RUBINSHTEIN

RUSSIA (see also List of Individuals)

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2.9.1919/RU - 22.4.1978 Inguri/RU

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Georgy Vladimirovich Rubinshtein graduated in 1943 from the Kuibyshev Civil Engineering Institute MISI, Moscow to start his professional career with the Gidro-Energoproekt, today the Gidroproekt trust. From 1952 to 1959 he was involved in the design and execution of the Pavlovo hydroelectric plant which became a prototype for the medium-head schemes in the Soviet Union. In 1959 he presented an alternative for the economical arrangement of a powerhouse including horizontal bulb units, which was later applied for the schemes of Gorki, Pavlovo and Irkutsk hydroelectric plants. For the project of Lenin-Plyavinyas in Latvia, a novel design with a combined powerhouse of the pierless spillway type on a soft foundation under a head of some 40 m was designed. From 1969, Rubinshtein collaborated with the Department of the Gidroproekt Institute mainly on the Inguri Dam in today's Republic of Georgia. Some time ago this work counted among the highest dams world wide but serious safety problems caused a partial reconsideration of the design. Due to his premature death he was unable to be present at the commissioning of the first units in the late 1970s yet experienced the initial filling of the reservoir.

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Rubinshtein devoted 35 years of his life entirely to the design of hydropower engineering. He has advanced today's Russia in the knowledge of how economic dam designs could be made. Rubinshtein was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor from the Soviet Union and a prize from the Council of Ministers of the USSR. He passed away in professional activity at the Inguri Dam site.

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_{Anonymous (1978). Memoir of Georgy Vladimirovich Rubinshtein. Hydrotechnical Construction 12(8): 845-846. P}

_{Domansky, L.K., Feringer, B.P., Gunko, F.G., Rubinstein, G.V., Soloviova, A.G. (1973).}

_{Evacuation de l'eau et de la glace en périodes de construction et d'exploitation des grands barrages sur les grands fleuves en Sibérie. 11 ICOLD Congress Madrid Q41(R39): 703-717. Rubinshtein, G.V., Sandomirsky, G.B. (1963). Utilization of the Daugava River scheme. Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo 33(12): 5-7 (in Russian).}

_{Rubinshtein, G.V., Sandomirsky, G.B. (1968). The Plyavinsk hydroelectric station. Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo 38(3): 4-11 (in Russian).}

_{Rubinshtein, G.V. (1979). The Inguri arch dam. Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo 49(12): 3-9 (in Russian).}