Russia
Military drafted in to fight cold spell in Moscow Region
11:00 20/01/2006
MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti) - An electric power supply battalion of the Russian armed forces will deploy its mobile power stations to ensure uninterrupted supplies of electricity to the Moscow Region, a military official said Friday.
"We have deployed two mobile stations so far to provide electricity for the town of Chkalov [about 20 km from the center of Moscow]," said Nikolai Serdtsev, commander of the Russian Engineering Troops.
Serdtsev said the battalion had four power stations with 200-kW capacity, four stations with 100-kW capacity and four 75-kW stations.
It is the only unit in the Russian armed forces that can carry out such operations, he added.

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