Hòa Bình Dam
[5] Financed and built with Soviet Union and Russian money and experts, construction on the rockfill dam began on November 6, 1979, and was completed in December 1994.[13] A letter from the Russian engineers to the future generation of Vietnamese people was sealed inside a concrete monument, to be opened on January 1, 2100.Each year approximately 10 billion kWh of electricity is generated by the dam, providing around half of the government revenue of Hòa Bình Province.On the neighboring Tượng Hill, an 18m high, 400 ton statue of Ho Chi Minh stands looking over the dam.[18] The story goes that when Ho Chi Minh crossed the Red River here in a boat during the nation's struggle for independence against America he was so frustrated with the difficulty that he proclaimed that when North and South are reunified a dam will be built to calm the mighty river.