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Soviet Union [USSR] The Location of the Machine-Building Industry
Traditionally, the Soviet machine-building industries have been
centered in the European part of the Soviet Union; large plants are
located in Moscow, Leningrad, Khar'kov, Minsk, Gor'kiy, Saratov,
and in cities in the Urals. In the 1980s, the industry was
gradually adding major centers in the Kazakh Republic and other
areas in Soviet Central Asia, Siberia, and the Soviet Far East. The
instrumen- building sector was more dispersed and had centers in
Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Voronezh, Orel, Ryazan', Kazan', Gor'kiy,
Riga, Minsk, Tbilisi, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, and Frunze. Agricultural
machines were produced near major crop areas. Examples of this
concentration were Khar'kov in the Ukrainian Republic; Minsk in the
Belorussian Republic; Lipetsk, Vladimir, Volgograd. and Chelyabinsk
in the western Russian Republic; the Altai region in the eastern
Russian Republic; and Pavlodar in the Kazakh Republic. Because low
crop yield has been a chronic problem, the agricultural equipment
industry has emphasized large mechanized tractor and harvester
units that can cover vast, low-yield tracts economically.
Data as of May 1989
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