Bratsk Station, which is as heroically ambitious as its subject, is a 5,000-line, 35-poem cycle commemorating the construction of a vast hydroelectric power complex in Siberia. The light-giving Bratsk station is seen as a symbol of faith and human progress, and is contrasted with an Egyptian pyramid, seen as the epitome of slave labor and lack of faith. Within this context, Yevtushenko employs a variety of verse forms, from classic poetic diction to a conversational, colloquial style…. [It is] a significant contribution by the most publicized living Soviet poet (and possibly the most talented)…. (pp. 86-7)

Rosemary Neiswender, in her review of "Bratsk Station and Other New Poems," in School Library Journal, an appendix to Library Journal (reprinted from the January, 1967 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co./A Xerox Corporation; copyright © 1967), Vol. 13, No. 5, January, 1967, pp. 86-7.