Great Construction Projects of Communism (Russian: Великие стройки коммунизма) is a phrase that used to identify a series of the most ambitious construction projects and had great importance for the economy of the Soviet Union. The projects were initiated 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, Russia
- Stalingrad Hydroelectric Station, now Volga Hydroelectric Station near Volgograd, and the associated irrigation network in the Caspian Depression
- Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Station, now in Rostov Oblast, Russia
- The system of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in the lower part of the Dnieper river, North Crimean Canal, South Ukraine Canal, and irrigation networks in northern Crimea and southern Ukraine
- Main Turkmen Canal, unfinished
- The Volga–Don Canal
- The White Sea–Baltic Canal
- The Moscow Canal
See also
- Northern river reversal, another ambitious Soviet project
- Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
- Shock construction projects
- Ten Great Buildings in 1950s Beijing
References
- ↑ A.A. Sokolov, Hydrography of the USSR, Gidrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 1952, section "Great construction sites of communism (in Russian)
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