Thread on the Electrification of the Soviet Union.

The "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" or "GOLERO plan" was the first plan for the economic development of the Soviet Union. Becoming the prototype for the famous "five-year plans" carried out by the GOSPLAN (State Planning Committee).

The Commission was established by the Presidium of the VSNKh (Superior Board of the People's Economy) on February 21, 1920. With the participation of over 200 scientists and engineers.

Lenin believed in the unquestionable importance of the electrification of the whole country to achieve communism:

"Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country."

- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. (1920). "Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks"

By the end of 1920, the Commission devised the "Russian SFSR Electrification Plan", which was later approved by the 8th Congress of Soviets on December 22, 1920 and the Sovnarkom (Council of People's Commissars) on December 21, 1921.

The plan was carried out in less than 15 years. By 1931, the total national power output per year was raised to 8.8 billion kWh, compared to 1.9 billion kWh in 1913. Which continued increasing significantly, reaching 13.5 billion kWh by the end of the 1st five-year plan in 1932.

Three hydroelectric stations were built by 1930. The Volkhov, the Svir, and the Dnieper Hydroelectric Stations provided electricity for the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. And by 1954, the first ever nuclear power plant was build in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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