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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
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REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - Rural electrification INFORMATION 1950 - 1952
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; monthly periodical DATE DIST. 6.1 May 1952
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DATE
PUBLISHED 24 Jul 1951 - 29 Mar 1952
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PROGRESS OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION IIY USSR IN 1951
lumbers in parentheses refer to appended sources]
At the end of 1950, 30,000 kolkhozes and over 6,000 MTS were supplied with
electric power in the USSR.(1) During the first 9 months of 1951, 258 rural
OHS and 140 rural TES working on local fuel were completed, and 780 consoli-
dated kolkhozes electrified. In addition, 150 rural power stations were to be
put into operation on 7 November 1951.(2) Almost all the kolkhozes.in Sverd-
lovsk, Moscow, Yaroslavl' and other oblaats were electrified by the end of
1951. Electrification of all the MTS and aovkhozes was nearing completion
then.(3)
In Renets National Okrug, which isi situated beyond the Arctic Circle in
Arkhangelsk Oblast, the majority of villages have their awn electric power
atstions. Shoina, Indiga, and Belush'ye villages were recently ras of November
19517 electrified.(4)
In Orel Oblast, a series of GES were under construction in the summer of
1951: Makeyevskaya GES was completed and in operation in August, Bclorodskaya
GES was to be put into operation in September, Relyazhskaya GES and iutorov-
skaya GES ere under construction, and Euznetsovs3a, the last of
was to be built in 1952.(2) the series,
In Ryazan' Oblast, ten GES and 11 TES were to be put into operation in
1951, raising the number of electrified consolidated kolkhozes to 299, and of
MTS to 107. Rybnovskiy Rayon has already been completely electrified. The in-
terkolkhoz Rassypukhinskaya GES, which has a capacity of 2,000 kilowatts and is
located on the Moksha River in Sasovskiy Rayon, was under construction (5) and
its first aggregate of 1,000 kilowatts was to be put into operation on 7 Novem-
ber 1951 to serve 25 kolkhozes.(6) Another large interkolkhoz GES with a ca-
pacity of 600 kilowatts was completed on the Don River to electrify Dankovskiy
Rayon.(7) Others to be completed include Bubikovskiy GES of 240-kilowatt ca-
pacity in Voskresenskiy Rayon and Salentsevakaya GES of 250-kilowatt capacity
in Starozhilovskiy Rayon.(5)
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Fineyevskaya interkolkhoz GES with a capacity of 283 kilowatts was com-
pleted on the Bol'shoy Kirzhach River in Muromakiy Rayon of Vladimir Oblast.
The fourth and last aggregate of the Molotitakaya _nterkolkhoz GES, bringing
the total capacity of the station to 287 kilowatts, was completed in September
1951. Bityukovskaya GES, another interkolkhoz GES, of 252 kilowatts, was also
in operation. In postwar years, 59 GES and 12 TES, which electrified 415
kolkhoz villages, were built in the oblast.(8)
The plan for exploiting the Tana River, which crosses Tambov Oblast from
south to north, was carried out during the past few years. The main aspects of
the pro ject were completed at the end of 1951. Six large hydraulic centers,
inc).lxng five interkolkhoz GES, were built on the section of the river between
T:,:..oov and the border of Ryazan' Oblast.(9) The largest of them consists of a
dam, GES, and navigable canal with locks, and was built near Mutes Iyev village
in Morehanskiy Rayon.(10) Since the project has been completed, the Tana River
has become navigable for 260 kilometers.
Work on a similar project, including ten hydraulic centers and ten GES on
the Vorona River, which crosses the ablest from north to south, started in the
spring of 1951. Three GES are already under construction and will be put into
operation in 1952?(9)
In Mari ASSR the 132d kolkhoz GES was completed and put into operation in
November 1951, while two others(one on the Nemtsa River a._1 the other on the
Ilet River) were under construction. (11)
Large-scale construction of rural electric paver stations took place in
Kirov Oblast, where 24 GES were built by kolkhozes (2), including one in Po-
dosinovakiy Rayon to serve 50 koLkhozes.(12) Pushminskaya GES with a capacity
of 400 kilowatts was to be put into operation on 7 November 1951.(2)
In Komi-Permyak Okrug of Molotov Oblast, there were 59 GES and 24 TES
serving 97 consolidated kolkhozes, and 400 cattle-breeding state farms at the
beginning of 1951; 16,000 kolkhoz hcmes had electric lights.(13)
An interkolkhoz GES of 252-kilowatt capacity on the In'va River in Yus'-
vinskiy Rayon serving 55 villages and another of 168-kilowatt capacity on the
Kos'va River in Beloyevskiy Rayon were completed in September and March 1951
respectively.(14)
Kurganin;kiy Rayon of Krasnodar Kray, as well as many villages all over
the kray, were completely electrified in 1951.(2) The first aggregate of 40C
kilowatts of the Interkolkhoz GES on Urup River was completed. Remaining ag-
gregates of 800 kilowatts will be completed in 1952.(15)
Zelenchukskiy Rayon of Stavropol' Kray was completely electrified at the
end of 1951. Electrification was about to be completed in Appolonovskiy and
Sovetskiy rayons, as well as in the Cherkess Autonomous Oblast. The largest
rural GES in Stavropol' Kray, with a capacity of 880 kilowatts, was completed
in the outskirts of Storozhevaya Stanitsa, at the confluence of the Kefar and
Bezgon rivera.(16)
In Dagestan ASSR, over 100 electric power stations were put into opera-
tion within the last few years. Five new kolkhoz GES, including Karatinskaya
interkolkhoz GES, were put into operation during the first 8 months of 1951 (17)
and six more were nearing completion in September 1951.(18)
In the mountains of Altay Kray, six kolkhoz GES were completed on the Bol'-
shaya Yalmon, Ursul, and Malyy Ingumen' rivers.(19)
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Omsk Oblast had 228 kolkhoz electric paver stations, of which nine were
in Tara Rayon and four GIB in Ust' Ishimskiy Rayon, which is 300 kilometers
away from the nearest railroad. A large inte:ckolkhoz GES on the Om' River in
Nizhne-Omskiy Rayon will be in operation in 1952.(20)
Novo-Lozhnikovskaya GES, the fourteenth to be put into operation in Novo-
sibirsk Oblast during the postwar years, is located in Kyshtovskiy Rayon.(21)
In Tomsk Oblast, ten kolkhoz and interkolkhoz electric paver stations
were built during the postwar years, six of which were completed in 1951.
Twenty more were under construction in November 1951, including the GES on the
Parbig River in subpolar Aleksandrovskiy Rayon, construction of which is near-
ing completion.(22)
In Irkutsk Obla=t, 83 kolkhoz and interkolkhoz GES were put into opera-
tion during the last 3 years. About 200 kolkhozes and MPS in outlying dis-
tricta of the oblast are now supplied with electric pwer.(23)
Lithuanian SSR
In Shyaulyayskiy Rayon of the Lithuanian SSR, 19 new electric paver sta-
tions were put into operation in 1951. Their output has completely electrified
all 32 sovkhozes of the rayon.(24)
An irterkolkhoz GES on Arikshta River was completed in Anikshchayakiy
Rayon in November 1951 and seven others were under construction in other parts
of Lithuania. Sukunchayskaya interkolkhoz GES, Karpenskaya state rural GES,
and ten new electric power plants at MIS were being put into operation at the
end of 1951.(25)
The first state rural GES was built near Kapenay on the Virvite River in
Kmyanskiy Rayon. It has two turbines and supplies power to nine consolidated
kolkhozes.(26)
Latvian SSR
i'he majority of the ter interkolkhoz DES in Latvia which were under con-
struction in 1951 was to be completed d:irirg 195.(27) Over half of all the
kolkhozes of the republic were electrified by the end of the year.(28) Many
kolkhozes have installed wind-ope:ated electric power plants, whose generators
are capable of producing power even at the low wind velocity of about 2.5 me-
tersper second. The unit was designed.by the Power and Electroengineering
Institute of the Academy of Sciences Latvian SSR.(29)
Estonian SSR
At the end of 1951, almost one third of all the kolkhozes in Estonia were
electrified. During 1951, kolkhozes received loans amounting to 650,000 rubles
for the construction of electric ?wer stations, and the 1952 plan calls for
loaning one million rubles for the same purpose.(3o) Compared with 1940, the
total capacity of rural electric power stations increased 8.4 times and paver
consumption ten times. New rural electric power stations with a total capacity
of 1,000 kilowatts were put into operation in 1951. The plan for 1951 - 1955
provides for the construction of kolkhoz and interkolkhoz GES with a total ca-
pacity of 2,100 kilowatts, state rural GES with a total capacity of 1,500 kilo-
watts, and state rural steam electric power stations with a total capacity of
1,500 kilowatts. The plan is already in force and is being carried out.(31)
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Belorussian SSR
In 1951, 11 interkolkhoz and kolkhoz GES were put in operation (32), in-
cluding the Lukoml akaya GES in Chasinkovskiy Rayon, the largest rural GES in
the republic. Its first aggregate and 53 kilometers of high-voltage trans-
mission lines are in operation.(33)
A kolkhoz electric power station in Kormyanskiy Rayon and another in Re-
chitskiy Rayon were also put into operation in Septa-her and five others were
to be ready for exploitation in December 1951.(34)
At the end of 1951, 730 kolkhozes were electrified in the Belorussian SSR.
It is planned to build six electric power stations in 1952?(35)
Ukrainian SSR
In the Ukraine, 160 TES and GES. were built during 1951.(36) Over 1,200
rural GES, whose total capacity was 8.5 times greater than before the war, were
in operation at the end of 1951.(37) Altogether about 2,000 rural electric
power stations were in operation in September 1951.
In Kiev Oblast, the first aggregate of the Stebelevskaya GES was put into
operation on 4 September 1951. The GES, which is located on RosI River near
Stebelevo vi:lage in Korsun' - Shevchenkovskiy Rayon (38), is the third largest
rural GFS built on the RosI River and one of the largest In the Ukraine. (39)
Its present capacity of 1,500 kilowatts will be increased to 2,700 kilo-
watts.(40) Another is the Dubenskaya GES, also on the Roe' River, adjacent to
Bogusiavskiy Rayon. The Dubenskaya GES was also completed and put into opera-
tion. The two new GES are connected to a common circular transmission line
and serve 50 kolkhozes, five MTS, and 40 other enterprises located in six
rayons of the oblast.(38) At the end of 1951, 150 kolkhoz and interkolkhoz
electric power stations were in operation in the oblast including the 11 GES
completed in 1951, while 14 more were under constructfon.(40)
In Kharkov Oblast all MTS, all sovkhozes, and 262 kolkhozes were elec-
trified at the and of 1951. Chuguyevskly, Llpetskiy, 7miyevskly, and Kher'-
kovskiy rayons were completely electrified. There are 91 TES rnd five GES in
operation in Khar'kovskiy Rayon.(41)
In Poltava Oblast, five GES with a total capacity of 955 kilowatts and
ten TES with a total capacity of 412 kilowatts operating on local fuel were
completed and put into operation in 1951. During the last 5 years, 172 kol-
khozes,50 MTS, seven eovkhozes, and three interkolkhoz repair shops were elec-
trifiea.(42)
In Chernigov Oblast, a kolkhoz electric power station was completed in
Kholminskiy Rayon to serve the kolkhoz imeni Molotov.(43)
Saborovskaya GES oc the Yuzhnyy Bug River near Vinnitsa was completed and
put into operation :?'anuary 1952. It will s::pply power to the oblast center of
Vinnitsa, the rayon center of Voronovits, and neighboring kolkhozes.(44)
In Kamenskiy Rayon of Kirovogred Oblast seven kolkhoz electric power
stations were put into operation in 1951.(455
A GES of 600-kilowatt capacity built at the rapids of the Bug River near
Migiy village in Pervomayskiy Rayon, Odessa Oblast, was put into operation in
November 1951 to serve 45 kolkhozes in Pervomayskiy and 01'shanskiy rayons of
Odessa Oblast and Arbuzinskiy and Lysogorskiy rayons of Nikolayev Oblast.(46)
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In Kamenets-Podol'skiy Oblast, 22 rural Gffi, which serve 44 kolkhozes,
were put into operation during the first 10 months of 1951.(47)
a Stanislav Oblast had 53 kolkhoz villages electrified in August 1951 when
powerful interkolkhoz GES was completed in Grodenkovskiy Rayon. Another GES
was under construction on the Bystrltsa River in Lanchinskiy Rayon. The state
has loaned 1.5 million rubles for rural electrification in the oblast during
1951.(48)
Leshnevskaya interkolkhoz electric power station, the largest in the ob-
last, was completed and put into operation at the end of 1951.(49)
Moldavian SSR
Four interkolkhoz GES, including Maramonovskaya No 2 and Makarovskaya GES,
both in Zguritskiy Rayon, have been completed. A lake of 120 hectares was
formed by a dam near Makarovka village. Rusyanskaya GES in Oknitskiy Rayon is
nearing completion.(50)
Georgian SSR
In February 1952, there were 17 rural and kolkhoz GES serving 56 kolkhozes
in Abkhaz ASSR; three more are to be completed in 1952.(51)
In Adzhar ASSR, 25 kolkhoz and interkolkhoz GES were in operation and two
more were about to be completed, one in Kedskiy Rayon and the other in Kobulet-
lkiy Rayon, on 3 February 1952.(52) The total capacity of rural GES in opera-
tion in the Georgian SSR at the end of March 1952 was over 22,000 kilowatts; in
addition, 35 rural GES with a total capacity of 13,000 kilowatts were under
construction.(72)
Armenian SSR
Artashat GES on the Garni River on the outskirts of Artashat village was
completed and put into operation on 6 November 1951. It will serve kolkhozes
of the rayon as well as some industrial enterprises.(53) The second most pw-
erful rural GES in the republic was completed in November 1951 on the Azat
River near Bardzrashen village.(54) Completion of the last aggregate of Oktem-
beryanskaya interkolkhoz GES increased the total capacity of the rural GES to
2,020 kilowatts. About 30 percent of the kolkhozes in the republic are elec-
trified. It is expected that all the kolkhoz villages will be electrified
within 2 years.(2)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
The following rural GES were put into operation during the first half of
1951: Matsekhskaya GES in Zakatal'skiy Rayon, Askeranskaya GES in Stepanakert-
skiy Rayon, Anikh GES and Khoral GES in Kusarskiy Rayon, Aliabadskiy GES and
Verkhiyanskiy GES in Zakatal'skiy Rayon, Shikhakeran village GES, and Lenkorani
village GES.
Mudzhukh GES in Kusarskiy Rayon and Alichevskaya interkolkhoz GES serving
12 villages in Kubinskiy Rayon were to be put into operation on 7 November
1951.(55) The latter is located near Alidzh settlement.(56)
Kazakh SSR
About 100 electric power stations were built in Kazakh SSR in 1951.(57)
The first aggregate of 1,480 kilowatts ff,600 kilowatts according to source 5)
of the Georyiyevskaya interkolkhoz GES,the largest in Kazakh SSR, was put into
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operation in November 1951. Besides six cattle-breeding and other consolidated
kolkhozes, it supplies power to the rayon center and industrial enterprises,
including a cement plant.(59) It is located on the Chuyskiy Canal (2) near
Georgiyevka village of Kurdayskiy Rayon in Dzhambul Oblast.
Chubarovskaya interkolkhoz ORB, which is located near Chubarovka village
in the Yuzbno-Kazakhstan Oblast, has been completed. It has a capacity of 170
kilowatts. Its transmission line, which was 14 kilometers long in October 1951
and which supplied electricity to 800 homes, was to be extended to give light
to 3,145 homes.(60) Kargalinskaya interkolkhcz GES, with a capacity of 380
kilowatts, has been completed in Dzhambulskiy Rayon of Alma-Ata Oblast. In
Alma-Ata Rayon of the same oblast, the first aggregate of 120 kilowatts of the
Kamenskaya No 2 GES was to be completed on 7 November 1951. There were 55 elec-
tric power stations in operation in the oblast in November 1951, supplying
power to all MTS, all sovkhozes, and to 50 percent of the kolkhozes. Enbekshi-
Kazakhskiy Rayon has been completely electrified, while electrification of Uy-
gurskiy Rayon was nea,_ag completion.(61) In Taldy-Kurgan Oblast, six kolkhoz
GES, eight kolkhoz TES oy"rated on local fuel, and 14 TES belonging to M1S were
put into operation in 19;,x.. (62)
Uzbek SSR
During the postwar years, 223 new GES were built in the Uzbek SSR. In
'1951, 20 kolkhoz GES were completed and 11 other kolkhoz electric power sta-
tions were nearing completion at the end of the year.(63) Altogether, over 60
rural GES were under construction in the republic.(64) In Samarkand Oblast,
96 kolkhoz and interkolkbcz electric power stations were built during the last
few years.(65) About ten kolkhoz GES were built in Khivinskiy Rayon of Khorezm
oblast.(66)
Kirgiz SSR
In August 1951, there were 75 GES with a total capacity of 6,190 kilowatts
and 208 electrified kolkhozes in Kirgiz SSR.(68) Nine new kolkhoz electric
power stations were put into operation in 1951, bringing the total up to 20.(69)
Turkmen SSR
Rural electrification in Turkmen SSR is making very slow progress and is
far behind the needs of the population. During the postwar years, U kolkhoz
GES, which electrified 29 kolkhozes, were put into operation. Steam electric
power stations electrified 23 MI5, three MRZ (Motor Equipment Repairing Plant),
and one sovkhoz.(67)
Eight steam electric power stations were completed in 1951 for MTS in the
Vakhshskaya va11Ay.(71) In 1952, the Kzyl Tunishuk state rural GES and kolkhoz
GES in Isfarinskiy, Pendzhikentskiy, and Kolkhozchionskiy rayons are expected
to be put in operations.(70)
1. Moscow, Pravda, 2 Nov 51
2. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 21 Oct 51
3. Moscow, Nauka i Zhizn', No 1, Jan 52
4. Moscow, Trud, 21 Nov 51
5. Moscow, Izvestiya, 6 Oct 51
6. Vechernyaya Moskva, 24 Sep 51
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7. Pravda, 16 Aug 51
8. Ibid., 12 Sep 51
9. Ibid., 19 Jan 52
10. Ibid., 6 Jan 52
11. Yerevan', Kc?unist, 14 Nov 51
12. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 30 Sep 51
13. Izvestiya, 4 Jan 52
14. Ibid., 18 Sep 51
15. Moscow, Komaomo1'skaya Pravda, 26 Jan 52
16. Pravda, 17 Oct 51
17. Izvestiya, 18 Oct 51
18. Moskovakaya Pravda, 27 Sep 51
19. Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya, 23 Oct 51
20. Vechernyaya Moskva, 27 Dec 51
21. Izveatiya, 11 Jan 52
22. Ibid., 1 Nov 51
23. Ibid., 28 Aug 51
24. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 13 Jan 52
25. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 3 Nov 51
26. Sovetskaya Litva, 20 Sep 51
27. Izvestiya, 28 Sep 51
28. Trull, 12 Jan 52
29. Moskovakiy Komsomolets, 24 Jul 51
30. Pravda, 6 Feb 52
31. ;allin, Sovetskaya Eetoniya, 24 Jan 52
32. Pravda, 26 Nov 51
33. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 7 Nov 51
34. Sovetskaya Estoniya, 21 Sep 51
35. Leningradskaya Pravda, 16 Jan 52
36. Pravda, 26 Dec 51
37. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 21 Nov 51
38. Izvestiya, 5 Sep 51
39. Ibid., 22 Feb 52
40. Komaomol'skaya Pravda, 30 Jan 52
41. Pravda Ukrainy, 21 Jan 52
42. Ibid., 19 Feb 52
43. Pravda, 3 Nov 51
44. Pravda Ukrainy, 19 Jan 52
45. Ibid., 29 Dec 51
46. Ibid., 30 Nov 51
47. Ibid., 31 Nov 51
48. Leninskoye Znamya, 17 Aug 51
49. Izvestiya, 28 Dec 51
50. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 1 Jan 52
51. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 21 Feb 52
52. Pravda Ukrainy, 3 Feb 52
53. Kommunist, 6 Nov 51
54. Pravda, 14 Nov 51
55. Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 16 Sep 51
56. Ibid., 13 Oct 51
57. Pravda, 2 Jan 52
58. Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 4 Dec 51
59. Kazakhstanakaya Pravda, 18 Nov 51
60. Ibid., 9 Oct 51
61. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 4 Nov 51
62. Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 7 Nov 51
63. Izvestiya, 18.Dec 51
64. Pravda, 20 Oct 51
65. Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 27 Jan 52
66. Ibid., 8 Jan 52
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67. Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 23 Oct 51
68. Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 23 Aug 51
69. Pravda, 11 Dec 51
70. Stalinabad, Komunnist Tadzhikistan, 2 Mar 52
71. Ibid., 24 Jan 52
72. Sovetskaya Litva, 29 Mar 52
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