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Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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508<br />

Steamboilers<br />

V. I. LENIN<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> steam-engines in industry<br />

1875-1878 1892<br />

Steamengines<br />

h. p.<br />

capacity<br />

Steamboilers<br />

Steamengines<br />

h. p.<br />

capacity<br />

European Russia (50 gubernias).<br />

. . . . . . . 7,224 5,440 98,888 11,272 10,458 256,469<br />

Poland . . . . . . . . . 1,071 787 14,480 2,328 1,978 81,346<br />

Caucasus . . . . . . . . 115 51 583 514 514 5,283<br />

Siberia and Turkestan . . 100 75 1,026 134 135 2,111<br />

Total in Empire 8,510 6,353 114,977 14,248 13,085 345,209<br />

In 16 years the <strong>to</strong>tal h.p. capacity <strong>of</strong> steam-engines in<br />

Russia increased threefold and in European Russia 22<br />

times. The number <strong>of</strong> steam-engines increased <strong>to</strong> a lesser<br />

degree, so that the average capacity per steam-engine rose<br />

considerably: in European Russia from 18 h.p. <strong>to</strong> 24 h.p.,<br />

and in the Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Poland from 18 h.p. <strong>to</strong> 41 h.p. Largescale<br />

machine industry, consequently, developed very rapidly<br />

during this period. As regards steam-power capacity,<br />

the following gubernias, in 1875-1878, were in the lead:<br />

St. Petersburg (17,808 h.p.), Moscow (13,668), Kiev<br />

(8,363), Perm (7,348) and Vladimir (5,684)—the <strong>to</strong>tal for<br />

these five gubernias being 52,871 h.p. or about r <strong>of</strong> the<br />

<strong>to</strong>tal for European Russia. Then follow the Podolsk (5,480),<br />

Petrokov (5,071) and Warsaw (4,760) gubernias. In 1892<br />

the order changed: Petrokov (59,063), St. Petersburg (43,961),<br />

Ekaterinoslav (27,839), Moscow (24,704), Vladimir (15,857)<br />

and Kiev (14,211)—the <strong>to</strong>tal for the last five gubernias<br />

being 126,572 h.p., or nearly 2 the <strong>to</strong>tal for European<br />

Russia. Then follow the gubernias <strong>of</strong> Warsaw (11,310)<br />

and Perm (11,245). These figures clearly indicate the formation<br />

<strong>of</strong> two new industrial centres: in Poland and in the<br />

South. In Petrokov Gubernia, the <strong>to</strong>tal capacity increased<br />

11.6-fold, and in the Ekaterinoslav and Don gubernias<br />

taken <strong>to</strong>gether,* from 2,834 <strong>to</strong> 30,932 h.p. or 10.9-fold.<br />

These industrial centres, which have grown so rapidly,<br />

* We combine these gubernias because their boundaries have<br />

changed since 1878.

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