BIG POWER PLANT
SOVIET ENTERPRISE HORSEPOWER GREATER THAN NIAGARA £82,000,000 INVOLVED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, October 10. In a theatre at Moscow the great hydro-electric plant on the Dnieper was' ceremonially opened. The plant generates 756,000 horse-power compared with Niagara’s 430,000. The level of the Dnieper has been raised 120 ft, making it navigable for its whole length of 1300 miles. The cost, including industrial plants around the site, was £82,000,000. It will have an output of 300,000,000 kilowatts yearly, sufficient to serve 70,000 square miles and a population of 16,000,000. The construction of the plant, which is acclaimed as the “electric heart of the Soviet in the Ukraine,” has occupied five years and 30,000 workers have been employed. A town with a big population has arisen besides the dam.
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Southland Times, Issue 21835, 12 October 1932, Page 7
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