Great construction sites of the USSR
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Great construction sites of the USSR
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How was the Soviet economic miracle created? From the late 1920s, the government staked on the creation of large-scale industry, on the "everyday life of great construction projects" about which the whole country sang. Living standards changed, relations with foreign partners changed, but the succession of great construction projects in the Soviet Union was not interrupted until Perestroika. Turksib, Magnitka, Dnepro HPP, Tsaritsyn and Chelyabinsk tractor plants, Baikonur, Bratskaya HPP, East Siberian oil, KamAZ, and finally BAM - these concepts have become legends. Almost all of these enterprises still work for Russia. In this book, we will discover the real history of these outstanding facilities - through memoirs, documents and newspaper articles of those years, estimates of domestic and foreign experts, statistical materials. We will recognize the people who did the impossible, turning deserts and taiga into a "garden city" - major designers, engineers, managers, workers. How do we evaluate the great construction projects of the USSR today and how are they likely to be evaluated tomorrow? How independent were these projects, did they depend on foreign technologies? We will consider different points of view on this phenomenon and make sure that much of the practice of that time is relevant for the XXI century. Because the industrial and labor history of the country is no less important than the military and political history.
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