Great Construction Projects of Communism (Russian: Великие стройки коммунизма) was a term used for a series of ambitious construction projects undertaken in 1950s on the command of Joseph Stalin.
A 1952 book Hydrography of the USSR lists the following projects in irrigation, navigation, and hydroelectric power.
Kuybyshev Hydroelectric Station, now Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station in Samara OblastStalingrad Hydroelectric Station, now Volga Hydroelectric Station near Volgograd, and the associated irrigation network in the Caspian DepressionMain Turkmen Canal, unfinishedThe system of Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in the lower part of the Dnieper River, North Crimea Canal, South Ukraine Canal, and irrigation networks in northern Crimea and southern UkraineThe Volga-Don CanalTsimlyansk Hydroelectric Station on Don