Industry in the South Urals during the lap years and the prewar five years

Industrial development of the South Urals in the years of lap and pre-war five years is a topic of topical importance for modern Russia. Regardless of political preferences the problem of the country''s modernization and its accelerated transformation into an industrially developed power comes to the foreground. In this regard the search for fundamental trends and regularities of domestic historical experience will help to better illuminate ways to solve modern economic problems. The construction of an industrial foundation in Russia and the USSR has lasted for many decades. The rapid development of industry which began in Russia after the abolition of serfdom continued under Soviet rule as an integral and organically interrelated process. In the late 1920s-30s in connection with the transition to the planned non-partisan economy the country''s leadership relied on the theory of leapfrogging - an accelerated transition to a developed industrial society.