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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least vulnerable area in Russia. Machinery made in its "gigantic new plants" supplies the farms and the factories of most of Soviet Asia. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory (still only 12% explored) are 154 coal beds totaling an estimated 670 billion tons. There are another 500 billion tons at Kuznetzk, producing 20,000,000 tons a year. Within 100 miles of Kuznetzk there are an estimated 500,000,000 tons of iron ore. In 1912 the total commercial output for the Novosibirsk Region was $33,000,000, and the products were mainly agrarian. In 1937 the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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