Author: ZHOOK, S.. [Sergei Iakovlevich Zhuk 1892 - 1957]
Title: The Greater Volga.
Description: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. Stapled card covers, illustrated in red and black, 14.5 x 11 cm. 32 pp. illustrations, photos, folding map. In very good condition. Crisp and clean. The author was chief engineer of construction of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Development [Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station] as well as holding the Order of Lenin, and was Deputy to the Supreme Soviet. He directed the surveying, scientific research, planning, and construction for many very large hydro-engineering structures. Illustrations by artist and graphic designer Aleksei Kravchenko.

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