Word: kuznetsk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foresight. For the last decade Russia has paid increasing attention to the development of great new industrial areas. One straddles, and partly hides behind, the Urals. Another is the Kuznetsk Basin, next to Outer Mongolia. In the extreme south, centered at Tashkent, there is a less concentrated area, mainly of light industries such as textiles...
...Rump. Except for two shortages-manganese and mercury-Russia's great rump is sufficiently stocked in all vital resources. The Kuznetsk Basin has five times as great coal reserves as the Donets Basin, now in German hands. Oil fields in the plains adjoining the Urals have been developed to the point where they could partially compensate for the loss of Baku. The area should not lack water power: on the Angara River the biggest power dam in the world is being built. Even without the good black earth of the Ukraine, Russia could be agriculturally self-sufficient...
...first Plan was to build a base of heavy industry far from dangerous European borders. Around the biggest coal deposit in the world, in the Kuznetsk Basin in mid-Siberia, mines were opened, steel mills built. The huge magnetic iron-ore mountain at Magnitogorsk in the Urals got other mills. A tractor and rifle factory went up at Chelyabinsk near...
...first step to its solution. Clients who have appreciated this approach include (besides virtually the entire automotive industry) the Governments of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. For the latter, as consultant on the First Five Year Plan, Kahn designed factories at Stalingrad, Chelyabinsk, Kuznetsk, Nizhni-Tagil. Brother Moritz handled the job. For the U. S. he has just done the plans for $25,000,000 worth of new naval air bases at Midway Island, Honolulu, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Jacksonville...