ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY

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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
1961 51-4D
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2. There were three city power plants and the City Water Supply in Poltava at tha?.
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time, These enterprises wore incorporated under the name of "Vodosc'et" (eater=
light); which was subordinated to the Poltava City Board of Public Utilities,
About 1929 the "Vodosvet" corporation went into the water supply bi: i'Ln ss also
After that "Voiiosvet" was renamed. "Electrovodocanal", and was also subs rdinat
the Poltava City Board of public Utilites.
There were the following city power plants;
(a) Central City Power Plait
(b) Block Power Plant
(c) New Power Plant
The City.Central Power Plant was located on Gogolevsky Street,
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At first, the Plant was driven by steam, but before World War I, it was recon-
structed to Diesel power and its capacity was expanded.
which were driven by'tyro-cylinder Diesel engines with the respective capacities
of 200, 200, and 170 hp. Voltage on Power Plant busbars was such that consumers
could get voltages of 220 v and 110 v.
there were three direct-current dynamos in the Power Pla.irt,
10. The !=esel engines were supplied to the Power Plant by the Riga Machine-3uildirg
Plant not long before the beginning of World War I. The dynamos, as well as the
rest of the direct-current equipment of the Central Power Plant, wore sup, lied.> by
"V K E"-General Electric Co. This equipment included also appliances and a
control panel for a measuring laboratory of the Power Plant, and a con s.i d.,_--r-able
number of electric meters.
11. Many alternating-current electric meters; many electric precision measuri.g incstru-
meats; alternating-current measuring-regulating panel for the rne-:curing laborato.-j;
and other electric appliances and instruments were received by the Power Plant fron
Germany during the period of the occupation of the Ukraine by the Germans at the
end of World War I. Ilnployees, that had been working at the Power Plant for a
long time, said that this equipment had been purchased in exchange fcr, foodstuffs,,
which were bought by the Pow:nr Plant in villages and would be sent to Germany.
12. That equipment had been lying in storage for some years, and all was usad up after
the New Power Plant had been put into operation, that is, when the gradual shift
to -the use of alternating current began about 1927-1929.
13. Different equipment and electric appliances were purchased from several firms over
a period of years, and, consequently, there were many types of machines in use.
Electric meters and other electric appliances, in particular, which were used by
the 'Power Plant itself and by its consumers, were manufactured by the following
firms.- General Electric Coy Siemens Schuckert, Siemens Halske, Isaria, "V I K".
14. At the. end of the twenties installation and auxilliary materials began o ba very
scarce and hard to buy. From that time on they were very hard to get .1... .p:i.te
of the total conversion to'centralized supply.
15. Maintenance of the Power Plant equipment; different kinds of repair work; rebuild.
ing; and construction of the network of electric lines were performed almost
entirely by the personnel of "Vodosvet".
1.6. Work'which the Power Plant was technically unable to handle was given to other
units. A cracked crankshaft, for example, would be replaced with a. ne;:rone 2'n-
stead of being repaired.
17. The Main Office, the Board of Directors of the 'Vodosvet" Corporation, ea.-ad the
Technical Department for the whole "Vodosvet" were located in the Central Pave
Plant. The-storehouses wore located there too.
18. Pesides, in the Central Power Plant there were the following shops. fitto'.',
machine and tool, shop; a forge room; a commutation crew room; winding room;
a measuring laboratory; and other secondary shops.
19. There were approxinsetely 300 staff personnel in "Vodosvet".
20. The Block Power Plant was located in the Oktyabrskava Street in an area near the
Kiev Rail-road station. It occupied the building of ?.a. former flour mill (or an
oil factory). The flour mill burned up in 1919 of 1920, In this brick building
there was a machine room with 300 hp, a two-cylinder horizontal steam engine
that was still in good shape. The engine had a rope flywheel pulley and a
transmission.
21. Later (about 1925) a brick addition was built for a now transmission, an alterna-
tor, and a distributor, and the auxiliary "Block Power Plant" was opened. The
Block Power Plant used coal as fuel. Its steam boiler room was equipped with
old Lancashire steam boilers. The Block Power Plant alternator had a capacity
of about 200 KVA.
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22, The Block Power plant was connected by a 6300 volt line with the Central Power
Plant. It was able to supply with electric power (both go-aerated by itself and
by the Central. Power Plant), the neighboring region of the city by means of its
high-voltage electric line and step-down transformers.
23. The New Power Plant was located at the river Vorskla (a tributary of the Dnepr)
not far from the South Rail-road Station. It occupied a buildry..ng which had been
intended to be a trolley cur power station. Its construction had been begun before
the revolution of 1917 but had not been completed.
24. The New Power Plant had steam turbines, and used coal as fuel. It was put into
operation about 1927. ?fit first, a turbo-alternator with a capacity of 1..000 r TA
and volt,g;e of 6300 V was installed. In 1929 a turbo-alternator with a capacity
of 3000 K VA started to operate.
25. work was done for enlargement of the building in 1935-322 Corr
of a considerable increasing of capacity of the Power Plant.
26. The New Power Plant was connected by 6300 volt-line with the Central Power Plant,
'Besides, it supplies independently some regions of the city through feeders with
voltage of 6300 V.
27, The following equipment of the Now Power Plant was purchased in. En;landg a
turbo-alternator with a capacity of 1000 KVA, voltage of 6300 V and speed of
3000 rpm, with a steam turbine made by Kurtis;, water-tube bo1l-rs of Babcock-
Wilcox system with a normal pressure of 12 Kilograms per square centimeter and
an economizer.
Trust), though there wore some Italian electric motors, and
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31, Most of the electrical equipment was manufactured by "G E T" (State Electric
28. .The equipment evidently had been purchased before the revolution, and had been
delivered through Archangel. (A lost spare turbine rotor was found. near Archangel
in 1928, some years after the delivery of the turbo-aggregate, to which the T,art.'
belonged).
29. Another alternator with a capacity of 3000 KVA, 6300 IT, and speed of 3000 rp)m, was
manufactured by the Leningrad Electrical-Mechanical Plant. ItW turbine was
manufactured by the so-called Leningradsky Metallichesky Plant,
30. Water-tube boilers of the Garbe system, with a mechanical fire grade, were m.a.r-,c-
facture?;d either in L7igland or by the Taganrog Plant "Krasny Kotelschik". 50X1
32. The 3000 KVA turbo-alternator was installed by a represen ;atiire from the Lenin rad
'Metall ichesky" Plant with the assistance of a local crew of workers, The
boilers were installed by a crew from the Plant "Krasny Kotelschik' with the
assistance of local workers. A main pip-line was.