Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
The lumber industry embraces large saw-mills in the Carpathian mountain districts of Galicia, the Bukowina
and Northeastern Hungary, as well as long the Pripet and Dnieper Rivers (Mosir, Kreminchuk,
Katerinoslav, Kherson, etc.). The cork industry is established in Odessa, the paper industry in Rostiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, Poltava.
The most important branch of Ukrainian large-scale industry is the metal-industry. The Ukrainian iron industry, despite its youth, has rapidly surpassed the Polish,
Moscow and Ural industry, and would be even more advanced if the economic policy of
the Russian Government had not taken measures for the protection of the Moscow and
Ural industry from the industrial competition of the Ukraine. Hence, the Ukrainian
metal industry must furnish chiefly semi-manufactured goods, which are afterwards
worked into finished goods in the center of the Empire.
In 1911, there were obtained in the Ukraine, 24,625,000 q. of cast iron, that is, 67.4% of the total Russian production; in 1912 the percentage is said to
have reached 70%, while the rest, 30%, is accredited to Poland, Great-Russia and Russian-Asia.
In 1911 the Ukraine produced 18.8 metric hundredweights (55.6% of the total Russian
production) of wrought iron and steel, and in the year 1912, it attained the same percentage. The significance of these
figures is at once apparent.
The iron works of the Ukraine lie chiefly near Krivi Rih, in Katerinoslav and vicinity, Olexandrivsk,
the Donetz Plateau and the adjacent districts (Yusivka, Hrushivka, Tahanroh, Mariupol,
Kerch, etc.). The nail and wire industry has its center in Katerinoslav, machine-manufacturing
in Katerinoslav, Kiev, Kharkiv, Yelisavet, Odessa, Olexandrivsk, Mikolaiv and Berdiansk.
The [291]iron steamship building industry has its seat in Rostiv and Mikolaiv. In Galicia we find only a very small
iron industry, and at best a few railway supplies, factories and workshops are worthy
of mention, e.g., those in Sianik (car factory), New Sandetz and Lemberg.
Of the other branches of industry which manufacture mineral products, the petroleum refineries must be mentioned above all, particularly those of the Carpathian foothill country
(Horlitzi, Drohobich, Kolomia) and at the foot of the Caucasus (Hrosni). The factory
industry of pottery is carried on in Lviv and Kharkiv; porcelain and chinaware manufacture in the Kharkiv region (Budi, Slaviansk) and in Odessa; cement manufacture in the Black Sea region, in Odessa and in the Bukowina; brick and tile manufacture in all the large cities of the Ukraine. Glass manufacture, once very extensive in the forest regions of the Western Ukraine (Rostoche, Volhynia),
is now confined to the neighborhood of Kharkiv, Horodnia and Bakhmut. Of the different
branches of the chemical industry, the manufacture of matches is important; its seat is in the Chernihiv country near Novosibkiv, and in the Galician
sub-Carpathian country (Striy, Skole, Bolekhiv, etc.).
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