Shevchenko Sergey Zenovich Biography

Sergey Sitnikov in the spring of the year, during diagnosis and subsequent repair, it was determined that further operation of the Chemal hydroelectric power station is impossible. The Godroelectric power station built in the 10th year has become a symbol of the Chemal district. The history of its construction is forever connected in the minds of people with the name of Ekaterina Ivanovna Kalinina.

The history of the construction of the Chemal hydroelectric power station in the xs in the Territory of the Chemal District was widely known as a healing resort place. Members of the country's government came to rest and recreation, and on the site of today's sanatorium, on Mount Beshpek, it was decided to build a closed-type mountain-climatic station for them. Her arrival is associated with the appearance of the first crusts, oil -wing, sausages, the construction of glaciers - cellars using and long -term ice storage, training of housekeeping, gardening, gardening, berry, beekeeping, livestock, the first tractors and other mechanics, greenhouse farm.

And today, capital buildings are operated under the leadership of E. Kalinina - for example, the ROVD building, garages of the district administration, the former stable. Kalinina turned the Chemal into a self -sufficient developed cultural village. But there was one noticeable lag - kerosene lamps and a complete absence of electricity. On one of the visits of M. Kalinina, Ekaterina Ivanovna proposed building a hydroelectric power station on the Chemal River.

The proposal was accepted. Immediately in Chemal, an expedition was sent for the study of the area. The Leningrad Hydro -Project Institute was entrusted with the binding of the project to the terrain. For this purpose, the eldest son of Orzhenikidze Valerian, an employee of the hydro -project institute, came to Chemal. Everything was done very quickly - only two years passed from the statement of the construction to the control start of the finished power station.

As a labor force, a contingent of prisoners in the number of people and the local population with horse-drawn force was used. In the special order at the Stalingrad plant, two turbines were made. At the Kharkov Electro-Mechanical Plant, electric generators were manufactured. The first stage of the Chemal Hydroelectric Power Station was launched in the year. In Chemal, the first electric lamps lit up.

Although then in court the head physician of the sanatorium I. Fedchenko repeatedly proved that the Zjors appeared due to the fault of the local leadership, which showed the "plying". It began in November-December the year. At the end of November, frosts hit in thirty degrees. They grabbed - as always, winter came unexpectedly, and in Kuyus there are no coal and firewood in Kuyus and other villages.

And the bridge over the Chemal is very weak. And a strong -willed decision was made to freeze the road across the river above the bridge, build a crossing in order to ride it. Well, you can’t let heavy kamases skip along the bridge. They stuffed all kinds of rubbish there, lumber, departure and froze the crossing. The river turned out to be frozen and she found herself instantly the road: she flooded Chemal.

But they accused the station in the whole that it had occurred because of her. To eliminate the Zjor, the line of water intake shields under the dam that the reservoirs formed were circulating. The shields were cut and broke, and the Zagor did not leave the village until they began to blow up the frozen dam-road. But the hydroelectric power station then survived and continued to work, developing electricity.

They blew up the station, people died. As a result, the order went to Russia: all existing stations to check and establish security. The Paul station was checked by an authorized organization from Krasnoyarsk. The audit made a disappointing conclusion that the station "breathes in the incense." She has developed all her resources, but is an acting reserve source of energy supply.

The station has two turbines that work in turn, in a gentle mode, with the rate of production of no more than a kilowatt per hour. This is enough to ensure the sanatorium, but nothing more. The audit also determined that the station cannot hold a stable power level, since the automatic regulator that was the height of engineering in the 10th years became unusable.

And the local craftsmen who worked at the station made a manual regulator that could not maintain a stable level. Here it is necessary to clarify that the station used no more than five percent of the water passing through it. The rest of the mass of water that falls from the dam is superfluous, this is a discharge. And through the pipes, on the turbine blades with a diameter of about 60 cm there is a small part of the water, which is enough to rotate the turbines.

In September, by order of the Ministry of Emergencies, the work of the station was stopped and the water from the reservoir was discharged, supposedly to avoid winter ice Zjor on the Chemal River. An avalanche of orders and circulars with a demand for water discharge, although, according to the lawyers of the sanatorium, the station stopped the head physician I. Fedchenko, the station stop was illegal.

Nevertheless, the head physician obeyed and dropped the water. By the beginning of winter, the Chemal river was divided into two channels and shallow, the bottom of the reservoir was exposed, the level of groundwater fell and water disappeared in rural water wells. The station, meanwhile, stood, but heated and the mechanics were on duty.With the advent of frosts, the mechanics found that there was no water flow in the control location of the station.

The water freezed on the way to the turbine, where there should be a seven-meter water column, but it was not due to the discharge of the reservoir. With the advent of spring, it turned out that somewhere the dam case burst from defrosting and the water did not go through the turbines. She does not go where she is supposed to, but flows with streams through the dam case, oozes through the walls, while the hydroelectric station of the hydroelectric power station turns out to be all flooded with water.

The reservoir already had to be filled with water, but the technical staff of the station did not have a clear understanding of the cause of the accident and ways to eliminate it. There was only an understanding that in an indefinite place there was a breakthrough, and that’s all. At this time, the news began to spread in the area, so far at the level of household conversations, about the transfer of the station to the district municipality.

Although the head physician of the sanatorium explained that the territory of the station, and especially the pond and the forest around it, are part of the balneological resort, create a therapeutic microclimate, and cannot be torn from the sanatorium. To fill the reservoir, water shields were raised and cleaned and part of them were reduced. Water stopped flowing through the water pipelines and water gradually left from the turbine hall.

There was a small level that was pumped out by pumps. After that, the valve was opened so that the water would go through the turbines. At the same time, a hoist of the water conduit was discovered, where it was defrosted. The water car was poured by improvised means, but its operation is excluded. Water through the water pipelines now does not enter, it goes directly into the discharge.

That is, the station is no longer restored. One turbine remained in working condition, which can be launched for showing guides. Launch for a short time to show the principle of its work. But the truly Chemal hydroelectric power station will never work.