How the USSR created 'super-workers'
Follow Russia Beyond on Twitter. Every top-performing factory worker in the USSR - or 'stakhanovеts', as they were known - could replace 10 regular workers, it was believed. Their popularity ...
RUSSIA AND THE ISFAHAN STEEL MILL
In January 1966, Iran and the Soviet Union signed an agreement which provided that the USSR would advance credits of $286 million at 2.5 percent interest over a twelve year period for the construction of a steel mill, a gas pipeline to the Soviet Union, and a machine tool plant. Regarding the steel mill, it was agreed that the Soviet Union ...
the industrial heart of the USSR
How foreigners helped build Magnitogorsk - the industrial heart of the USSR. This small town was destined to become the capital of the Soviet iron and steel industry. And it was partly Americans ...
Crash Industrialization in the Soviet Union
Prior to USSR's up and coming heavy industrialization period, when the Bolsheviks took power in the 1917 revolution, the Soviet Union was extremely lacking in comparison to the United States, and Britain. Specifically in the production of steel, coal textiles and the cotton industry. At the time Russia's largest industry, being agriculture ...
Rise of the Tomb Raider
This relic is in the Copper Mill, in the building northwest of the one where you first learn to craft molotov cocktails. After completing the level, return to the Copper Mill Yard Base Camp and climb up following the route in the walkthrough. The relic is in the fenced-in room in the northwest corner.
One-Factory Town, a Soviet Holdover, Faces Extinction
By Clifford J. Levy. Nov. 8, 2010. BAIKALSK, Russia — When the aging paper mill in this Siberian town is transforming logs into rolls of cardboard that resemble giant thread spools, Eduard ...
Inside Azovstal: The Ukrainian Metalworks That Has Become …
In 1941, Azovstal was forced to cease operations when much of the equipment inside the factory was transported east away from the Nazi advance into the Soviet Union. Photographer Viktor Macha
the industrial heart of the USSR
How foreigners helped build Magnitogorsk - the industrial heart of the USSR. This small town was destined to become the capital of the Soviet iron and steel industry. And it …
soviet union
The Soviet Union was also investigating titanium for military use, they had a stockpile ready to be purchased, so Lockheed did. "Our supplier, Titanium Metals Corporation, had only limited reserves of the precious alloy, so the CIA conducted a worldwide search and using third parties and dummy companies, managed to …
Russia
Russia - Manufacturing, Industry, Resources: Russia's machine-building industry provides most of the country's needs, including steam boilers and turbines, electric generators, grain combines, automobiles, and electric …
Soviet Union | History, Leaders, Flag, Map,
Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of …
POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY The case of Soviet …
Russian mechanical engineering in the post-Soviet era. Soviet Central Planning and Industrial Administration After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the Communist Party's consolidation of power by 1921, the Soviet government took important decisions to modernize the country. Its initial set of decisions included the establishment of state ...
Soviet Union And Machinery Factory Mill
Soviet Union And Machinery Factory Mill Introduction(WhatsApp) Wuxi City Jueqi Metallurgy Machinery Co., Ltd. Our Company-Wuxi City Jueqi Metallurgy Machinery Co., Ltd, is based on German and Soviet Union rolling mill and improved in accordance with specific conditions. They research kinds of cold rolling mill of the machinery drive …
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Polluting Siberia Paper Mill …
The issue goes beyond the lake. Throughout the former Soviet Union, industry has turned waterways into environmental catastrophes. The city of Vladivostok pumps raw sewage into its bay; the Aral ...
Study on the Renewal Project of Chinese Historical Industrial
TY - CONF AU - Yu Cao AU - Fangyu Fu PY - 2015/11 DA - 2015/11 TI - Study on the Renewal Project of Chinese Historical Industrial Settlements Built under the Soviet Union Socialist Ideological Trend in the 1950s ¬¬——taking Xiangtang housing community of mining machinery factory in Taiyuan, Shanxi province as an example BT - Proceedings …
POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY The case of Soviet …
Malcolm R Hill. This article discusses the significance of politics to technology by reference to product design and process development in mechanical engineering during the period …
Iron and Steel in the Soviet Union
Told in bare figures, the story of Soviet iron and steel is one of. spectacular progress. Production of pig-iron and ingot steel. amounted in 1928 to 4 million and 4-8 million tons respectively; it had increased to 15 million and 18*3 million respectively in 1940; during the post-war period it increased still further, and reached 22 million and ...
The Mechanization of Accounting in the Soviet Union
24 For instance the thirty-eight complexes of punched card machinery which had been in operation in the Ministry of Aviation and the Ministry of Shipbuilding before the war were no longer being used at the end of the war. (S. S. Geidish, "Zhurnal, ignorirujushchij voprosy mekhanizacij," Mekhanizacija trudoemkikh i tjazhelykh Rabat, 1948, No. 10, p. 48.)
The Soviet Union, the United States, and Industrial …
omy with an urban population, the Soviet Union also adopted factory farming, a decision with attendant effects on how farms produced food and how citizens consumed it. In …
No Run-of-the-Mill Transaction: Toshiba Machine Co. and …
Toshiba engineers traveled to Leningrad (today's St. Petersburg) on several occasions – making six trips in 18 months starting in early 1983 – to work in the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipyard on setting up the machinery (Sanger et al., 1987). The latter made its way to the Soviet Union in parts and along several routes, partly through ...
The Transfer of Soviet Factories During World War II
Indeed, the first two weeks of the fighting were sufficient to demonstrate the magnitude of the threat, and by early July, the Soviet leadership was already making plans for the transfer of important factory resources to secure locations in the east. A governing body, dubbed the Evacuation Soviet, was established to oversee this process on July 3.
The Life of the Soviet Worker
Abstract. The Soviet Union was the workers' state and worker culture, broadly defined, coloured the whole of the Soviet experience. At the centre of the most transformative Soviet project of all, Stalin's industrial revolution of 1928–41, workers benefited from specific privileges and from affirmative action, though they also suffered the ...
Soviet Union and machinery factory mill
Soviet Union And Machinery Factory Mill; How america helped build the soviet machine . 0well, we can make russian peasants over like that too. that one generation proved a very long and hard one for the soviet union. the increasing number of tractors made in the soviet union after 1930 suffered from leaking radiators, poorly cast cylinder heads
Soviet Collaboration in Indian Steel Industry, 1954-84
gical, mining and heavy electrical machinery, instrumentation, basic drugs and phar-maceuticals, opthalmic glass, etc. TAble 1 gives a list of Soviet long-term loans to India during the period 1955-84, tied to specific projects. In addition, the Soviet Union has been/is India's main supplier of armaments and licensor for the production of ...
Uralmash: inside the Soviet-era industrial powerhouse …
Its appeal was eventually marred when the state lost control of its factories after the dissolution of Soviet Union. As with many similar one-factory towns that were once heralded as experiments in utopian living, the transition to a free market economy was not an easy one for Uralmash. During the 1990s, the factory found itself amidst one of ...
Pakistan Steel Mills (Pipri) Karachi
This mill was established with the technical and financial aid of Soviet Union. Its 90% work was completed by 1999. By its completion Pakistan is getting help for solid progress in her economy technically as well industrially. Its production capacity is 1.1 million tons steel annually which can be increased to 2 million tons. The steel …
collapse of the Soviet Union
Yeltsin decreed that all enterprises in Russia were under his government's control. Collapse of the Soviet Union, sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. on December 31, 1991. The …
Soviet Women in the Work Foree and Professions
[256] itself, four times as large as the total number of places in day care facilities in the United States. The issue of the recency of data is, therefore, not one of niggling pedantry. The West finds it hard to grasp the pace of change in the Soviet Union, and has been taught to regard it as frozen in patterns established a generation and more ago. ...
Soviet Union And Machinery Factory Mill
Soviet Union And Machinery Factory Mill Introduction. Soviet Aid to China | SpringerLink - Home - Springer. Large-scale Soviet aid to China began in the 1950s. However, the Soviet Union had begun to provide aid to China long before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, particularly during the Anti-Japanese War. This aid was ...
Crash Industrialization in the Soviet Union
Shifting to domestic production was key. Being a primary symbol of Bolshevik power for the Soviet Union, the need for a factory that could produce 40 …
The Life of the Soviet Worker
At the centre of the most transformative Soviet project of all, Stalin's industrial revolution of 1928–41, workers benefited from specific privileges and from affirmative action, though …
How America Helped Build The Soviet Machine
United States companies now involved in or planning industrial projects in the Soviet Union include Archer-Daniels-Midland, with its advanced corn-processing technology; …
Soviets, workers' democracy, and workers' control
The old machinery of government had been broken up, and whatever fragments remained were mostly hostile. ... factory inspectors. A law was passed in 1903 creating factory eIders (starosti) in industry. Father Gapon's Union of Russian Factory and Mill Workers of St Petersburg, which instigated the demonstration in 1905 that was so …
Soviet Industrialization and the Cold War
machinery of industrial production with ... In 1958 the Soviet Union pro-duced approximately 55 million tons of steel, 113 million tons of oil, 496 million tons of …
Tractor, timber and agricultural machinery in the Soviet Union
However, mass production of tractors in Russia was launched only in the Soviet Union in the 20-30s. In 1917 the whole of Russia was 165 tractors 1918 - at Petrograd factory "Bolshevik" was organized small-scale production of crawler tractors. 1921 - SNK (Soviet government) decree "On agricultural engineering".