ECONOMIC - ELECTRIC POWER

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• Document Release Date: August 8, 2011
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• Publication Date: October 13, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL EINTELLIGENCERAGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Economic - Electric power INFORMATION 1940 - 1953
COUNTRY USSR
DATE OF
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, monthly periodicals, book DATE DIST. /3 Oct 1953
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
NO. OF PAGES 4
DATE
PUBLISHED 1950 - 3 Jun 1953
LANGUAGE Russian SUPPLEMENT TO
' REPORT NO.
.1 T1 III
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PROGRESS ON VOLGA PROJECTS AND TRANSMISSION LINES;
POSTWAR SHIFTS IN USSR ELECTRIC POWER OUTPUT
Jiumbers in parentheses refer to appended sources
Kuybyshevskaya OES
Altogether, about 7 million cubic meters of concrete are to be placed
during the consjruction of the Kuybyshevskaya GES. Ten automatic concrete
mixing plants, ith a total capacity of 20,000 cubic meters in 24 hours will
be in operation at the peak of the concreting.(1) From 70 to 80 kilograms
of steel bars will be required for each cubic meter of reinforced concrete
placed. Consequently, 350,000 tons of steel bars will be required and
5 million bar joints will have to be welded.(4)
By 21 January 1953, several hundred cubic meters of concrete had al-
ready been placed in th foundation of the power plant structure near the
right bank of Volga River. Concreting the lower navigable lock near the
left bank of the river has started also (2), and by 23 April 1953 about
50,000 cubic meters of concrete had already been placed.(3)
All branches of the work, including concreting, continued throughout
the winter despite the cold weather and frozen river.(5) On 23 April, the
spring flood water level in the river was 5.5 meters above pre-flood level.
Suction dredges were at work as usual without slowing down.(6)
The cofferdams which were built to prevent flooding of the excavations
withstood very well the pressure of the high flood waters.(7)
Stalingradskaya GES
The work on driving 5,000 sheet piles along the cofferdam to protect
excavations on Peschanyy Island against spring floods was started in
January'(8) and was almost completed on 17 March.(9)
NAW
NSFB
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One electric power generating train, Type D-3,000, with a generating
capacity of 3,000 kilowatts and having an automatic voltage regulator, is
on the job. It supplies power to two electric dredges,each of which has
electric motors with a total capacity of 1,250 kilowatts, including a
main motor of 864 kilowatts. Another power generating train with a capacity
of 1,000 kilowatts is also on the job.(l0)
Construction of the second high-voltage transmission line across the
Volga River has started The line will supply power to the Volga-Ural Canal
construction project.(11)
Dredges were at work throughout the winter and dredged about 1.5 million
cubic meters of earth, despite the cold weather and frozen river.(12)
Construction of the ropeway across the Volga River to handle sand,
gravel and other materials has started. It is estimated that during the
next 3 years the rope-way will transport 12 million tons of building materials.(13)
On 20 April 1953, the builders of the Stalingradskaya GES made a pledge
to complete the 1953 plan 25 days early and to save one million rubles by
introducing rationalistic work methods.(L4) Construction of cofferdams, rein-
forced with steel sheet piling to protect excavations from spring flood waters,
was nearing completion in April, when the work on the site was in progress day
and night,(15)
Kuybyshev-Moscow Power Transmission Line
Altogether, 700,000 cubic meters of earth are to be excavated on the
entire length of the Kuybyshev-Moscow power transmission line.(16) on
21 August 1952, 400 concrete foundations for steel towers and 50 towers had
been completed; it was expected to raise these figures by the end of 1952
to 600 and 500, respectively.(17)
The section of the line which crosses Kuybyshevskaya Oblast between the
Kuybyshevskaya GES site and Sveltloye Lake is 120 kilometers long and will
have 550 towers.(16)
About 7 kilometers of the section of the line which crosses Ul'yanovskaya
Oblast have been completed and wires have been installed.(18)
The Moskovskiy Construction and Installation Trust is building the
250-kilometer section of the line which runs through Vladimirskaya and
Moskovskaya oblasts. The length of the line crossing Vladimirskaya Oblast
is 200 kilometers..(19) In Gor'kovskaya Oblast the line runs from the Oka
River at the border of Vladimirskaya and Gor'kovskaya oblasts through
Lyakhovskiy, Melenkovskiy, Selivanorskiy and other reyons.(20)
Other Power Transmission Lines
Construction of over 10,000 kilometers of rural power transmission lines
is planned in Trans-Volga regions, where one million hectares of land are
to be irrigated.(21)
A project to connect the Ust' Kamenogorskaya GES with other electric
power stations of the Kuzbass and Altayskiy Kray in a single power system
was in preparation at the end of 1952.(22)
The length of high-voltage transmission lines built in Soviet Central
Asia during the last 10 years is considerable. Reconstruction of old lines
and construction of new lines is now progressing at a rapid rate. The
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majority of the lines are located in flat country, 300 to 600 meters above
se- level. About 63 percent of the 35-kilovolt lines are installed on wooden
polea and the rest on steel ones. Some 110-kilovolt lines which were put
in operation in 1949 increased the total length of lines in Central Asia by
90 percent. One 110-kilovolt line, 72.5 kilometers long, is installed on
wooden poles.(23)
Electric Power Systems
At the outbreak of World War II, the USSR had seven large electric power
systems (Moskovskaya, Leningradskaya, Ural. 'skaya,Donetsko -Pridneprovskaya,
Gor'kovekaya, Ivanovskaya, and Bakinskaya), each with an annual output of
over one billion kilowatt-hours.
In 1940, the Ukrainian SSR produced about 25 percent of the total USSR
electric power output. It was expected that in 1950 it would produce only
one sixth of ;he total output for that year.
9g In 1940 the Urals, Western Siberia, and Kazakhstan produced about
4ob percent elf he total Ir247
output The tOutpuotf in ~~5c e, as expe?ctea to be
one third of the total.
SOURCES
1. Vi.l'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 27 Jan 53
2. Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 21 Jan 53
3? Petrozavodek, Leninskoye Znamya, 23 Apr 53
4. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 6 May 53
5, Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 3 Jan 53
6. Sovetskaya Litva, 25 Apr 53
7? Ibid., 29 Apr 53
8.. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 9 Jan 53
9 Ibid., 17 Mar 53
10. Moscow, Elektricheskiye Stantsii, No 3, Mar 53
11. Yerevan, Kommunist, 25 Jan 53
12. Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 25 Feb 53
13. Kommunist, 27 Feb 53
14. lLeninskoye Znamya, 21 Apr 53
15. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 5 Apr 53
16. Moscow, Izvestiya, 17 Jan 53
17, Moscow, Komsomol'ekaya Pravda, 21 Aug 52
18. Moscow, Pravda, 3 Jun 53
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19. Ibid., 7 Sep 52
20. Vladimir, Prizyv, 7 Sep 52
21. Pravda, 23 Mar 53
22. Tashkent, Pravda Voatoka, 25 Dec 52
23. Elektricheakiye Stantaii, No 5, May 53
24. Moacov, Geografia Promyshlennosti SSSR (Industrial Geography
of USSR), by P. N. Stepanov, Uchpedgiz, 1950
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