Bratsk Hydroelectric Station.
A dam that transformed a river and gave a city a new scale. Its history brings together engineering, human labour and a reshaped landscape.
The dam decades later
18 August 2021. A modern view of the Bratsk dam; not an archival photograph.
Andrijko Z. · Wikimedia Commons
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Scale, measured
Capacity, generating units and records: what the numbers mean and when they applied.
↗02 /Who came here
Khrushchev, Castro, Pakhmutova and Yevtushenko: dates, circumstances and evidence.
↗03 /Changing a river
From the construction decision to a working station and the city around it. History through 1991.
↗The station and the city grew together
Energetik, Padun and the right bank carry the construction story forward. Resettled villages tell the story of people for whom the new Bratsk Sea meant beginning life again.