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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP07-02247R000200180007-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 12, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: PHOTO

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As in the case of other towns and settlements springing up along the canal,
various departments of the USSR Academy of Architecture have taken part in the
signing and building of Takhia Tash, Architects and builders have been assigned
(kije task of creating beautiful modern towns that will meet the steadily increasing
;-demands of Soviet people. The difficult local climatic conditions and the national
cnitecturai traaitions nave to oe taken into account. oust ana neat must De comoatea
Cb4' the planting of abundant verdure, both in the towns and in their environs.
The Main Turkmen 'Canal involves an immense amount of work. Its length-a
matter of 1,100 km. which will take it through Turkmenia and Uzbekistan (including
the Kara-Kalpak territory)-will make it necessary to excavate several hundred million
cubic metres of earth, pour thousands of cubic metres of simple and reinforced
The Takhia Tash cinema by night
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At the kindergarten. Alla and Zhenya have
canal boats and a reservoir all to themselves
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pass canal has begun
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concrete, build scores of towns and settlements, !ay hundreds of kilometres of high-
ways, etc.
In its directives for the Fifth Five-Year Plan the Nineteenth Congress of the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union required that "the construction of irrigation systems
must be started in the zone of the Stalingrad hydroelectric station, and of the Main
Turkmen, South-Ukrainian and North-Crimea Canals." The builders have begun to
carry out this task with all the energy at their command.
Work is in progress on the Main Turkmen Canal from the banks of the Amu Darya
to the Caspian Sea. Various surveying as well as other scientific expeditions are work-
ing hard at their special tasks, with geologists, hydrographers, topographers and other
specialists conducting the operations.
A new railway greatly helps to negotiate the big volume of freight pouring in
from all parts of the country: machinery and all kinds of equipment, A powerful base
for the mechanization of the various construction operations has been established,
priority industrial plants having already been put up.
Work on the by-pass canal of the Takhia Tash hydroelectrical development is in
full swing. By diverting the water of the Amu Darya away from the huge building site
where a dam, electric power station and a reservoir are to be erected, this canal will
make it possible for powerful suction dredges to set about digging along the route of
the Main Turkmen Canal.
The machines to be employed on this site will comprise numerous motor trucks,
including dump trucks able to carry up to 25 tons, and also powerful bulldozers and
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