraulic rams are now at
work. Electric lamps illuminate the landscape
at night, customs officials and controllers de-
mand passes and produce mysterious stamp
with the inscription port Igarka."
Since June, 1929, Siberia has possessed
regular ocean harbor: Port Igarka. Siberia has
become sea- going country. Twenty-six ships
with registered tonnage of 83,62S reached
Siberia this year, II ships going to the Oh and
Is going to the Yenisei. A year before only
six ships sailed for Siberia, hardly more than
a year ago the Sea of Kara was considered
to be unnavigable. But the proof is now there
Large fleets can sail through the Arctic Ocean
to Siberia. 1t is only technical question of
the cebreaking and radio service, the prepara-
ton of charts and the protection of the coastal
service and the number Of ships can then be
tremendously increased. The expedition which
was led this year by the icebreaker "Krassin"
and which worked for the first time with the
systematic support of a hydropane piloted by
the famous Russian airman Tchukhnovsk took
place without the least accident. The time
table Of the great fleet was held almost
pletely. In the rivers, however, there was
not unimportant delay. The river flotillas
which carried the export commodities from the
Trans-S Siberian Railway to the depots, suffered
this year from bad weather conditions which
held them up for days, particularly on the Yeni-
sci, and prevented them from passing the rap
ids
They also suffered number of misfortunes
On the River Yenisei great barge with valu-
able export timber was burned to the waters
edge. Despite all these things, however, SELF
sacrificing work succeeded in concluding the
expedition in good time and all the river and
ocean going vessels left the Arctic coastal dis
rtict before the commencement of the ice period
OPENS SIBERIAN EXPORTS.
The Kara expedition is intended to open up
Siberia for the export trade. The wealth of
Siberia which has been Systematically explored
only in recent years, and even then only to a
small extent, can only be transported to any
great extent by water The Kara expedition
aims at exporting these valuable commodities
which are difficult to transport. They are
mostly timber and graphite
In the next few years fish and meat con
serves will also be exported. Thesc colserVes