Moscow and Tehran will soon hold a ceremony of laying the first stone of the Bandar Abbas power plant in Iran.

MOSCOW (Sputnik)�� Russia and Iran will hold the first stone laying ceremony of�the Bandar Abbas power plant in�Iran's Hormozgan province in�the near�future, Iranian Ambassador to�Russia Mehdi Sanaei told Sputnik. "The ceremony of�the first stone laying of�four units of�the Bandar Abbas power plant, which will be constructed by�the Russian company Technopromexport together with�the Iranian partners, will take place soon. The units' capacity is 350 and 400 MW with�the total output of�1,400 MW," Sanaei said.

In August, Technopromexport engineering company, a subsidiary of�Rostec state technologies corporation, announced a two-phase tender for�design of�the plant with�a starting price of $26.6 million in�accordance with�contract agreement signed with�Iranian energy corporation in�November 2015.

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