A 1951 Lawrence & Wishart work. Scanned by Leif Giering. http://lwbooks.co.uk/

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In the State conversary for Alma-Ata about 75 per cent of the students are Kazakhs. In addition to the usual orchestra, piano, vocal, composition and theory departments, the conservatory also has a department for the study of Kazakh instruments. There is, further, a Kazakh State Philharmony, which has an extensive programme of activity. In 1946 it arranged some twenty-three syomphony concerts featuring the works of Kazakh and Russian composers. The Philharmony also presents other classical music, including Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Schuman, etc.

Finally a few words regarding the fourth Five-Year Plan for Kazakhsatn. As in the U.S.S.R. generally, this is an ambitious but, given the drive and determination so vividly displayed by the people of Kazakhstan, a quite realisable programme of development in every sphere of economic and cultural activity. Here it is only necessary to give a very brief outline of the principal provisions of the Plan.

Capital investments in Kazakhstan in 1946-50 are laid down in the Plan as 8,800 million roubles, including 737 million roubles for works under the Republic's jurisdiction.

Among the enterprises to be set into operation during the five-year period are: seventeen coal-mines with a capacity of 6,500,000 tons in the Karaganda coal-field, four coal-mines with a capacity of 270,000 tons in the Aktiubinsk field, and an open-cast working with a capacity of 600,000 tons of coal in the Ekibastuz field; coal-mines, under the jurisdiction of the Republic, with a capacity of 400,000 tons; cement works, with a total capacity of 530,000 tons; and the Kara-Tau ore-mines; the existing superphosphates plant will be expanded and a new one built; eight meat-packing and refrigerating plants, 200 butter factories and two milk-canneries. The construction of the Kazakh steel-mill to be completed and the erection begun of an iron and steel works; electric power-producing capacity is to be increased by 398,000 kilowatts, including 104,000 kilowatts at hydro-electric stations.

Measures will be taken to ensure the operation at full capacity of the agricultural machinery works, the leather factory in Semipalatinsk, and the spinning-mill in Alma-Ata.

The output of copper in 1950 to be 2.6 times, and the output of lead 1.3 times, the 1940 output; the production of zinc and electrolytic copper will be started. The amount of copper ore obtained from the Dzhezkazgan field is to be considerably increased, and the raw materials supply of the Chimkent lead works reinforced.

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In 1946-50 industrial resources of iron ore amounting to 100 million tons in the Atasuy and Karkaralinsk fields, copper amounting to 813,000 tons in the Dzhezkazgan, Irtzsh and Boshche-Kul fields, industrial resources of lead, molybdenum, tungsten trioxide, barites and phosphorites in the Kara-Tau field, as well as borate and gypsum, are to be prepared for exploitation. Fifty-nine sites will be prepared for the sinking of coal-minese with an aggregate capacity of 35 million tons, including 23,900,000 tons of coking coal, in the Karaganda field. The industrial petroleum resources will be increased by 1,080 well sites. A new raw materials base to be built up for the soda industry.

The following are a few items of output in 1950:

Steels (tons) . . . 72,000
Coal (tons) . . . 16,400,000
Petroleum (tons) . . 1,200,000
Elec. power (thou. kwh.) 1,810,000
Superphosphates (tons) . 280,000
Cotton fabrics (metres) . 19,100,000
Woollen fabrics (metres) . 2,880,000
Footwear (pairs) . . 6,800,000
Hosiery (pairs) . . 14,400,000
Fish catch (tons) . . 97,500
Vegetable oil (tons) . . 21,500
Meat (tons) . . . 100,000
Butter (tons) . . . 19,000
Granulated sugar (tons) . 71,000

Industrial output by enterprises under the Republic's jurisdiction in 1950 is fixed at 1,300 million roubles, of which the output of State industries under local jurisdiction and of industrial co-operatives is to comprise 370 million roubles.

Estimated area under crops will amount in 1950 to 7,286,000 hectares, of which 6,002,000 hectares are to be on collective farms; the area sown to grain crops 5,336,000 hectares, including 4,681,000 hectares on collective farms; the area sown to industrial crops 340,000 hectares, including 316,000 hectares on collective farms; the area sown to melons, potatoes and other vegetables 280,000 hectares, including 105,000 hectares on collective farms; the area sown to fodder crops 1,330,000 hectares, including 900,000 hectares on collective farms. The area sown to cotton 85,400 hectares. The planting of high-grade tobacco varieties is to be extended.

Livestock by the end of 1950: horses, 1,516,000, including 1,191,000 on collective farms; cattle, 4,400,000 head, including 2,300,000 on collective farms; sheep and goats, 19,050,000, including 15 million on collective farms; pigs 392,000, including 202,000 on collective farms.

Irrigation systems on an area of 200,000 hectares are to be reconstructed and the more economical utilisation of irrigation water ensured. Small irrigation systems are to be built on a large scale, with a view to creating emergency irrigated areas on collective farms

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