Industry
Power on paper
Velner prepares a report for GOELRO on Angara water power and its industrial use.
1920s
The city is still to come
Selected events and details from published sources. A curated selection, rather than an exhaustive chronicle.
Everyday life
Credit for sowing
Rural cooperatives provide seed loans and credit and arrange produce purchases. Behind political change remain practical questions: how to sow the fields and sell the harvest.
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The district in a new administrative unit
After Irkutsk Governorate is abolished, Bratsk district becomes part of Tulun Okrug. This is the rural district, not the future industrial city.
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Still a village
Bratskoye has 177 households and 887 residents. The industrial city is still in the future.
Industry
Watching the Angara
A hydrometeorological station is established in Bratsk to observe river levels, discharge, ice, temperature and weather.
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