在苏维埃政权建立初期,列宁就高瞻远瞩地提出要使国家电气化。他说:“共产主义就是苏维埃政权加全国电气化。”在列宁的倡议和亲自领导下,制订了有名的俄罗斯电气化计划。现在这个计划的理想和指标早就被苏联人民所实现并远远超过了。1957年苏联发电量达到二千零九十七亿度,比1913年增长了一百多倍,比列宁的俄罗斯电气化计划所规定的八十八亿度也增加了好几十倍。仅仅1958年一年的发电量的增长额就达二百三十亿度左右,差不多等于俄罗斯电气化计划的三倍!到1959年又增加了12%,达到二千六百四十亿度。目前苏联拥有数百个大的水、热电站,构成强大的动力基地和统一的动力系统。苏联电力工业的迅速发展,为铁路的电气化创造了良好的条件。在1913年,沿铁路线只有三百个车站使用电灯,连一公里电气化铁路也没有。1926年才有第一列电气火车载着工人从巴库开到萨崩奇油矿。但是,到1958年苏联电气化铁路线的长度已达九千五百公里,比美国长一倍,等于英、法和西德三国电气化铁路的总和,稳稳地跃 In the early days of the establishment of the Soviet government, Lenin made a far-sighted move to electrify the country. He said: “Communism is the Soviet power plus national electrification.” Under Lenin’s initiative and personal leadership, a well-known Russian electrification plan was formulated. The ideals and targets of this plan have now been realized and far surpassed by the Soviet people. In 1957 the Soviet Union had generated electricity of 209.7 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of more than 100 times that of 1913 and a multiple of tenfold more than the 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours prescribed by Lenin’s Russian electrification plan. In 1958 alone, the amount of electricity generation increased by about 23 billion kWh, almost three times that of Russia’s electrification plan, and by 1959 it increased by 12% to 246 billion kWh. At present, the Soviet Union owns hundreds of large water and thermal power stations, forming a powerful power base and a unified power system. The rapid development of the Soviet power industry has created favorable conditions for the electrification of the railway. In 1913, there were only 300 stations along the railway line that used electric lights, even one kilometer of electrified railroads. In 1926 there was the first electric train carrying workers from Baku to the Samassi oil mine. However, by 1958 the length of the Soviet electrified railway line had reached 9,500 km, twice the length of the United States, equivalent to the sum of the electrified railway lines of Britain, France and West Germany, steadily leaping