An example of this was the "Ural-Kuznetsk metallurgical combine" (approved in 1928) where the source of coal was located over 2000 km from the source of iron ore.
Either we do it, or we shall be crushed." But if industrialization generally was to be given first priority, the question arose as to what priority should be given to railway development specifically, keeping in mind that industrialization requires greatly increased rail transportation of goods, e.g. We must make good this distance in ten years. In a 1931 speech, in which Stalin promoted intensive industrialization, he concluded that "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. In the late 1920s, the young Soviet Union under Stalin embarked on a programme of rapid industrialization. A notable project of the late 1920s, which became one of the centrepieces of the first five-year plan, was the Turkestan–Siberia Railway, linking Western Siberia via Eastern Kazakhstan with Uzbekistan. Railways and control of railways had been a major factor in the Russian Civil War and the Red Army's eventual victory in the conflict. The volume of freight hauled (in tonne-km) increased over fourfold during this period. 81,000 km in 1917 which was exceeded in length only by the United States). Pre-war industrialization period, 1928–1941 Ī life size diorama of Soviet track workers repairing railway tracks at the Museum of the Moscow RailwayĪfter the foundation of the Soviet Union the People's Commissariat of Railways (NKPS) (after 1946 renamed the Ministry of Railways (МПС)), the railway network expanded to a total length of 106,100 km by 1940 (vs.
7.2.7 Grade insignia for rail workers 1979–1985.7.2.6 Grade insignia for rail workers 1973–1979.7.2.5 Grade insignia for rail workers 1963–1973.7.2.4 Grade insignia for rail workers 1955–1963.7.2.2 Grade insignia for rail workers under the industrial commissariats, 1936–1943.7.2.1 Grade insignia for rail workers under the People's Commissariat of Transport, 1934–1943.6.4 Increasing freight flow by increasing density.2.2 Rail passenger traffic in the Soviet Union.2.1 Rail freight traffic in the Soviet Union.
1.1 Modal shares in 1940 rail dominates.1 Pre-war industrialization period, 1928–1941.
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