Global electrification

The album is dedicated to the outstanding Russian engineer and my cousin Genrikh Osipovich Graftio. Genrikh Osipovich Graftio was a Russian engineer considered to be a pioneer of the hydroelectric station construction in the Soviet Union, as one of the founders of the GOELRO plan, and famous for the construction of the first hydroelectric stations in the Soviet Union, the Volkhov Hydroelectric Station in Volkhov and the Lower Svir Hydroelectric Station in Svirstroy. Genrikh Graftio graduated from the Imperial Novorossiysk University in Odessa in 1892 and the Petersburg Institute of Transport Engineering in 1896, where he had been teaching since 1907. In 1921, he was appointed a professor at this university. Between 1896 and 1900, he was an intern in Europe and USA, studying the power equipment. In 1900, Graftio created the first project of the electrified railway in Russia, which was never realized. In 1906, he was charged with developing an electric tram network in Saint Petersburg (at that time the capit