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The research topic’s relevance is due to centennial of the GOELRO plan, the need to consider the regional aspect of electrification planning, and to reconstruct the economic history of the eastern part of Russia. The scientific novelty of the study is to expand the topic and investigate individual issues. The article objective is to highlight the issues of developing the electrification plan for the Far Eastern outskirts in the mid-1920s in a historical aspect. The research tasks are to identify the prerequisites, conditions and difficulties in the activity of the regional electrification commissions, disclose the results, and determine their scientific and practical significance. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the concept of modernization. The author analyzes the conditions for planning the electrification of the Far East in the period under review, and identifies regional features of this process. The study reveals that the electrification plan’s development for the Far Eastern outskirts was hardly a feasible task for local authorities. They had to organize the work of the commissions without the necessary funds, special personnel, necessary materials and experience. At that time the regional authorities were engaged in restoring the local economy after the devastating Civil War, and the center could not help the region in any way. The created commissions did not have any data on the regional power resources, and information on its future economic development; they faced a huge, sparsely populated and industrially undeveloped territory. The author comes to the conclusion that Primorsky and Amur Commissions were able to develop plans for the electrification of provinces for a five-year period despite all difficulties. The materials they prepared identify the problems of developing the regional electrification relevant up to the present time.