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Show The Sdlt Lake Tribune Sunday, October 23, K3 1!M3 Natural Gas Pipeline Finished, Bui Soviets Arent Bone Yet Continued from Page that crosses 800 waterways and the I'ral Mountains, and cuts through marshes, icefields and forests of pine and bndi The pipeline begins tn the Irengoi fields southwest of the Yamal Peninsula, sweeps southwest across the Urals and past Perm and Pomary to the Volga Itiver It then runs just south of Kursk and Kiev, curving slightly north to Uzhgorod, where it connects with delivery systems in Czechoslovakia The huge project was finished in a year, six months ahead of plan Another equally difficult task re- dI f t;M 5 f ' fVv. V 1 - -- mains, however building 41 compressor stations, each with three massive turbines, every 60 miles or so along the line 20 Stations by '84 Twenty stations, now in various stages of construction, are supposed to be finished this year enough for the first year's contract commitments. ff T Cheturov, setting down his vodka glass after a toast to peace and A J V 4'' - f m ; down t Although the turbines were delayed, Finnish contractors delivered the buildings to house them and Cheturov had to reverse the usual system of building the and then putting the building around it s ' turbine-compress- - "The aajiJ'iini.inp.flAiiiiwr a Associated Press Loserphoto Pipes intended for new natural gas pipeline lie wrapped in a temporary protective cover on the banks of the Volga turbines Soviet-mad- e are in similar condition. Sokolov, who has been supervising construction of a 1,980-mil- e stretch of line, said the stations are being built according to where they are needed most. Western engineer working at the Shamordan station about 200 miles west of Pomary said the station is only 20 percent complete and probably wont be ready for its scheduled startup Dec. 24. He said other nearby stations that are to use Minister Shcherbina denied the charges at a recent news conference, accusing the United States of drumming them up to cover what he said was the failure of Reagans sanctions. The pipeline has been a hot issue in the West, where governments debated whether it will make the NATO allies too dependent on Soviet e Reagan banned shipment of equipment or American technology to the pipeline and then tried to impose the ban on the West European firms. supplies and human rights groups have accused the Soviet Union of using slave labor to lay the pipe in frigid Siberia. The West Europeans eventually refused to go along and shipped Genturbines to eral Electric-designe- d the Soviets late last year, but the gas U.S.-mad- d tiys-u- . system and had to spend time and money making all the systems compatible once they were installed. River about 500 miles east of Moscow near the spot where the Siberia-WesterEurope line stretches across Volga. Soviet Rush n embargo did have an short-live- d fect. e last Italian firm year have been installed at the Pomary station, whose gleaming pipes, massive machinery and modern electronics are a sharp contrast to ef- Nuovo-Pignon- Despite the successful efforts by the Soviet Union and its Western suppliers to nullify the effect of de- liberate U S the surrounding rural villages, where old women with yokes carry buckets of water from the central countermeasures, there can be no doubt that alternative arrangements, changes and dehave led to extra costs, lays . wrote West German banker Alex Lebahn in a recent article. Two of the turbines shipped by the . pump to their wooden homes. At the time of the reporter's visit, the No. 3 had not yet been installed. But No. 2 was . turbine-compress- Shcherbina said the U.S. embargo also forced the Soviets to change their overall plans for compressors. He said at first, 33 were to use the 25 megaGeneral Electric-designe- d watt turbines When the turbines were blocked by the embargo, the Soviet Union rushed its own 25 megawatt turbines into production and Shcherbina has said they would be installed at more than half of the 40 compressor CARPETOWNE HIGHLAND DR. & 33rd So. LEES CARPET FACTORY AUTHORIZED SALE fi WITH TURKEY DAYS AT CARPETOWNE TURKEY DAYS CELEBRATION Mon., Oct. 24 through Sat., Oct 29th. Special Turkey Days sale at savings of 20 to 40 on quality Broadloom Carpet Plus free turkey. Buy the best from Lees and Commercial Security Bank salutes Turkey Days and is proud to be part of the growth and development of Sugarhouse. 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