The great construction of the USSR. Zamelianov A.A.

How was the Soviet economic miracle created? Since the late 1920s, the government has made a bet on the creation of large industry, on the "weekdays of great construction projects", which the whole country sang about. The standard of living changed, relations with foreign partners changed, but a series of great construction projects in the Soviet Union was not interrupted until perestroika. Turksib, Magnitogorsk, Dneprogs, Tsaritsynsky and Chelyabinsk Tractor Plants, Baikonur, Bratsk hydroelectric power station, East Siberian oil, KamAZ, finally BAM-these concepts became legends. Almost all of these enterprises are still working for Russia. In this book, we will reveal the real history of these outstanding objects - according to the memoirs, according to the documents and newspaper materials of those years, according to the estimates of domestic and foreign experts, according to statistical materials. We recognize people who committed the impossible, turning deserts and taiga into “cities-garden”-large designers, engineers, managers, workers. How do we evaluate the great construction of the USSR today and how will they most likely evaluate tomorrow? How independent were the 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 21st century. Because the industrial, labor history of the country is no less important than military-political.