SOVIET INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1941, Page 5

SOVIET INDUSTRY

EASTWARD TRANSFER

PLANTS MOVED LOCK, STOCK,

AND BARREL

QUICK RESUMPTION

(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 30. Some details of- the amazing extent to which Russia has been able to transfer a large number of her most important war factories from the west to the east of Russia are told by a correspondent writing from Kuibyshev. He tells of two factories which he visited, one from Leningrad and one from Kiev, which had been.transferred lock, stock, and. barrel to the east. They were actually producing a greater output in their new location. A big plant which left Kiev within three days of the order to evacuate arrived with its personnel and resumed production. Not only was it able ,to fulfil its August production plan up to 107 per cent., but in September it nearly doubled the output which had been achieved at Kiev. This factory brought 600 workers and specialists from Kiev, and engaged i and trained many local men, women, and youths. With, the arrival of the migrant industry," new. life sprang up in the district, roads, water, and electricity supplies being provided. ■■ In August a third Leningrad factory was dismantled and placed on the rail. Three weeks later production was resumed in full swing, combined, moreover, with the production of a small local plant. A thousand such' factories, says the correspondent, have been equally successfully transferred from White Russia, the Ukraine, and the Baltic States. —8.0. W.