UZBEK HYDROELECTIC PLANT DEVELOPMENTS PROJECTED FOR THE FOURTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN

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• Publication Date: June 27, 1950
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CLASSIFICATION
50X1-HUM
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Power plants
HOW
PUBLISHED Bimonthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 1946
LANGUAGE Russian
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1946
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UZBEK HYDROELECTRIC PLANT DEVELOPMENTS
PROJECTED FOR THE FOURTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN
In 1937, 320 million kilowatt-hours of electric power were produced in
Uzbekistan. During the war years, six hydroelectric power plants were put into
operation. The postwar Five-Year Plant calls for an increase in the total ca-
pacity of Uzbekistan electric plat.bs of 303,000 kilowatts, of which 266,000
are to be obtained from hydroelectric power plant. Total output of electric
power in Uzbekistan in 1950 will be 2,135 million kilowatt-hours, which is
600 percent more than the 1937 output and 550 percent above the output of the
last prewar year.
The hydroelectric power resources of Uzbekistan, excluding the Kara-a
ASSR, were calculated in the electric power resources atlas of 1934 at 3,624,000
kilowatts of yearly capacity. It must be remembered, however, that in addition
hydroelectric potential of been and willebe irrition
to natural water currents,
buiillt,
canals, , on which many y bydroelectric power
is of great significance.
There are at present under construction six hydroelectric power plants, for
the most part on irrigation canals, of small, medium, and large capacity.
During the postwar Five-Year Plan it is planned to build five new large
hydroelectric power plants: Farkhad, Khishrauskaya,.Nizhne-Boz-su No 2, Nizhne-
Boz-su No 3, and Ak-Kayak No 1-bis. The largest of these is the Farkhad GES,
begun during the war, which is being built in the region of the rapids of-the
river bending around the Mogol-tau Mountain. The Farkhad GES will be the third
largest in the USSR by capacity. For its construction it is necessary to execute
15 million cubic meters of earth work and 270,000 cubic meters of concrete and
ferroconcrete works. me plant will have a dam 18 .meters high and a derivation
canal 13.5 kilometers long. Power. from the Farkhad GAS will serve .1.ocal power
needs, particularly steel production in the Begovat Yatallurgical Plant. Power
from the GES,delivered over a high voltage line, will also be used by the Tash-
kent industrial region.
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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In June 1945, the little Farkhad GES, an auxiliary hydroelectric power
plant furbishing power for the construction project of the Farkhad GES, was
put into operation.
The Khishrauskaya GUS will be built on the Dargom Canal in the Samarkand
area. The first hydroelectric power plant, the Tashgulyanskaya, was built on
the Dargom Canal in 1945. The Khishrauekaya GES will be the largest in Samar-
kand Oblast. Planning and preparatory works for the construction of the plant
're being begun this year. All its electric power will go to the city of Sa-
mar kand.
The Nizhne-Boz-su Plant No 2, the Nizhne-Boz-su Plant No 3, and the Ak-
Kavak Plant No 1-bis are being built in the region of the city'of Tashkent.
These plants are in addition to the plants already existing on the Boz-su
Canal- Boz-su-1, Kadyr'ye, Ak-Kavak-1, and Ak-Kavak-2. The Ak-Kavak-l-bis
Plant is the second unit of the Ak-Kavak-1 Plant, which was begun this year.
On the Sharikhan Canal, six hydroelectric power plants will be built. Con-
struction on one of these, No 6 which will furnish power to the cities of Marge-
lan, Fergana, and Andizhan, has already begun. Two hydroelectric power plants
being built in the region of the Namangan River are expected to go into operation
this year.-
It will be possible to eret.t 50-60 hydroelectric power plants, with a ca-
pacity of from 5,000 to 50,000 kilowatts each, in the future on the irrigation
canals, such as the Boz-su, Sharikhan, Dargom, and Southern and Northern Fer-
gana canals, alone in Uzbekistan. In the large Chirchik power plants around
Tashkent, the Tabakskaya and.Komsomol'skaya plants, four additional assemblies,
doubling the plants' capacity, have already been installed. Finally, hundreds
of small kolkhoz hydroelectric power plants can be built. All this would in-
crease the exploit.tion of the republic's electric power resources by 700,000-
750,000 kilowatts,
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