About the fight against drought and irrigation of the Volga region

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Appendix No. 4 to p. 39/13 pr. PB No. 101.

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b).

About the fight against drought and irrigation of the Volga region.

In order to eliminate drought in the Trans-Volga regions and to organize in the Trans-Volga region a stable wheat base with a gross production of 300 million poods. wheat on irrigated lands, the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks decide:

1 . Acknowledge it necessary to build a hydroelectric power station in the Kamyshin area with an elevation of no more than 23-24 meters, providing machine irrigation of a sown area of ​​4-4.3 million hectares in the Trans-Volga region (Middle Volga with the capture of areas approximately Kinel-Samarka in the north and the Lower Volga to parallels of Kamyshin in the south).

2 . The capacity of the hydroelectric station should be determined at 1.8-2 million kilowatts.

3 . To develop the project and carry out the necessary survey work, create at the NKZ of the Union a research and design organization "Nizhne-Volgo-project" headed by Academician I. G. Aleksandrov.

4 . To carry out all work on the construction of a hydroelectric power station, pumping stations, an irrigation network and a system of reservoirs, instruct the USSR People's Commissariat, together with the USSR People's Commissariat for Tyazhprom, to submit a project for organizing a special construction department.

5 . When developing a project, be sure to take into account the interests of water transport.

6 . The completion date for the construction of the Kamyshinsky hub, pumping stations and irrigation network is 1937.

7 . Instruct the Energy Center of the People's Commissariat for Tyazhprom to continue developing the issue of the Samara Hydroelectric Power Station.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars S.S.S.R. - V. Molotov (Scriabin) .

Secretary C.K. VKP (b) - I. Stalin .

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