ABSTRACT
Eastwards from Moscow the Trans-Siberian Railway strikes across Asia, and, after covering over 5,000 miles, reaches Vladivostock on the Pacific Ocean. Between the Urals and Lake Baikal it passes through the geographical centre of the Soviet Union. The officials of the Ural and Siberian State Planning Commissions did their best to help. The Urals have long been exploited industrially, but the development of their full economic possibilities on systematic and up-to-date lines is a recent undertaking. The development of Siberia and of the Urals are organically connected, but there has been considerable controversy about the plan to be followed. Novo-Sibirsk was formerly called Novo-Nikolaievsk, and began as a small railway centre some thirty-five years ago when the Trans-Siberian was being built. The industrial pride of Novo-Sibirsk is the "Kombain-stroi", large works which are being erected for the manufacture of combined harvesting and threshing machines, and which are to supply the USSR with an output of 25,000 machines a year.
