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Soviet Union [USSR] Other Branches of the Chemical Industry
Some branches of the chemical industry have been located close
to their raw materials. The chemical fertilizer industry has major
plants using apatite in the Kola Peninsula, phosphates in the
southern Kazakhstan Economic Region, and potassium salts in the
Ural, Ukraine, and Belorussia economic regions.
Synthetic rubber production increased rapidly in the 1980s,
providing tires for heavy industrial vehicles and for the
increasing number of passenger vehicles. Soviet mineral fertilizer
production led the world in the 1970s; because of agricultural
failures, the chemical industry has been under great pressure to
produce more pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and feed additives.
Plans called for a 70 percent increase in mineral fertilizers from
1980 to 1990. In addition, chemical fibers were a growing part of
the textile industry, which was vital to expanding consumer
production.
Data as of May 1989
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