Great Construction Projects of Communism
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 the 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)