"The Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station will be built here"

On September 8, 1967, it was accepted into operation. Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station — one of the USSR's major construction projects, both celebrated and criticized by Soviet cultural figures. It was a true miracle of hydroelectric power and, at the same time, a reminder of the enormous human labor that went into its creation. For the construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, hundreds of thousands of people traveled to the taiga for the site, tens of thousands of homes were flooded, and the old city was virtually wiped off the face of the earth. Bratsk.

"NeMoscow" recalls her story.