# Shock construction project

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{{Short description|Propaganda term for projects carried out by exceptionally productive worker brigades}}
[[File:RIAN archive 596802 Construction of Baikal-Amur Mainline.jpg|thumb|[Student construction brigade](/source/Student_construction_brigade) at the shock construction project of [Baikal–Amur Mainline](/source/Baikal%E2%80%93Amur_Mainline)]]
'''Shock construction projects''' ({{langx|ru|ударные стройки|translit=udarnyye stroyki}}) also '''Komsomol shock construction projects'''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150705002331/http://izvestia.asu.ru/2011/4-2/hist/29.en.html Komsomol Shock Construction Projects on the Objects of Ministry of Railways of the USSR in the West Siberia (1965-1991)]. Herald (Altai State University).</ref> was a Soviet propaganda term used for certain construction projects by Komsomol [shock brigade](/source/shock_brigade)s in the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union).<ref>Schmid, S.D. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=UoPVBgAAQBAJ&dq=Komsomol+shock+construction+projects&pg=PA192 Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry]''. [MIT Press](/source/MIT_Press). 2015. {{ISBN|9780262028271}}</ref>

Although often associated with [Komsomol](/source/Komsomol), shock construction projects in more general term also included the [Great Construction Projects of Communism](/source/Great_Construction_Projects_of_Communism).

The first Komsomol shock construction project was announced for the blast furnace #2 (later became known as "Komsomolskaya") at the [Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works](/source/Magnitogorsk_Iron_and_Steel_Works) in 1930–32. The last construction project was an air converting rolling mill for hot rolling at the same Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works in 1986–90.

The hire of volunteers for the projects was conducted in a framework of the state system of organizational mobilization, but more often through Komsomol mobilization by [Komsomol travel ticket](/source/Komsomol_travel_ticket)s. One of active participants of the 1950s-80s construction projects were [student construction brigade](/source/student_construction_brigade)s under a patronage of [Komsomol](/source/Komsomol).<ref>Siegelbaum, L.H., Moch, L.P. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=mKSDBQAAQBAJ&dq=Komsomol+shock+construction+projects&pg=PT84 Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia’s Twentieth Century]''. [Cornell University Press](/source/Cornell_University_Press). 2014. {{ISBN|9780801455131}}</ref> In 1980s the status of regional shock construction projects was granted to [Youth Residential Complex](/source/Youth_Residential_Complex)es (MZhK).

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Kirmse, S.B. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A5HJAwAAQBAJ&dq=Komsomol+shock+construction+projects&pg=PA30 Youth in the Former Soviet South: Everyday Lives Between Experimentation and Regulation]''. [Routledge](/source/Routledge). 2014 {{ISBN|9781317979258}}

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