Abstract
This chapter explores the development of Nurek. Engineer Semen Kalizhniuk used Nurek as a prototype for future cities while city planning had been intimately tied in shaping modern men and women. Urban utopias played a vital role following the revolution as people lived amidst Bolshevik's goals of industrialization and social transformation. Soviet and Eastern bloc architects traveled across the postcolonial world to help build cities with a nationalist culture with socialist content. Moreover, the Tajikistani proponents of Nurek had connected the building of the dam to the USSR's commitment to internationalism and anti-colonialism. The construction of the Nurek Dam made the city the nucleus of political party activity.
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