ABSTRACT
The five-year economic plan is designed to bring about a considerable advance in the process of transforming the Soviet Union from a country primarily agrarian into one predominantly industrial, both through the broad application of modern technique and through the further extension and strengthening of the principles and methods of planning a national economy. The pivotal part of the plan is the general development program. A characteristic and extremely important feature of the five-year plan, insofar as the technical phase is concerned, is the transition to large scale enterprises combining power, chemical and metallurgical production, embodying at once the most advanced technical achievements and the advantages of an organized and planned economy. In order to ensure the economic development of the country in accordance with the five-year plan a steady and adequate supply of fuel, without shortages or crises, is at once one of the most important and most difficult problems to be solved.
