Zykin, I. V. TIMBER INDUSTRY COMPLEX OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS: PROBLEMS OF MANAGEMENT, FINANCING, FOREST MANAGEMENT // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 4 (181). P. 83–91. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.334


Russian history

TIMBER INDUSTRY COMPLEX OF THE SOVIET UNION IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS: PROBLEMS OF MANAGEMENT, FINANCING, FOREST MANAGEMENT

Zykin
I. V. 		School № 27
Keywords:
the Soviet Union
modernization
industrialization
the first five years
forest industry
management
financing
logging
construction of enterprises		 Summary: Modernization of the end of the 1920th – the beginning of the 1940th years cardinally changed the economic image of the Soviet Union. The forest industry became one of the significant industries which underwent system transformation during this period. Studying of its history is relevant in connection with long existence of the problems which arose during a critical era, and having an impact on the current state of the industry. The appeal to experience of development of the forest industry allows to reveal and investigate positive and negative sides which, certainly, can be taken by contemporaries as a basis when determining prospects of development and solutions of problems of the industry. In article attention is paid to the Ural region which forest industry received a serious boost in development. The evolution of the sphere of management, extreme situations arising in activity of the enterprises, trusts, head departments are considered. The directions of investments into the forest industry are revealed: a priority of construction of the enterprises and acquisition of the equipment over development of the housing and social sphere. Changes in approaches to forest exploitation are analysed: transfer of forests to several large lumberers, distribution of continuous cabins, fast development of available forest bases, delay of a solution of the problem of complex processing of forest resources, system mechanization of works. It is noted that, despite the carried-out financing, the forest industry unsatisfactorily coped with plan targets, development of quality products. The conclusion is drawn that in the industry by the end of the 1930th – the beginning of the 1940th years the existing and arisen problems were not solved.



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