HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT NEAR KRASNAYA POLYANA

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 7, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794. of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of Its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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The hiydroelectr?ic po srer station was located on the Msymta River near Krasnaya
Poly=na (N4--1-42., E40-,13) from where a moi.ntain road went to Adler (N43-25,
along the bank of the Msymta River.
there were plans to constric an a III I!; ro
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y. _ rsnaya
Polyana and Adler. Twenty-five to thirty trucks were available for the execution
of the woawks,.t
The construction of the power station was started in 1945 and 1946. During 1946
a small powwer? station was put into operation to supply current for the
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bases for two other turbines were laid.
the whole station was planned to be in operation ur n
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ar nes,and generators for this project had been di
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near Dresden (N 52/F 29).a power station
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the o u? was 7OOO k w.
N43-3.5g E39..45 was rea or opera ion ingJuntenslol, -1-111 to AcL-Ler e 1949 andewas connected to the
Sochi transforming plant, in October 1949.
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Comment: For details of the location of the Krasnaya Polyana hydro-
electric power station, see the sketch on page 2,which has been
the basis of congruous sketches prepared
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reservoirs,and damming installations are not to scale. For details of the
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I brmrnentt Pre?evloue information indicates that this is the Sochi
G and hall a capacity of 213,000 kw,
STATE ARMY NAVY
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USSR (Krasnador Kray)
Hydroelectric Power Plant near
Krasnaya Polyana
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Location of hydroelectric plant, near Krasnaya Polyana
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Legend to sketch on page 2.
1. Reservoir with a barrage wall,. 80 meters long, with road (sic).
2. Intake construction with steel gates, 18 to 20 meters long and 4 to 5
meters high.
3. Concrete canals.
4. Two settling reservoirs, each approximately 40 by 20 meters,which were
used alternately.
5. Large tunnel, about 300 meters _long.
6. Penstock, 50 meters long with a diameter of 3 meters, between the tunnels.
7, Small tunnel, 50 meters long.
8. Penstocks.
9. Anchorage of the penstocks.
10, Surge shaft for balancing the head, 32 meters high, clear width 10 meters.
It is 17 meters above the reservoir level at the intake gate and 100 meters
above the turbines in the power station.
11. Gate building, 30 by 20 meters, with two outgoing penstocks.
12. Two penstocks with a diameter of 280 cm each. It has an incline of about
70 degrees and is equipped with two ball-shaped sluice valves. A penstock
supplying two turbines with water was operating in June 1949 (sic).
13. Turbine house, 43 meters long and 23 meters wide. In height it is 25 meters
from the lower edge of the base to the upper edge of the roof. It is 15
meters above the level of the site, with a head of about 100 meters.
14. Open-air transformer plant with three transformers .and six_ oil switches
of British maim of a concrete base. o There is a three-phase high tension line
to Adler and, according to three sources, a high tension line to Sochi,
15. Outlet.
16. Penetock bridge over the Msymta river, completed in the spring of 1949.
17. Small reservoir with barrage.
18. Small power station with turbine which sipplied the current for the
construction works.
a. Penstocks.
b. Probable flow of the water for the small power station.
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Layout of turbine house
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Legend to sketch on page 4
1. Two penstocks each for two turbines.
2. Two ball-shaped sluice valves, each for a pressure of 25 metric tons.
3. Two German-made Kaplan turbines with a capacity of 7,000 kw each and a
working pressure of 10 atmospheres. Two other turbines located here had
no generators as late as October 1949.
4. Two German-made generators.
5. Crane for mounting or dismantling units.
6. Switch room with Soviet-made switch gears.
7. Charging plant for lead storage battery.
8. Cable room.
9. Water chamber for waste water.
10. Outlet channel.
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