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Power engineering is a complex of processes and devices for the extraction (production), transportation, transformation and utilisation of primary energy sources and final energy carriers. Organisationally, Soviet power engineering comprises: oil extracting and oil refining, gas, coal, peat and combustible shales industries, electro-, thermal, nuclear energetics which together form one of the major production complexes (energy-fuel) and an important structural element of the Soviet national economy.
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Shelest, V.A. (1987). Alternative Sources of Energy in the National Economy of the Soviet Union. In: Maillet, P., Hague, D., Rowland, C. (eds) The Economics of Choice between Energy Sources. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18624-2_12
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