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    22 months ago

    Got me interested enough to Google, maybe you should too

    Research and planning work on the project started in the 1930s and was carried out on a large scale in the 1960s through the early 1980s. The controversial project was abandoned in 1986, primarily for environmental reasons, without much actual construction work ever done.

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      02 months ago

      If you mean the rivers part, then yes.

      If you mean the steppe part, then no, they’ve caused a few ecological catastrophes first before stopping.