SOVIET ENTERPRISES CONTINUE TO SUPPLY NEW HYDROELECTRIC AND CANAL PROJECTS

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• Publication Date: March 24, 1951
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COUNTRY USSR 1950 - 1951
INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATI OF
SUBJECT Economic - Electric power
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE USSR
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT EO
U. S. C.. SI AND St. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR TNt RtVILATION
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DATE DIST. .2q Mar 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOVIET ENTERPRISES CONTINUE TO SUPPLY
NEW HYDROELECTRIC AND CANAL PROJECTS
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In the period from 26 November 1950 to 3 February 1951, the Kuybyshev,
Stalingrad, and Kakhovka GES and canal construction projects continued to
receive extensive press coverage. Most space was devoted to the more re-
cently announced project, the Volga-Don Canal, with its 160,000-kilowatt
Tsimlyansk GES The Volga-Don Canal, to go into operation
in the spring of 1952, is much more advanced than the other construction proj-
ects. A basic structure 20 meters high and nearly a half kilometer long has
been erected to contain the concrete work in constructing the dam of the Tsim-
lyansk GES. Traveling cranes are mounted on top of this structure to speed up
concrete laying and 50 kilometers of railroad track have been laid in the con-
struction area to facilitate getting the construction materials to the working
areas0(1)
Nearly 70 percent of the inhabitants of the old population centers in the
Tsimlyansk Rayon have already moved to new places. One hundred and twenty homes
have been occupied in the new city of Tsimlyansk, where a railroad station and
river port will be built during 1951. Over 20 schools, clubs, and other public
buildings have been built in this area during 1950.(2)
The first icebreaker, the Volga, has been built for the Volga-Don Canal
by the Gor'kiy "Krasnoye Sormovo" Plant and is now undergoing tests. A second
icebreaker, the Don, will be completed soon.(3)
Machinery, equipment, and construction materials continued to arrive at the
construction sites of other hydroelectric and canal projects in quantity. The
following plants supplying materials for these projects have been mentioned in
the Soviet press during the period from 26 November 1950 to 3 February 1951.
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Makeyevka Metallurgical
Plant imeni Kirov
Min'yar Metal Products Plant
(Chelyabinsk Oblast)
Dnepropetrovsk Metal Structures
Plant imeni Molotov
Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical
Equipment Plant
Taganrog Metallurgical Plant
imeni Andreyev
Taganrog "Krasnyy Kotel'shchik"
Plant
Dnepropetrovsk Plant imeni
Libknekhta
Nikopol' South Pipe Plant
Verkh-Isetskiy Metallurgical
Plant
Stalingrad "Krasnyy Oktyabr
Plant
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Remarks
Rolling mill No 2 will produce 2,000
tons of rolled iron for Volga-Don
Canal in Jan (4)
Producing round section iron for
Kuybyshev GES (5)
Ships tens of carloads of rolled
iron products to Volga-Don Canal
daily.(4) Started production of
rails for Kakhovka GES (5)
Shipped a several-thousand-ton tres-
tle and 400 tons of heavy steel
plate for navigation sluices to
Tsimlyansk GES.(6) Produced metal
structures for concrete pouring
and drop gates for Tsimlyansk GES.(7)
First welding shop is making struc-
tures for walking excavators for con-
struction projects (8)
Started construction of steel towers
for carrying electric transmission
lines to Kakhovka GES construction
area (9)
Tubing shop has shipped tubing to the
Tsimlyansk GES (10)
Shipped first order of tubing to Volga-
Don Canal project; presently making
light-duty tubing at considerable
saving (11)
Has welded 650 tons of high-quality
steel for Volga-Don Canal tens of
tons of steel plate and seamless
pipe shipped to project by steel
plate and seamless pipe shops (6)
Shipped 4 carloads of finished pipe,
flanges, and other parts and ma-
terials to the Volga-Don Canal (b)
Started production of pipe for Tsim-
lyansk and Kuybyshev GES (13)
Produced hundreds of tons of above-
plan metal for hydroelectric proj-
ects (14)
Produced hundreds of tons of above-
plan steel for hydroelectric proj-
ects (14)
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Riga Porcelain Plant
Tokarevka Porcelain Plant
(Zhitomir Oblast)
Tashkent Electric Cable Plant
Moscow "Serp i Molot" Plant
Leningrad "Sevkavell" Plant
Moscow Transformer Plant imeni
V. V. Kuybyshev
Leningrad "Elektroapparat" Plant
Kharkov Turbogenerator Plant
Leningrad Metal Plant imeni
Stalin
Neva Machine-Building Plant
imeni V. I. Lenin
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Shipped one load of porcelain insula-
tors to Kuybyshev GES before 30 Nov;
to complete rest of order by mid-
Jan (15)
Making an experimental model of a
gigantic insulator fol Kuybyshev
GES (16)
Producing insulators for Volga GES
and making experimental insulators,
one of which is 2ff' meters high (17)
Shipped 60,000 units of low- and high-
voltage insulators to construction
projects (18)
Filling an order for Kuybyshev GES 3
times larger than previous order (19)
Producing metal telephone wire for
Volga-Don Canal (20)
Will produce first order of experi-
mental cable for Volga GES by 17 Dec
(21)
Making apparatus for automatically reg-
ulating the sluice gates of Volga-
Don Canal (9)
In 1951, will produce electric equip-
ment for main sluices of Volga-Don
Canal and Tsimlyansk GES (22)
Developing new type winding,for trans-
formers which will be needed by hy-
droelectric construction projects.(5)
Built an experimental circuit breaker
for Volga GES (23)
Will make a large generator for con-
struction of Stalingrad GES (24)
Has completed working plans of turbines
for Tsimlyansk GES.(25) A model
which will serve as a mould in cast-
ing the turbine blades is being com-
pleted for the same project (26)
Will cast the first turbine parts for
Tsimlyansk GES.(27) Producing steel
castings for new construction proj-
ects (23)
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Tambov "Revolyutsionnyy Trud"
Plant
Yeysk "Zapchast'" Machine Plant
Lyudinovo Locomobile Plant
(Kaluba Oblast)
Kiev "Krasnyy Ekskavator" Plant
Voronezh Excavator Plant
Novo-Kramatorsk Machine-Building
Plant
Kharkov Transport Machine-Building
Plant
Moscow Rostokinskiy Machine-Build-
ing Plant
Gor'kiy "Teplokhod" Plant
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Shipped 35 portable electri: power
plants of varied capacity, 2 tur-
bogenerators. and 5 rail-cutting
machines to Kuybyshev and Stalin-
grad GES (28)
Shipped 8 portable diesel electric
power plants to Kakhovka GES (29)
Producing hydraulic apparatus for
Kuybyshev and Stalingrad GES and
Volga-Don Canal (30)
Will produce excavating machinery,
other equipment for Volga-Don
Canal (31)
Shipped 16 "EM-301" excavators to
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WOlga-Dun Canal (32)
Shipped 17 excavators to "Volgodon-
stroy" in 1950 (33)
Shipped several tens of 3.4-cubic-
meter walking drag-line excavators
and will shortly ship 4-cubic-meter
drag-line excavators to Volga-Don
Canal.(7) Producing winches for
earth-removal machines for Volga
GES and Volga-Don Canal; produced
sluice gates for Volga-Don Canal.(34)
Started production of main turbine
parts for Volga-Don Canal (31)
Shipped an order for excavator track to
Stalingrad GES (35)
Produced artesian, centrifugal, and
heavy excavation pumps for Volga-
Don (36)
Shipped twelve 20-25 cu m capacity con-
crete pumps, 200 vibrator pipes for
lowering prepared concrete, and 150
special pumps for pumping mud from
trenches to Volga-Don Canal project (10)
Shipped excavation pumps to hydroelectric
construction projects (5)
Shipped an order of 15 centrifugal pumps
to hydroelectric construction proj-
ects (37)
Shipped large order of excavation pumps
and pipe to Volga-Don Canal project (38)
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Leningrad Mine Drainage
Trust
Moscow First State Bearing Plant
imeni Kaganovich
Orsk Construction-Machinery
Plant
Krasnoyarsk Heavy Machine-Build-
ing Plant
Kharkov Machine-Building Plant
Leningrad Hoist and Transport
Equipment Plant imeni S. M.
Kirov
Alma-Ata Heavy Machine-Building
Plant
Osipenko Road-Machinery Building
Plant
Chelyabinsk "Stroymashina" Plant
Kherson Portable Equipment Plant
Dnepropetrovsk Construction-Ma-
chinery Plant
Belokholunitskiy Machine-Building
Plant imeni Lenin
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Producing new electric driven pun 1s
and making ready for production of
cast cutting edges for percussion
drills for Kakhovka GES (39)
Producing bearings for concrete pumps
and other aggregates destined for
the new hydroelectric projects (5)
Shipped heavy-duty hoists to Stalin-
grad and Kakhovka GES; also making
machinery for Volga-Don Canal (32)
Will produce 150-ton electric cranes
for construction of Tsimlyansk GES
(40)
Produced electric traveling cranes
and other hoist machinery for Kuy-
byshev GES and Volga-Don Canal; at
present, producing 28 hoists for
Volga-Don Canal and 14 for Kuybyshev
GES (41)
Puring past 2 years, supplied Volga-Don
Canal with numerous machines, in-
cluding tens of traveling cranes
which are used to lay concrete;
shipped 9 dredging machines to Vol-
godonstroy in 1949 (42)
Shipped 4 large "SLK-42" cranes and 30
tons of high-quality drilling equip-
ment to Stalingrad and Kuybyshev
GES.(43) Producing self-dumping
railroad cars and belt conveyers to
construction projects (44)
Shipped hundreds of road-building ma-
chines to new construction projects
(45)
Produced tens of bulldozers for Main
Turkmen Canal project (12)
Shipped many general-purpose automatic
loading machines to Main Turkmen
Canal project; presently filling
order for Kakhovka GES (29)
Shipped large conveyers to Volga-Don
Canal (46)
Shipped 260 units of belt conveyers,
worm conveyers, and vertical eleva-
tors to Volga-Don Canal (47)
Produced 38 "BMZ" woodworking machines
-tor Kuybyshev GES (48)
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Vorcahilovgrad Plant imeni
Oktyabr' Revolyutsiya
Stalingrad Tractor Plant
Minsk Automobile Plant
Mytishchi Railroad Car-
Building Plant
Novosibirsk Construction
Machinery Plant
Taganrog Construction Ma-
terials Combine No 1
Mikhaylovskiy Khutor Fire-
Resistant-Materials Plant
Lepaya Cork and Linoleum
Plant
Slonim Lumber Plant No 16
(Baranovichi Oblast)
Timber trusts of Bobruysk
Oblast
Remarks
Shipped 1,500 desk-type telephones to
Volga-Don Canal (29)
Shipped tens of manually operated telephone
stations to new construction projects.(49)
Produced an automatic telephone exchange
of 400 numbers for Stalingrad GES (5)
Shipped a consignment of vertical boilers to
Kuybyshev GES.(50)
Produced first 4 "S0" type locomotives for
Volga GES ahead of schedule (5)
Producing large electric construction cranes
for Volga GES (51)
Shipped 20 trucks to Kuybyshev GES and will
shortly send a column of trucks to Volga-
Don Canal project (52)
Has undertaken repair of tractors, construc-
tion machinery, and machines for Volga-
Don Canal; will also send specialists to
construction site to repair cranes and
exca;ators (53)
Shipped 2 experimental dump trucks and one
experimental side dumping vehicle to Vol-
ga-Don Canal; "MAZ" dump trucks are already
working at the construction site (54)
Will produce tens of dump trucks for the Vol-
ga-Don Canal (10)
Produced 917 mooring fenders for Volga-Don
Canal (55)
Producing gas pumps for Main Turkmen Canal
and Volga GES (26)
Shipped 65,000 cinder blocks to Volga-Don
Canal (56)
Producing firebrick for Kakhovka GES (6)
Will produce 1,700 sq m of linoleum for
Kuybyshev GES and 500 sq m for Stalin-
grad GES in 1951 (49)
Shipped new consignments of lumber to Kuyby-
shev and Kakhovka GES (12)
Shipped 40 carloads lumber to Tsimlyansk
GES (57)
Will ship 22 carloads construction timbers
to Volga-Don Canal during 1st quarter
1951 (58)
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'Lima and Biryusinsk Lumber Shipped 100 carloads lumber to Kuy-
Mills of Irkutsk Oblast byshev GES (59)
Kern' Lumber Mill Shipped 8 carloads lumber to Kak-
hovka GES on 21 Nov and will ship
rest of order in 3 days (60)
Rzhev Prefabricated House Plant HasfporodhdovkaeGES; willd ship houses
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new-type houses to Kuybyshev GES
in 1951 (61)
House construction plants and Shipped 120 eight-apartment buildings
combines of Ministry of Con- and 210 single prefabricated build-
struction Materials Industry ings to "Kuybyshevgidrostroy;" will
Latvian SSR ship over 300 prefabricated houses
with a total floor space of 40,000
sq m to Kuybyshev GES during 4th
quarter 1Q50 (62)
Factories No 1, 2, and 3 of Shipped several carloads of furniture
"Latdrevmebel"' Furniture Trust to Stalingrad GES (63)
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150
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170
18.
190
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21,
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25,
260
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29,
30,
310
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Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 6 Jan 50
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 31 Dec 50
Moscow, Trud, 29 Dec 50
Moscow, Izvestiya, 9 Jan 51
Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 26 Nov 50
Moscow, 'Irud, 31 Dec 50
Kiev, Pravda. Ukrainyy, 30 Dec 50
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 10 Dec 50
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 4 Jan 51
Moskovskaya Pravda, 31 Dec 50
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 7 Jan 51
Vechernaya Moskva, 27 Nov 50
Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 9 Jan 51
Moscow, Pravda, 2 Dec 50
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 30 Nov 50
Moscow, Trud, 3 Dec 50
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 9 Dec 50
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 13 Jan 51
Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 25 Jan 51
Moskovskaya Pravda, 24 Jan 51
Leningradikays Pravda, 1 Dec 50
Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 17 Jan 51
Moscow, Pravda, 14 Dec 50
Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 25 Jan 51 50
Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znanra, 1 Jan
Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 3 Feb 51
Moscow, Trud, 12 Jan 51
Moscow, Pravda, 29 Nov 50
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 11 Jan 51
Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 31 Dec 50
Moscow, Krasnaya Zvezda, 29 Dec 50
Moscow, Izvestiya, 6 Jan 51
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Moscow, ::omsomol'skaya Pravda, 31 Dec 50
Moskovskaya Pravda, 10 Jan 50
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 9 Dec 50
Vechernaya Moskva, 29 Dec 50
Moskovskaya Pravda, 2 Dec 5051
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 5 Jan L
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`Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 31 Jan 51
Moscow, Izvestiya, 30 Jan 51
mid., 30 D.:c 50
Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 12 Jan 51
Moscow, Pravda, 9 Jan 51
Moscow, Izvestiya, 23 Dec 5051
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 7 Jan Leningradskaya Pravda, 6 Jan 50
Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 29 Nov 50
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 30 Dec 50
Moscow, Trud, 11 Jan 51
Moscow, Vechernaya Moskva, 23 Dec 50
Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 11 Jan 51
Vechernaya Moskva, 24 Jan 51
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 31 Dec 50
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 27 Dec 50
Moscow, Trud, 31 Jan 51
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 11 Jan 51
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 17 Jan 51
Moscow, Izvestiya, 27 Dec 50 1 Dec 50
Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya,
Moscow, Trud, 18 Jan 51
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 20 Dec 50
mid., 26 Dec 50
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