Heading into December, the temperature in Moscow has dropped to minus 20 degrees. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info At this cold time, Manturov actually ran to the colder Siberia.

Sitting on the train, heading east along the Trans-Siberian Railway, Manturov remembered the days of his youth.

Growing up in Novosibirsk, he certainly has a special affection for this cold land. And this railway was his only means of transport between Moscow and Novosibirsk.

Ten years ago, he took a train along the historic railway to Moscow to attend university. A few years ago, as the first secretary of the Novosibirsk Party Committee, he traveled by railway to Moscow to attend meetings at the central level or to report to Stalin and other central officials.

But after he became the People's Commissar of Construction and went to work in Moscow, he never took a train on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Until this day, he was ordered to inspect the Urals and Siberia, and the airport was unusable due to the icy runway and excessive snow, so he had to take a train.

Outside the train window, the scenery is white, the rivers along the way have frozen, and the mountains and rivers are covered with a thick layer of snow.

The fields of Siberia have long been harvested, and the peasants are nestled in their huts, enjoying the fruits of their labor.

When you go inside, you will find that there are only old people, women and children, and in some farmhouses there are no women at all, because the men in the prime of life have either gone to war or gone to the nearby factories to work in production. Some women have also joined the production team and are involved in the production of strategic goods.

The other workers were not idle, and each of them had to work overtime in the factories during this time of war, producing all sorts of supplies that the army could use.

In the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, no one was idle at all, not even cadres. Isn't that true of Manturov?

Even when he was on the train, he was dealing with a pile of paperwork at hand, and the food had to be brought to his carriage from the dining car (although he was more interested in privilege), and he did not take advantage of the train ride to sleep all day.

After Yekaterinburg, through the Ural Mountains, we reached the Asian part of the Soviet Union, and the next stop was the first stop of Manturov's inspection, Tyumen.

At this time, Tyumen was already an important industrial city, and it was no longer a small city with a population of only a few tens of thousands, living on agriculture and exporting leather.

Under the former Secretary of the Tyumen Municipal Party Committee, now the Third Secretary of the Party Committee of the Omsk Region, Veronica Ustinova, the industrial development of Tyumen has been greatly improved.

Ever since she won the oil pipeline project, Tyumen has become the most important petrochemical center in all of Siberia and even in the whole of the Soviet Union.

Oil refineries were built on the outskirts of Tyumen to extract crude oil from the Ob oil region, which is known today as the Tyumen oil fields, through pipelines.

These crude oils will be refined into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and other fuels, and some of the refined products will be used for other purposes, including the manufacture of plastics and synthetic rubber.

The Soviet Union was a resource-rich country, and almost any type of minerals and fossil fuels could be mined here. However, due to the fact that the Soviet Union did not have a tropical rainforest and was not suitable for the growth of oak trees, the Soviet Union almost ranked last in the world in terms of rubber production, and faced the problem of rubber shortage all year round.

As a traverser, Manturov also had insight into this, so after he became the People's Commissar of Construction, he began to build synthetic rubber factories near various oil producing areas and oil refining areas to increase the production of synthetic rubber in the Soviet Union to make up for the lack of natural rubber resources in the Soviet Union.

As a new petrochemical center, Tyumen is certainly also a key place for Manturov's construction.

In order to make the most of Tyumen's advantages as a petrochemical center, the People's Commissariat of Construction Manturov, in cooperation with the People's Commissariat of the Petroleum Industry, built a large synthetic rubber plant near the Tyumen refinery, which produced synthetic rubber from oil and natural gas.

The synthetic rubber will be sent to Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, and even Kharkiv, Stalingrad, Leningrad and other places for the production of aircraft, tanks, trucks and other vehicles.

Tire production in the Soviet Union was also greatly increased by the supply of synthetic rubber, and the production of trucks was also increased by the abundant supply of tires.

"Comrade Manturov, welcome to Tyumen." The train arrived quickly, and the station platform was full of local cadres welcoming the delegation.

At this time, Manturov was already at the level of a state leader, not only became the deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (equivalent to the deputy premier of the State Council), but also became a member of the National Defense Committee, the highest wartime authority in the Soviet Union.

In addition, he is also the vice chairman of the Central Supervision Commission (equivalent to the deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) and a member of the Organization Bureau, and he has the power to inspect the discipline of cadres and make personnel arrangements, and almost no local officials dare to offend him (except for local officials like Shcherbakov and Khrushchev, who are also senior members of the Central Committee), and the pomp and circumstance to greet him must naturally be done well.

However, Manturov is not a man who likes to put on a high-profile show, which he feels is a waste of resources. Instead of having so many people come to the train station and stand here, why not let them continue to work in the office, so that they don't have to trouble them, and they can get the job at hand as soon as possible, what's the difference?

"Comrade Ustnova, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Manturov shook Ustinova's white, slippery right hand, and said: "I heard that you are now the secretary of the (third) party committee of the Omsk region, why are you still working here in Tyumen?" ”

"Comrade Manturov, Comrade Kudenov (Mikhail Andreyevich Kudenov, First Secretary of the Omsk Region) asked me to come here to receive you, knowing that you were going to visit the Omsk Region.

After all, I used to be the secretary of the Tyumen City Party Committee, so I have a better understanding of the development of the city of Tyumen. And before you came, I happened to be here in Tyumen to direct the work of industrial development, and by the way came to pick you up. It's actually not a hassle, and it doesn't delay my work. ”

"It's good, just don't delay work." Manturov smelled the body fragrance emanating from Ustnova's body and provoked his natural desires, but still pretended to be casual and said: "This is a critical period, our work is of great importance, and there must be no delays." ”