RUSSIA'S INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 499, 22 July 1932, Page 6

RUSSIA'S INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION

CITIES SPRINGING UP WHERE VILLAGES STOOD Pi . ■ . (Published in the Manchester Guardian). LONDON, July 7. RE AT industrial centres, springing up like mushrooms where U formerly there were hamlets, provide one of the striking and Risible results of the Five-year Plan in Russia, says the Moscowp:orrespondent of the Manchester Guardian.

One || the most notable 1 Instances of this is Cat Khibinogorsk, within the ArcCic Circle. There were only a hundred people there in 1929, now there are .40,000. Stalinabad, formerly a village near the Afghanistan frontier, is now the capital of the Republic of Tadjikistan, with a population of 60,000. The most impressive mushroom city is ])Tagnitororsk, where is located the largest steel plant in Europe, constructing and yielding the first pig iron.

It was an obscure village in 1929, and it now has a population approaching 200,000. while the Kuznetzk coal basin in Central Siberia shows the greatest regional development. Flour rapidly-growing towns are Stalinsk, of 150,000. people, with a steel plsfrit using Magnitororsk ore: Prokopiaysk,- xvhose population in 1926 was lojpo and is now' 10,000; Kemerovno, Tvmph is growing similarly, and Sudzheask, which has leaped from a villa® before the Revolution to a town o£|o,ooo. . . v , Another 100,000 population city has grcpn around the Dnieprstroi hydroelfitiric plant, with steel and aluminimrf industries, while the centre of Armic development is Port Igarka, at th*mouth of the Yenisei River. 'these industrial ■:towns are in various stages of transition and generally are short of everything from vegetables to housing and sanitation. Many are situated in bleak, unprepossessing localities. Taken together with the colossal of population they can be compared only to the early growth of English! industrial towns and the settlement of the United States'west of the Mississippi. • -

Pleading guilty at New Plymouth on Wednesday, John Valentine Proc tor ;was eornmitte! for sentence h:v the Supremo Court at New Plymouth for the the theft cn January 7, 1930 cf £3 10s in cash and clothing val. tied'at £6, belonging to Wiilliam B I.awence, farmer, TJrut.i. No appli. cation was made for bail.