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Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·

Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (1932)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Dneprostroi”

Oct 1932 — The Dnieper hydroelectric station opened at Zaporizhzhia as Europe’s most powerful such station. American engineers under Hugh Cooper had helped build it. In August 1941, Soviet forces retreating before the Germans blew a breach in the dam to deny it to them.

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Turning point
Chapter
Stalin’s Five-Year Plans (chapter 4 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (1932), turning point in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
TURNING POINT · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

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