Warm anniversary
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  "Amur lists" on 29 September, 2004.
  On 28 September khabarovsk of power engineering noted 50- anniversary from the day of launching the khabarovsk TETs-1
  As it is assumed, to the date they encouraged the best workers of main. Honorable title the "deserved worker OF RAO" OF THE EES OF RUSSIA "is honored the deputy chief of the fuel-transport the shop of station Vadim Belyakov, the honorable worker TEK of Russia became the chief of the production-engineering the division of Aleksandr Stetsenko. 
  Area under the station was selected in 1936, but building its notuspeli  - it interfere withd war. In 1950 began the centralized financing of building; however, k to that time already the pair of the years of housing they were raised by entire peace. And finally, on 28 September 1954 the first aggregate TETs-1 was neglected and left to operating conditions. 
  Recalls pensioner, and then the shift chief of station Aleksandr Ivanovich Kurkovich: 
  - difficulties was much, imperfections were sufficient, it must be confessed... But in the people eyes burnt, everyone felt its participation to the large matter. 
  They started TETS - HEAT AND POWER PLANT with the aid of the genuine locomotive: the accessory equipment then it was on the minimum, workers, entering into their first autumn-winter season, were warmed in the groups of new TETS - HEAT AND POWER PLANT, kindling bonfires...But the growing city required still electricity, heat. They enlarged the first main up to the middle of the 70th. 
  Load peak arrived to the end of the 80th, then station worked on the ultimate load. Now TETs-1 it gives to Khabarovsk almost half of the consumed electricity and hot water. And although the wear of the basic equipment of "old lady" isapproximately 80 percent, the chief engineer of power plant Yuri Pak does not lose the optimism: 
  - prospects are already known: entire following yr will go the re-equipping of station. Will leave into the past the crowded after-taste abrasive wear of boilers because of the the poor quality uglya  - since 2006 we will approximately work on the more promising natural gas, and in 2007 let us replace main turbine. What forth coming of sezona  - to 1 October preventive maintenance will be finished, let us enter regularly into the winter. 
  But station itself, according to the forecasts of specialists, will work, as a minimum, to 2020 year. 
  - you come also, to the sixty-year anniversary, and can, and to the century, says the director Khabarovsk TETs-1 Nikolai Kobtsev, indeed in the Far East of alternative to the power plants no. Only they produce heat-, and electricity. 
  Igor KHOROSHILOV |