History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back HISTORY OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION D.S. Strebkov The history of the development of rural electrification over a hundred years, beginning with GOELRO plan in 1920 is presented. The leading role of VIESH and the Federal scientific agroengineering centre VIM in scientific support of electrification and automation of agriculture is described. The prospects for the development of rural electrification in the twenty-first century are considered. Keywords: electrification of agriculture; robotization; new energy technologies; noncon-tact electric transport; nonfuel power engineering. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.12.2019.1078 Contacts: - Pp. 20-30.