Extension of Electric Power Supplies in U.S.S.R.

Abstract

ACCORDING to “Russia Today” Press Service, the Commissariat of Power Stations of the U.S.S.R. is expending a sum of 1,056 million roubles on this purpose in the present year, when 882,000 kw. will be added to the capacity of the generating plants of the Union. The capacity of the power stations in the Ukraine has been augmented considerably, a notable addition being a 100,000 kw. turbine to the Zuyev Station, which is one of the largest in the U.S.S.R. Two large turbines have been added to the Moscow power system and three new heat and power stations are in course of construction in that city. The power system of the Urals has been augmented by a 50,000 lav. generator at the Central Urals Station near Sverdlovsk, which brings the capacity of this station up to 150,000 kw. A heat and power plant was recently put into operation at the Kamensk Aluminium Works in the Urals. Work on a large scale is also proceeding on hydro-electric power plants. This includes work on the world's largest power project, the Kuibyshev Hydro-Electric Centre (on the Samara Bend of the Volga), the power plant of which when completed will have a generating capacity of 3·4 million kw., and the hydro-electric power stations at Uglich and Rybinsk, two further links in the chain of the Greater Volga Project. The Uglich and Rybinsk stations will have a combined capacity of 440,000 kw. Construction is in progress on the first underground hydro-electric power station beyond the Arctic Circle, in the district of Kandalaksha, in the Murmansk Province. This station, which will have a capacity of 150,000 kw., will be the third power plant in the Soviet Far North. To provide power for the growing non-ferrous metal industry in the Altai Mountains, building has commenced for a generating station of 240,000 kw. capacity on the River Irtysh in Kazakhstan.