GOELRO

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Soviet postage stamp for the 40th anniversary of the GOELRO plan in 1960

The GOELRO -Plan ( acronym from the Russian: ГОЭЛРО - Го сударственный план Эл ектрификации Ро ссии, German: state plan for the electrification of Russia) was in the first years of Soviet power passed to the economically then completely backward and the Civil War paralyzed Soviet Russia on the way of economic modernization. This corresponded to the policy of the communist leadership ( Bolsheviks ) determined by Lenin at the time , which found expression in his famous saying “ Communism - that is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country”.

To this end, the “State Commission for the Electrification of Russia” was founded around 1920. This worked out a plan calculated over a period of 10 to 15 years in order to increase the existing capacities of electrical energy tenfold. For this purpose, the construction of 30 power plants was planned.

The GOELRO plan was fulfilled by the early 1930s.

The colloquial term "Ilyich's lamp" (лампочка Ильича) for the incandescent lamp comes from this time, as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin promoted electrification.

  • GOELRO (1920)

  • Poster No. 742 by Vladimir Mayakovsky on electrification (1919–1921)

  • Part of a map of Russian electrification (1973)

  • GOELRO plan poster with Lenin (1967)

literature

  • Jonathan Coopersmith: The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 , Ithaca / London 1992.
  • Heiko Haumann : Beginning of the planned economy. Electrification, economic planning and social development in Soviet Russia 1917-1921 , Düsseldorf 1974.
  • Bodo Lochmann: From the GOELRO plan to the energy program. On the development of the electrical power industry of the USSR since the twenties. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft 35 (1987), pp. 872-883.