Improvement of underground hydraulic construction during the 10th five-year plan

“… In major construction, the main tasks are to increase the effectiveness of capital investments and to ensure further increase and qualitative improvement of basic funds, and to quickly place in operation and develop new production capacities in all branches of the national economy through improvement of planning, design, and organization of construction, reduction of the times of completion, and cutting of the construction costs…” “To make wider use in construction of new types of materials and products, effective reinforced-concrete elements fabricated from high-strength and light concretes, asbestos-cement elements, economical steel rolled shapes, products made from aluminum alloys, and wooden glued elements…” (From “Basic Directions of Development of the National Economy of the USSR during 1976–1980”)