PROJECT FOR A CANAL TO SHORTEN THE BEND IN THE VOLGA NEAR KUIBYSHEV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600210005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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tit on for thy? construction of a canal to sbortrn t'he` lame bend`
of the VoJ a. Elver near Kuybyshev (130i.2ni~I/50?c94E), and for a
i mer station to exploit tide difference in level bet,-een. .are
northern and the scu.thern branch of the river.
2.?. The Soviets had three projects for this canal.
L ._A provided for im..t:rovenent and eri1arg s,.'. 17 t: of the Elsa River
as far as the point where it bends to the southwest , from there
cutting to the Vol. ;a iii.ver,, The river which Plo,'s into the Volga
near Stavropol' would then run in the opposite d' 1rectio.n
.ld require only a cut through tiie hilly it rtmus northeast c
I` wavaya Vol -a.
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~Cuw.J i."'r~ovided. for extended imp 'oV er,entrs of the 1_Us1. ':J. to
the west beyond the bend r and con , Mruct ion of a canal which l laws
~.nuo the Veilrya :iBaer west of I"r.avaya Tio:l_Sa and northeast of Bat.raki?
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provides for a straight canal rune; in)) .frcii;. nort1jeast: to
so,;thti est,, with the cut fron the Volga hranchin;; Off about r.1 dv,,-.1r
a s9outhr~'erterly direction tow srd flatraki to re,joirthe Vol a a few
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3, The construction of the canal was to be started in 1.95E
be completed by l91)2, except for the over stationV'..
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considered in connection with the Soviet press stories pn th) con-
struction of a h; klrauli.c c.:ter station near Kuybyshev, and another
rcwer plant near Stalfn;rad (fir:;?4~~'N/444e2" pig) a
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I "c.St1P . The execution of this project for the const:ru6t?or~
of a canal and vw.Lth it, the erection of a power station. must be
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