OREANDA-NEWS. On 18 June 2008 was announced, that on July 01, 2008 "Yarenergo", an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary, together with the experts of JSC "RAO UES of Russia"; "Upper Volga Coordinated Hydroelectric System, a JSC HydroOGK subsidiary; "Memorial" social movement, and the Central Regional Universal Scientific Library Named after N.A.Nekrasov will perform presentation of the book Prisoners at communist construction sites. Gulag and power industry facilities of the USSR. Collection of documents and photos.

The authors of the book, representatives of JSC "RAO UES of Russia", representatives of "Memorial" social movement, heads of "Yarenergo", an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary, and "Upper Volga Coordinated Hydroelectric System, a JSC HydroOGK subsidiary, are going to make speeches at the presentation; the discussion is also going to take place. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Regional Study and Museology Department of Yaroslavl State University Named after P.G.Demidov Viktoriya Mikhailova and Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Teacher of the Russian History Department of Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University Named after K.D.Ushinsky Nikolay Dutov will speak about the printed matter.

The book is a unique collection of rare archival documents and photos that show the scales of exploitation of prisoners at construction of power industry facilities and their life in the period of reprisals in 1930-1950 of the 20th   century. For the first time in Russian history the authors of the edition performed a detailed analysis of the Soviet "camp economy" by the example of construction of electric power industry facilities.

Materials of the State Archive, Russian State Archive of Economy, and also "Memorial" international society were used in the book. Many of the documents give the idea of low efficiency of the camp economic system. The following is one of the examples described in the book: at construction of the first units of Volga Hydro Power Station each megawatt of capacity took at least 40 human lives.

The book was published at the initiative and with the support of JSC "RAO UES of Russia". This is one of the large-scale social projects of the company on perpetuation of the memory of victims of reprisals at construction of electric power facilities. The aim is to remind the public that each achievement of the Soviet period was based on blood and cruelty, and to avoid similar cases in future.

The book presentation will take place on July 01, 2008 at 14.00 in the conference hall of the Central Regional Universal Scientific Library Named after N.A.Nekrasov at the address: 25 (B), Sverdlova St, Yaroslavl.

The electronic version of the book is available on the web site of IDGC of Centre, JSC /chronicle/book/ and on the web site of "Yarenergo", an IDGC of Centre, JSC subsidiary http://www.yarene.elektra.ru/text/?text=1888 .