HEP (Hydroelectric Plant) - 1: A Large Experiment and a Large Order
Marianna Evstratova
In 1896, the Electric Lighting Society - established by Imperial Edict - purchased a plot of land on Raushskaya Embankment and began the construction of a power station designed by Nikolai Basin, an architectural academic. The size and scale of the power plant steadily increased, and construction was therefore not completed until 1917. The power station was then nationalized and assigned the name of the HEPS-1 after Pytor Smidovich.
Meeting point: Water Tower, 10 Raushskaya Embankment Str.
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Marianna Evstratova is an architect and the Chief Curator at the Museum of Architecture. She is the Chief Specialist in Architecture of the Soviet period for the Moscow Heritage Committee, the Chief Curator of the Russian Avant-Garde Foundation and Professor of the International Academy of Architecture (Moscow Branch). She graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. She is currently overseeing the restoration of the Students’ Hostel and has been part of the creative team on the project Engineering Art of Early Art Nouveau: Shukhov’s Strategies in the Design of Light Metal Constructions. She is currently working on a publication about the history of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) in 1923, examining Schusev’s archives.
