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Show Sen. Moss Heads Junket to Russia The Russian news agency Tass has reported the visit in Russia of the congressional party headed by Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah to the power line substation at Noginsk, near Moscow. Senator Ernest Gruening o f Alaska and Senator Ed Muskie of Maine are with the group, which is inspecting Soviet dams and power projects for the Public Works and Interior committees of the United States Senate. Senator Moss is a member of both committees. After Noginsk, the party flew to Krasnoyarsk, a large industrial city in Siberia, approximately 2,300 miles east of Moscow. The Noginsk substation, one of the most modern in the world, is the key substation for power distribution dis-tribution to the Moscow area. Krasnoyarsk Kras-noyarsk is near the Yenisey river, upon which many of the most advanced ad-vanced Soviet hydroelectric developments devel-opments are built and being built. Among those accompanying the three senators are Michael W. Strauss, former U. S. Commissioner Commission-er of Reclamation, staff members of the senate committees, and Harry Har-ry A. Kuljian and Harvey F. Mc-Phail Mc-Phail of the Kuljian Corporation, designers and builders of hydroelectric hydro-electric projects. From Krasnoyarsk, the party's schedule called for visits to Novosibirsk, Novo-sibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Kuiby-, Kuiby-, shev, and Stalingrad. |