ECONOMIC - ELECTRIC POWER

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• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 647
• Publication Date: September 23, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SOURCE Newspapers as Indicated.
N3V POWER PIANTS IN OPERATION;
BXL( VBSIAN RURAL f CTdIFIYATION CRITICI7FD
SUBJECT Economic - Electric power!
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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DATE
PUBLISHED 1 - 27 Jul 1949
LANGUAGE Russian
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NEW GES FOR ALMA-ATA -- Kazakhatanakeya Pravda, No 143, 24 Jul 49
Construction of hydroelectric power plant No 1 high in the mountains
beside Alma-Ata Lake has been started. It will be the largest of the Alma-
Ate hydroelectric Dover nta.,ee id ?~ill yC,-,,aiuez?abiy increase the power
supply 'or the cit-. The digging of the foundation pits has begun. Four-
teen thc'ieand cubic maters of rocky ground must be excavated before the con-
struction of the G79's LuildlrgS c_o be started.
A workers' stttleMent his sprung up and living quarters, e. temporary
hyr^oe:.ectric power plant, and a club are being built for the workers.
Lines of ccmm'T_cation con-act Alma-Ate with the GES construction, and a
highway Is bet-.,g built on which bricks, innber1 cement, ani other materials
are being brought in. A power line is being laid to supply current for the
machinery from ne:igbboring G 98s. '3.h. Baehlyev
NEW M ON CRDYN' RIV.CR -- Sovetskaya SibirN, No 129, 2 Jul 49
Preparac:.,.)Lis have hegun for acnetruction of a hyr_oelectzlc power plant
on the Crdyn' Rlvar, Novosibirsk Ob,sot.
BEVAN GES TO BEGIN OPERATIONS IN FEW DAYS -- Kommunlst, No 170, 21 Jul 49
The So-van Hydroelectric Power Plant will be put in operation in a few
days. This will improve the even flow of electric power to Armenian Industry
and agriculture. Last year the Bevan water-intake installation was put in
operation, thus allowing the Kanaker GES to operate at full capacity.
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The ever-increasing consumption of elect!c power by Armenian industry,
agriculture, and transport poses Importr'-+, problems before Armenian power
industry to perticule- Improving the technical operation of new power in-
stallatione by introducing advr:nced Soviet techniques. The flow of electric
power to consumers must be made more reliable and constant, The coefficient
of utilization of hydroelectric installations must be increased and water
supplies conserved. Industrial enterprises must also lower the consumption
of power per unit product.
During the first 6 months of 1949, Armenian Industrial enterpris~s saved
9,700,000 kilowatt-hours of e_,ctric power. The Yerevan Carbide Plant alone
oaved 3,337,000 kilowatt-hours.
LAG IN BELORUSSIAN POWER WORK SCORED -- Covetekaya Belorussiya, No 147,
26 Jul 49
The Bsloruee.an 30 is endowed with exceptionally favorable possibilities
for the development of rural electrification. Its sig,ificant water resources,
rich supplies of peat, and industrial development provide all necessary conili
tione for fupthsr electrification..
Nevertheless, the prauent tempo of rural electrification in Beloruesi:a is
completely un:satisfartory and inadequate for fulfilling the taek;F'3t by the
Party and government for conpletF feral electrification. At the beginning of
1949, only 307 kolkhozes end 173 MISe had been provided with electricity In
Belorussia. Vitebsk, Gemel', and Breete oblae s are particularly lagging,
fulfilling the 1949 plan for construction of hydroelectric power plants by
lees than 20 percent. Gom91', Poles'ye Bobruyer., and Pinsk cblasts have not
put a single hydroelectric power plant in operation this year.
This is evidence of the poor warp of local organizations in waking rural
electrification a matter of concern to all people. Socia~iat -petition ho-
t,e n kolkhozes and rayons for fulf"ling the rural electrification plan has
not been organized in Belorussia. Mass pxvpsgenr'_. d rected tovard -.ttracting
the broad masses of kulkhcz worrers in constructing rural clectr_c po.,er pleats
is also poorly carried out.
According to the ,plan for Belcusoian ivral+ o lectrification in 1948-1950,
hydroelectric pmrer plants with a total capacity of 26,000 kilowatts and steam-
electric power pleats with a total capacity of 6,600 kilowatts are to be con-
structed by the and of 1950. This plan to being poorly fulfilled. Only 50
hydroelectric power plants with a total capacity of 974 kilowatts were put in
operation last year. Despite the fact that the plan for putting steam-electric
power p:aute into operation was exceeded, the plan for the electrification of
kolkhozes was not fulfilled: only 155 additional kolkhozes were provided with
electricity.
The 1949 rural electrification plan is also being carried out in an
extremely uneat' efactory tense=. During the first h' if-y ,ar, the plan for
electrification of iolkhozes was completed only 2.8 percent. Electrification
work Is in progress in only 162 kolkhozes. During this saris period, only four
hydroelectric power plants with a total capacity of 180 kilowatts were put in
operation.
Existing electric power plants and installations are not being operated
as should be. Kolkhoz power plants are not always operated at full capacity.
Electricity generated is used primarily for lighting and threshing and is quite
inadequately applied to other forms of agricultural production. It Is entirely
possible to utilize the potential of. existing and active power plants for the
elect:.ikication of kolkhozes. More than 3,000 kilowatts from the Glcvenergo
(Main Power Administration) power plants alone could be released for this purpose,
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Including 500 kilowatts apiece from the Slutal: and Mozyr' power plants and
400
kilowatts from the Brest Power Plane
There are 924 mills, tnclhi+ng 507 water mills, in operation in the
local, industry system. Although 158 electric power plants have been in-
stalled at these mills; power plants should be constructed at 100 more
mills. This would give significant aid to the electrification of kolkho:es,
There are more then 150 engines in local industry an', industrial. cooperative
brick plants which are used not more than 100 days out of a year
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engines could also be effectively utilized for the needs of rural electri:fira-
tion. Industrial enterprises should also give more aid in the construction of
rural power plants. -- N. Abraeimov, Deputy Chairman, Council of Ministers
Belorusuian SSH.
UXRk RINCTBI 'ICATION PROGRESSES -- ,Krasnyy Flot, No 175, 27 Jul 49
- y..c a o ao'a 'v 260 kolkhoze ., 18 aovkhozee, and 20 WSa. At present there are 27h rural
electric power plants under construction in the Republic.
CHl1N$ASSY (STS LIT"iL L ClRICITX Pravda TJkrainy, no 169, 20 Jul 49
Electricity is being ever more widely used in the rural areas and Isolated
regions of the Ulxaine. Nevertheleas, the izinabitannte of the city of Cherl?aeey
are receiving lose every day, finch fawily in Oherkesey now has the right to
burn caly cne 40-watt light bulb, and thin on a limited basis. The use of irons,
e].ec..ric tea pots, or hot plates is impossible. This is the result of the poor
maintenance of equipment by the city's electric power plant. -- Letter to the
paper.
POb TRUSTS HP.Vx JOB OPLYING-9 - Sov9t,3kaya Sibir', No 128, 1 Jul 49
T;ie (Construction of Siberian Power Enterprl.ses) _r.u3t
needs construction engineers for fiald work in the following pouitione; ch:e'u
of construction sections, supervisors, electrical engineers; also needed y e
foramen and workers in all construction shills, all classes of drivers, and a
chief bookaeeper with a salary of 2,500 roblee.
The following are needed for v =k in the trust: engineers for equipment,
industrial n'rm setting, and safety technique, and a chief of the construction
section. Apply: Sovetskaya, 65, 2d stor:, room 9. -- Advertisement
The "Sibenergomontazh" (Assembly of Siberian Power Enterprises) Administra-
tion needs the following for work within the adminictrstionn- chief of labor and
wages division, heat engineers and technicians. ?selding engineer, deeign.ra,
statistician, bookkeepers, attendants, ,Jena;ors, and a stoker. The administra-
tion needs workers in all skills for field work. Apply: Sovetskaya, 6.5 2d
story, roam 8. -- Advertisement
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