Genrikh Graftio

The dam of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Station, built under the direction of Graftio.

Genrikh Osipovich Graftio (; 26 December 1869 in Dünaburg – 30 April 1949 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet engineer credited as a pioneer of the hydroelectric station construction, as one of the founders of the GOELRO plan, and notable 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 Novorossiya University in Odessa in 1892 and the Petersburg Institute of Transport Engineers in 1896, where he was teaching since 1907. In 1921, he was appointed a professor at this university. This was the program which aimed to provide sufficient electric power needed for future industrialization of Soviet Russia and, eventually, the Soviet Union. In the committee, he was responsible for the sections dealing with transportation and with the electrification of the Caucasus areas. The plan was drafted in December 1920

Later construction work Since early 1921, he was the chief construction engineer until the construction was completed in 1927.

Honours He was awarded the Order of Lenin He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour He was made a full member of the Academy of Sciences without going through all the intermediate steps