 The steam turbines , and a license to build them , were originally going to be ordered from <unk> Laird in the United Kingdom , but their £ 700 @,@ 000 cost was more than the Soviets wanted to pay . Instead they bought them from Brown <unk> , using the technical information acquired from <unk> Laird in the process , for £ 400 @,@ 000 . Four single @-@ reduction , impulse @-@ reduction geared turbines were ordered from the Swiss firm , three to equip Sovetskaya Rossiya and one to serve as a pattern for the factory in <unk> that was to build the remainder . The three produced a total of 201 @,@ 000 shaft horsepower ( 149 @,@ <unk> kW ) . Six triangle @-@ type water @-@ tube boilers — two in each boiler room — powered the turbines at a working pressure of 37 kg / <unk> ( 3 @,@ 628 <unk> ; 526 <unk> ) and a temperature of 380 ° C ( 716 ° F ) . 
