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aral sea
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n. A saline lake straddle the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, that was once large, but that has shrunk to a quarter of its original size after the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which previously flowed into it, were diverted for irrigation purposes during ...
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The Aral Sea ( Aral Teñizi ; ; ; Bahri Aral ; older Daryâche Khârazm ; ) was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan ( Aktobe and Kyzylorda Regions ) in the north and Uzbekistan ( Karakalpakstan autonomous region) in the south. The name roughly translates ...
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Half-way across Russia, through Astrakhan, over the Aral Sea (Caspian, too, as a matter of fact) and across the Hindu Kush - old country to me, of course.
The programme between newscasts was about the disappearance of the Aral Sea.
What else would you expect of the people who turned the Aral Sea into the Aral Pond .
He took a small apartment with a view of the Aral Sea and spent hours watching the steppe wind as it scudded across the water.
I was at some point introduced to Rashid Nugmanov, a young Kazakh director who had made IGLA (The Needle) with Victor Tsoi, a dramatic feature shot (I believe) in Rashid's hometown of Alma Ata, and in the Aral Sea (or what used to be the Aral Sea -- source of the dead zone Cayce walks through in PATTERN RECOGNITION).
It was lost in Soviet central Asia, a couple of hundred miles east of the Aral Sea.
Local communist authorities, without consulting one expert, had built or enlarged several irrigation canals to plant cotton, completely draining the already heavily polluted Aral Sea, and creating one of the worst ecological disasters of the 1980s.
Timur was glad to receive him, as this royal Mongol might prove useful, and gave him three cities: Otrar, Sabran, and Signakhi on the north bank of the Syr Darya, the northern of two rivers feeding into the Aral Sea.