LARGE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN URALS AND EASTERN REGIONS OF THE USSR

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• Publication Date: March 18, 1954
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CLASSIFICATION CoNFIDEirriAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Hydroelectric power construction
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, bimonthly periodical, and
WHERE semimonthly periodical
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 3 J1-= 1953-8 Feb 1954
LANGUAGE ? Russian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
LARGE HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATIONS UNDER CONSTRUCTIOii
IN URAL4 AND EASTERPI REGIOIIS OF THE USSR
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wor ul cne namsKaya GESwas well along and
k;
e on theVotkinskaya GES was beginning. On the Irtysh River construction
Bukhtarminskaya GE4 was under way. On the Obi River construction of
the,i`lovosibiiskaya GES had reached an advanced stage. And on the Angara River
work had started on'utilization of the abundant power resources of the river.(')
Kamskaya GES
The Kamskaya GES, located on the Kama River near the city of Molotov, is
to supply power to the industries of the Urals in the period of the Fifth Five-
Year Plan.
Late in the fall of 1953, at the end of the navigation season, the 150-meter
opening which had been left in the dam across the Kama for passage of ships was
filled in. In 10 days, over 2,000 concrete "blocks" weighing 4 tons each and
thousands of tons of stone and earth were thrown into this opening. As the sheet
piling and earthen cofferdam around the first phase of the construction site
were removed, the water of the Kama River began gradually to flow over a sec-
tion of the reinforced-concrete spillway dam.
By February 1954, about 400,000 cubic meters of reinforced concrete had
been placed in the spillway dam of the GFS and about 300,000 cubic meters had
been placed in the navigable lock. The volume of earthwork exceeded 10 million
cubic meters.
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No separate building was being constructed for she GES
in the spillway dam it
whi
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ch is located
self. The navigable lock -- a large structure
sisting of six levels -- has two separate canals. con-
One is to be used for r'fts
of timber floated down the river from the Urals and the other for shipping.'
The scale of operations was to increase during winter 1953-1974 so that
structures could be placed in operation on schedule. Tens of thousands of
cubic meters of concrete remained to be
and a placed, two large cranes installed,
pproximately 200,000 cubic meters of earth in the cofferdam removed in
order to permit the ice and part of the spring flood waters to pass over the
dam in the spring of 1954. This work was cons
the Molotov.ater presReservoirsure for (24olotovslcoye More)
filling
necessary w
of the lock. systematical One ly canal Siof e,to theglock
is to be in operation by 1 May 1974 to permit passage of 2 million cubic
meters of timber from the Urals; the other canal is to be in operation by
15 May 1974 to permit ships to pass up the river. At the same time, equipment
must be installed and the hydroelectric power station readied for operation.
A large modern settlement for the builders has grown up on the high bank
of the river valley. Residential buildings with a total area of 120,000 square
meters, 5 scnuols, 6 children's institutions, a motion-picture theatre, 2
clubs, and a medical center have been built.(2)
Bukhtarminskaya GES
In July 1953 work began on the Bukhtarminskaya GES, located on the Irtysh
River above the Ust'-Kamenogorskaya GES.(3)
In September 1953 many of the persons who had worked on the Ust'-Kameno-
gorskaya GES were working on the Bukhtarminskaya GES, including Aleksey
Nikolayevich Ivanov, construction chief of the Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Center,
and Andrey Vladimirovieh Bakulin, chief construction engineer.
The Bukhtarminskaya GES is to be the second in a cascade of large
electric power:. stations and reservoirs on the Irtysh River. The reinforced-
concrete dam of this station is to be over 100 meters high, the highest in
the USSR. Over twice as much concrete is to be placed in the Bukhtarma Hydro-
electric Center as was placed in the Ust'-Kamenogorsk Hydroelectric Center.(4)
A new reservoir, the Irtyshskoye More, is to contain more water than either
the Kuybyshev Reservoir (Kuybyshevskoye More)(3) or the Tsimlyansk Reservoir
(Teimlyanskoye More) and will be the largest reservoir in the world. There
will be a navigable lock at the hydroelectric tenter and ships will be raised
a much greater distance than at the Ust'-Kamenogorsk Hydroelectric Center.
By September 1953 preparations were under way for removing the alluvium
layer from the bottom of the river channel and concreting the fissures in the
underwater rock which is to serve as the foundation for the dam. Blasting,
drilling, and earth-scraping operations were also in progress.
In September 1953 a village for the builders of the Bukhtarminskaya GES
was under construction. A railroad station, some two-story stone houses, and
a school were already completed. The electric power transmission line from
the Ust'-Kamenogorskaya G6 had not yet been extended to the village.(4)
Novosibirskaya CPS
According to V. V. Ivanov, construction chief of the Novosibirskaya GLS,
this construction project of the Fifth Five-Year Plan i one of the largest
in the eastern regions of the USSR.
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In February 1954 the construction area extended along both banks
Ob' River near N;vosibirsk. About 1.2 million cubic meters of earth hadthe
been removed from the construction site for the GES building and the rein-
forced-concrete spillway uaw. Prepu;,.,,lons for placing concrete in th
foundation of these struct
ures
e
supplied from a concrete plant situated near the site. On the right bank of
the river a second concrete plant was being assembled to supply concrete for
the navigable lock which was under construction there. It was expected that
creation of a reservoir 240 kilometers long and,inplaces, over. 20 kilometers
wide would improve navigation on the upper reaches of the Ob'.
Power lines and railroad lines to the construction sites had been built.
Work was in progress in the quarries and wood-cutting areas. A brick plant,
a wood combine, and other subsidiary enterprises had been built-(5) As of
8 February 1954 the Nyazepetrovsk Machine Building Plant imeni M. I. Kalinin
had shipped three cranes to the construction M
more in February 1954. Other plants in the southern Urals producing equip project and il to
ment for the project were the Chelyabinsk Plant imeni Kolyushchenko and the
Tractor Plant imeni Stalin.(6) g q p
Villages for the builders have grown up on both banks of the river. In
February 1954 there were about 65,000 square meters of living space in new
houses. Three schools, a hospital, a dispensary, children's institutions,
two clubs, a bread-baking plant, stores, dining halls, and personal services
buildings had been built.(5)
Ang~rsk_ nab
In February 1954 a large hydroelectric power station was under construction
near the small village of Kuz'mikha on the Angara River. A large sector of the
river channel had been partitioned off with steel sheet Piling an earthen dam.
In the excavation for the GES building, work preparatory to placing concrete
was in progress. A. Ye. Bochkin, chief of construction /robnb7.y the A. Bochkin
who wee formerely construction chief of
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Crimean Canals the South Ukrainian and North
( 17, stated that, despite seasonal difficulties170,,Angarstrcubic
as bad :fulfilled the January plan 103.4 percent, having the placed construction-
000 oy
meters of earth in the dam, and had pledged to complete sembly plan for the first quarter of 1954 by election day, 14 March 1954.
Earth for the dam was being scraped from the river bottom by walking
excavators. In the summer and fall of 1953 special reserves of gravel and sand
had been accumulated. Excavators and dump trucks were providing 70 percent of
the transportation.(7) On 8 February 1954 the Chelyabinsk Machinery Plant had
a railroad crane with a diesel engine ready for shipment to the Angarskaya GES.
This plant had previously shipped suction dredges and truck cranes to the
construction project. The Chelyabinsk Plant imeni Kolyushchenko and the Tractu??
Plant imeni Stalin were also manufacturing equipment for this coastruction
project. (6)
A workers' settlement had grown up at Kuz'mikha and 70,000 square meters
of living space had been put into use.(7)
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1.
Moscow, Planovoye FOiozyaystvo, No 5, Sep-Oct
2.
Moscow, Pravda, 7 Feb 54
3.
Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
3 Jul 53
4.
Moscow, Ogonek, No 38, Sep 53
5.
Moscow, Izvestiya, 3 Feb 54
6.
Pravda, 8 Feb 54
7.
Pravda, 4 Feb 54
8.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 26 Feb 52
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