BIG PROJECTS/ SHOWPIECES IN RUSSIA
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- RUSSIAN PROJECTS AND SHOW PIECES
- DNEPR-OSTROI DAM
- generated 560 mW of power
- provided electricity needed for aluminium plants
- largest dam on its river
- increased Soviet electric power fivefold
- MOSCOW METRO
- designed to cope with the increase of people into Moscow
- increased urban population from collectivisation
- first in USSR
- 11km long with 13 stations
- used steel to reflect industrialisation
- grand decor to reflect positive socialist future eg. marble walls
- wanted to prove it could surpass capitalist designs
- designed to cope with the increase of people into Moscow
- MAGNITOGO-RSK
- industrial city containing 150,000 people
- people lived downwind of factories, so suffered with their health
- poorly planned as Stalin rushed to increase indust.
- had vast reserves of iron ore
- DNEPR-OSTROI DAM
- VOLGA CANAL
- contained one of the largest statues of Lenin
- connected White + Baltic Sea
- 22,000 died in construction
- built by 200,000 prisoners from the Dmitlag labour camp
- could only be used by light traffic due to it being too shallow
- RUSSIAN PROJECTS AND SHOW PIECES
- DNEPR-OSTROI DAM
- generated 560 mW of power
- provided electricity needed for aluminium plants
- largest dam on its river
- increased Soviet electric power fivefold
- MOSCOW METRO
- designed to cope with the increase of people into Moscow
- increased urban population from collectivisation
- first in USSR
- 11km long with 13 stations
- used steel to reflect industrialisation
- grand decor to reflect positive socialist future eg. marble walls
- wanted to prove it could surpass capitalist designs
- designed to cope with the increase of people into Moscow
- MAGNITOGO-RSK
- industrial city containing 150,000 people
- people lived downwind of factories, so suffered with their health
- poorly planned as Stalin rushed to increase indust.
- had vast reserves of iron ore
- DNEPR-OSTROI DAM
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