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G.V.P. proposes to correct the situation by raising the level of the upper reaches of the north-flowing Pechora and Vychegda Rivers (see map). Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Up Sea, Back Rivers | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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