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Soviet Shock Construction Projects and Heavy Industry Expansion (1930s–1950s)

Soviet Shock Construction Projects and Heavy Industry Expansion (1930s–1950s)

  1. Construction starts on Dnieper Hydroelectric Station

    Labels: Dnieper Hydroelectric, Electrification Project

  2. First Five-Year Plan launches heavy-industry drive

    Labels: First Five-Year, State Planning

  3. Magnitogorsk steel complex construction begins

    Labels: Magnitogorsk Iron, Planned City

  4. First Magnitogorsk blast furnace reaches full operation

    Labels: Magnitogorsk Blast, Pig Iron

  5. Dnieper dam dedicated and power generation begins

    Labels: Dnieper Hydroelectric, Power Generation

  6. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant founded for mechanization

    Labels: Chelyabinsk Tractor, Machine-building

  7. White Sea–Baltic Canal opens using forced labor

    Labels: White Sea, Gulag Labor

  8. Moscow Metro opens as major urban infrastructure

    Labels: Moscow Metro, Urban Infrastructure

  9. Stakhanovite movement begins with record coal shift

    Labels: Stakhanovite Movement, Aleksei Stakhanov

  10. Moscow–Volga Canal opens, built by Gulag labor

    Labels: Moscow Volga, Gulag Labor

  11. Third Five-Year Plan shifts toward armaments

    Labels: Third Five-Year, Armaments Shift

  12. Fourth Five-Year Plan begins postwar reconstruction push

    Labels: Fourth Five-Year, Postwar Reconstruction

  13. Zhiguli (Kuybyshev) Hydroelectric Station construction starts

    Labels: Zhiguli Hydroelectric, Volga Project

  14. Volga–Don Canal opens, linking major river basins

    Labels: Volga Don, Inland Shipping