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Kyrgyzstan
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As part of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan played a small but highly
integrated role in the centrally controlled economy. Figures for 1990 show
that agriculturally the republic contributed 1 percent or less of the
total Soviet output of preserved vegetables, animal fats, plant oils, and
meat, and 3 percent of the total Soviet output of beet sugar. Kyrgyzstan
also produced small proportions of Soviet wine products and tobacco.
Industrially, the republic supplied 1 to 2 percent of the Soviet Union's
total output of cotton cloth, silk cloth, linen, and woolen cloth, and an
equal proportion of ready-made clothing and shoes. Machine-assembly
plants, steel plants, motor-assembly plants, and miscellaneous light
industry contributed another 1 percent or less of the Soviet total. The
only energy resources that Kyrgyzstan contributed in any volume were coal
(0.5 percent of the Soviet total) and hydroelectric power (0.8 percent).
Kyrgyzstan's radio-assembly and other electronic plants accounted for a
small portion of the defense industry. A torpedo-assembly plant was
located on the shores of Ysyk-Köl. One of the Soviet Union's two
military airbases for the training of foreign pilots was located outside
Bishkek.
Kyrgyzstan's largest role in the Soviet economy was as a supplier of
minerals, especially antimony (in which the republic had a near monopoly),
mercury, lead, and zinc. Of greatest significance economically, however,
was gold, of which Kyrgyzstan was the Soviet Union's third-largest
supplier.
Data as of March 1996
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