Hydroproject
Hydroproject (Russian: Институт «Гидропроект», Gidroproekt) is a Russian hydrotechnical design firm. Based in Moscow, it has a number of branches around the country. Its main activities are design of dams, hydroelectric stations, canals, sluices, etc.Hydroproject and its predecessor institutions have designed most of the hydroelectric dams and irrigation and navigation canals that have been built in the Soviet Union and Russia since the 1930s. They have designed a number of high-profile projects abroad as well, from India to Egypt to Canada. The institute, under Sergey Zhuk's leadership, also researched the Northern river reversal's potential.
Hydroproject (Russian: Институт «Гидропроект», Gidroproekt) is a Russian hydrotechnical design firm. Based in Moscow, it has a number of branches around the country. Its main activities are design of dams, hydroelectric stations, canals, sluices, etc.Hydroproject and its predecessor institutions have designed most of the hydroelectric dams and irrigation and navigation canals that have been built in the Soviet Union and Russia since the 1930s. They have designed a number of high-profile projects abroad as well, from India to Egypt to Canada. The institute, under Sergey Zhuk's leadership, also researched the Northern river reversal's potential. It has also been involved in realising nuclear power plants in the Soviet Union between 1969 and 1986.

History
Hydroproject traces its history to the design departments of the Moscow Canal Construction Project (the 1930s), and the Hydroelectrostroy Trust (Трест “Гидроэлектрострой”), which was formed on October 9, 1930, to coordinate the construction of hydroelectric dams in the USSR during its first five-year plan. The first director of the Hydroelectroproject Trust, the successor of the Hydroelectrostroy Trust, between 1932 and 1936, was Vissarion Chichinadze, who was executed during the Great Purge. The two organizations, after changing their names a number of times, were finally merged in 1962. Until 1950, they were within the ambit of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs; later, under the Ministry of Energy.
Some of the institute's regional branches, notably the one in Saint Petersburg, known as Lenhydroproject, have an even longer history. In the 1990s, the institute operated as a subsidiary of RAO UES, Russia's national electricity company. In 2010 it became part of the RusHydro group.

Major projects
In the USSR
Dams:
Most of the hydro dams on the Volga and Kama; see Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station for a list.
Angara River dams: Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
Yenisei River dams: Krasnoyarsk Dam, Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam
Inguri Dam, Georgia
Nurek Dam, Tajikistan
Rogun Dam, Tajikistan
Toktogul Dam, Kyrgyzstan
Pļaviņas Hydroelectric Power Station, Latvia
Riga Hydroelectric Power Plant, Latvia
Kruonis PSP, LithuaniaCanals:

Moscow Canal
Volga–Don Canal
Volga–Baltic Waterway

Outside the USSR
Dams:
Capanda Dam, Angola
Paraná Medio, Argentina (proposed)
Jenpeg Dam, the first stage of Nelson River Hydroelectric Project in Manitoba, Canada
Sanmenxia Dam, China
Aswan Dam, Egypt
Melka Wakena Dam, Ethiopia
Tehri Dam, India
Al-Bagdadi Dam, Iraq
Haditha Dam, Iraq
Dukan Dam, Iraq
Limón Dam, Peru
Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station and Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station on the Danube, Romania–Serbia
Tabqa Dam (a.k.a. Euphrates Dam), Syria
Tishrin Dam, Syria
Yali Falls Dam, Vietnam
Hòa Bình Dam, Vietnam
Sơn La Dam, Vietnam
Lai Châu Dam, Vietnam

References
External links
Official website (in Russian)