design capacity In a short pertod of tlae and has become one of the most paying enterprises of Egyptian Industry. High efficiency of the Aswan hydropower complex was fndf~ cated In a statement made by the Minister of Irrigation of Egypt In 1983. This large project of Soviet-Egyptian cooperation has brought great economic benefit to the country and continues to remain the chief source of electric power ~nd preventing repeti­tive and catastrophic Inundations and droughts. and making It· possible to organize large-scale agricultural production. The work of Soviet geologists In India has made It possible to discover about 50 oil and gas fields. Afghanistan, Algeria• Mongolia, the Syrian Arab Republic and many countries of tropical Africa use widely Soviet geological schbol In developing their national raw material basis. Possessing a developed scientific-technological and pr,9duc• tlon potential the Soviet Union, If It becomes necessary, has thi possibility of mobile concentration of materiel and manpower resources for overcoming difficulties In constructing large~· foreign and domestic projects, ensuring stable and reliable· Implementation of work. solving complicated technol,glcal tasks In short time. This has been convincingly demonstrated when the an embargo was laid on the dellv_erles of the e~uipment for_ the USSR export gas pipeline. A decision has been. token to install soviet-made turbine-driven pump essembl res at 22. compressor.- sta­tions. Soviet designers end machine-builders organized-the pro­ duction of ·home-made gas pumping assemblies In ·.unprecedentedly short period of time and already by September 1983, 20 compressor stations were equipped with Soviet 16-25 MW compressors. The total capacity of compressors Instal led on·al I main pipe-lines built ·In the Soviet Union amounts to 23 mil I Jon kW out of which only 1.1 million kW or less than 51 Is presented by the equip­ ment purchased abroad. 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the economic and technological achievements of the Soviet Union, specifically in the fields of energy production, industry, and international cooperation. It highlights the success of large-scale projects, such as the Aswan hydropower complex and the Soviet-Egyptian cooperation, and emphasizes the Soviet Union's ability to overcome difficulties and achieve rapid production of complex equipment.

**Category**
Economic development, Industry