Energy Day
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via Issyk-Kul
Established by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of June 30, 1994 No. 461, taking into account the proposal of the State Joint Stock Holding Energy Company of the Kyrgyz Republic and taking into account that on December 22, 1920, it was decided to build the first hydroelectric power plants in Kyrgyzstan.
On December 22, 1920, at the VIII All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the State Plan for Electrification of the country (GOELRO) was approved. In 1966, a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was issued, according to which Energy Day was appointed on the third Sunday of December. However, for the power engineers themselves, the holiday has always been December 22.
The GOELRO plan was designed for 10-15 years and provided for “a radical reconstruction of the national economy on the basis of electrification”. That is, the construction of large enterprises - 20 thermal power plants, the construction of 30 district power plants, including 10 hydropower plants with a total capacity of 1.75 million kilowatts and an annual output of 8.8 billion kilowatts, 3 of them - in Kyrgyzstan, as scientists drew attention to the large energy reserves of its mountain rivers.
