Abstract
Soviet industry has developed on the basis of Soviet industrial location policy, which considers that every important industry will develop under the use of the resources in the economic regions and at the same time that all the industries will develop so that regional self-surfficiency can be attained in each economic region. Consequently, the iron and steel industry has developed especially in the areas producing iron ore resources and coking coal resources (the Urals, the Ukraina and Siberia). At the same time, although the steel output is poor, new steel industries supply raw materials to the machinery indusry was establishedd in each economic region. But up to the present, Soviet iron and steel industry has mainly progressed in the Urals and Sourthern Russia (the Ukraina), though the geographic distribution of iron and steel industry is spread wider than that of Pre Soviet days. It requires further development of the Ukraina and Urals and the exploitation of Siberia, Central Russia (Kursk) and Kazakhstan (Kustanai) in order to produce from 65 to 70 million tons of pig iron and from. 86 to 91 million tons of steel in 1965. Furthermore, in order to make much greater progress, Soviet iron and steel industry has following problems to be solved, that is, the elimination of irrational long distance transportation and cross haul of iron and steel products, the prevention of becoming higher costss in iron and steel production than those of today, rational use of poorer quality ores for the expansion and development of iron and steel industry and so on.
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