The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-10

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PLANT TO BEGIN
OPERATION NOV.
10 AT KITCHkAS
World Writers H a i !
New Successes of
Five-Year Plan
Gable by Inprccorr)

MOSCOW, Oct. 9.-The official
opening of the Dnieprostroi, the
largest electrical power station in the
world, will take place in the city Of
Kitchkas, Nov TO- This will mean
new millions of watts of electric
power for the homes of the Russian
workers ct the very moment when
The electric power in thousands Of
workers bones in America is being
cut off. The official opening takes
place three days after the worldwide
celebrations OF the 18th Anniversary
OF the Russian Revolution on Nov. T..
The foundations of this great sta
ton we're laid in November, 1927.
From that date until the present day
scores of thousands of workers in
the Soviet Union by the methods of
shock work and socialist COMPETE
ton, with the assistance of foreign
specialists, have constructed five tur-
bineS with the aggregate capacity of
half million horse power.
The hydro-electric power station
will feed an industrial mill under
construction with current reaching
10000 volts. By the year of 1888
the total horse power of the Dnei-
prostroi will reach $4,000 horse
power yielding three milliard kilo-
watt hours. Dnieprostroi thus con-
stitutes the greatest source of cleo
trio power in the world.
Greatest Turbine.
A turbine, the greatest in the
world, which is 766 meters long and
so meters high and which will in
clude bridge for cranes, will be op-
Grated by the dam. The water level
OF the dam will raise 43 meters and
has 48 passages which will be opened
and closed by means of water Bates
weighing 48 tons each.
BY means of the water gates tise
level of the water can be raised to
d ievel which will make the entire
Dniepre navigable. On the left bank
of the river is furnished with
gigantic sluice enabling vessels to
pass from one water level to an
other.
Across the dam, at a height of So
lneCesS, lies wide road over which
automobiles and tramways leading to
the new industrial district where ewo
years ago only bare Steppe existed
This industrial district includes an
aluminium factory, an iron plant and
a metallurgical of twelve enterprises
with the capacity of 1900 thousand
tons of cast iron per year. All these
plants will be led by the electric
power from the Dnieper statir.a
Also the citiez -hieprope vroysk and
zaporoiie, large industrial cities will
be supplied with power from the
Gam.
Prepare Celebration.
Zaporojie, where the WorHers, tech
nicians and specialists of the indus
trial mill DnleprosCol nYc, nt.5 49,
ready 10000 inhabitants and repre-
sents well-organized municipality.
Members of the Soviet Government,
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party, delegations from factor
les and works from all sections of
the Soviet Union, delegations OF for
eign workers and representatives of
the press from all over the world are
already arriving for the official open
ing of the great dam in Kichkas.
A special edition of the newspaper
"Proletarit Dneiprostroai' will be is
sued on the opening day which will
Contain articles by workers, techni-
ans and engineers This issue of
he paper will contain greetings and
descriptions of the Dniepostroi sent
in by foreign writers such as Upton
Sinclair, Erwin, Dos Passos and
others.