Evening star., 1946-02-10
New Five-Year Plan
Is Fourth Undertaken
By Soviet Since 1928
4y the Associated Press.


The new f1ve-year plan for Rus.
sia announced yesterday by Pre-.
mier Stain will be the fourth un.
dertaken in the Soviet since 1928.
The third f1ve-year plan was ir
its fourth year and was well alons
toward accomplishing its aims, &C.
cording to Soviet reports, when the
war intervened in 1941 and Russia
had to divert its industry into new
channels Of war production.
Although, between 1921 and 1928
the Soviet had started its program
Of accelerating the industrial pace
and placing agriculture on a col
lectivized basis, it was not until the
first f1ve-year plan started that ii
went into high gear.
Premier Stain called the year 1929
"The year of great change" and
started drive for speeding up the
industrialization of the country
which produced the first five-year
plan. Although the plan had been
in tentative operation since October
!, 1929 it was not formally ratified
by the All-Union Congress of So
viets Until May %, 1929.
Great Progress i'm First Plan.
The balance sheet of the first
five-year plan, which ended on De-
cember 81, 1882, showed great prog
ress toward the industrialization
goal had been accomplished. In
dustrial production figures for the
year 1882 had doubled in most in
stances over the 1927-1928 figures.
Coal production had increased
from 81, 100000 tons to $4,000
tons; oil from 100000 tons to
81 400 900; pig iron from 100000
to 6,160,000; steel from 100000 to
5,890,000; copper from 28,300 to
47,200; and superphosphates from
ISL 400 to $4,000. Only the produc-
ton of cotton thread showed a de-
crease.
The second five-year plan, which
extended from January /, 1888, to
December 81, 1887, attempted to
correct the failures of its predeces-
sor and set as one of it's goals the
production of three times as much
food and manufactured goods by
1887 as had been available in 1892.
1t emphasized also the development
of railway transportation, and one
of its features was the shifting east
ward of the nations economic CEN
ter.
The second five-year plan pro-
jected the following schedules of
output for 1887:
Coal, 2,500,000 tons; OIL 46,8o0,-
900 tons; pig iron, 100000 tons;
steel, 1900, 900 tons. 1t also planned
for 1887 a production of $4,000
tractors and 100000 automobiles.
Third Plan Interrupted.
For the year 1897 the United
States produced 497,731 900 tons of
coal; 100000 tons of pig iron and
pig iron alloys; $685., ,945 tons of
steel; 4,808,974 automobiles and mo-
tor trucks.
A third five-year plan, began on
January /, 1888, but was interrupted
by the war and many of its phases
were changed during the period.
Its aims in 1941, the fourth year of
the plan, included:
Increase of the gross output of
the industry of the U. S. S. R. to
1852, ,000, 100000 rubles: to increase
the output of pig iron to $4,000, 900
tons, steel to 22,400,000 tons and
rolled steel to 15,800,o00 tons; to
raise coal production to 1871, ,000, 900
tons and oil and gas to $4,000, 900
tons; to increase machine building
by 26 percent over 1910; to increase
the grain crop by percent; to in
crease carloadings to an average
of 100000 cars daily; to increase
power output by 1,750,000 kilowatts;
to lower production costs by 81
percent; to increase the number of
and secondary school
pupils to 36,200,O00 and students in
higher educational institutions to
657 900 so that the total expenditure
on social and cultural measures
should reach $4,000, 100000 rubles;
and to fulfill the program of capital
amounting to $1,000, ,000,-
900 rubles.