After one of the largest hydroelectric power station in Europe flooded a dozen villages in Ukrainian - "Historical truth"
Solina Dam, which currently supplies electricity to south-eastern territory of Poland, is one of the largest in Europe. And to technical progress Poles bitter price paid Ukrainian: the construction of the dam in 1951 was flooded about a dozen Ukraining villages. &Laquo; possibility of building hydroelectric discussed in Poland before the Second World War, – says anthropologist Natalia Klyashtornyi. &Ndash; Professor of Lviv Polytechnic Karan Payanovskyy developed a special project, using the fact that the construction site of two rivers converge dehydration station & raquo ;. Then the water and appearedHrevt village, where I came from parents of Mary Hylyak. &Laquo; The village was on the very Sian. In place Hrevti is poured river for power plant built Poles & raquo ;, – said daughter Maria Hylyak immigrants. Construction of hydropower plants was one of the consequences of the agreement between Poland and the Soviet Union on sharing public areas – 15 fiercelyth 1951. By the principle of « kilometer by kilometer & raquo ;, both sides exchanged plot by 480 square kilometers. &Laquo; to the Soviet Union had to move railway station Sokal, who was on Polish territory, but also a number of enterprises, villages, – described the candidate of historical sciences Andrey Pavlyshyn. &Ndash; Chey region was rich in coal deposits, and later there was established coal basin, which still functions & raquo ;. In response, Poland received land in Drohobych region with almost a hundred oil wells. &Laquo; Poland gave a kind of « candy » in the form of oil fields, which were at that time, in fact, exhausted », – said Andrew Pavlyshyn. Therefore if there was exchange of territories between Poland and the Soviet Union, which had to pay the price for Ukrainian agreement, – Sunday, June 21, at 23:00, the project « The historical truth of Vakhtang Kipiani » on the TV channel ZIK.Source: http://artlife.rv.ua/