RF, Tajik presidents launch Sangtuda HPP-1

The two heads of state pressed a symbolical button in the turbine room of the HPP after which on the map of Tajikistan green lines showing electrical networks lit up via which electricity will be supplied from the station.

Ahead of the ceremony, CEO of the Inter RAO UES Company Yevgeny Dod and Tajikistani First Vice Prime Minister Asadullo Gulomov signed an act of state acceptance of the plant thus officially completing the work for the HPP construction launched back in the Soviet period, about 20 years ago.

After that Director of the Sangtuda HPP OJSC Rakhmetulla Alzhanov told the presidents about the main parameters of the plant and demonstrated the equipment installed in the turbine room; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

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