Aral Sea 03

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Aral Sea 03
Aral Sea 03

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Coordinates
45 41 N
59 22 E
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In 1918,[8] the Soviet government decided that the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya in the south and the Syr Darya in the northeast, would be diverted to irrigate the desert, in order to attempt to grow rice, melons, cereals, and cotton. 30 million roubles was spent on the scheme, and Lenin said that "Irrigation will do more than anything else to revive the area and regenerate it, bury the past and make the transition to socialism more certain".[8]

This was part of the Soviet plan for cotton, or "white gold", to become a major export. This did eventually end up becoming the case, and today Uzbekistan is one of the world's largest exporters of cotton.[

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