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...Stalinsk, in the coal-rich Kuzbas, the Russians have built a sizable new steel mill. Farther east there are only two known mills; one, with 200,000 tons' capacity, is at Komsomolsk (north of Vladivostok), supplying naval construction and ordnance for the Far East. Since Siberia lacks iron ore, this plant must get its iron from western Russia. The other is a tiny mill somewhere in the Transbaikal...
...junction point on the Trans-Siberian; Khabarovsk, a new factory center which is also the headquarters of General Stern's armies; Blagoveshchensk, now almost within shell range of the Japanese in extreme northern Manchukuo; and, well beyond the Far Eastern border, the new steel & oil city of Komsomolsk, pride of the young Russians who built...
...miles. Its coastline is nearly twice that long. The Manchukuoan frontier alone is as long as Europe's Eastern Front. The Trans-Siberian railroad has been double-tracked all the way to Vladivostok, but is extremely vulnerable. If it were cut, the chief cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk-would be isolated. Further north two new lines are being rushed. Biggest industrial enterprise in the Far East is the Chapcherginsk Tin Combinat, which produces 65% of all Soviet tin. No. 1 industrial center is Komsomolsk, where the Amur Steel Works turn out more than 750,000 tons of finished steel products...
...Novosibirsk (2,000 miles east of Moscow) was a primitive country town of 70,000. Today it is a thriving city of 500,000, known as the "Chicago of Siberia." Siberian iron and steel production (chief centers: Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk and Stalinsk) is estimated to be already as large as Japan's, and new mills are going up in scores of localities. According to Maurice Hindus (TIME, April 27), one of the few men outside the Soviet Union who was right about Russia's western front, "Komsomolsk . . . the steel city in the Far East . . . is a roaring ammunition plant...