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Krzhizhanovsky (Кржижановский) Gleb Maximilianovich
(1872—1959)

Gleb Krzhizhanovsky was a Soviet economist and a state figure. Academician of USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labour (1957). In 1910th runed the construction works of an electric plant near Moscow, proposed an idea of a hydroelectric plant in Saratov. In 1920 appointed as a Chief of Russia Electrification Commission, was in the lead of some parts of GOELRO plan, gave a report of this plan on the VIII Congress of Soviets (December 22, 1920). He's also considered as an author of some revolutionary songs? including «Warsawyanka» (An evil whirls are waving above us...). He wrote it in 1897 in Butirka jail, where he sat because of his participation in the Union of fighting for liberation of the worker class together with Lenin.

USSR, 1972, Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

USSR, 1983, Lenin and Krzhizhanovsky