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14-719: For many centuries prior to Soviet control of the region, water in Central Asia belonged to feudal-bey landlords. On September 17, 1939, the Pravda Vostoka announced Central Asia's dream of obtaining water as a reality though the construction of the Great Fergana Canal. Usman Yusupov , the First Secretary of Central Asian Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan, announced that Soviet villages would no longer have

28-401: A hauz, where drinking water had worms, but would instead have more efficient drainage canals that would prosper the region. The Soviet government along, with the expansion of transportation infrastructure and Uzbek soviet citizens who invested in the region transformed a once dry Russian colony into a lively flowering valley that would also serve as a center for Soviet life. The canal symbolized

42-594: A river in Tajikistan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Uzbekistan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Kyrgyzstan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Usman Yusupov Usman Yusupovich Yusupov ( Uzbek : Usmon Yusupovich Yusupov ; Russian : Усман Юсупович Юсупов; 1 March 1901 – 7 May 1966)

56-521: A script portraying the history and construction of the Fergana Canal . The script is written as a triptych and begins with an introduction of the violent sacking of Urgench during the 14th century, the second section portrays the riots and the struggle for water access in the valley, and ends with the construction of the canal. 40°12′N 69°54′E  /  40.200°N 69.900°E  / 40.200; 69.900 This article related to

70-455: Is expected to have automation that would enable computerized control of canal gates in addition to data acquisition and communication. The construction of Fergana Canal was in the focus of many prominent representatives of the Photography in Uzbekistan such as Max Penson and other Soviet photographers like Mikhail Grachev. Russian screenwriters Pyotr Pavlenko and Sergei Eisenstein wrote

84-1015: The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1926. From 1926 to 1928, he served as the Chairman of the Tashkent District Committee of the Builders' Union. He then became the Head of the Organizational Department of the Tashkent District Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan and served in the position from 1928 to 1929. From March 1929 to September 1931, he was the Secretary of the Central Committee of

98-699: The Uzbek SSR from 1953 to 1954. He worked as a director of state farm until 1959 when he retired. Usman Yusupov passed away on May 7, 1966 in the city of Yangiyo'l . He was buried at the Chigatai Cemetery located in Tashkent . Communist Party of Uzbekistan The Communist Party of Uzbekistan ( Russian : Коммунистическая партия Узбекистана , romanized :  Kommunisticheskaya partiya Uzbekistana , Uzbek : Ўзбекистон Коммунистик Партияси , romanized:  Oʻzbekiston Kommunistik Partiyasi )

112-807: The Communist Party of Uzbekistan in the city of Samarkand . From September 1931 to December 1934, Yusupov served as the Chairman of the Central Asian Bureau of the All-Union Trade Union Confederation in Tashkent . From November 1936 to September 1937, Yusupov served as the People's Commissar of the Food Industry of the Uzbek SSR . He briefly served as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR for five days. Yusupov then served as

126-669: The area irrigated, and the cotton harvest doubled. This irrigation project successfully resulted in massive crop production and led to population increase in the Central Asian region due to industrial settlement in the valley. The canal alone irrigates about 39 percent of the land in the Fergana Valley. As of 2008 the Southern Fergana Canal was undergoing technical and infrastructure repair from deterioration in efforts to conserve water from poor distribution and retention. The canal

140-528: The canal was to irrigate the cotton fields of the Fergana Valley by the waters of Syr Darya River in efforts to establish agricultural independence from the western cotton market, other crop yields also include vegetables and wheat. In 1940–41, the Northern and Southern Fergana canals were also constructed. As a result, the water supply to the irrigation systems of the valley increased considerably, as did

154-642: The de facto head of state of the Uzbek SSR as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1937 to 1950. He also served as the First Secretary of the Tashkent Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Uzbekistan from 1938 to 1943. He served as the Minister of Cotton Production of the Soviet Union from 1950 to 1953, and then served as the fourth Chairman of the Council of Ministers of

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168-516: The progress of the union and announced the Soviet Union's future prosperity for the region, it also served as an example of care and guidance from the Stalinist state towards Central Asian citizens into modern age and socialism. A negative ecological change caused by the Great Fergana Canal created was the desiccation of the Aral Sea as a result of poor water management and overuse. The main purpose for

182-595: Was a Soviet Uzbek politician who was the de facto head of state of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic from 1937 to 1950 as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan . Yusupov was born in the village of Kaftarkhan in the Russian Empire on March 1, 1901. Born into a family of an Uzbek laborer, he too began working at a ginnery in Kovunch at the age of fifteen. Usman Yusupov joined

196-460: Was the ruling communist party of the Uzbek SSR which operated as a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). On 14 September 1991, the party announced its withdrawal from the CPSU. (1932–2017) (1927–2023) (1938–2016) This communist party –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an Uzbekistan political party

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