In the 70s - 80s. The USSR was in the first place in the world in the production of almost all types of products of basic industries: oil, steel, cast iron, metal-cutting machines, locomotives, electric locomotives, tractors, combines, precast concrete structures, iron ore, coke, refrigerators, wool fabrics, leather shoes, animal oil, milk, natural gas extraction, production of potash fertilizers, lumber, reactor uranium (50% of world production), synthetic rubber, cotton fabrics, sugar, steel pipes, bricks, railway cargo- and passenger turnover, the production of many types of military equipment, the total number of launches of spacecraft (50% of the total number of launches in the world), the gross harvest of potatoes, sugar beet;
in second place in the world in fish catch and extraction of other seafood, sheep, pigs, electricity production, gold mining, cement production, primary aluminum, nitrogen fertilizers, phosphorous fertilizers, coal mining, brown coal mining, total length of railways, automobile cargo turnover, air cargo and passenger turnover