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Word: leninkin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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Shiraksky Canal. Comrade Rykov, Chairman (Premier) of the Council of the People's Commissars (Cabinet) of the Central Government at Moscow, accompanied by Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: In and Around Tiflis | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

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