GOELRO plan
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GOELRO plan (Russian: план ГОЭЛРО) was the first ever Soviet plan of recovery and development of the state economy, a prototype of Five Year Plans. GOELRO is the transliteration of the Russian abbreviation for "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" (Государственная комиссия по электрификации России).
The commission and the plan were created by an initiative and supervision of Vladimir Lenin himself, whose understanding of the importance of the undertaking are summarized in his popular say: "Socialism is the Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country".
The plan was developed in 1920 for 10-15 years ahead. As its name suggests, the plan provisioned for a major restructuring of the economy based on the total electrification of the country. The plan stupulated the construction of large enterprized fed by a network of 30 regional electric power plants, including 10 large hydroelectric power plants.
The plan was basically fulfilled by 1931.
Its fulfilment was a base of another Soviet cliche: "Ilyich's lamp" for an electric bulb (лампочка Ильича; "Ilyich" was a common reference to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin).
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