MEMO FROM K. KOVAL TO THE CPSU CC, ON SOVIET PROVISION OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT TO THE DPRK
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Table that shows the timeframes, volumes, and fulfillment of Soviet equipment obligations to the DPRK."Memo from K. Koval to the CPSU CC, on Soviet provision of industrial equipment to the DPRK," April 17, 1956, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, RGANI Fond 5, Opis 28, Delo 412. Translated by Gary Goldberg. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/120801 - Share
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[CPSU CC stamp: 18025 2 May 1956 Subject to return to the CPSU General Department] Secret [logo of the Main Directorate for Matters of Economic Relations with Countries of People's Democracy] [date left blank] April 1956 to the CPSU CC to Cde. L. I. BREZHNEV In accordance with your instructions I submit a memo concerning the main issues of the economic situation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and about the aid of the USSR, China, and other countries of people's democracy in the revival of the DPRK economy. [signature] K. Koval' [handwritten: to the archives The material was used in connection with a trip by a CPSU delegation to the 3rd congress of the Korean Worker's Party. I. Shcherbakov 23 July 1956 V. Gorbunov 25 July 1956 [illegible signature] […] Copy Secret Copy Nº blank MEMO about the progress of the performance of the responsibility of the Soviet side for deliveries of equipment per the 19 September 1953 Agreement between the Soviet Government and the Government of the DPRK to give the DPRK free aid in the repair and construction of industrial enterprises and other agreements as of 1 January 1956 (in millions of rubles at export prices) name of the facilities timeframes for the delivery of equipment total estimate of the obligations performed as of 1 January 1956 1956 plan TOTAL: per the 19 September 1953 agreement 403.2 184.6 134.5 294.8 147.2 115.4 metallurgical plant (Cheongjin)* 1955-1956 18.4 2.0 16.4 (Kim Chaek) foundry 1955-1956 24.3 0.5 15.8 non-ferrous metals plant (Nampho)* 1955-1956 22.0 4.0 18.0 Suphung Hydroelectric Station - 1st phase 1954-1955 41.7 35.8 5.9 nitrogen fertilizer plant (Heungnam)** 1955-1st half of 1957 30.0 7.4 11.3 cement plant (Madong) 1954-1956 43.5 33.4 10.1 textile works *** 1954-1956 41.4 40.2 1.2 dyeing and bleaching plant 1955-1956 23.0 1.7 14.8 silk spinning and weaving mill 1955-1956 13.0 0.9 8.0 plywood factory 1955-1st half of 1956 8.5 0.2 7.0 furniture factory 1955 3.0 2.0 1.0 meatpacking plant 1954-1955 5.3 3.9 1.4 radio center**** 2nd quarter of 1954 7.8 7.8 - two tractor repair shops 1956-1957 2.0 - 1.0 fish canning plant in Nampo by agreement of the sides 3.9 1.7 2.2 hydrochloric acid production installation ***** 1954 0.4 0.4 - slate shop at the cement plant in Cheonnaeri 1955-1956 2.7 2.0 0.7 city hospital 1955 1.8 1.2 0.6 two railway substations 3rd quarter of 1955 2.0 2.0 - per the 18 August 1955 protocol 35.6 - 18.6 Suphung Hydroelectric Station - 2nd phase 1956-1958 8.8 - 4.8 two plants to produce reinforced concrete articles 1956-1957 11.2 - 3.2 a thermal electric power station at a textile works 1956-1st half of 1957 5.0 - - four railway substations 2nd quarter of 1956 10.0 - 10.0 poultry processing plant 1st half of 1956 0.4 - 0.4 shop at a meatpacking plant to reprocess bones and horns 1956 0.2 - 0.2 per the 29 October 1955 protocol 35.4 - 0.5 site Nº 548 1956-1957 4.0 - 0.5 site Nº 549 1st quarter of 1957 2.4 - - site Nº 550 1957-1959 29.0 - - other sites done before 1 January 1956 - 37.3 37.3 - * for the enterprises indicated the ministries which are the general suppliers have submitted proposals to the USSR Council of Ministers concerning the additional delivery of equipment for 1956 ** commissioned with a capacity of 26,500 tons of ammonia per year. *** commissioned in December 1955. **** commissioned in August 1955. ***** commissioned in July 1955. [handwritten: Pavitsev] 17 April 1956
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