Boris Evgenievich Vedeneev

Boris Evgenievich Vedeneev was a Russian and Soviet engineer and academician who specialised in the economic case for building hydroelectric stations. Born in Tiflis in the Russian Empire in the winter of 1884 to 1885, he graduated from the St Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers in 1909 and began with port works at Murmansk and in the Far East. After the revolution of 1917 he took part in drawing up the GOELRO electrification plan and became one of the leaders in building the Dnieper, Volkhov and Kondopoga hydroelectric stations. He was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1932, received the Stalin Prize of the first degree in 1943 and the Order of Lenin in 1945 for services to the power industry, and died in Moscow in 1946. The Leningrad hydraulic engineering research institute took his name that year. He is included here as a builder of early Soviet hydropower.