- (/ˈkærəkʌm/ KARR-ə-kum; Russian: Каракумы, IPA: [kərɐˈkumɨ]), also
spelt Qaraqum and
Garagum (Turkmen: [ɢɑɾɑˈʁʊm]; lit. 'Black Sand'), is a
desert in Central...
- The
Karakum Canal (
Qaraqum Canal, Kara Kum Canal,
Garagum Canal; Russian: Каракумский канал,
Karakumskiy Kanal, Turkmen:
Garagum kanaly, گَرَگوُم كَنَلیٛ...
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construction of the Main
Turkmen Canal ceased. In 1954
construction of the
Qaraqum Canal began,
along a
route far to the south. It
stretches 1300 km and irrigates...
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- was
abandoned soon
after the
death of
Joseph Stalin in 1953;
later on,
Qaraqum Canal was
constructed along an
entirely different, much more southerly...
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allowing leakage and evaporation.
Between 30 and 75% of the
water from the
Qaraqum Canal, the
largest in
Central Asia, went to waste. It was
estimated in...
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already being used for agriculture, but not on this m****ive scale. The
Qaraqum Canal,
Karshi Canal, and
Bukhara Canal were
among the
largest of the irrigation...
- 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...
- of 176,000
inhabitants perished. In the 1950s, the 1,375
kilometre long
Qaraqum Canal was built.
Draining the Amu-Darya river, it
enabled huge
areas to...
- below:
Turkmenistan gets most of its
water from the Amu
Darya River. The
Qaraqum Canal is a
canal system that
takes water from the Amu
Darya River and distributes...
