page_title: Electricity sector in Russia
section_title: Soviets electrification
hierarchical_section_title: Electricity sector in Russia / History / Soviets electrification
caption_attribution_description: English: GOELRO, 1920 Русский: ГОЭЛРО. План эликтрофикации РСФСР
context_page_description: Russia is the fourth largest generator and consumer of electricity in the world.
  Its 440 power stations have a combined installed generation capacity of 220 GW.
  Russia has a single synchronous electrical grid encompassing much of the country. The Russian electric grid links over 3,200,000 kilometres of power lines, 150,000 kilometres of which are high voltage cables over 220 kV.
  Electricity generation is based largely on gas, coal, hydro, and nuclear power.
  60% of thermal generation is from combined heat and power plants.
  Russia operates 31 nuclear power reactors in 10 locations, with an installed capacity of 21 GW.
  Despite considerable geothermal, wind and wave resources, renewable energy production accounts for less than one percent.
context_section_description: Electrification was a key part of the Bolshevik political programme:
  Communism is Soviet government plus the electrification of the whole country.
  — Vladimir Lenin, 
  This led to the creation of the GOELRO plan (Russian: план ГОЭЛРО) as the first-ever Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development. It was the prototype for subsequent Five-Year Plans drafted by Gosplan. GOELRO is the transliteration of the Russian abbreviation for "State Commission for Electrification of Russia" (Государственная комиссия по электрификации России).
caption: GOELRO plan title page, 1920
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