Siberian Dam Construction Photo Album of 17 Large Photographs with Captions , Documenting the Transformation of the Angara Region into a Soviet Industrial Center, 1955–1964
Bratskgesstroy photo album depicting construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Angara River between 1955 and 1964, documenting one of the Soviet Union’s largest postwar industrial projects during Nikita Khrushchev’s campaign to industrialize Siberia. Construction began in 1955 at the Padun narrows north of Irkutsk, where the Angara’s.....