ZHOOK, S.. [Sergei Iakovlevich Zhuk 1892 - 1957]

Title The Greater Volga.
Illustrator Kravchenko, A.
Publisher Moscow Foreign Languages Publishing House
Date 1939
Book ID 37368
First Edition  

Description

Stapled card covers, illustrated in red and black, 14.5 x 11 cm.., 32 pp., illustrations, photos, folding map. In very good condition. Crisp and clean. The author was chief engineer of construction of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Development [Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station] as well as holding the Order of Lenin, and was Deputy to the Supreme Soviet. He directed the surveying, scientific research, planning, and construction for many very large hydro-engineering structures. Illustrations by artist and graphic designer Aleksei Kravchenko.
Price: £12.00