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...Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians live, it would install 14 new hydroelectric power stations. It would add enough water to the Volga to maintain-or lift-the level of the Caspian...
...cubic meters of water. From the sky it receives back some 70 billion in rainfall. The difference must be made up by the Volga, Ural and other smaller rivers. In recent years, the Volga's contribution has fallen short. Without G.V.P., prospects look dim for such ports as Batum-and for the caviar industry...
...about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...were not tempered in the fires that tempered them. Part of Moscow's sense of insecurity comes from this fear of the "soft, new men.") Kalinin could remember 1905, when he led the great strike at the Putilov works, and 1902, when Stalin led the workers at Batum (see cut). Kalinin reminded the organizers...
...Russians say that "Kars is a British dagger pointed at Russia's heart-Baku." Kars dominates the valleys leading to Batum, Russia's rail and pipeline terminal on the Black Sea, and the Transcaucasian roads to Russia's biggest oilfields. But Kars can also be a Russian dagger pointed through Turkey at the British Empire's oil arteries. It flanks the Iranian province of Azerbaijan about which Russia is much concerned...