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nearly completed under a special agreement with the Soviet Techno-Export Company. The airport comprises a main taxi-way which is 4.36 kilometres long and has an area of 47,600 square metres; a connecting taxi-way with an area of 16,700 square metres; a southern run-way with a total area of 5,200 square metres and a northern run-way with a total area of 5,200 square metres. All the above-mentioned sections of the airport have been completed and are in use. A small canal with a length of 5,520 metres has been constructed in order to drain the airport. Provisions have been made for the installation of lighting throughout the airport, and receiving and transmitting equipment for the communications building. Five hangars fitted out with modern equipment have been built. They have concrete surfaces and a total area of 76,000 square metres. The control tower, garages, workshops, the filling station, transformer house, a twenty-bed hospital and a polyclinic are nearing completion. Other buildings for storage, refrigeration, central heating, hydrogen production, pilot quarters, oxygen production, laboratories and workshops will soon be completed. The Kabul airport, which is also being built by the Soviet Techno-Export Company, has runways, taxi-ways, refuelling facilities, lighting, water pumps, drainage system, central heating, communications centre, air terminal building, and so on. The whole project will be completed within one and a half years. The Habibia High School, which is being built on Darulaman Avenue by the Hochtief A.G. Company, will have 49 classes, 28 offices, 15 laboratories, a large library, two reading rooms, a large hall, hot and cold water and lavatories. This four-storey building will occupy a total area of 15,000 square metres. The school will also have large playing fields and a lawn. Siemens Company will furnish and install the electrical fittings. The complete building will cost 24,000,000 Afghanis. The Public Health Institute building, which will have an auditorium for 800 people and will occupy 10,500 square metres, is nearing completion. It will have four storeys and will cost 28,000,000 Afghanis. A 300-bed hospital is being built near Kabul by the Hochtief A.G. construction company. It will have three wings, each Brigadier-General Mohammed Azeem, Acting Deputy Minister of Public Works (centre seated) and Mr. Golorey, Economic and Technical Counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Kabul (on his left) signing the Jalalabad irrigation project. 48