Tasks of Electrification of the Central Black Earth Region of the RSFSR in the Mid – Second Half of the 1920s

Abstract

The article aims to consider the features in the level of development and in the setting the tasks of electrification on the example of the Central Black Earth Region created within the framework of the process of economic zoning. In December 1925 the XIV Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a course for further accelerated growth of industry, transferring it to a modern high-tech production base with the aim of transforming the USSR into an advanced industrial power, which in turn required the transition of the country's productive forces to new energy capacities. In the political plans of the USSR leadership, this process was called electrification. Implementing the guidelines of the party congress, the USSR State Planning Committee began developing the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy, designed for 1928/29–1932/33. Authors come to conclusion that the main difficulty of electrification was determined not only by the enormous scale of the economic regions created in the USSR, which also differed significantly in geographical and climatic conditions, but also by significant differences in the level of socio-economic development of these territories.