Svirstroy. [Construction on the Svir]. Photo album.

This photo album devoted to the construction of the Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station. According to the original project, three dams with hydroelectric power plants should have been built on the Svir River (the north-east from Leningrad). However only two of them were built. The construction started in 1927 and was headed by the engineer and one of the founders of the GOELRO plan Genrikh Graftio. In 1931 the concentration camp of Svirlag was established. Many convicts worked at the construction untill 1935. During WWII the dam was destroyed and restored after the war. The Upper Svir Hydroelectric Station was reopened only in 1952. The engineer Genrikh Graftio and Volodymyr Zatonsky, the member of the Central Control Commission, are on the last photo with photomontage. In 1937 Zatonsky was arrested and executed. The album was prepared for delegates of the 4th Hydrological Conference of the Baltic States, which took place on September 1933 in Leningrad. The conference was attended by 400 scientists from Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and the City of Danzig. The collection includes nine photos (+ photo-preface and photo of the map): four landscape photos 8vo; three landscape photos 32mo; one landscape photo 48mo and one 18mo photo.