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Qaraqum Canal

Karakumkanal {m}geogr.

• The Qaraqum Canal is a canal system that takes water from the Amu Darya River and distributes the water out over the desert for irrigation of its orchard crops and cotton.
• In the 1950s, the 1,375 kilometre long Qaraqum Canal was built.
• At the time, the Iranian Chinooks were flying in two pairs to the northwest along the Qaraqum Canal, but when their crews detected the interceptor over them, they made a turn to the southwest and flew towards the Kopet mountains and the Iranian border.
• In 1954 construction of the Qaraqum Canal began, along a route far to the south.
• However, the project was abandoned soon after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953; later on, Qaraqum Canal was constructed along an entirely different, much more southerly, route.

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