History of Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (1928-1947)

Destroyed Dnieper Hydroelectric Station dam.

Construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

The ceremonial opening of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. M. I. Kalinin, French writer Henri Barbusse, and S. Ordzhonikidze speak at the rally.

Dnieper Hydroelectric Station workers listen to the speakers.

A train is moving, passengers are in the carriages.

A meeting of people who came to restore the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

People exit train cars and walk through the ruins of buildings.

People float on a raft along the dam and damaged structures.

Close-up of Polina Shilo.

Polina Shilo's concrete crew passes by with shovels.

People are using crowbars and sledgehammers to break up rubble.

Women are shovelling debris and carrying it on stretchers.

A woman with a jackhammer is perched on metal bars at a height.

Clearing rubble and damaged structures.

A large chunk of concrete falls into the water.

Concrete worker Anya Loshkareva and her team clear out debris.

Photo: L. I. Brezhnev with a team of women during restoration work.

A team of women accepts a bucket of concrete.

Anya Loshkareva and her team are riding on a platform.

Girls in wheelbarrows are taking away garbage from a construction site.

People with wheelbarrows, stretchers and trolleys are clearing away the rubble.

Explosives expert Anastasia Balandina opens a window in a destroyed house and washes herself.

Panorama of the dam with damage.

Explosives industry director A. I. Balandina and her female bomb disposal experts plant explosives.

The women run away.

Explosion.

A close-up of blaster Anastasia Balandina.

Explosions occur in several places around the dam.