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Soviet Union [USSR] Nonferrous Metals
In addition to the ferrous metal (iron and steel) centers,
nonferrous metallurgy also provided vital support for heavy
industry, while undergoing technical innovation. The nonferrous
branches had already expanded into ore-rich regions outside
traditional industrial regions: copper metallurgy into the Kazakh
Republic, the Caucasus, and Siberia; aluminum into the Kazakh
Republic, south-central Siberia, and Soviet Central Asia; and
nickel into eastern Siberia, the Urals, and the Kola Peninsula. The
Soviet Union possesses abundant supplies of nonferrous metal ores,
such as titanium, cobalt, chromium, nickel, and molybdenum, used in
steel and iron alloys. Cobalt and nickel were specially targeted
for expansion in the 1980s. Lead and zinc mining was projected to
expand in the Kazakh Republic and other areas in Soviet Central
Asia, Siberia, and the Soviet Far East.
Data as of May 1989
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