Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in the context of "Industrialization in the Soviet Union"

⭐ In the context of Industrialization in the Soviet Union, the construction of large-scale infrastructure projects like the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station is best understood as an example of…

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⭐ Core Definition: Dnieper Hydroelectric Station

The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (Ukrainian: ДніпроГЕС, romanized: DniproHES), also known as the Dnipro Dam, is a hydroelectric power station in the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Operated by Ukrhydroenergo, it is the fifth and largest station in the Dnieper reservoir cascade, a series of hydroelectric stations on the Dnieper river that supply power to the Donets–Kryvyi Rih industrial region. Its dam has a length of 760 metres (2,490 ft), a height of 60 metres (200 ft).

The dam elevates the Dnieper river by 37.5 metres (123 ft) and maintains the water level of the Dnieper Reservoir, which has a volume of 3.3 km and stretches 129 kilometres (80 mi) upstream to the nearby city of Dnipro. The reservoir's two shipping canals—the disused original one with three staircase locks and a newer one with one staircase lock—allow ships to bypass the dam at its eastern end and sail upstream as far as the Pripyat River. A highway on the dam and bridge over the shipping canals enable vehicles to cross the Dnieper.

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👉 Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in the context of Industrialization in the Soviet Union

Industrialization in the Soviet Union was a process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the Soviet Union to reduce the economy's lag behind the developed capitalist states, which was carried out from May 1929 to June 1941.

The official task of industrialization was the transformation of the Soviet Union from a predominantly agrarian state into a leading industrial one. The beginning of socialist industrialization as an integral part of the "triple task of a radical reorganization of society" (industrialization, economic centralization, collectivization of agriculture and a cultural revolution) was laid down by the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy lasting from 1928 until 1932.

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Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in the context of Ukrhydroenergo

Private JSC «Ukrhydroenergo» (Ukrainian: ПрАТ "Укргідроенерго", romanized: PrAT 'Ukrhidroenerho') is a Ukrainian state-owned enterprise that administers hydro power plants along the Dnieper and Dniester rivers.

Ukrhydroenergo is Ukraine's main hydropower generating company and provides FCAS for the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU). The company operates ten power plants on the Dnieper and Dniester rivers: Kyivska HPP, Kyivska PSP, Kanivska HPP, Kremenchutska HPP, Seredniodniprovska HPP, Dniprovska HPP No. 1, Dniprovska HPP No. 2, Kakhovka HPP, Dnistrovska HPP, and Dnistrovska PSP. Enabling works are underway at Kanivska PSP and Kakhovka HPP No. 2.

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Dnieper Hydroelectric Station in the context of Dnieper Reservoir

The Dnieper Reservoir (Ukrainian: Дніпровське водосховище, romanized: Dniprovske vodoskhovyshche) is a reservoir on the Dnieper river in Ukrainian oblasts of Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia. The reservoir's water level is maintained by the dam of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, built in Zaporizhzhia from 1927 to 1932. The filling of the reservoir inundated the Dnieper Rapids.

The Samara River flows from Samara Bay into the northern end of the reservoir near Dnipro. The reservoir stretches 129 kilometres (80 mi) from there to the dam in Zaporizhzhia, and has a width of 3.2 km, a maximum width of 7 km, an average depth of 8 meters, a maximum depth of 53 meters, and a volume of 3.3 km.

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