Unity of Plan and Cost Accounting

The experience of economic development in the USSR and the other socialist countries has graphically and convincingly revealed the scientific criterion by which we should be guided in the elaboration and execution of economic reforms. This criterion is the conformity of each reform to the nature and objective laws of the planned socialist economy, to the specific features of the given stage, the achieved level and the needs of development of the productive forces. This criterion follows directly from the fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist theory on the building of socialism and communism.

The Role of Profit in a Socialist Economy

This article examines the new content of profit in the socialist economy; the place of profit in the system of economic categories of socialism; shortcomings which restrict the possibilities of using the index of profitability; and ways of enhancing the role of profit as a means for improving the operation of socialist enterprises.

Problems of Economic Stimulation of Technical Progress

>p>The building up of the material and technical basis of communism in the Soviet Union within the next 15 to 20 years, the accomplishment of our main economic task, the winning of time in peaceful competition with capitalism, the attainment of superiority in every line of modern technology - all this largely hinges on the maximum acceleration of technical progress.>/p>>p>Actual practice long ago proved that the socialist economic system possesses tremendous and ever increasing advantages over capitalism in the acceleration of technical progress, opening up the broadest vistas for the development of the productive forces. Only socialism and communism are capable of consistently carrying out the modern scientific and technical revolution which began in the mid-20th century.>/p>

Domanic deposits of the Volga-Ural basin – types of section, formation conditions and prospects of oil and gas potential

The Domanic deposits of the Volga-Ural oil and gas basin are a high-carbon thin-bedded formation capable of both producing hydrocarbons with its own oil and gas bearing strata and concentrating them in separate reservoirs and zones (Stoupakova et al., 2015). Formation of the Domanic deposits occurred in a relatively deep basin, during the filling of which a variety of sedimentation environments arose from relatively deep sea to shallow-marine. The peculiarity of the formation conditions of high-carbon strata is the increased content of organic matter, carbonate material and free silica, the source of which could be hydrotherms or volcanogenic products, creating a special gas regime of the Earth’s atmosphere in the late Devonian. Evaluation of the generation potential of the Domanic formation showed that siliceous-carbonate and carbonate-siliceous rocks enriched with marine algal organic matter have a high potential. The greatest prospects of oil bearing are the deflections formed on the site of the avlakogen and their slopes, where deposits, rich in organic matter, were formed practically throughout the late Devonian-Tournaisian. High prospects have slopes of uplifts or sides of reef bodies. Such incisions are distributed on the sides of troughs of uncompensated immersion and the lower parts of uplift slopes adjacent to them. In the domanonicoid deposits, in which the carbonate material predominates, the high-carbon intervals developed along the biohermic structures