BAKSAN HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION DRAFT STRUCTURE IN THE GOELRO PLAN CONTEXT IN 1925-1927
In the year of the century when the GOELRO plan was adopted, the socio-economic situation in the Russian Federation makes us once again pay attention to the experience of developing and implementing a major industrial modernization program, which had major consequences for our country not only in economic but also in social sphere. Based on the implementation of this program of transformation during the active life of one generation was created the world's second most powerful economy, ensured the independence and integrity of the state in the bloodiest war in human history, ensured a number of major scientific achievements of human civilization. For Kabardino-Balkaria, this period has become a time of contradictory processes due to economic and political backwardness, which was overcome in a forced regime. Creation of the national autonomy and its political institutions was accompanied by formation of the economic basis on the basis of advanced development of electric power industry - the main principle of the GOELRO plan. Such a fundamental factor in Kabardino-Balkaria was the construction of the Baksan hydroelectric power plant, which became the core of modernizing agricultural production and creating new industries. In the article, the author, based on archival documents, shows the process of development of the Baksan HPP project as part of the unified plan of electrification of the USSR.