EXPANSION OF GASIFICATION IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090379-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 379
• Publication Date: November 14, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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LLIGENGE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO,
.COUNTRY
USSR
Economic - Gas supply
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1947 - 1952
HOW
PUBLISHED
Daily newspapers, monthly
DATE DIST. 14
Nov 1952
PUBLISHED
Moscow
NO. OF PAGES
1
PUBLISHED
13 May 1952 - 6 Aug 1952
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Newspapers and periodical as Indicated.
EXPANSION-2F GASIFICATION_ IN MOSOOW
fliumbers in parentheses refer to appended sources]
During 1952, the gas network Moscow is to be expanded by 350 kilo-
metere.(1) During the first half 1?' 1952, it was lengthened by 16o kilometers
and over 45,000 apartments, several mechanized bakeries, and teas of municipal
enterprises were supplied with gas. According to the plan for the development
of the city's economy, all the housing resources will be gasified and a large
number of factories and plants as well. So far, over 350,000 apartments and
about 4,000 municipal and public services and industrial enterprises have been
gasified.(2) On the outskirts of Moscow, residents received liquefied, bottled
gas. About 12,500 consumers- are supplied with it from the Moscow Order of the
Red Banner of Labor Gas Plant,(3)
The 843-kilometer-long gas pipeline, which supplies gas to the capital from
the yel'shansko-Kurdyumskoye natural-fuel gas deposits near Saratov, was com-
pleted on 16 August 1947. In the course of the construction of the pipeline,
7.5 million cubic meters of earthwork was done and 50,000 tone of steel pipe were
laid. Construction work included the building of six compressor stations, spe-
cial communications lines, and several complex telephone junctions equipped with
the latest apparatus. Numerous problems were overcome: the pipeline crossed 80
rivers and lakes, huge forest masses, railroads, highways, and dirt roads. In
order to provide Moscow and Saratov with gas, 22 high-yielding gas wells were
drilled. Since it began operating, the pipeline has increased the gas supply
for Moscow five times, k)
SOURCES
1. Vecherryaya Moskva, 13 May 52
2. Izvestlya, 6 Aug 52
3. Moskovskaya Pravda, 4 Jun 52
4. Nauka i Zhizn', 1'10 8, Aug 52
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