Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov. Pages of Life and Achievements

Abstract

Academician Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov is an outstanding hydropower engineer, the founder of the integrated design of large hydroelectric plants and irrigation systems, the developer of the GOELRO plan, the author of original innovative ideas, which then seriously influenced further development of hydropower engineering and are still of practical importance, the creator of DneproGES. The Angarsk HPP cascade was also designed according to the developments and proposals of Ivan G. Alexandrov. A brilliant researcher, designer, economist, teacher, manager, and administrator graduated from Moscow Engineering School (now Russian University of Transport).

Ivan Alexandrov was recognised worldwide as an outstanding scientist and engineer. His activities mainly fell on the most difficult years of formation of the national economy of the USSR, on the years of the first five-year plans…

For many years he taught at the higher educational institutions of Leningrad and Moscow and enjoyed great love and respect among students.