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Estonia does not have its own iron and steel industry. She gets steel and pig iron from the other Soviet Republics. For that reason the main line of developing Estonia's engineering industry will be that of making machines, instruments and automation devices that do not consume much metal and which only highly skilled workers, for whom Estonia has long been famed, can make.
New metal-working enterprises, some of which are already going up, will be built in Estonia in the seven-year period with the aim of keeping abreast with technical and scientific achievements and meeting the requirements of the Soviet Union's rapidly growing economy.
Production of mercury arc-rectifier units with power transformers for trunk-line electric locomotives is being started in Tallinn at a factory where formerly steam engines and freight cars were repaired.
Production of radio parts, important for new technical development, has been organised at the factory that once produced matches.
Factories making X-ray apparatuses and luminescent lamps will be put up in Estonia's second largest town, Tartu. A plant making impulse oscillographs will be built in the small town of Rakvere and a factory making small transformers in the town of Iykhvi.
Many existing enterprises are being enlarged. A new big building will be put up for the Estikabel works. The "Estonia" radio set and instruments made at the Tallinn Punane RET factory are in demand far beyond the U.S.S.R.; and a new building is to be put up for it as well. As a result, output at both factories will double. Production of meters, applying radioactive isotopes, will be started at the Tallinn Meters and Gauges Factory.
The steady perfection of production on the basis of complex mechanisation and automation, application of the most advanced technology and organisation of production constitute the basis for the successful fulfilment of the Seven-Year Plan.
A campaign for technical progress has developed in all branches of the republic's economy at every enterprise. Workers and engineers, Communists and non-Party people are seeking out new ways to perfect production and increase labour productivity.
For example, the workers of the gas generator shop of the Kokhtla-Yarve Plant have decided that within three years all the work in the shop beginning with the supply of shale and ending with the removal of ashes will be automated.
The campaign for technical perfection of production is enabling the workers of many enterprises of the republic to fulfil their seven-year plan targets ahead of schedule. For instance, workers of the Volta, Punane RET, Estikabel, Baltiiskaya Manufaktura and many others have undertaken to complete their seven-year plan by 1964.
Efforts are now being made by the people of Estonia to ensure that the entire industry of the republic fulfils the Seven-Year Plan in six years!
The introduction of new machines will enable our enterprises to turn out absolutely new types of industrial commodities. Multi-purpose loaders, multi-scoop ditch excavators, new models of agricultural machines, machines for the mechanisation of extraction and concentration of shale—this is a far from complete enumeration of the future production of the heavy mechanical engineering plants of the republic.
Soviet Booklets, London, England, in December, 1959, as part of the series
"THE FIFTEEN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF TODAY AND TOMMORROW."
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