COMMUNIST PARTY REFORMS ELECTRIFICATION MINISTRY; BULGARIA GETS FIRST STEAMPIPE SYSTEM

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• Publication Date: January 11, 1950
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3ITd Al?`1[I -SO'V~T FORl~B ~ - OtechestTrna Front, Fo 150E, 9 Nov 49
During the relatively short time o? i:a a=tatenae, the $algeri.an Peoplr]'~
Republic has bu11t the follaving poerer statlana: Maritsa I, Yarns, 7rAlken,
$a6azhda, 1Calin, Koymxe, Topliln>x, sad o~5.hers o New steam boi7~ra :and hydru-
tnrbinea have be^In 'installed at the S?a;rilc and Adree thersoele::c.+?ic stetiona
and st the pabnchsr^vo, Male Tsurkea, aa1 othar Yydroolectzic ut~tione, greatly
increasing their capacity and vrM~l;i'ag a general power increase c9 '3bovxt
4b,000 kilowattsa The Kuralo-Me' 3rt.-~;trrvea Breg and I;ax?!lo-P'_ov3.y-Ruae-
F.azgrau 110-kS.lovolt 7.S.x,e~ Tars ~9?.9 c .ping t?~ia peri;,d, anci now tkaea?r, Rre
307 kiiomotera of such li.reee 4[_:c7t;[ec?:,t +he country. i?vwer p,:od*:,,:t?cA k~xs
fionbled within the last 5 years, The Five-Yeas plan hill'provice i1.:Fher
erpanatosl of electric-pave: pro~ecta and put an en~l to +,ho prevailing power
Crisis and to restrictions in tie ran of cursrentR Tha production of lowor
engines in 1948 has increasrd Sk?0 percent ores 1944, and t_T-anaforner production,
112 percent. Telephone land telrgreph equip?ent platatac Yncreeapd their pro-
duction 6>5 timsso The memifactnxe of electricrl eppliaacee and egai,.meat
alf erery type has also shown substantial progress, and the giver-ell valve
of this industry ?a. 1948 reached 205 tsi~lion levee.
The Improvement 8ectien of tY.e Ministry of Electrification sae also
complete8 armor .es pro~ec*.s: SUc large da+ar have veen relea$ed for ope-atio~
and are irrigieting 1.5 dnr.rree of land sad pralacing 200 mi.111on kilowatt-
hours. Aovle:t slecieliets have beea'inatr5ati?:xtel ix assisting `hi: constrac-
t~on of all power arxt hydraulic I.,-r;Sv.-?_*, anu it 5as been notteed thrt wh.:rerer
the anti-Soviet attitude of snbveralwe ele;~nta h>ty been zani~Qst~~L, the pro-
greea of pro,ects ham been obstructed by disastrous incidents like :hose at
the Mezda and Petx?okhan hydroelectric stations. Even now, the experience of
Soviet specialists is sot gives due coasidemtioa. This anti-Soviet policy
has ._vwn a:Af~trated large etatt enterprises, such as Eaergokhidroproyrekt,
anY7. 3s represented by fisyrakov and hip followers, who favor rrivate promoters.
Only after the el9miaatiuu of these tendencies can the eixterpriae became an
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Ghe F-~ae~!;,ma:: Pi~Z,, Sm:~l?. prfv~ste entarprisea, mozeoder, axt stil]: opersti:'~
authority o% EnArgokhid.~^c;.:rcekt . Ancther shortcoming is the ion- utilizS+,ion-n%
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rydra:ulic copa?:ity by ind`:vi~ral stra*.ians, tY~e caeYficia?nt eo~times reaching
only 50 percento
dam pro,jarta xere coiapJ.~=led: Resi.tsa, the geological examine+,lon cf the Iap~rikhov
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Most dam proJ~~:t.,w, Mikahlkove, the HS.tYS and DebrashitNa h;~dra'ulic
gu,t'ons, send the Belm~ damp
On the ottrer hand no 1relimioarv geological tuts xere conducted on +,he
Georgi AimitrnJ.Ynd S?.^id=.aa dam projects, where anti-Soaiet tzndenojpheeia must be laid on its ftt3-
fillmeat. -- S:Lgaed: Vasil Kolerarv, prer+ideat of the Council of Afiniatoara,
And 9+~ko Ghereeakoa, sacra eery of the Central Committee of b.3>a Commr~let
Party
41oRK STARTED IN JIILY' -.- Otc:chesterea Front, too 1599, 6 l~oa k9
i'T1e first ete,,.erisige system e~7ier operated in Bnl.gaz'is ar any Be7.Ftsn
country co~mecta the iiadezhda Thermoelectric Station faith this Ceorgi Diffiitrov
~~:il;: P':za~t. The ilxat part of the o'r~ct the iag glsttt of the
]Pr d - ganeaat
thermoelectz?i^ station, eras gut is operation is Agril, afte:e ex 22-mont'1 6rork
period. Work on the ateamisipe line vea started on to duly to corsoct tvo
oP the moat important enterprises. The northern peat of the ateampige system
sri1.3 be extended to reach a rulsber plant, a n~tirmxreeati.cal factory, atalthe
Elgxom taduaL?rial pover plant.
TFaas vea t project Brea caagleted in 3 moatha becaazae cf the excellent
`cork of the sanagement anti crave, and the pipe system van put in ogicratioa
on l P~
b
ovmai
er. It provides thrt country with the firs? thea~nal. syatQSa
fatd by poster supp~.ied from a central thermoelectric station. Also, the
steam generated at the atatioa will supply technical and heating ragnire-
meata to Lenin 8gnare in the center oP Sofia.
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