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The Transcaspian Canal (Russian: Транскаспийский канал) was a proposed canal to divert the Amu Darya River from the Aral Sea and into the Caspian Sea. It was first proposed by Tsarist engineers and later considered by Soviet. Proponents argued that the project would return the Amu Darya into its old bed.[1]
History
Multiple suggestions were put forward for the construction of the canal. Among the initial proposals was one presented by Aleksandr Glukhovskoi in 1868.[2] He argued that such a canal would allow ships sailing down the Volga to reach Tashkent via Bukhara. Many of Glukhovskoi's original reports and proposals were lost during the Russian Civil War and a 1924 flood.[3]
After the October Revolution, Georgii Rizenkampf (German: Georgi Riesenkampff) proposed to build a 1,600-km (1,500-verst) canal stretching from the upper reaches of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan through the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan all the way to the Caspian sea.[4] In 1921, Rizenkampf published a 84-page book entitled "Trans-Kaspiiskii kanal (Problema orosheniia Zakaspiia)" (Russian: Транс-Каспийский канал (Проблема орошения Закаспия)) justifying the construction of a transcaspian canal.
In June 1925, the Water Section of the State Planning Committee discussed the project. Among the plans considered was one made by Gluvoskoi in 1893.[3]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Peterson 2019, p. 256-257.
- ^ Peterson 2019, p. 39.
- ^ a b Peterson 2019, p. 257.
- ^ Kadyrov 2019, p. 34-35.
Sources
- Kadyrov, Abrar (2011). Дума о воде – взгляд в былое и немного о будущем (PDF) (in Russian). Tashkent: Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- Peterson, Maya K. (2019). Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-46854-1.
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