VAST SOVIET PLAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21964, 7 March 1946, Page 8

VAST SOVIET PLAN

SAVING CASPIAN SEA REVERSING TWO RIVERS COUNTERING EVAPORATION (9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 6. Russia is reported .to be preparing to resume her great plan to save the Caspian Sea from slow evaporation, says .the Daily Mail. Involved in .the plan .are two rivers—the Pechora, which flows north into the Arctic Ocean near the Urals, and the Avychegda, which joins the Advina to flow into the White Sea at Archangel. In one area all that decides whether the two rivers flow north or south js the almost imperceptible curve of the earth’s surface. The Russians here propose to reverse their course by the erection of two large dams. They will then flow into the Volga. The added volume would counter-balance what the Caspian Sea loses by evaporation. This part of the plan is known as .the greater Volga plan which the Russians suspended in 1939. It is proposed, by constructing dams and canals, to connect the Caspian Sea by navigable waterways with the Baltic at Leningrad (2500 miles) and Archangel (3000 miles).