Local history, accounts of construction and literature. Books about the city’s past also appeared after 1991, so publication dates are not restricted. All listed editions are in Russian.
An autobiography, participant accounts and books about the project’s leaders. Each reading link identifies whether it provides a book or an individual essay.
Моя счастливая жизнь
2008
Fred Yusfin’s autobiographical account offers a personal perspective on the city’s cultural life.
Read online ↗Digital copy in the library
Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Человек и его дело. Очерки истории Братскгэсстроя. В двух книгах
Энергоатомиздат, Москва · 1994
Essays on Bratskgesstroy with participant accounts. The link provides a specific extract from volume one: I. M. Maslenikov on supplying the early construction project.
Read online ↗Read an essay, not the complete two-volume work
Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Это было на Ангаре
1974
A Soviet-era collection about Bratsk’s young builders and the construction project, to compare with later personal recollections.
Read online ↗Digital copy in the library
Edition reference ↗Мешок ↗ — Second-hand listing, 1974 edition
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Иван Иванович Наймушин. Первый начальник Братскгэсстроя
2005
A volume about the first head of Bratskgesstroy, adding a biographical perspective to the construction chronology.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Арон Маркович Гиндин (к столетию со дня рождения)
2004
B. S. Salnikov’s centenary volume about Aron Gindin, one of the people behind the project’s engineering decisions.
Read online ↗Digital copy in the library
Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Мы-братчане (сборник)
1982
A 1982 collection about the city and its residents, reflecting its late-Soviet self-portrait.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Полюс мужества
1963
A 1963 collection about Bratsk and construction, published while work on the dam was still underway.
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Ангарский каскад
1975
A. Ya. Kovalev’s book places the Bratsk dam within the broader development of the Angara cascade.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Братская ГЭС. Сборник документов и материалов Т.1. (1955-1961)
1964
Documents covering 1955–1961, published in 1964: a dated documentary counterpart to personal recollections.
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Братская ГЭС. Сборник документов и материалов Т.2. (1961-1966)
1967
Documents covering 1961–1966, published in 1967, spanning first generation and the main construction’s completion.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Гости Братска (фотоальбом)
1972
A 1972 photo album, a visual companion to accounts of construction and the city’s public life.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Город Братск
1972
V. M. Rudykh’s 1972 account of the young city, written from a contemporary perspective.
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Земные братья
1982
B. A. Kostyukovsky’s book from the library’s Bratsk collection provides a literary counterpart to documents and memoirs.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Очерки истории Ленинского комсомола Братска и Братскгэсстроя
2008
A collective 2008 history of the city’s and construction organisation’s Komsomol, useful for studying youth organisations and public life.
Read online ↗Digital copy in the library
Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Азбука Братска
1992
Gennady Mikhasenko’s Alphabet of Bratsk, a 1992 literary addition to the historical bookshelf.
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Edition reference ↗No verified purchase link found yet.
Летопись Братска. В двух частях
Издательство Иркутского университета · 1992
A dated local chronicle. This entry refers to the two-part 1992 edition.
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Братск-острожный. В двух томах
Братск · 2001
The history of old Bratsk; the author’s bibliography lists a two-volume 2001 edition.
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Природа Братска и его окрестностей
Братск · 2001
A local study of the city’s natural surroundings, listed as 176 pages in the author’s bibliography.
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Народное образование в Братске и Братском районе
Братск · 2000
A dedicated study of education in the city and district, listed as 150 pages.
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Свет Ангары
Восточно-Сибирское книжное издательство, Иркутск · 1980
Essays on the history of Bratskgesstroy, the organisation that built the dam and city. A Soviet-era account to be read in its publication context.
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Братская ГЭС. Стихи и поэма
Советский писатель, Москва · 1967
A poetic interpretation of the great construction project. First published in 1965; this entry describes the 1967 book edition. Literature rather than documentary chronology.
Read online ↗Full digital copy in the library
Edition reference ↗Книжный магазин «Москва» ↗ — Second-hand 1967 edition
Asoba ↗ — Collector’s copy with an autograph
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