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 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

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