ETERNAL
Ivan
FRIENDSHIP
Esenskii
Friendship, fraternity, mutual help, collaboration- these concepts are inseparably linked with the whole history of the building and development of the East-Slovakian MetaLlurgical Group of Enterprises (EMGE) in Kosice. Allow me in the name of all the workers of the East-Slovakian Metallurgical Group of Enterprises to congratulate all the Soviet metallurgists on the fiftieth anniversary of the Great October Revolution. Today, on the pages of the jubitee number of the magazine, we shall be telling you about the life and work of the metallurgists in our Group of Enterprises. The completion of the building of a fu11 metallurgical cycle was an important event in the life of the EMGE. In 1965, the first blast furnace and by-product coke battery were put into operation. In the same year, the plate "1500" mill and the slabbing started work. Last year marked the beginning of the production of converter steel In 1967, the second blast furnace was put into operation and the third is now under construction. A four-stand cold rolling mill started production and a sheet surfacing Line was added to the galvanizing shop. Now Czechoslovakian steel and sheet iron enter the international scene. An important event in the life of our Group of Enterprises was the opening of a broad-guagelinewhich linked the East-Slovakian Metallurgical Group of Enterprises with Krivoi Rog. Now the iron ore can go by rail to the Kosice Group of Enterprises without reloading. That is another link in the friendship between the Czechoslovak and Soviet people. Not long ago our countries were linked by a gas main for which 35 thousand meters of pipes had been produced in the tube welding mills of our Group of Enterprises. For the excellent exucution of the order, the team leaders of the spiral pipe welder, Ondrei Jatso, Jan Jakanii, Josef Pasternyak and the foreman Frantisek Lorintz, were presented with a "Builder of the Gas Main" badge. The assistant chief of the tube welding mill, Dnsan Rijava, was decorated with the order ~For Excellent Work," and the shop manager, Ondrei Sak, ~For Service in Construction." Ondrei Sak is a graduate of the Leningrad Welding Institute. He proved to be a good organizer and a great authority in his field.
The visit of Soviet metallurgists to the East-Slovakian Metallurgical Group of Enterprises. In the center of the photograph is the chairman of the trade union committee of the rolling department at the Zaporozh'e Metallurgical Works, V. Ya. Kudryashov.
East-Slovakian Metallurgical Group of Enterprizes. Translated from Metallurg, No. 11, p. 37, November, 1967.
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Our gratitude to the Soviet metallurgists is immense. Knowledge, experience, creative attitude to the work of a metallurgist - all this our specialists acquired during their mission to the Soviet factories. Therefore, it can be proudly admitted that the progress of our metallurgists is also the progress of their teachers, their Soviet comrades. Our plant has been visited by Soviet delegations from Krivoi Rog, Zaporozh'e, Volgograd, Cherepovet~, Moscow, and Dniepropetrovsk. The Soviet pitot-cosmonaut, Yu. A. Gagarin, wrote in the visitor's book of our Group of Enterprises: "t had great pleasure in visiting this Group of Enterprises which is a living symbol of Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship. Interesting work, marvelous people, tremendous prospects! Let the results of the work of mankind serve the cause of peace, strengthen the socialist camp and communism" ! Gagarin, without hesitation, signed a pledge for producing 100 tons of steel, in which he personally took part as a steelmaker. To the collective that he met in this shop he gave his consent to call the team "Gagarin Team of Socialist Labor." Our children are brought up to maintain friendly relations. In July, 1967, Soviet children from Riga spent part of their holidays in a beautiful part of our country - The High Tatra. The Czechslovak chitdren were guests of the Soviet pioneers in Nga. The pioneers of a Krivoi Rog school b e c a m e very friendly with the pioneers of a Kosice school in the Solovjev Street. This school is attended by the children of the workers of our Group of Enterprises. A film was made on the construction, production and the life of our people. We shall send a copy of this film in Russian to the Soviet metallurgists. I remember the words of experience Ostrava metallurgists and maintenance engineers during the first major repair of the blast furnace: "It is hard to believe that such strides in the technological development could have been made by our Kosice comrades. They made big strides in their technological advances and in the last two years achieved as much as the Os~ava metallurgists had achieved in 5-6 years." There is no doubt that this can be attributed to the fact that our workers are the pupils of Soviet metallurgists. At a farewell party, a member of the large community of Soviet metallurgists, the Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin prize laureate, Doctor of Technical Sciences, L I. Korobov, said that by training, the gast-Slovakian Metallurgical Group of Enterprises is producing the best people. Here are being trained and wilt be trained new highly qualified specialists. The East-StovaMan Metallurgical Group of Enterprises is the pride of the Czechoslovakian people and of the whole socialist camp, and it is a proof of Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship on the basis of the principles of proletarian internationalism. Successive realization of L I. Korobov's ideas - this is our contribution to the treasury of jubilee presents for the Great October Socialist Revolution.
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