Dnieper - working weekdays. 60 pictures

The first-born of the Soviet hydropower today as 76 years ago, still in the ranks. His image is immortalized in orders and medals, diplomas and posters. Without it, it is hard to image industrial giant - Zaporozhye, without him is hard to imagine even the recent history.

Many Cossacks and guests always see him in "otrytochnyh 'perspectives. Against the background of the monument to Lenin, with a panoramic area of ​​the museum on the island. Khortytsya, from the window of a trolley bus or just standing on the bridge of the dam and throwing gravel with a 40-meter-high water. As a child, we were taken on a school trip to the computer room and the museum DneprGESa located there. It is so to say "tourist" DneprGES. And how they see it themselves DneprGES-sheep coming to the legend every day. On a normal working shift?

All the people I met during the shooting station, take pride in the fact that work on such a wonderful company. Whether it's a security guard at the entrance or the shift engineer. All feel the importance of their work. Each of them is a sense of personal responsibility, working at the legendary and beautiful waterworks Europe.





Built in 1932, the Dnieper is considered relatively "young" dam. Destroyed during the Great Patriotic War and the restored, it is still subject to very reliable and safe in terms of hydro-protection.



Against the background of recent events at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, many questions arise about the safety of such powerful hydro facilities. After all, so many years have passed since its construction.



But, as we are assured the employees themselves stations, their fears on this score there. After the incident in the Sayan Mountains, the inspection body of the dam, turbines and water disposal systems increased.



No, this is not the inspector is nice DnieproGES-worker and secretly from the authorities catch fish. There are notable perches and bullheads!



All in all, the glorious workers of the patriarch of Soviet power about 380 people. This security, and human resources, and engineering services, and a dining area, and a medical center, and gardeners, and even the head of the museum.



This provocative poster hanging on the front wall of the 1st unit.



Let us enter into it. 236 meters in length and 70 in width. This area has 9 turbines. Or, as they are called - hydraulic units.



We'll get in closer to read, who do we talk gives?



It is, pindosskie unit!



In the belly of the turbine shaft is visible. Now it does not rotate. The turbine is stopped at a scheduled scan.



In a moment we go down one level below. Where located base turbines. It is a corridor just below the room that everyone sees on postcards and guidebooks. These tours do not drive and Trespassing.



These tanks with oil, providing "soft" operation of the turbine shaft.



It is enough to block the oil highway as the turbine immediately begin "eat" itself. Thus in 1941 the workers themselves Dnieper-a "ruined" units, dropping them to work without oil.



Also in the "basement" is another small impeller. Same pindosskie. It serves as a so-called "starter", giving the primary current for the newly launched large turbine. A kind of "starter."



That her passport nameplate.



Twisting "wheel" gravitsapu this, you can run the turbine.



We climb to the top. There are already two interchangeable engineer trying to stop one of the turbines. A bunch of computer systems operated by touch screen. There's the devil himself a leg break, as there are buttons and lights!



Try it, "not the press!"



This is not a mobile phone menu flipping!



These cross-cabinets only the tip of the iceberg of switching systems.



It is enough to come out of the computer room and go to a central control room. Hence, there is a control with two power units "Dnieper-1" and "Dnieper-2." Here electronics for more than a starry cruiser "Galactica"!



And it is almost around the perimeter of the room!



Control stations fully duplicates all systems in computer rooms and combines them into a common system, which at one time united in a single hydropower system Dniproenergo, which in turn is integrated into ...



As in a fantastic movie late 50s.



Devices 180!



All furniture and MCC-very strict and elegant. Expensive.



Like everything on DneprGES th. After all, here come the various government delegations. That will come Yushchenko, Putin glance. Parade and wedding decorations in the lobby dining room resembles a district registrar.



This is a common operating eatery.



Set lunch is ... 10-15 hryvnia!



Outside the dining room looks as impressive in the style of the 1st unit.



Flowers, klumbochki, fountains. All tinted trimmed, watered. Reminiscent of an exemplary botanical garden. Besedochka among the fruit trees - the best place for repair team.



This repair shop. Many machine tools, welding machines, elevators, benches. Then make the current repairs of equipment.



This chemistry laboratory. The question is, why?



The thing grease! An experienced technician here produces chemical analyzes of waste turbine oil. The presence of metal chips, its level of oil speaks about deterioration of rubbing the metal parts of the turbine - shaft, impeller and others.



Various ingenious devices stand guard security.



Samples of oil are produced every day. Everything is entered in the passport magazine each turbine.



If the rules swarf exceeded, the turbine is stopped, the oil change or make running repairs.



Walk a minute further. Past cancer standing "flower."



Zaydёm to the clinic. Let's get acquainted with the situation.



The level of equipment of interior decoration and is consistent with modern requirements for this type of institutions.



Then there are a dental office and UHF bands and all sorts of other "progrevalki-svetilki."



Dressing for work shifts.



And here is the change. I found them in a very dangerous occupation - change of insulators on the high-voltage switchyard.



I do not know what that place should be the operating voltage, but greater than 30 kW.



And I wanted to come closer than 20 meters.



And what is the pepelats on wires - I do not know.



This GAZ-51-A does not have license plates, because the last years40 he does not leave the gate, and the Dnieper.



Monstrovye system!



We leave finally admire the view from the right bank.



View monumental.



And gradually move on to the second room, that is, the Dnieper-2.



This picture was taken just at the point that hundreds of thousands of Cossacks see every day, passing the dam Dnieper-and, looking at the bottom of the second machine room.



Three receiver with oil. Refined olive ...



Cross-cabinets of the second machine room.



Again devices like retro-science fiction films.



Gourmet though!



On autopilot flies it too!



Wow, it's hard!



Industrial design a la scoop in all its glory!



The shift Dnieper-2 at work.



The engine room is spacious and clean.

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Hardworking cleaners wash the floors twice a day.



At the time of the shooting there was going repair of one of the turbines - cemented the foundation and it was quite dusty.



Changed the worn parts of the turbine.



Here, everything has monstrovye sizes.



Less than 5 tons is nothing here to raise.



What the device sticking out of the floor, we can only guess.



But in general, this computer room is quite "flat". You can play football.



Here, I think that's all. END,



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