DAGHESTAN... 

A COUNTRY WITH A POPULATION OF OVER A MILLION PEOPLE STRETCHING FROM THE SHORES OF THE CASPIAN SEA AND THE KARANOGAIS AND KUMYTZK STEPPES TO THE SNOWY HEIGHTS OF THE CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS. 

IN THE DAYS OF SHAMYL THE AULS OF DAGHESTAN WERE FORTRESS TOWNS BARRING THE MOUNTAIN GORGES TO THE PASSAGE OF THE TSAR S TROOPS AND FIGHTING FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE. BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE GREAT PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION THAT THE 81 PEOPLES WON THIS INDEPENDENCE. 

SIXTEEN THOUSAND DAGHESTAN PARTISANS FOUGHT FOR THE SOVIETS. AND NOW THE GORGES OF DAGHESTAN ARE BARRED BY THE DAMS OF POWER STATIONS, WHICH ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC AND HELPING TO MAKE IT A SECURE AND HAPPY MEMBER OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF SOVIET PEOPLES. 

BEFORE THE REVOLUTION ELECTRICITY WAS UNKNOWN IN DAGHESTAN. TODAY THERE ARE 86 POWER STATIONS. THE GERGEBEL HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION, WHOSE 73-METRE DAM IS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE, GENERATES 20,000 KILOWATTS. BUT THIS IS NOT ENOUGH. PREPARATIONS ARE BEING MADE TO DAM THE RIVER SULAK, WHICH WILL HAVE A GREATER CAPACITY THAN THE DNIEPER HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION. ITS DAM WILL BE NEARLY 250 METRES HIGH, PERHAPS THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD. 

THE REVOLUTIONARY ENERGY OF THE PEOPLES IS AWAKENING THE DORMANT FORCES OF NATURE. 

HOT NATURAL GASES BURST THROUGH THE CRUST OF THE SOIL IN MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. THE «DAGHESTAN FIRE» GLASS WORKS WAS THE FIRST OF THE INDUSTRIES TO USE THESE NATURAL GASES AS FUEL. 

THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT HAS LAID 5,000 KILOMETRES OF AUTOMOBILE ROAD IN DAGHESTAN. THEY ARE CARRYING KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE TO THE MOST OUT-OF-THE-WAY MOUNTAIN VILLAGES. 

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ЦУНБ им. Н.А. Некрасова Отдел хранения фондов