Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...revolt had made rapid progress since it welled up less than two months ago. Most of Azerbaijan (see map) was already in rebel hands. Rebel columns sped along the swampy Caspian littoral to seize the town of Bandar Shah; they headed east toward Iran's sacred city of Meshed...
...former head of the Department of Information and Propaganda in Iran, emphasized the extent to which Iran has contributed to the war-effort by transporting more than 6,000,000 tons of lend-lease material to Russia over their only railroad, which runs from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea passing through Teheran...
...richest oil areas, and may yet be Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking out on the Black Sea and the Caspian, which wash at Russia's outward gates...
...into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...