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Great Construction Projects of Communism (Russian: Великие стройки коммунизма) is a phrase that is used to identify a series of the most ambitious construction megaprojects of major great importance for the economy of the Soviet Union. The projects were initiated in the 1950s on the command of Joseph Stalin.
The following projects in irrigation, navigation, and hydroelectric power were initiated in 1950.

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
The system of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in the lower part of the Dnieper river
North Crimean Canal, Kakhovka Canal, and irrigation networks in northern Crimea and southern Ukraine
Main Turkmen Canal, unfinished
The Volga–Don Canal

Soviet postal stamp series, 1951





















Other "construction projects of Communism" include:

Tsimlyansk Hydroelectric Station, now in Rostov Oblast, Russia
The White Sea–Baltic Canal
The Moscow Canal
Dnieper Hydroelectric Station
Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station
"Magnitka": Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works
Baikal–Amur Mainline




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
GOELRO




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Great Construction Projects of Communism
• Shock construction project
• Volga Hydroelectric Station
• Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature
• Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
• Censorship of images in the Soviet Union
• Artyom Sergeyev
• 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Joseph Alliluyev
• 1941 Red Army Purge