Great Construction Projects of Communism
Great Construction Projects of Communism (Russian: Великие стройки коммунизма) was a term used for a series of ambitious construction projects undertaken in 1950s on the command of Joseph Stalin.
A 1952 book Hydrography of the USSR lists the following projects in irrigation, navigation, and hydroelectric power. [1]
- Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station, now Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station in Samara Oblast
- Stalingrad Hydroelectric Station, now Volga Hydroelectric Station near Volgograd, and the associated irrigation network in the Caspian Depression
- Main Turkmen Canal, unfinished
- The system of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in the lower part of the Dnieper River, North Crimea Canal, South Ukraine Canal, and irrigation networks in northern Crimea and southern Ukraine
- The Volga-Don Canal
- Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Station on Don
See also
- Northern river reversal, another ambitious Soviet project
- Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
- Shock construction projects
References
- ^ A.A. Sokolov, Hydrography of the USSR, Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1952, section "Great construction sites of communism Template:Ru icon