The Druzhba Narodov HPP ( Drisvyatskaya HPP ) is a former small hydropower plant in the Braslav District of the Vitebsk Region . Located on the Prorva River between the Stavok and Obole lakes.
On November 21, 1951, a meeting of representatives of three neighboring collective farms was held in the village of Drisvyaty : named after Molotov, Vidzovsky district of the BSSR , named after Mitskevich, Dukshta district of the Lithuanian SSR, and named after Sverdlov, Grivsky district of the Lat .
The bookmark, the construction process and the ceremonial commissioning were covered by the Soviet media - from district newspapers to the central Pravda , as well as in the newspapers of some other socialist countries. Poems, poems, films, even the operetta were dedicated to the construction site (the novel “When the rivers merge” by Petrussia Brovka , the “Poem of Brotherhood” by Eduardas Mezhelaitis , the operetta “In the side of the blue lakes” by Shilinsky and other works). Drisvyaty planned to make a model village.
On July 19, 1953, the grand opening of the Druzhba Narodov hydropower station took place in the presence of 20 thousand people and government delegations of the three Union republics. In front of the hydroelectric power station, a bronze monument was installed by I.V. Stalin (who was soon dismantled in order to combat the cult of personality ).
Currently, the hydropower plant is not in operation and remains in a mothballed state.