VOLGA ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME
(Rec. 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 22. The United Press correspondent in Moscow says that a five-year plan to build one of the world’s biggest hydroelectric power stations at Kuibishev, on the Volga, was announced last night. Russian newspapers say the new power station will have a capacity of 2,000,000 kilowatts—bigger than Boulder Dam in the United States—and Will supply electricity to fhe three industrial centres of Moscow, Saratov, and Kuibishev. besides electrifying the railway lines in these areas and supplying power to pump water for 2,500,000 acres of arid steppes. This vast new electrification plan, says the correspondent, ranks in scope with giant Soviet projects such as the Dnieper dam, the Volga canal and the building of Magnitogorsk, the steel city.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26198, 23 August 1950, Page 7
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