Zykin, I. V. REGIONAL TIMBER PROCESSING COMPLEXES OF THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF THE USSR IN THE STRATEGY OF THE FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 8. P. 44–53. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.549


Russian history

REGIONAL TIMBER PROCESSING COMPLEXES OF THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF THE USSR IN THE STRATEGY OF THE FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Zykin
I. V. 		Institute of Technology – Branch of National Research nuclear university “MEPHI”
Keywords:
timber processing complex
European North
Karelia
Northern region
Komi autonomous region
first fiveyear plan
development models		 Summary: The period of “socialist industrialization” of the late 1920s and early 1940s in the history of the Soviet Union, which led to radical transformations in the economy of the European North, attracts many researchers with grandiose projects and the degree of their implementation, including the forest industry, which became the leading industry of the macroregion. Despite the existence of serious studies on the history of the industry, regions, the place of the forest industry of the European North in the strategy of the first five-year plan (1928–1932), which set the main vectors of development of the industry and macro-region, has not been sufficiently studied. The study of the problem from the perspective of the concept of modernization seems relevant. The author undertook for the first time an analysis of the indicators of the first five-year plan and statistical data, identified models of development of the forest industry of the regions of the European North. Peculiarities of implementation of the first five-year plan in the industry are considered. Conclusions were drawn on the planning of the European North forest industry towards the development of new forest areas, the combination of mechanical processing and deep processing of wood, and the increase of exports of forest resources and materials. As a result of the implementation of the first five-year plan, the models of the forest industry of the regions have been adjusted towards the development of logging and mechanical processing, rejection of a number of combined production projects.



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