History of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. Launch (1947)

A view of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

The dam's bottom opening.

Pasha Korobova and Polina Shilo's crews are pouring concrete into the bottom openings.

A tanker of concrete is lowered into the work site, and concrete workers receive it.

Water flows over the dam.

Assembling the first unit.

Builder Andrey Evgrafov and his colleagues assemble the spiral chamber.

Welders work in the giant pipe.

A view of the first turbine in the workshop.

Melting ice around the dam.

The second bottom hole has broken through.

Comrade Artemenko, the construction party organizer, speaks (simultaneously) about the digging of the second bottom hole and the work of the specialists.

Partially obscured by close-ups of the specialists—engineer Polyakov, engineer Danilovich

Comrade Artemenko, the construction party organizer, speaks (simultaneously) about the digging of the second bottom hole and the work of the specialists.

Partially obscured by close-ups of volunteers—carpenter foreman Goncharov, dam foreman Khokhlov, and mechanic foreman Serenko.

The volunteers are heading toward the breakthrough.

Workers are trying to close the bottom hole.

A torrent of raging water is breaking through the dam.

Builders are blocking a leak in the water flow

Builders are installing power lines.

The control panel for the hydroelectric power plant's unit.

The ceremony to launch the first turbine of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station, F. G. Loginov cutting the ribbon.

The joyful faces of the construction workers.

View of the operating dam.

Launch of the second unit.

L. I. Brezhnev speaks at the launch ceremony.

A panorama of a lock on the Dnieper.

People along the canal watch the opening.

The lock gates open.

Ships enter the canal.

A celebration marking the opening of through navigation on the Dnieper.

An orchestra plays.

Dnieper Hydroelectric Station builders and Zaporizhzhia residents dance in pairs.

The lights on the dam are lit.

Streets of Zaporizhzhia.

A steam locomotive pulls tram cars along the tracks.

A view of a residential building under construction.