JPRS ID: 9815 TRANSLATIONS ON MAJOR USSR RIVER DIVERSION PROJECTS VOLUME II

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26 J~ne 1981
Tr~nslat~on
TRANSLATtONS ON MAJOR USSR RIVER DIVERSION PROJECTS
Volume II
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26 June 1981
TRANSLATIONS ON MAJOR USSR RIVER DIVERSION f'ROJECTS
~OLUME II
CONTENTS
PREFACE 1
S7'ATEMENTS BY POLITICAL LEADERS
Siberian Rivers Redirection Linked To Food Program
~(UZTAG; PRAVDA VOSTOKA, 20 Dec 80) 2
F.CONOMIC ASSESSMENTS '
River Diversion Seen as One Aspect of Integrated
Socioeconomic Development 3
(M. Abdusalyamov; KOMMLINIST UZBEKISTANA, No 6, Jun 79).......
Siberia-Central Asia Canal Described
(U. Bogdalov; EKONOMIKA I ZHIZN', No 3, Mar 80) 7
- SCI~NTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ANALYSES
Balancing Water Flow Between the Two River Systems
(G. Y. Medvedeva; IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR: 12
SERIYA GEOGRAFICHESKAYA, No 2, Mar-Apr 79)
Contributions of Central Asian Institute to River
Diversion Work Discussed
(Vadim Igorevich Antonov; GIDROTECKHNIKA I MELIORATSIYA, 15
, No 11, Nov 79)
Problaans Caused by Increased Ground Water Flow
(U. M. Akhmetisafin, et al.; VESTNIK AKADEMII NAUK
KAZAKHSKOY SSR, No 11, Nov 79) 17
~ Excerpts From Two-Part Article Dealing With Caspian
Sea Problems and River Diversion
(Ye. Tret'yakov; GIDROTECKHNIKA I MELIORATSIYA,
No 11, Nov 79, No 1, Jan 80)�....�����������������������" 20
River Diversion Necessary to Progxess of Irrigation-
Reclamation Program in Central Asia
(0. K. Kamilov; PROBLEMY OSVOYENIYA PUSTYN', No 1, 1980...... 23
_ a _ [II - USSR - FOUO]
[III - USSR - 35 FOUO]
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Influence of River Diversion C~iannels on the
1)esert Microclimate Consi dered
. (B. G. Bager, et al.; PROBLEMY OSVOYENIYA PUSTYN',
No 1, 1980)...~ 25
]:ngineering and Ecological Problems in Water Management 27
(A. M. Chernyayev; VODNYYE RESURSY, No 1, 1980)............
Cf tlie discharges into the lower pools at hydroelectric power complexes and their
c~ombinations.
~s measures for the prevention of 'losses to water transport with removal of part
of t}~e fluw it is possible to use a number of engineering measures: construc-
tion oF locks on river reaches having a flow highly reduced in comparison with
t:}ie present volume, implementation of dredging work and the construction of river
tmP r.oveme~lt s tructures .
,1ccor.dinKly', in order to compensate the removal of flow in the Irtysh below the
'!'c~bul.'ski.y lry droelectric power complex and the restoration of navigational con-
di.t~ic~ns ~it tlie level of the present variant with a volume of discharge into the
1owE~r ~o~~l. ot less than 900 m3/sec it is necessary to construct three hydrocomplexes
Ec~r transPortation purposes. The sites of these complexes will be matched with the
:~iter: oC pumping stations for the feeding of Ob' water along the Anti-Irtysh sys-
cem ~n ~i?e second stage of the work. The construction of hydraulic complexes in
the i.mplementation of ineasures in the first stage of work on the diversion of
f1.c,w wiLlatf.ord a possibility of avoiding a sharp deterioration of navigational
c�c~ildltions on the Irtysh and thereby exclude annual losses to the national econ-
omy, ;.~ccording to calculations by the authors, amounting to between 6.5 and 65 mil-
L1.on r~ibl.es due to an increase in expenditures on the delivery of cargo by water
trriiisj~or.tcition. Thus, the losses to the national economy due to inadequate atten-
~ion to the interests of water transportation only in the course of the decade be-
Cween the implementation of ineasures in the first and second stages of the diversion
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of Cl~c f]c~w of Siberian rivers into the basin of the Aral Sea can be about 650 mil-
lion rubles of reduced expenditures, which is cou~ensurable with the cost of con-
struction of the compensating hydraulic complexes.
I.n the case of implementation of such a regime for the regulation of streamflow of
whicti navigation in the reaches beloW the water intake sites ceases completely,
as an alternative it is neceseary to consider an alternative variant for the de-
livery of freight by land forma of transportation. According to the general scheme
for the development of the Ob'-Irtysh basin, in the plans for the considered
future period no provision is made for the construction of a railroad in the Far
I'Ic,rttl region of Tyumenskaya Oblast. Accordingly, the handling of freight must be
asaigned to truck transportation. According to report data, the cost of handling
freight in this region by truck transpur~: is 106 kopecks/10 ton-km, or 50 times
greater than the cost of water transport [2]. In this case the losses to the
national economy will increase relative to the above-mentioned values.
'i'he increase in the cost of delivery of freight and the loss to the national econ-
omy have not been fully calculated. Unfortunately, there is no method for ascer-
taining the negaCive influence from total cessation of navigation on the socio-
ecc~nomic development of coastal regions.
~~11 tl~e major water management measures carried out on river routes must be solved
From an integr~it~d approach, taking into account all the branches of the national
economy interested in water, as provided for in [4]. In order to meet this require-
ment, among the planning studies in all stages an evaluation of the influence of
wtthdrawal of flow on the development of water transport must be included as an
mandatory part of the technical-economic evaluation of the positive and negative
influences of planning measures on navigation conditions along river routes and
the routes along which the flow is to be diverted.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.. 'l.hivotkevich, N., All Freight Has Been Transported to the North," RECHNOY
TRANSI'ORT (Kiver Transportation), No 2, pp 4-6, 1977.
2. Mikti~iylov, V. A., "Transport of Freight to the Far North A Highly Important
Task of Rivermen of the Russian Federation," RECHNOY TRANSPORT, No 9, pp 1-2,
1977.
3. N)~,I~T' I GA7. ZAPADNOY SIBIRI [Petroleum and Gas in Western Siberia], Moscow,
TsNIITI.neftegaz, 1965, 160 pages.
4. OSNOVNYYE NAPRAVLENIYA RAZVITIYA NARODNOGO KHOZYAYSTVA SSSR NA 1976-1980 GODY
(Principal Directions in Development of the USSR National Economy During 1976-
198(1) , D9oscow, Gospolitizdat, 1976, 96 pages.
5. Khakhin, N. A., "Scientific and Technical Progress and Prospects for Develop-
mc~nt of River Transportation in the Russian Federation," TR. TsNIIEVTa [Trans-
;ictions of the Central Scientific Research Institute of the Economics and Op-
cration of Warer Transportation], No 131, pp 44-51, 1977.
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6. Khakhin, N. A., Shatayeva, S. G., "Water Management Complexes ~nd Water Trans-
portatian," TR. TsNIIEVTa, No 129, pp 31-38, 1977.
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