TABLE ON RURAL ELECTRIFICATION IN THE USSR

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TABLE ON RURAL ELECTRIFICATION IN THE USSR
The following table is a compi'ation of figures on rural electrification
in the USSR between 1913 and 1950 taken from Soviet sources. It is designed
to serve as a basis for future exploitation by FDD of this sub.Ject and to give
an over-all picture of rural electrification in the USSR on the basis oY for-
eign documents.
The table is divided into five main headings: (1) rural electric power
installations, which include nil rural electric power stations and connec-
tions to state power networks; (2) viral electric power stations, which in-
clude TES and GES; (3) connections to state power networks, including all in-
stallations which are connected to state power networks furnishing electricity
to agriculture; (4) the number of electrified kolkhozes, sovkhozes, b1TS, AfTM
(machine-tractor repair shops), and MRZ (machine-repair plants), and (5) the
number of light bulbs, electric motors, and electric threshing machines in use
in agriculture.
Newspapers, periodicals, and books as indicated.
DATE OF
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All documented figures are either talon as cited from the sources, in
which case only tt:e source is cited, or calculated on the basis of information
contained in the sources. In the latter case the figures used as a basis i'or
calculations nre quoted in notes accompanying the sources to give the reader
an opportunity to check the raiculations. When there are conflicting figures
from two different sources for the same sub,!ect and year, they are cited to-
gether. In making i~irther calculations with conflicting figures, both figures
were used if available evidence did not support. one figure more than the other.
However, of one figure was confirmed in a third source, the other was disre-
garded; or, if in making further calculations, one of the conflicting figures
was used with one or more figures cited in the same source -- for example:
Suppose source a states that the capacity of rural electric power installations
in 1926 was 1,000 kilowatts, whtle source b gives 1,250 kilowatts; Source a
states that the capacity in 1927 was 1,500 kilowatts, while source b gives no
information for 1927 on this sub,~ect. In calculating the increase from 1926
to 1927, the 1926 figure from source a was used and the figure from source b
disregarded, since the 1927 figure also comes from source a.
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The terms "over" and "planned" are used in the table as they appear in
the sources. The terra "about" is used when further calculations are based on
an average between two figures,
Question marks have been placed after the 1949 figures for the capacity
of rural electric power installations and rural electric power stations Te-
cause, xhile the figures under these two headings between 1945 and 1950 check
with some variations xhether they are calculated horizontally or vertically,
substantial discrepancies appear in the case of 1949. It is suggested that
the figure for 1949 which is cited in the table "Increase in Capacities of In-
atallations," in the footnote accompanying source f, is erroneous. Conse-
quently, ell figures which are based on it directly or indirectly are fol-
lowed by a question mark.
Letters in parentheses refer to appended sources.
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1913
1916
1917
1918
1919
1925
1926
1927
1930
1931
1932
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RURAL ELECTRIC
DOVER INSTALLATIONS
CAPACITY
(1.000 Kv)
OUTPUT
(MILLION NM-H)
26.9
61.2
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CAPACITY
(1,000 nw)
OUTPUT
(MILLION KW-N)
INCRE ASC TOTAL INCREASE TOTAL INCREASE
(5) (10) (II: (12) (Ij)
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OUTI`UT CAPAG ITT OUTPUT
(MILLION NV-H) NUMBER (1.000 NV) (MILLION KV-N)
TOTAL INCREASE TOTAL INCRC~SE TOT~I INCREA9C TOTAL INCREASE TOTAL INERCASC TOTAL INCREASE
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C APAGITY OUTPUT
NUMBER (1,000 KM) (MILLION KM-H)
TOT AI INCREASE TOTAL INCREASE TOTAL INCREASE
(26) (z7) l28) (29) (3a) (31)
MTS, Morons
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Of'LIGHT CAPACITY TNRCSMING
NU?JCR INCREASE NUMBER INCREASE NUMBCR INCREASE BULBS NVMBCR (KM) UNITS
(3z) (33) (34) (35) 1361 l37) (38) (39) (40) (41)
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souRCEs
a. Moscow, Geografiya v Shkole, Ro 2, Mar/Apr 52
b. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 16 Dec 50. Capacity of rural GES in
1950 was over 10 times greater than 'in 1940.
c. Moscow, Sovetskaya Kn1ga, Ro 4, 1951
d. Moscow, Voprosy Ekonomiki, Ro 5, M8Y 52
The total capacity of rural electric power installations put in opera-
tion in 1945 was more than 5 times greater than the capacity of those put in
operation in 1940. Taking the capacity of rural electric power stations put
in operation in 1945 as 100 percent, then the capacities of those put in opera-
tion in 1946, 1947, 19413, 1949, and 1950 are 170, 228, 292, 309, and 323 Per-
cent, respectively.
e. Geografiya v Shkole, Ro 5, Sep/Oct
f. Moscow, Rol' elektrifikatsii v razvitii material'no-tekhnicheakoy
bazy sel-skogo khozyaystva SSSR (Influence of Electrification on the Develop-
ment of the Material and Technical Bases of Agriculture in the USSR), by
S. Matskevich, 1952
Capacities of Rural Electric Power Snstallations
(in percent of total capacity)
1937
1940
1945
1946
t947
1948
1~4
Total
100
100
100
lOC
100
100
100
GES
11
12.7
21.6
22.5
22.1
23.6
25
T~
39
37.3
40.6
42
38.4
36.8
34.4
Connections to
state power net-
works 50
Progress of Ele
End of:
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ctr.
194
Rumber of electric
motors in use
100
Their capacity
lOC
Rumber of light bulbs
100
Aumber of electrically
100
driven threshing units
Rumber of kolkhozee
100
electrified
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Rural electric power
installations
100
134
179.2
225.8
265.7
307.5
Including rural elec-
tric power stations
Of which:
100
132.6
171.8
213.4
245.4
261.8
GES
loo
179.6
254.1
252.2
439.8
453.6
TES
loo
122.9
154.9
184.8
205.4
222.3
Of the total capacity of rural electric power stations in 1945, 68 percent
were TES and 32 percent GES.
g. Moscow, Elektrichestvo, No 11, Nov 52
h. Moscow, Itogi i Perspektivy Razvitiya Sovetskoy Energetiki (Surmnary
and Outlook of the Development of Soviet Power Sources), by A. V. Vinter, 1950
1. 2Qoscow, Narodnoye Khozyaystvo SSSR, Sbornik No 2, 1948
Over two-thirds of rural electric installations were destroyed by the
Germans during World War II. The increase in the capacity of rural electric
power installations in 1945 was more than 5 times the 1940 increase. In 1945,
the increase in the number of electrified kolkhozes was more than 3.5 times
greater and of electrified MTS more than 10 times greater than the increases
achieved in 1940. It is planned to increase the capacity of rural electric
power installations in 1950 almost up to 2 million kilowatts. Is is also
planned to have over 56,000 kolkhozes electrified.
k. Tashkent, Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 22 Nov 52
In November 1952, there were 97,000 consolidated kolkhozes in the
USSR instead of 254,000 smaller ones on 1 January 1950.
1. Moscow, Gidroteld?.nicheskoye Stroitel'stvo, No 11, Nov 52
m. Moscow, Leninslto-Stalinskaya Elektrifikatsiya SSSR (Lenin-Sta11n Elec-
trification of the USSR), by S. F. Shershov, 1951
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