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engineer who played a significant role in the modernization of the Soviet Union.

Career

In 1920, Alexandrov participated in developing the GOELRO plan which was the electrification plan of the Soviet Union. From 1921 to 1927, he was Chief Engineer of the design organization (; ) and, in 1926, designed the Dnipr Dam on the Dnipr.Проблеми Історії України: факти, судження, пошуки №11 2004: ISSN 0869-2556 (Problems of the History of Ukraine: facts, judgments, searches #11 2004: ISSN 0869-2556)
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and, as the director with support from Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, used rational economic planning rather than "the vestiges of lost sovereign rights" to divide the Soviet Union into thirteen European and eight Asiatic

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. He participated in the plan of the general scheme for the electrification of Slovenia, and, in Asia, the plan for the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). From Люди русской науки: Очерки о выдающихся деятелях есте�ствознания и техники: Гос. изд-во техн. (People of Russian Science: Essays on Outstanding Figures of Natural Science and Technology: State. technical publishing house) From 1927 to 1930 he was the Head of the Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Regulation of Flow at the Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering (MSUEE) (). He died in Moscow and was buried at the

Novodevichy Cemetery Novodevichy Cemetery () is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. History The cemetery was designed by Ivan Mashkov and inaugurated ...

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