Word: kuibyshev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great reinforced concrete dam at Kuibyshev stretches nearly three-fourths of a mile across the mighty Volga River. Behind it lies an artificial reservoir 1½ times the size of Great Salt Lake. In its construction, 6.5 billion cu. ft. of earth was excavated-more than was dug out in the building of the Panama Canal. The huge, pale grey power station housing the 20 turbines is 2,000 ft. long, 200 ft. high -twice as large in volume as the gingerbread skyscraper of Moscow University, the tallest building in Russia...
Russians by the thousands crowded the site of Kuibyshev dam last week for the opening of the power station. There were brass bands and the Volga People's Choir, flags and gigantic pictures of Lenin and Nikita Khrushchev. As Party Boss Khrushchev stepped jauntily forward and cut the ribbon stretched across the lock gates, he beamed a toothy smile at cheering excursionists aboard the motorship Dmitry Pozharsky, the first vessel to pass through the locks. He moved on to the engine room of Turbine No. 17 and pulled the handle of the automatic starter. As the turbine began...
...decorated collectively, then and there, with the Order of Lenin. Reminding them that their handiwork was "the largest hydropower station in the world," Khrushchev boasted that "the Americans took over 20 years to build their largest hydropower station, Grand Coulee,"* while "our Soviet workers" needed only seven years for Kuibyshev. "That, comrades, is an outstanding victory!" On the platform with Nikita, the engineers of Kuibyshev beamed at one another; the local party bosses and the chiefs of the Ministry of Electric Power Stations exchanged contented glances...
Then Khrushchev let them have it. Kuibyshev was a wonderful achievement, he repeated, but was it the best way to create electricity? A hydropower station took from seven to ten years to build. But thermal power stations, using natural gas or low-grade coal, could be run up in three years or less. And the "point at issue," cried Nikita, is to win time "in the competition with capitalism, to catch up with and outstrip the United States in the per capita output of the population...
...notoriously homosexual crony, Guy Burgess, also a Foreign Office man, on the very day British authorities were about to question him on spy charges. Twenty-seven months later, Maclean's U.S.-born wife and three children left Switzerland and also slipped behind the Iron Curtain, joining him at Kuibyshev, a town on the Volga where he was teaching English. They found Kuibyshev dreary and provincial, and both welcomed the move to Moscow...