Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov (Russian: Ива́н Гаври́лович Алекса́ндров; 21 August (1 September) 1875, Moscow, – 2 May 1936, Moscow) was a
Russian and
Sovietengineer who played a significant role in the modernization of the
Soviet Union.[1]
Career
In 1920, Alexandrov participated in developing the
GOELRO plan which was the electrification plan of the Soviet Union. From 1921 to 1927, he was Chief Engineer of the design organization
Dniprobud or Dniprostroy [
uk;
ru] (
Ukrainian: Дніпробуд;
Russian: «Днепрострой») and, in 1926, designed the
Dnipr Dam on the
Dnipr.[2] From 1921, he headed the
Regionalisation Committee of
Gosplan and, as the director with support from
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, used rational economic planning rather than "the vestiges of lost sovereign rights" to divide the Soviet Union into thirteen European and eight Asiatic
oblasts.[3][4][5]
He participated in the plan of the general scheme for the electrification of Slovenia, and, in Asia, the plan for the construction of the
Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM).[1][6]
From 1927 to 1930 he was the Head of the Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Regulation of Flow at the
Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering (MSUEE) (
Russian: Московский государственный университет природообустройства).
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abАнненкова, Е. А. (2018).
"АЛЕКСАНДРОВ Иван Гаврилович (1875–1936)" [ALEXANDROV Ivan Gavrilovich (1875-1936)] (PDF). ООО «Реноме»: Издательско-полиграфическая фирма "Реноме" (in Russian). Санкт-Петербург.
doi:
10.25990/fhg9-my91. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
^Вавилова, С. И., ed. (1948).
"Иван Гаврилович Александров (1875-1936)" [Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov (1875-1936)] (PDF). Irkutsk National Research Technical University (in Russian). Archived from
the original(PDF) on 26 July 2004. Retrieved 19 October 2023. From Люди русской науки: Очерки о выдающихся деятелях есте�ствознания и техники: Гос. изд-во техн. (People of Russian Science: Essays on Outstanding Figures of Natural Science and Technology: State. technical publishing house)