ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

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• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
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• Publication Date: August 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
USSR
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Economic - Agriculture
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/7 Aug 1949
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Daily newspapers
USSR
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PUBLISHED 22 May - 5 Jul 49
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PLAN TO DIVERT SIBERIAN RIVERS, IRRIGATE DESERTS -- Sazakhstanskaya Pravda, INo 123,
26 Jun 49
Two rivers begin within 20 - 30 kilometers of each other in the Tln:rgay Gate-
way, the Ubagan, a tributary of the Ob , and the Turgay, which flows in the direction
of the Aral Sea. The Turgay Gateway prevents the flow of Siberian river vats a
into Kazakhstan. As a result, 2,39C cubic kilometers of fresh water are waste-
fully emptied into the Arctic Ocean. These waters could be used to irrigate the
Sara-Kum, Kyz'l-Kum, Aral-gum, and Betpak-Dala deserts. To utilize these regions
agriculturally, it is necessary to divert river avatars from Siberia to the south.
A Soviet engineer, M. M. Davydov, has drawn up a plan to create a river channel
between the North Arctic Ocean Basin and the Aral-Caspian Basin.
A dam must be built on the Ob' River, in the region of Beloggr'ye Village and
below the conflux of the Ob' and Irtysh rivers. It will farm a I*ge 4w' reerrroir,
250,000 square kilometers in area. The waters above this dam, flowing in the
channels of the Ob' River and of its tributaries, the Irtysh and Tobol, will be
diverted towarr;_ the Turgay Gateway. A 30-kilometer canal must be dug here. The
over-all length of the entire canal which will follow the ancient channels of the
Ob' and Irtysh rivers, will. be 930 kilometers. Siberian water will flow through
this canal to the southern slope of the Turgay Gateway, and proeeed.Lg along the
Turgay River channel, it will pass through Lake Chelkar-Tenaiz and flow into the
Aral Sea along the dry river beds of the Turgay and Irgiz. The level of the
Aral Sea will be raised one meter and its water will be fresh. Aral Sea waters
will flow through present depressed areas and the dry bed of the Dar'yalak-rW7a-
Dar'ya River and then through a connecting canal into the Sarykagysh' Valley,
fi111nF It un. Water flow would continue for 775 kilometers along the dry bed
of the ancient Uzboye River Into the Caspian Sea. Five hydroelectric power plants
with a total capacity of 10 million kilowatts could be built or the Ob' in the
Turgay Gateway and on the Uzboye. These would give power equivalent to 80
million tons of coal per year.
About 20,000 cubic meters of water per second must flow through the canal
in order to irrigate 25 million hectares of land in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
and to maintain the necessary water level in the Caspian Sea. The waters of the
Ob' alone are inaurficient but the Yenisey can supply about 1.0,000 cubic meters.
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A dam must be constructed on the Yenisey below the mouth of the Podkemennaya Tunguska
River and a connecting canal constructed between the Ob' and the Yenisey.
The Ob'-Aral-Caspian Canal, equipped with locks. for the passage of sea
vessels, could float 600 - 700 million cubic meters of ocamercial timber to the
shores of the Caspian Sea in a single.shipping season, About 15,000 - 20,000
heavily loaded trains would be needed to transport this timber needed for the
economy of the southeastern USSR. Petroleum, cotton, coal, grain, euperbhoephate.
BARABINSK STEPPE TO BE RECIAIMED -- Sovetskaya Sibir', No 116, 14 Jun 49
The Barabinsk Steppe covers a large area and has excellent meadows and
pastures. Nowevur, a large portion of this area consists of swamps. At present,
it 1!4 being transformed into a thriving dairy region. New and np-to-date creameries
are being built. Thousands of kilograms of first-grade butter are being shipped
daily from this region.
iaea is very gooa, ac Lae pastures receive plenty of sunlight, Rowever, the
swampe'l condition of the plains makes it very difficult to utilize the abundant
feed resources and often large meadow grounds are entirely wasted. After two or
three rainfalls, for example, cut grass is washed away. Some pastures, surrounded
by swamps, are inaccessible to grazing cattle in summer.
All this makes it extremely necessary to drain and reclaim the Barabinek
forest steppe. This year the scope of the work has been greatly inorease& . It
is necessary to speed up the regulation of waterways, such as the Uzakla River,
running from northeast to southwest in Kuybyshevskiy Rayon, the Ug[umanka River
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tributary of the Om', which should be need for draining the land of iMikhaylovekiy
and part of Ubinskiy Rayon, the Eunduela River in Euybyshevekiy Rayon, etc.
Improvement of the Uzakla River bed will provide vast pastures for three
large sovkhozes and a number of kolkozes, In Mikhaylovskiy Rayon, the 25-kilometer
Yuzhilinskiy Canal will be put into working order and in Barabinskiy Rayon, the
gozhurlinskiy and Tandovekiy Canals. Many pasture grounds are Nvemped in
Sargatekiy Rayon, and here it is necessary to improve the condition of the
Letnikovskiy and. Shumikhinekiy Canals. The same applies to the Arantaye-Beehkul'ekiy
Canal in Syshtovrkiy Rayon. Mach work will have to be done to clean these canals
thoroughly. Large numbers of kolkhoz farmers will be organized for this work.
NEW AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE TO OPEN -- Stalinskoye Znamya, No 99, 22 May 49
The Ryazan' Agricultural Institute imeni Professor P. A. I:ostyohev will
open on 1 September 1949.
The Institute will have Agronomy and Zootechnical. depariaonts with a
yearly enrollment of 75 students in each itarting In 1949. The Ministry of
Higher Education USSR was authorized by the Council of Ministers USSR to accept
50 students for the senior courses in each of these departments for the 1949
1950 school year.
jYote: Stalinskoye Znnya,fram which the above is taken,ia published by the
RvP.zan' Oblast and City Commi teas, TKP (b) W. obl4et and city Soviets o)f Workeie '
Deputies. It is not the Stalinskoye Znamya publiaLddd. in Andiznan,
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TOPS TRACTOR-REPAIR PLAN Kc nuniet, No 1.56,5 Jul 49
The lerevan Electric Repair Plant repaired 371 electric tractors above plan
N!W SUGAR I lUSTRY ENTERPRISES -- Pravda Ukrainy, No 147, 24 Jnn 49
is constructing or reconstructing 15 sugar industry enterprises in the U aine,
Belorussia, Bashkiria, and Kursk and Voronezh oblaete. Many of thow,will be put
into operation this year. Among those being reconstructed are theSupyanek.Plant
"Sakhatroy"(All-IInion trust for Construction and Assembiy of iugar Refineries)
FUR TRAPPRS TOP PLAN - Molodoy Da1'nevestochnik, No 110, 14 Jun 49
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