# Dneprostroi hydroelectric station is opened Date: 1932 ## The fact In October 1932 the Dneprostroi (Dnieper) hydroelectric station was opened as a First Five-Year Plan flagship, with U.S. engineer Hugh Cooper among the technical advisers. It supplied industry in the Ukrainian SSR until wartime destruction. Later speeches, the cult, and measured deaths are not mixed into this Fact. ## Context Electrification was [Lenin](/people/vladimir-lenin)’s old slogan; [Stalin](/people/joseph-stalin)’s plan made this dam a political object. Flooding of villages and later 1941 demolition are related costs and later Facts. Shared responsibility with the Politburo, Sovnarkom, NKVD, front commands, and later the State Defence Committee is part of the record. Sharing is not a reason to drop Stalin’s signature or chairmanship, and it is not a reason to treat every local killing as a personal handwriting sample. ## Evidence and sources Stalin’s 1933 report cites the station. Britannica records the plant. Independent engineering histories document [Cooper](/people/roy-cooper)’s role and later wartime destruction. Where later commissions publish death or deportee estimates, those estimates are attributed to the commission, not invented as a Factrail original count. ## Significance Strengthens energy buildout, medium confidence. Direct political contribution. A decree does not harvest grain, a pact does not fire a rifle, and a conference protocol does not occupy a city by itself. Implementation, if dated, is a later Fact. Mixed welfare effects are separate paths. ## What is established and what is not Established: Dneprostroi opened in 1932 under the Five-Year Plan. Not established: a net welfare sign that ignores displaced villages or 1941 demolition. What would change the picture: a contradictory original protocol with a different date or signatory; a demonstrated forgery of the cited order; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of war, weather, or unauthorized local action. The documentary limit is the same for every Stalin instrument in this dossier. Central files can show that an order was issued; they cannot, by themselves, reconstruct every raion’s implementation. Memoir and literary evidence (Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Grossman) is used here only as independent texture, never as the sole causal source. Soviet published statistics of the 1930s are treated as official claims with known incentives to over-report industrial output and under-report famine. Post-1956 party revelations, the 1991–92 archival openings, the 2010 Russian [State Duma](/organizations/state-duma) statement on Katyn, Ukrainian Holodomor statutes, and USHMM/Wilson Center document publications are later independent or successor-state records. They do not convert this Fact into a personality score. They do not cancel the original instrument. Readers who want the welfare path should open the named driver, then the indicator that driver already reaches, rather than treating the portrait as the mechanism. The documentary limit is the same for every Stalin instrument in this dossier. Central files can show that an order was issued; they cannot, by themselves, reconstruct every raion’s implementation. Memoir and literary evidence (Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Grossman) is used here only as independent texture, never as the sole causal source. Soviet published statistics of the 1930s are treated as official claims with known incentives to over-report industrial output and under-report famine. Post-1956 party revelations, the 1991–92 archival openings, the 2010 Russian State Duma statement on Katyn, Ukrainian Holodomor statutes, and USHMM/Wilson Center document publications are later independent or successor-state records. They do not convert this Fact into a personality score. They do not cancel the original instrument. Readers who want the welfare path should open the named driver, then the indicator that driver already reaches, rather than treating the portrait as the mechanism. ## People - Joseph Stalin: https://factrail.ai/people/joseph-stalin ## Drivers - Renewable capacity buildout: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-renewable-buildout ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dnieper-Hydroelectric-Station - https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1933/01/07.htm ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/su-dneprostroi-1932