1933-1937 - Second Five Year Plan

• Electricity production continued to grow rapidly.
• Heavy industry benefitted from the plants which had been set up in the First Five Year Plan and prestige projects continued such as the Dniepostroi Dam.
• By 1937, the USSR was virtually self-sufficient in machine making and metal working.
• Transport and communications grew rapidly especially the railways and the Moscow underground system.
• Chemical industries such as fertilisers were growing.
• Copper, zinc and tin being mined for the first time led to the development of metallurgy.
• Some growth in consumer industries such as footwear production, bakeries and meat packing.
• Overall, consumer good industries were still lagging well behind heavy industry.
• Oil production did not make the expected advances.
• The issue of "quantity over quality" remained and the final 2 years of the plan were disrupted by the Purges.
• Resources were increasingly diverted to defence projects.
• The growth in heavy industry continued.
• Defence and armaments grew massively as resources were diverted to them.