A closer look at the city.
Places, people and institutions that make up Bratsk. Choose a subject and move from the wider story to its details.
Bratsk HPP
32 history chapters, engineering specifications and famous visitors.
City districts
The Centre, Energetik, the Right Bank and local place names.
Bratsk Airport
From a riverside dirt strip to the air gateway of an industrial city: aircraft, people and changing connections.
Railways & stations
Why Bratsk has several passenger stations, how the dam connected the banks, and how to identify your terminal.
Luge in Bratsk
Pikhtovy Ridge, a coaching tradition and the route to Olympic medals: how a construction city became a centre of luge.
Mayors of Bratsk
From the transition to municipal government in the 1990s to the current mayor: terms, responsibilities and changing election systems.
Crime & the city
Major cases, court records and remembrance: a history of crime without romanticising it or repeating urban legends.
People of Bratsk
Builders, writers, photographers and athletes whose lives and work became connected with the city.