Ekibastuz is a town in Kazakhstan. It was the location of a major forced-labor camp of the GULag system maintained by the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the 1950s. Gulag (Russian: ГУЛАГ   listen?, an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно— Трудовых Лагерей и колонии, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies) was the branch of the Soviet internal police and security service that operated the penal system of forced labour camps and associated detention and transit camps... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Near Ekibastuz there are two coal fired power plants: GRES-1, with an electrical power of 1000 megawatts, and GRES-2, with an electrical power of 4000 megawatts. GRES-2 has the tallest chimney in the world (420 meters). Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground either by underground mining, open-pit mining or strip mining. ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... The Chimney of GRES-2 Power Station is the worlds tallest chimney. ...

From Ekibastuz to Kokshetau runs an overhead powerline designed for an optimal transmission voltage, the Ekibastuz-Kokshetau powerline. An overhead powerline is an electric line, which uses as conductors non-isolated conductors. ... The Powerline Ekibastuz-Kokshetau is the powerline designed for the highest transmission voltage (1150 kV) in the world. ...