Peat digging?

[1./KG4_OldJames]

 

I have just noticed on the Moscow map, (0918 kp9) San'Kovo has a "subtitle" of "extraction of peat".

I am curious as to why this has made it onto the map as there is no such detail anywhere else.

 

any ideas?

Edited December 9, 2017 by 1./KG4_OldJames

[ShamrockOneFive]

Interesting. I've never seen that before...

[DD_Arthur]

Perhaps no other place had peat diggings extensive enough to be served by a branch line?  Perhaps if we look hard enough we'll find a branch to "Spudulika Station"?

[1./KG4_OldJames]

Perhaps no other place had peat diggings extensive enough to be served by a branch line? Perhaps if we look hard enough we'll find a branch to "Spudulika Station"?

I have looked...no luck so far.

[Gambit21]

Peat Schmidt was a special operator inserted behind the lines.

Go get him out.

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

could be simply an error one of the staff made when converting the real world war 2 maps of russia into the game
im sure many map labels were removed and ommited maybe this one was forgotten.

Maybe its intended as a mission objective area for campaign so labeled well,

[-SF-Disarray]

Well, peat bogs are hard to traverse and in all likelihood easy to spot from the air and both are good reasons to put them on a military map. Though I find it hard to believe that there is only one such bog in the whole of the Moscow AO. Perhaps this particular bog was significant to the flow of the battle. Maybe a Soviet or German unit used it to anchor their line, making it strategically notable?

 

I did a little research, both English and Russian language, and didn't find any connection between the war and that particular bog; thought to be honest I only spent about 15 minutes looking. Though I did learn that they have been using that bog as an industrial source of peat for a long time. So there's that I guess.

Edited December 10, 2017 by Disarray

[Lensman]

I have looked...no luck so far.

Errrrrr ...

[bzc3lk]

The Shatura Power Station (also called Shaturskaya GRES or GRES-5 locally) is one of the oldest power stations in Russia. The facility is located in Shatura, Moscow Oblast, and generates power by utilizing two 210 MW units, three 200 MW units, and one 80 MW unit, for a total capacity of 1,100 MW.^[1]Built in 1925, the power station initially used peat as its fuel source. Later on, the power plant has been diversified into multifuel. In 2010, a new combined cycle block of 400 MW was installed. The 80 and 400 MW blocks can not work on peat.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatura_Power_Station

 

Might be on the map because it may have been considered a strategic resource at the time for above reasons.