NAKHICHEVAN ASSR PUSHES RURAL ECONOMY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: December 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR - Nakhichevan As3R DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
SUBJECT Economic - Regional development
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PUBLISHED Weekly periodical
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PUBLISHED Moscow
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PUBLISHED May 1949
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Nakhichevan' has just lived through the severest winter within memory.
At times, it even seemed as if the sheep, one of the mainsprings of the tiny
republic's economy, would dic out for lack of fodder.
Nekhichevan', an autonomous republic within Azerbaydzhan SSR, includes
five rayons: Borashenskiy, which produces cotton and tobacco; Sbakhbuzskiy,
a flourishing mountainous cattle-raising region; Jul'finskiy, a'grape-growing
region; ordubadskty, a fr'_at-growwing and cocoon-raising area; and the Nakhi-
cbevanskly, a sheep-raising rayon.
Nakhichevan' is situated along the banks of the Araks River and, for its
size, has a remarkably varied economy. Besides cattle-raising, its principal
crops are cotton and tobacco.
Cotton is becoming its leading product. Thousands of hectares are sown
with it, and within a year, another thousand will be added. Seventy of the
202 kolkhozee raise cotton, and there would be more of them but for the diffi-
culties of irrigation. From time immemorial the inhabitants have been re-
signei to the yearly losses of burned crops. In the summer, there are almost
no rains. The peasants have been accustomed in the past to dig deep wells
for water. The poverty-stricken people had no leans to utilize the mountain
rivers which passed them by. Today, however, great operations are under way
in the building of reservo"3 and canals.
The life of the people has changed. The women of the East are no longer
the veil-burdened creatures whose life was circumscribed by the chores Vithin
the hovel. Today, all roads are open to them. A case in point is Sakina
Rzaye, Minister of Social Insurance.
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The republic has produced its own intelligentsia. The Mamedkulizade
Teachers' Institute, during its 10 years' existence has licensed 390 peda-
gogues: naturalists, physicists, mathematicians, and historians, including
110 women.
Instead of the old villages, with their wretched windowless huts,
whole villages of new houses have appeared. As an example, the native
village of Ragim Ragimov, President of the Council of Ministers, Nakhi-
c:hevan' A86R, is cited. Within the last 15 years it has acquired a
dyesyatilyetka (ten-year school), which is a beautiful modern structure,
an electric station, an excellent bath house, a hospital, and a children's
nursery.
Electrification is proceeding full. We. The electrification of 40
kolkhozes is envisaged in the near future. This is symbolic of the change
that has taken place in the village, which, before the Revolution, was un-
familiar with even a kerosene lamp.
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