ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF KAKHOVKA GES TO BEFIN EARLY IN 1952

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• Publication Date: April 3, 1952
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NTRY USSR
EJECT Economic - Electric power,
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PUBUSHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 15 Sep 1951 - 11 Feb 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
dam construction
BUSHED Daily newspapers
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DATE DIST. S i1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Newspapers as indicated.
ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF KAKBOVKA GES TO BEGIN EARLY IN 1952
jumbers in parentheses refer to appended sources]
The Leningrad Branch of the Gidroenergostroy, which was entrusted with
the engineering and geological surveys for the Kakhovka GES, completed the
selection of the site for the dam of the GES on 10 January 1951, the pre-
paration of the preliminary hydraulic and geological data on 1 May 1951, and
the data for preparing plans of the GES in September.(1)
On 27 October, 5 days before the target data, the Ukrainian Branch of
Gidroenergoproyekt completed the specifications on which final designs are
to be based.(2) It is expected that final plans will be completed by the in-
stitute before 1 January 1952.(3)
The plans provide for a concrete GES structure, earthen avid concrete dams
with a total length of 5 kilometers, a navigable lock, and structures to
supply water from the Kakhovka Reservoir into the irrigatia, canal. The dam
will raise the water level by 15 meters to form a reservoir of 14 billion cubic
meters extending for 240 kilometers from Kakhovka to Zaporozh'ye.(4) Besides
its primary purpose, the reservoir will also help the Dnepro GES to utilize
more of its capacity.
According to the plans, the navigable lock will be located near the left
bank of Dnepr, with the concrete spillway and the GES structure next to it in
the order indicated. The rest of the river and a part of the river valley will
be dammed with earth. The GES will be of the so-called combined type which
has a smaller concrete spillway and passages in the concrete base of the G
itself. Part of the surplus water will pass through the passages to join the
tail race of the turbines, thereby acting as an ejecting force to counteract
the loss of the head durii,g spring floods.
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The quantity of water pasaing through at Kakhovk?. varies greatly from 21
to 85 billion cubic meters per year, because of the tatural conditions of the
Dnepr River system. A spillway with a wide, flat base has been designed for
the GES. It will take care of the water, as well as of unusually high spring
water which happens once in a thousand years.
The earthen part of the dam, which will require 9 million cubic meters of
earth to build, will be constructed in two stages. This will enable those
aggregates of the GES which do not require a full head for their operation to
operate as soon as possible.
The turbines sill be of the vertical type with adjustable blades 5 to 9
meters in diameter. Turbines with blades 6.6 meters in diameter are considered
the most economical for this GER. However, the plants which will manufacture
the turbines will have the final work in determining their diameter.
It is estimated that the main structures of the project will require place-
ment of 1.2 million cubic meters of concrete, excavation of 12 million cubic
meters of soft moils, and filling of 14 ci;'ion cubic meters.
of
130 suction dredges, 600 excavators, and 2,400 scrapers and bulldozers is
planned for the job.(6) Five powerful dredges were being assembled in Zaporo-
zh'ye in September to be put into operation by the end of 1951.(5)
Many plants and factories in the USSR participate in supplying the con-
struction site with equipment and materials. The city of L'vov supplies motor
equipment; Chelyabinsk sends cranes; Chernvitsy and Arkhangelsk, lumber, Kiev,
Riga, and Tashkent, communications equipment; Ural Plante, excavators; end
Velikiye Luki Oblast, prefabricated homes.((,) In i)ecember 1951, equipment and
materials were arriving from over 200 indistrial enterprises located in 120
USSR cities an town9 over (0 excavators and other machines have already
arri.ed at the site.(/]
P. Medvedev, chief engineer of Dneprostroy in charge of constructing the
Kakhovka GES, declared on 21 September 1951, the first anniverrary of thr
government's announcement of the project, that the main task during 1951 was
to pre-are solid material and technical bases, and to carry out all the pre-
liminary work to enable actual construction wort- to begin early in 1952.
Activities of this nature have extended over a circle with a circumference of
200 kilometers with Kakhovka at its center.(5)
The completion of the high-voltage power transmission line from Krivoy
Rog to the Kakhovka construction site, which would be 140 percent of the plan
for 1951, was to be realized by the end of 1.951. The line was to be in opera-
tion at the beginning of 1952 transmitting 154,000 volts.(4)
A stone quarry near Lubomir, 16 miles from Kakhovka, fully mechanized with
the most modern machinery is already in operation. An electric power station
of 250-kilowatt capacity was built on the spot in December 1951 to supply power
to the quarry. The quer is operated by 500 workmen, engineers, and other per-
sonnel. Its daily outpu,, was 13,000 cubic meters of rocks in December, but was
to be increased eventually to 15,000 cubic meters.(7)
The 152-kilometer-long railroad from the ledorovka Station of the Stalin
Railroad System to Kakhovka, which was reported under construction in September
1951 and which was scheduled to be completed by the end of 1951 (5), was act-
ually completed on 10 February 1952 when the first train arrived at Kakhovka.(8)
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On the whole, the construction and installation work planned for 1951 Las
completed 101 percent, according to a statement b Y chief of Dnepros-
troy.(9) y
SOURCES
1. Leningradskays Pravda, 15 Sep 51
2. Moscow, Komaomo1'skaya Pravda, 28 Oct 51
3. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 19 Sep 51
4. Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 20 Sep 51
5. Moscow, Izvestiya, 21 Sep 51
6. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostc:ca, 23 Dec 51
7. Petrozaloirk, Znamya, 23 Dec 51
8. Moscow Pravda, 11 Feb 52
9. Pravda Ukrainy, 30 Jan 52
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