GREAT POWER STATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21773, 12 October 1932, Page 7

GREAT POWER STATION

SOVIET UNDERTAKING RIVER DNIEPER HARNESSED. LONDON, October 10. . Acclaimed as “the electric heart of the Soviet in the Ukraine,” a hydroelectric power sation described as ' the world’s largest, was opened at Dnieperostroi. Its construction occupied 30,000 workers for five years, and a new town, with that population, has arisen beside the dam, which has raised the level of the Upper Dnieper by 130 feet, enabling the navigation of the entire river, THE OPENING CEREMONY. PERFORMED IN THEATRE. ' LONDON, October 10. In' a theatre in Moscow the great hydro-electric plant on the Dnieper was ceremonially opened. The plant generates 756,000 h.p., compared with Niagara’s 430,000. The level of the Dnieper has been raised 120 feet, making it navigable for the whole length of its 1300 miles. The cost, including the industrial plants around the site, was £82,000,000. The output is 3,000,000,000 kelvins a year, sufficient to serve 70,000 square miles, with a population of 16,000,000. SOVIET ORDERS FOR IRON. PLACED WITH GERMANY. COLOGNE, October 10. The Soviet has ordered from' the German Steel Works Federation 40,000 tons of bar iron, and 15,000 tons of half-finished iron and girders.