Shock construction project

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Student construction brigade at the shock construction project of Baikal–Amur Mainline

Shock construction projects (

shock brigades in the Soviet Union.[2]

Although often associated with Komsomol, shock construction projects in more general term also included the Great Construction Projects of Communism.

The first Komsomol shock construction project was announced for the blast furnace #2 (later became known as "Komsomolskaya") at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in 1930–32. The last construction project was an air converting rolling mill for hot rolling at the same Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in 1986–90.

The hire of volunteers for the projects was conducted in a framework of the state system of organizational mobilization, but more often through Komsomol mobilization by

Komsomol travel tickets. One of active participants of the 1950s-80s construction projects were student construction brigades under a patronage of Komsomol.[3] In 1980s the status of regional shock construction projects was granted to Youth Residential Complexes
(MZhK).

References

  1. ^ Komsomol Shock Construction Projects on the Objects of Ministry of Railways of the USSR in the West Siberia (1965-1991). Herald (Altai State University).
  2. ISBN 9780262028271
  3. ISBN 9780801455131

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