Electricity in the first Russian village.
On November 14, 1920, an electric light bulb was lit in the village of Kashino near Moscow. The first in a Russian village. V.I. Lenin participated in the opening of the tiny power plant.
In 1920, farmers from the village of Kashino near Moscow decided to build the first rural power plant in Russia. Thus they wanted to improve the production process in the fabric house and provide the village with street lighting. The only difficulty was the engine, for which the peasants appealed to Prime Minister Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
During a meeting with the leader and the peasants, they agreed to send the machine from Moscow, and shortly after the meeting in the Kremlin, the unit was delivered to Kashino. On November 1, a test launch of the power plant took place, which ended successfully.
The population of Kashino decided to solemnly open the power plant on November 14, 1920, in the presence of the leader of Soviet Russia, who contributed to the matter, for which an invitation was sent to Vladimir Ilyich.
On November 14 at two o'clock in the afternoon, Comrade Lenin arrived in the village together with Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya and the district leaders. The leader of the world's first socialist country gave a speech at the rally, photographed the villagers and answered their questions at the table.
The opening of a small power plant in Kashino became a bright historical moment, which became a symbol of the involvement of the masses in the process of socialist construction. According to one version, it was the residents of this village who coined the famous phrase "Norat Ilyich", which appeared after the leaders arrived in Kashino.
Source: CPRF.