Since Manturov took office, the financial situation of the Novosibirsk region has been tight. This place www.biquge.info has a stable industrial base, a large industrial output, no shortage of natural resources, a relatively developed agriculture, a large population, and a population of 10 million, and the tax revenue is already too much compared with other states.

However, Manturov launched a large number of housing, industrial and agricultural development projects, and the large number of construction projects and the huge expenditure of the construction projects were not enough to cover such a large number of projects, and as a result, the government of the Novosibirsk region and the municipal governments of the regions were facing a tight financial situation from January 1938.

In order to cope with the financial problems and ensure that his farming plans are not hindered, Manturov has exhausted all feasible ways to reduce the expenses that can be reduced without taking out loans, without affecting people's livelihoods, and without affecting the progress of development.

He proposed a plan for the expansion of Plant 179, the largest agricultural machinery plant in the Soviet Union with a market share of 70%, to increase the production of tractors, to create a tractor production line that could be converted into a tank production line, and received the support of the factory trade unions and party committees.

After that, Manturov used his own methods to put the financial responsibility for the expansion plan on the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry and the factory, which financed the expansion. The state and municipal governments have retreated and reduced their expenditures a lot.

In addition to reducing expenses, he also tried his best to increase the channels of revenue without increasing taxes.

In the Western capitalist countries with a market economy, local government revenues were mainly maintained by taxes, loans, and fines, while in the Soviet Union, under the planned economic system, government revenues were not limited to these, but also to the revenues contributed by local enterprises.

The Soviet Union under the planned economy was an era of monopoly of the market by state-owned companies. A number of state enterprises and factories formed monopolies, which in turn formed higher-level, large, bloated conglomerates to monopolize the Soviet market.

These conglomerates, with their management and business functions, have a great deal of autonomy, and the size of the all-alliance conglomerates can be compared with any large enterprise today.

The Soviet Union was available on a scale of both all-Soviet and union republics. As the name suggests, the All-Soviet Joint Company is a joint company that is managed by the central government and operates throughout the Soviet Union, such as: the All-Union Coal Joint Company (split), the All-Union State Oil Joint Company, the All-Union Machine Tool Manufacturing Joint Company, etc.

These all-Soviet conglomerates were large and financially powerful, and they had hundreds of enterprises under their jurisdiction, but because of their large size, they often lacked flexibility in their operation and their leadership was not efficient, resulting in many drawbacks.

In addition to the all-Soviet joint companies, there are also union companies of the union republics and localities. For example, the Forestry Joint Company of the Russian Federation, the Construction Joint Company, and so on. In the Novosibirsk region, there is also the Novosibirsk Metallurgical Complex, founded by Manturov.

The scale of these local joint production units cannot be compared with that of the whole Soviet Union, and there are generally only a few dozen enterprises at the level of the member states, and even fewer at the level of the regions and regions. Although the scale is not as large as that of the All-Soviet Joint Companies, their management efficiency and production efficiency are generally relatively high.

In order to gain more power in management and increase the revenue of the state government, Manturov set up several regional joint companies, the three most important of which were the Novosibirsk State Metallurgical Joint Company, the Novosibirsk State Coal Joint Company, and the Novosibirsk Regional Nonferrous Metal Mining and Processing Joint Company.

These companies are regulated by the state government and are obligated to hand over profits to the state government. The chairman of the company, the secretary of the party committee and other high-ranking figures were also personally promoted by Manturov, and they were willing to cooperate closely with Manturov's development plan.

Among them, the Novosibirsk Region Metallurgical Complex has 10 metallurgical enterprises, including 5 steelmaking plants with top blowing converter steelmaking technology, 3 aluminum plants, and 2 alloy processing plants.

Among them, the largest and most well-known financial contribution of the combined company is the Manturov Steelworks in Novosibirsk (formerly the Novosibirsk Steelworks, renamed in honor of Manturov's contribution to steelmaking technology at the mention of the Factory Committee).

This large steel mill has applied the world's leading top-blowing oxygen converter steelmaking method for decades, and is capable of producing six million tons of high-quality steel per year, leading the entire Soviet Union and the world.

These high-quality steels are exported to other states to build bridges, buildings, or other industrial products. Due to the high quality, high supply, and low prices, many all-Soviet and all-Russian joint companies were willing to buy steel from the Manturov steelworks, including the Kharkov tank plant, at a slightly higher price.

The state government collects a lot of tax revenue from the frequent trade, and some of the profits from the steel mills are handed over to the state government to support the huge development plan.

By 1939, explorers had discovered gold in eastern Novosibirsk, and oil fields in the middle and lower reaches of the Ob River were operational, reversing Novosibirsk's two-year financial deficit. Revenues from oil and gold extraction, in the second half of the year, fully covered a year-and-a-half-year deficit accumulated by the state government.

From June to October, barrels of fresh crude oil were transported by water from the oil-producing areas of the middle reaches of the Ob River to the city of Novosibirsk in the upper reaches of the Ob River, where they were refined at oil refining facilities and transported to all parts of the country via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

However, by November, the middle and lower reaches of the Ob River began to freeze, making it difficult for ships to pass, and crude oil had to be transported by tankers. However, the distance from the oil-producing area to Novosibirsk is more than 700 kilometers, and transportation by vehicle will consume a lot of fuel and will also cost a lot of manpower and material resources, which is not cost-effective.

Under such circumstances, the People's Commissariat of the USSR Oil Industry decided to build an oil pipeline connecting the oil-producing and refining areas. The location of the oil-producing region is indisputably the middle and lower reaches of the Ob River, on the border of the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions.

However, since the oil industry is profitable, the Omsk region also wants to get a piece of the pie, after all, the Megeon and Samotelo oil fields, which have large oil reserves, are both in the territory of the Omsk region, so they also applied to the Ministry of Petroleum Industry for the construction of oil refining facilities in the city of Tyumen in the Omsk region, and the construction of an oil pipeline with a length of more than 700 kilometers to connect the oil-producing areas with Tyumen.

Compared to Novosibirsk, Tyumen has a noticeably superior geographical location. It is the closest city to the oil-producing region, 730 km from the Megeon oil field, and 760 km between Novosibirsk and Megeon.

At first glance, the difference between the two places is not large, and the geographical advantage of Tyumen does not seem to be obvious, but when comparing the distance between the two and Moscow, the geographical advantage of Tyumen comes into play.

The distance between Novosibirsk and Moscow is 1,100 kilometers longer than the distance between Tyumen and Moscow, and if the refining center is moved to Tyumen, the cost of transporting petroleum products to the western regions will be significantly reduced.

And the history that we are familiar with chose Tyumen, so this huge oil-producing area was called "Tyumen oil field" by later generations.

If this plan is implemented, the oil revenues of the Novosibirsk region will be greatly reduced, and the previous investment in the oil industry will be wasted. Without oil, the lifeblood of the economy, I am afraid that the financial crunch will fall on Manturov's head again. But in any case, the development of the Tyumen oil fields was beneficial for the entire USSR.

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