FIRST AREAS IRRIGATED ON MAIN TURKMENIAN CANAL SITE

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December 22, 2016
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July 19, 2011
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Approved For Release 2011/07/19 :CIA-RDP07-022478000200170010-1 ~I RST AREAS IRRIGATED ON MAIN TURKMENIAN. .CANAL SITE H E first five thousand acres of new Tland will be irrigated this year on the Main Turkmenian Canal construction site. From now on, the ? area of irrigated land on the left bank of the Amu Darya will be progressively increasing all the time. preparations are now in full swing at Takhia Tash for the main work of building the canal and hydro-electric station. 'fhb project for the by-pass canal % had recently been approved. This will by V. KORNILOV vide water for the project's "pioneer anal " until the dam across the Amu D~t?ya has been completed. It will feed the reservoirs 'on the Uzboi, taking from tAe river some 35,600 gallons of water a second. This by-pass canal will be navigable to shipping.. ' Huge quantities of building eyuipmeTSt arc arriving on the site. Recently three rlectric excavators, -each of over q cubic ~?ards capacity, were asseiuh(ed at '1'akhia ~'I'ash. 'They will soon be joined by 'several more excavators. A suction dredger from the ~-olga-lion, No. ;o;, ~~~hich will be the first to start cxca~-atron of the by-pass canal, is on its ~~ay down the ilmu llarya. It kill soon 'be joined by t~~o more suction dredgers. `Next year, however, new suction dredgers ~~tiill be assembled at '1'akhia 'l'ash itself. ,I~or this purpose a good-sized, ~vell- ,eyuipped shipyard with building slips is dieing fitted nut. ' The builders of this great construction ,project have ovcrfulfilled their programme 'for the' first seven months of the year, and ~avc pledged themselves to reach the ientire year's targets by September s2, the Second anniversary of the; publication of the Soviet Uovernment's decision td build the canal '~ From the Volga-Don Workers who have come to 'Turkmenia from the Volga-Don are achieving a great reputation for their excellent performance. Alexander Kutuycv, a bulldozer operator, for instance, is daily turning out three to four times his quota. Other outstanding. individuals include excavator operators IGoryukhin, Prokopenko and Storozhenko; scraper drivers Rodin and Ilyin ; assembly man Meleshko, to name but a few. Another group of Volga-Don specialists and skilled workers will soon be on the Main 'Turkmenian Cana} site. The V i .Don training centre-a great school ..gaining skilled workers-is also moving the Amu Darya very soon. f Surveying wgrk is continuing on a large kale along the course of the future canal- there arc now nearly twice as many on surveying expedition as last year. The Kara Kum desert can to-day no ~'pnger be called desolate. I'o-day one dears the hum of motors everYwllere. Tt~RICMIfNtAi~ CANAL ~ from page I ;Motor trucks have been crossing it in all directions, and their drivers have become ?. so familiar with the.,de$~rt that they can now t;o anywhere without guides. What are the surveyors doing ? Engin- eering and geological expeditions arc continuing to tackle complicated problems.., 'T'hey arc working out the course of the future canal, are determining the sites of hydro-electric systems, arc studying the iiltcr properties of the sands, etc. Equipped with up-to-date facilities, parties of an integrated geophysical expedition, one of the largest here, have advanced far into the desert. 'Thousands of people arc engaged in ilxing and afforesting the sands. Already now, Ion}; before the canal comes into being, work has begun on planting saksaul seeds and saplings in the desert. Extensive preparations are being made by the builders of irrigation and water-supply systems. 'The 'Turkmenvodstroy, an irrigation engineering organisation whose staff of many thousands is to bring water to collective-farm fields over a wide mesh of irrigation canals and infuse life into desert land, has set up headquarters at 'I'ashauz. Like the builders of the Main 'I'urk- mcnian Canal, the irrigators a.re being assisted by the entire country. Machines and building materials are coming to the 'Turkmenvodstroy in an ever increasing stream. So also arc highly skilled specialists and workers. Approved For Release 2011/07/19 :CIA-RDP07-022478000200170010-1