Rivers partitioned by dams of HPSs, electric power transmission lines that stretch along uninhabited territories, enormous cooling towers, turbines, power generators and other facilities. You can find many of these man-made world wonders in the TASS photo-gallery.

Idle discharges at the Burejskaya HPS. The largest HPS of the Far East, with a power capacity of 2010 MWtt. Construction began in 1978, and concluded only in 2014

The Nizhhne-Burejskaya HPS. The foundation ditch, September 2014. The construction of the second HPS of the Bureya River cascade started in 2010, with the first facilities to be launched in 2016. The station will become the counter-regulator for the Burejskaya HPS with a power capacity of 320 MWtt

The Artemovskaya TPS – one of the pioneers of the power industry of the Far East; it was launched in November 1936 to become a pillar of the Primorje district energy sector afterwards. Until 1985 this TPS was called the Sentral Disctrict power station (SDPS). Power capacity has increased 17 times during the whole period of operation – from 24 to 400 MWtt

The Sakhalin power grids – one of the problems of the isolated energy system of the Sakhalin district – is the condition of the grids’s infrastructure. The current network does not allow for providing power reliably to all customers. Energy experts today are reconstructing the grid’s facilities to allow for the ice and wind issues with ice-melting electric current facilities

The construction of the Ust-Srednekanskaya HPS. The second station of the Kolyma River cascade. The first two power generation facilities with power capacity of 168 MWtt were launched at the end of 2013. The construction is scheduled to be completed in 2018. The launch of the station will increase the reliability of energy supply to the isolated energy system of Magadan district, which today receives up to 95% of its power from the Kolyma HPS

The Zejskaya HPS. The end of the major renovation at the hydro-electric generator. The construction of theHPS on the Zeya River  began in 1965 with the first generator launched in 1975. The station is of utmost importance in the prevention of floods, with a flood reservoir capacity of 38 cubic km. The output capacity of the station is rated  at 1300 MWtt

Construction of the second stage of the Blagoveschenskaya TPS. Installation works at the cooling towers. Power capacity expansion  is of foremost importance for the further development of Blagoveschensk. Local as it seems, this project will create a platform for future development of construction sites in one of the largest cities of the Far East

The Khabarovskaya TPS-3. This is the newest station in the city – the first power generation facility  was launched in 1985. At the end of 2006 with the launch of power generator #4 - with electric power capacity of 180 MWtt  and heat power capacity of 260 GKal/hour - the station became the leading facility in terms of installed thermal power capacity (1640 GKal/hour) in the entire energy system of the Far East

The Zejskaya HPS. This station withstood the most powerful flooding of 2013: during the flood the reservoir of the station accumulated an annual norm of water (about 22.7 cubic km as compared to annual average of 24.5 cubic km). In July-August the average water range of the station accounts for 9.37 cubic km of water. In 2013 during these months the volume of water range of the station almost doubled

Open switchgear of the Zejskaya HPS. There are two open switchgears-500 and 220 kW which transfer power to the United Energy Systems of the East

The Blagoveschenskaya TPS. The functioning and the new cooling towers. One of the main new facilities of the second stage  TPs’ construction of is the new cooling tower. It shall become the fourth one at this station. The cooling tower is needed to cool technical water that is used in the process of use of heat parts of the station that can only be cooled by water

The construction of Nizhne-Burejskaya HPS. Preparation to concrete the placement into a conjugating system. This is the first project of the post-Soviet period, as all other stations were launched on sites that were started in  Soviet times. The counter-regulator of the Burejskaya HPS will become the first station in the contemporary history of Russia built by hydro-electric power engineers from scratch

Verkhne-Mutnovskaya GeoPS. This is a unique facility  – a geothermal power station, launched in December 1999 at the bottom of Mutnovsky volcano in the south-east part of Kamchatka. Its power capacity is 12 MWtt. Today geothermal power stations provides up to 30% of power needs for the central energy node of Kamchatka - which permits reductions in the peninsula’s dependence on costly organic fuels

The Zejskaya HPS. The Machinery Hall. There are 6 diagonal water power generators installed in the machinery hall. Fourof these have a power capacity of 225 MWtt each, while two of them have a power capacity of 215 MWtt each

A rainbow over electric power transmission lines. One of the tasks of energy sector construction is to fit engineering objects into the natural landscape harmoniously

The power industry in focus

Power industry facilities are almost always shown as amalgams of nature and technical progress