Kurakhove Power Station (also: Kurakhivska TES or Kurakhovskaya TES, uk, Курахівська ТЕС) is a thermal power plant on Volycha river from

Kurakhove Kurakhove (, ; russian: link=no, Курахово) is a city in Pokrovsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population: ; 21,479 (2001). At Kurakhove, there is Kurakhove Power Station. The 11 May 2014 Donetsk Oblast independence r ...

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. The first Kurakhove power station went into service on July 6, 1941, but was soon rendered inoperable by

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troops during

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. On October 20, 1941, it was occupied by German troops, who destroyed it in their retraction in 1943. It was repaired soon thereafter and on August 12, 1946, it went into operation again. Further units were installed resulting in an output power of 400 MW. Between 1972 and 1975 7 new units, one with 200 MW, 6 with 210 MW went in service, which replaced the old one and which are after modernization in 2006 still in use. The chimney of the power plant is tall.

330 kV-Line Donbas-Dnipro

Kurakhovka power station is startpoint of a 330 kV-double-circuit power line of unusual design to

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запоріжжя) or Zaporozhye (russian: Запорожье) is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zapor ...

. The 330 kV-Line Donbas-Dnipro is a double-circuit 330 kV three-phase AC

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connecting the 330 kV-substation DD-330 in Zaporizhzhia with Kurakhove Power Station. The line, which was built in 1964, consists in most parts of its length of three parallel power lines, each consisting of pylons with two conductors. Hereby one three-phase AC system consists of the outermost power line and the conductor of the innermost power line, which is closest to it.

330 kV-Line Donbas-Dnipro

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