Logging mechanization in the U.S.S.R : A review of russian data

Montreal

1952

158 S.

45 Abb., 111 Lit. Ang.

Monographie

4784

86167

In this book, the data derived from about one hundred technical articles in the Russian logging periodical, Forest Industry (1947-1952), are brought together to describe briefly recent development in logging mechanization in the USSR. Russia is said to have within its "People's Forest Fund" about one and a half billion acres of timber, with a total volume of nearly twenty-five billion cords (of 85 cu. ft.), conifers representing 85 % of that wood. Almost nine tenths of the timber is in forest areas open for economic expolitation - principally in the north, Siberia and the Far East; the balance, in protective forests. Additional forest area of at least a quarter of a billion acres is outside the People's Forest Fund and the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Forests. The total annual cut in the USSR is now reported to be about a quarter of a billion cords - an increase of 150 % since 1940.