Volzhskaya Hydroelectric Power Station

Строительство Волжской (Сталинградской) ГЭС / The Volga hydroelectric Power Station: 1950s

Строительство Волжской (Сталинградской) ГЭС
в фотографиях 1950-х годов

Construction of the Volga (Stalingrad) hydroelectric
power station in 1950s photographs

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From Time Forward by Georgy Sviridov


The Volzhskaya HPP (formerly Stalingrad / Volgogradskaya HPP , Volzhskaya HPP named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU ) is a hydroelectric power station on the Volga River in the Volgograd Region . The largest hydroelectric power station in the European part of Russia; in 1960-63 was the largest in the world....
The construction of the hydroelectric power station began in 1952 , and was completed in 1961 .

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The Volga Hydroelectric Station or Volga GES (Russian: Волжская ГЭС) also known as the 22nd Congress of the CPSU Stalingrad/Volgograd Hydroelectric Power Station (Russian: Сталинградская/Волгоградская ГЭС имени XXII съезда КПСС), is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe, and it is the last of the Volga-Kama Cascade of dams, immediately before the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea. It was the largest powerstation in the world between 1960 and 1963. Today, it is operated by the electricity company RusHydro.