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3 unusual facts about Main Turkmen Canal


Main Turkmen Canal

The length of the canal was to be more than 1200 kilometers, beginning from Takhiatash, a town/city in Uzbekistan, then extended 10 km from the town of Nukus to Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Coast of Turkmenistan.

Nevertheless, it also resulted in the destruction of the native riparian tugai forests, and greatly diminished the inflow of water to the Aral Sea, which caused great ecological catastrophe.

Oskar Böhme

It is said that he died there in 1938, though he was also said to be seen working on the Turkmenistan Canal in 1941.



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