Showing posts with label Leonid Solovyov. Show all posts
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Sunday, 29 March 2026

Numbered LS Bibliography 20260329 Snapshot

 

A numbered bibliography of the works of Leonid V. Solovyov (1906-1962)

About this bibliography and Leonid Solovyov:

The intent here is to document the entire works of LS from the date of the source, thus headings are numeric, indicating the first publication of each work. LS wrote in Russian, but his works have been translated in several languages, even by Moscow based publishers.

The header of each story also includes the name in Russian and in English. The primary author of this bibliography only understands English, and the document is intended for English audiences.

In many instances LV stories were collected to make a larger work following a theme. This is especially true of the war stories.

Sevastopol Stone: Collection contains some stories not available elsewhere.

One outstanding ‘Collected Works’ was published in 2010. It is listed, and in many cases it is the only source of LS works. Thus 2010.1 is important.

Definitions; these follow the standards of FictionMags:

vi (vignette): in the context of FictionMags, "vignette" is always used to mean "short short story", which is typically 1–3 pages (or under 1,000 words)

ss (short story): typically 4–20 pages (or 1,000 to 7,999 words)

nv (novelette): typically 21–50 pages (or 8,000 to 19,999 words)

na (novella/short novel): typically 51–100 pages (or 20,000 to 39,999 words)

n. (novel): typically over 100 pages (or 40,000 words or longer)

additionally we have:

pm poem

pl play

ch chapter: in many cases, stories have become chapters in books, and are listed in databases like LitLife. Where information exists these are expanded upon.

Note that if a title is underlined, eg. 1949.2, it means we have a copy in some digital form.

Леони́д Васи́льевич Соловьёв in English becomes Leonid Vasilyevich Solovyov. Other variations are Leonide, and for the family name ‘viev, vi’ev, etc. There are a number of biographies of the author; several appear in the Stillwoods translations of his works. There are a few errors that appear in those translations.

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1926.01 Месть - Revenge

tentatively publishing in One Love – Revenge 2400 words’ Great adventure story along Syr-Darya.

This is a short story that was published in “World of Adventures” magazine. It won first prize in 1927 results. Illustrated ss

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1927.01 На Сыр-Дарьинском берегу - On the Shore of the Syr Darya

tentatively publishing in One Love – Revenge 8900 words’ Great adventure story along Syr-Darya.

Three hunters—two Russians and a Tatar—live in a hut on the banks of the Syr Darya. A gang led by Rakhmankul, a kurbashi, roams the area, plundering villages and slaughtering and murdering civilians. The hunters and a wounded Red Army soldier engage in an unequal battle with the Basmachi. Illustrated ss

Included in: magazine "World of Adventures 1927' 8" , 1927.


журнал

Мир приключений № 8, 1927 г.

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1928.01 Тёмное дело – Dark Business

tentatively publishing in One Love – Revenge 3000 words’ Great adventure story, Central Asia.

Dark Matter (Dark Business/Affair) illustrated ss

Synopsis -Amidzhan has been working for old Mamed for four years for free, in exchange for the promise of marrying his daughter, Nazakat. The village's richest bey, the fat Boymat, who already has two wives, promises Mamed a whopping 600 rubles in dowry for Nazakat.

from World of Adventures 1928 '3 infosource https://fantlab.ru/work729317

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1929.1 Месть Шашибушана - Revenge of Shashibushan

- Publication: Всемирный следопыт (World Pathfinder) Illustrated ss

- Issue: №9, 1929 - Pages: 671–679

- Publisher: Государственное акционерное издательское общество «ЗиФ», Москва–Ленинград

- Notes: Early satirical short story with Eastern motifs; predates Solovyov’s Nasreddin cycle. Published in a high-circulation Soviet magazine aimed at youth and international readers.

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1930.1 Ленин в творчестве народов Востока - Lenin in the works of the peoples of the East: (Songs and tales)

https://fantlab.ru/search-works?q=леонид+соловьев&page=all#:~:text=Lenin and Kuchuk-Adam from 1926

Details

Shelf Number 30-1/82

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) Lenin in the works of the peoples of the East: (Songs and tales) / L. V. Soloviev; With an introduction by A. M. Arsharuni. - Moscow: State Publishing House of the RSFSR Moskovsky Rabochy, 1930 (printing house of Mospoligraf Iskra Revolyutsii). - 125 p., [2] p. advertisment; 17x12 cm.

Author Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Editor, compiler etc. Arsharuni, A.M. -- Author of the preface, etc.

Language Russian

Subjects Lenin Vladimir Ilyich -- (1870 - 1924)

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 007209613

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1932.1 Кочевники - Nomads

(Nomadland, Nomadism: A Tale)

first appeared the The World Pathfinder

Shelf Number Mf K1/1707

32-3/749

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) Nomadland: A Story / L. Soloviev; Binding: D. Shmarin. - Moscow; Leningrad: State Publishing House of Artistic Literature, 1932 (Moscow: Krasny Proletary Printing House). - Binding, 166 p., incl. title page, 2 p. advertisements; 20×14 cm. - (New Releases of Proletarian-Collective Farm Literature / Russian Organization of Proletarian-Collective Farm Writers (ROPKP))

Author Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Editor, compiler etc. Shmarin, D. -- Others

Series Title

New Proletarian-Collective Farm Literature / Russian Organization of Proletarian-Collective Farm Writers (ROPKP)

Language Russian

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 006973305

1934.1 Поход „Победителя“ - The Victor’s Campaign

(The Campaign of the Winner)

Might be something here, no access https://opac.flib.sci.am/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=410718&shelfbrowse_itemnumber=721104 ...see Copilot report

[Moscow]: GIHL, 1934. - 176 p.; 20 cm. a collection of novellas and short stories including:

The Victor’s campaign (1934)

The One Hundred and Twelfth Experiment (1934)

1934.03 Герой Труда - Hero of Labour

Done thanks to Ludmila 20260224.

1934.04 Отец - Father

The Wheel (1934)

New House (1934) https://litvek.com/books/243890-kniga-leonid-vasilevich-solovyov-novyiy-dom

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1936.01 Блудные сыновья - Prodigal Sons

Leonid Solovyov in The Bolshevtsi Collection – 1936

(I have this story and it is published in one of my books. Source file was in LitLife and is saved in folder..)

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0000.01 Одна любовь - One Love

I have this story, but I have no idea of source! I have a picture of the rerelease cover.

  • One Love “Reproduced in the original author's orthography of the 1921 edition (Petrograd Publishing House

Подробнее на livelib.ru:

https://www.livelib.ru/author/27187/top-leonid-solovev/~2” dubious?

One Love is listed as a title (ss) within the Sevastopol Stone: Collection 1959 https://fantlab.ru/edition248537

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1938.1 Высокое давление: Роман - High Pressure

Details

Shelf Number 38-2/402

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) High pressure: [Novel]. - Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1938 (1 type. Transzheldorizdat). - 216 p., 1 incl. f. ill.: ill.; 17 cm.

Author

Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Language Russian

Siglas of other libraries NLR

System number NLR01 007073806

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1939.1 Stories

Details

Shelf Number 39-2/1

Library card

Solovyov L. V. (writer) Stories. - [Moscow]: Sovetsky pisatel, 1939. - 264 p.; 17 cm.

Author Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Language Russian

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 006871134

also...Note that these are different contents

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1939.2 Stories

Shelf Number

39-8/3227

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) Solar Master; [The Ninety-sixth Woman]: Stories / L. Soloviev. - Moscow: Pravda, 1939. - 48 p.; 14 cm. - (Ogonyok Library; No. 55)

Author

Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Series Title

Ogonyok Library, No. 55

Language

Russian

Siglas of other libraries

NLR

System number

NLR01 007073807

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1940.1 Возмутитель спокойствия - The Troublemaker

(Disturber of the Peace)

Source is the Afterword from Mid-life Stories, D. Moldavsky. ( now adjusted with fantlab links to cover.)

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1940 (cover photo available in dropbox)

Повесть о Ходже Насреддине (The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin).

Moscow publication

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1944.1 The Merry Sinner

(play) Details

Shelf Number

L30 G-8/89

Library card

Solovyov L. V. (writer), Vitkovich V. S. The Merry Sinner: Comedy in 4 acts, 9 scenes / Leonid Solovyov, Viktor Vitkovich. - Moscow: All-Russian Directorate for the Protection of Copyright, Distribution Department, [1944]. - 52 p. ; 28 cm.

Author

Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Vitkovich, Viktor Stanislavovich (1908-1983)

Language Russian

Notes

Glass-glass ed.

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 006938185

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1944.2 Long Voyage

Details

Shelf Number L30 G-2/1115

Library card

Solovyov L. V. (writer) Long Voyage: A Short Story / Leonid Solovyov. - Magadan: Publ. and printing house "Sov. Kolyma", 1944. - 16 p.; 14 cm.

Author Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Language Russian

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 006938188

This may be a chapter from Sevastopol Stone

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1944.3 Черноморец - Chernomorets

You can purchase a full copy of this through NLR:

Details

Shelf Number

ONL Komi-z./2-112

Library card

Solovyov L. V. (writer) Chernomorets : novel / Leonid Solovyov ; [transl. with rus. D. V. Konyukhov] - Syktyvkar : Komigiz, 1944. - 114 s. ; 20 cm.

Author

Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Language Come

BBK

Sh6(2=Ko)-91R7-4

Siglas of other libraries

RNB

System number NLR01 01020615

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1944.4 Black Sea Sailor

Published only in English, it could be an adaptation of Tales of Boatswain Vasyukov

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1945.1 Пропавший пост - The Missing Post

Рассказ, 1945 год

(short story, illustrations by G. Balashov), pp. 10-12 magazine Shift No. 6, 1945

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1946.0 Imprisoned in Gulag, Dubravlag labor camp (Mordovia), to 1954

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1946.1 Рассказы боцмана Васюкова - Tales of Boatswain Vasyukov

ch The Legend of the Black Sea [= Sevastopol Stone] (1944)

ch Long Voyage (1944)

ch Soul of the Ship (1944)

ch Tomb of the Unknown Pilot (1944)

ch The Order (1944)

ch Alyonushka (1944)

ch The Return (1944)

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1956.1 Очарованный принц - The Enchanted Prince

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1956.2 Повесть о Ходже Насреддине - The Tales of Hoddja Nasreddin

(both books as one volume)

Возмутитель спокойствия (The Disturber of the Peace, sometimes translated as Adventures in Bukhara or The Beggar in the Harem).

I believe this is in error. It should be ‘The Enchanted Prince’ and the above refers to the collection.

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1958.1 Funny Scandal

Details from nlr.ru

Shelf Number 59-2/65

Library card

Vitkovich V.S., Soloviev L.V. (writer) Funny scandal: A play in 3 acts. - Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1958. - 64 p.; 17 cm.

Author

Vitkovich, Viktor Stanislavovich (1908-1983)

Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Language: Russian

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 008259903

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1959.1 Sevastopol Stone: Collection

(collection – this may be mixed up with SS original. See 1959 important collection, file, in Biblio folder.

· The Legend of the Black Sea [= Sevastopol Stone] (1944)

· Long Voyage (1944)

· Soul of the Ship (1944)

· Tomb of the Unknown Pilot (1944)

· Alyonushka (1944)

· The Return (1944)

· Briefly about myself (1959)

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1963.1 From the Book of Youth

Shelf Number 63-3/2655

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) From the "Book of Youth" / [Afterword by E. Kalmanovsky; Ill.: V. Alekseev. - Moscow]: Mol. Gvardia, 1963. - 224 p., 1 p. portr.: ill.; 21 cm.

Author Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Editor, compiler etc.

Kalmanovsky, E. -- Author of the preface, etc.

Alekseev, V. -- Illustrator

Language Russian

Subjects Uzbek SSR (h. l.)

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 008690739

rc\4649773

63-3/2655

Soloviev. L. V., Leonid Vasilievich (writer) (1906-1962).

From the "Book of Youth" / [Afterword by E. Kalmanovsky; Ill.: V. Alekseev. - Moscow]: Mol. Gvardiya, 1963. - 224 p., 1 p. portr. : ill. ; 21 .

Kalmanovsky. E., author. preface

Alekseev. V., ill.

Uzbek SSR (canvas).

RU [63-33541]

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1964.1 Selected Works of Solovyov L.V.

Solovyov L.V. (writer) [Selected: Vol. 1-3]. - Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1964. - 3 volumes; 17 cm.
Author: Soloviev, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

rc\4726473

64-2/2373

Soloviev. L. V., Leonid Vasilievich (writer) (1906-1962).

[Selected: Vol. 1-3]. - Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1964. - 3 v. ; 17 .

[Vol. 1]: From the "Book of Youth"; Stories. - Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1964. - 332 p., 1 p. portr.

[Vol. 2]: The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: In 2 books, [Book 1. Troublemaker]. - Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1964. - 283 p.

[T. 3]: The Tale of Khoja Nasreddin: In 2 books, [Book. 2. The Enchanted Prince]. - Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1964. - 475 p.

Data from https://webservices.nlr.ru/util/?method=recordFormat&vid=07NLR_VU1&sysid=008444942&format=037&base=NLR01

RU [64-62377]

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1966.1 Сахбо Sakhbo: Notes of my friend

Details

Shelf Number 67-6/1376

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) Sakhbo: Notes of my friend: [For middle age] / Illustration by A. Skalozubov. - Leningrad: Children's Literature [Leningrad Department], 1966. - 48 p.: ill.; 21 cm.

Author Solovyov, Leonid Vasilievich (writer, 1906-1962)

Editor, compiler etc.

Skalozubov, A. -- Illustrator

Language Russian

Subjects

Foreign military intervention and civil war in the USSR 1918-1920 -- Central Asia (d.l.)

Siglas of other libraries RNB

System number NLR01 0086907411966.1 САXБО - Sakhbo (Saxbo) Notes from my Friend

Illustrations by A. Skalozubov

1st Children's Literature Publishing House

Leningrad 1966

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1971.1 Леонид Соловьёв Повесть О...Leonid Solovyov Story

about Middle Life Fiction

Self owned book

Contents:

Book One. The Disturber of the Peace

Part One 9

Part Two 78

Part Three 128

Book Two. The Enchanted Prince

Part One 210

Part Two 357

Part Three 449

IVAN NIKULIN — RUSSIAN SAILOR (A True Story)

In the Hospital 535

To Great Deeds! 537

The Road 539

To the Front! To the Front! 545

First Battle 548

In the Ravine 550

Junkers from the Vesta! 556

Farewell, Friends! 560

Tikhon Spiridonovich 562

FD-1242 565

Cut off! 597

Marusya's Tears . . . . ... ... . . . '. . 570

Come on, "Fedya"! Push on, "Fedya"! ......... 573

Through villages and farmsteads . . . . . . . . 570

Nighttime Thoughts 582

On reconnaissance . . . 585

Red-haired Pharaoh 589

Destroyed the anchor . . . . . . 593

Military ruse . . 597

Raid, 600

Tikhon Spiridonovich's Feat, . . .603

Our Men Are Advancing. 605

Oath 607

Friends 610

Trial613

Tikhon Spiridonovich's Crime. . 618

The Last Night 622

The Execution of Marusya, 625

The Executioners Flee! 628

At the Crossing 631

Unequal Battle 635

Ivan Nikulin's Immortality.....638

Forward, to the West! 643

SEVASTOPOL STONE

The Legend of the Black Sea. ......649

Long Voyage 653

The Soul of the Ship 661

The Grave of the Unknown Pilot....670

Alyonushka. 678

Return 689

Dm. Moldavsky. Afterword 705

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2010.1 Collected Works

See LSCW folder for details.

Shelf Number

2011-3/3175

Library card

Soloviev L. V. (writer) Collected Works: in 5 volumes - Moscow: Book Club Knigovek, 2010. - 21 cm.

BBK

Ш6(2=Р)7я44

Notes

Lit. adj. Spark

Is Part Of Ogonyok Siglas of other libraries RNB System number NLR01 001727058

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  • Eastern Tales –this is informal classification from 2010 collected works

1931.11 В шерганских песках - In the Fergana Sands

Research Notes

The two main libraries in Russia, which serve as the primary national repositories for literature and research, are the Russian State Library (Moscow) and the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg).

RSL.RU

NLR.RU

Best Russian list of stories:

https://fantlab.ru/search-works?q=Леонид+Соловьёв&page=all

This link might go to LS Collected Works ToC.

"C:\Users\frizz\Dropbox\Solovyov folder\LS Collected Works\LS Collected Works ToC new.doc"

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

1931.05 Khoja-Bakirgan

 

1931.05 Khoja-Bakirgan

by Leonid Solovyov (1906-1962)


The people of Khojent have long been famous for their hospitality.

The Egyptian guest was given the best, richly fertilized soil; the lack of warm days was compensated for by the most meticulous care and attention to every watering, every hilling.

With true Eastern courtesy, the guest thanked his hosts. The best varieties of Egyptian cotton ripen beautifully in Khujand, yielding a harvest no less than that of their native land, the Nile Valley. The state pays twice as much for Egyptian cotton as for American cotton. Million-dollar collective farms have already sprung up near Khujand. The Bolshevik collective farm’s income exceeded one million rubles last year.

Now, convinced of their guest’s exceptional courtesy, the people of Khujand would be delighted to welcome him to tens of thousands of more hectares. But there’s not enough water.

Khujand's fields are irrigated by the Khoja-Bakirgan, a tributary of the Syr Darya, which originates in the glaciers of the Turkestan Range. The Khoja-Bakirgan irrigation network covers approximately 16,000 hectares of cotton, vineyards, and orchards. In its current state, the Khoja-Bakirgan is unable to irrigate this large area.

Look at my head,” says the foreman, Karim-bai Shamsi (“sunny Karim-bai” in Russian), “I have two scars on my head, and my older brother died two days after one of the fights at the watershed. Just ten years ago, we fought for water every spring. We’ve come back from the fields in the evening, sit down; we’re relaxing and drinking tea, a dutar musician is playing, and we’re listening. Suddenly, a horseman appears, his horse all in a lather. The horseman flies up to the teahouse, rears the horse up on its hind legs, and throws his whip onto the ground, into the dust.

Nau is stealing our water! Nau is stealing our water!”

The entire teahouse rises at once. People run out of the courtyards—some with hoes, some with oxen. The musician drops his dutar and grabs a log. And we all run up the ditch, toward the watershed. A fight breaks out. Brother against brother, nephew against uncle, a stake to the temple. There's no other way: if you run out of water, you'll die of hunger. Look: I have two scars on my head.

I feel his head, round, shaved to a shine.

You could have been killed, Karim-bai Shamsi.”

Of course they could. Didn’t they kill enough people?”

Therefore, there was an ancient custom in Khujand: the guarding of the head of the irrigation ditch was entrusted to the strongest person, who, if necessary, was capable of engaging in hand-to-hand combat and protecting the water.

Fights on the watersheds have long ceased, the peasants have become collective farmers, water is distributed according to a strict plan, at precisely defined times, but according to tradition, the head of the Khojent aryk is still guarded by the strongman Abu Nabi Polvan, famous throughout Fergana, a regular winner of all visiting circus wrestlers.

Now, water disputes are resolved in the hydraulic engineer’s office. Last year, two collective farm chairmen actually got into a fight at the watershed: each of them had their sowing plans disrupted due to water shortages.

Khujand’s future lies in Egyptian cotton, and Khoja Bakirgan has set a strict limit on expanding the cotton crop. Expanding cotton cultivation now would mean drying up the vineyards and orchards. Not expanding cotton cultivation would stunt the economic and cultural growth of Northern Tajikistan.

What should we do now, Karimbai Shamsi? What should we do?”

Stalin knows what needs to be done. Soon they’ll start building a new Khodja-Baknrgap.”

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Together with the hydraulic engineer, we arrived at the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, to the site of future battles for socialist Khoja-Bakirgan.

The hydrotechnician unfolded the map and placed it on the ground, weighing down the corners with stones. A wind blew in from below, and our map bulged like a bubble.

I love nature,” said the hydraulic engineer, “but here on the Khodja-Bakirgan, I can’t enjoy it. The whole landscape is spoiled by this pebble riverbed—it hurts my soul just looking at it. Because of this riverbed, the Khodja-Bakirgan, along a thirty-kilometer stretch from here to Khujand, loses up to sixty percent of its water to filtration, and you see the orchards or cotton fields withering on some collective farm. No, I don't recognize such beauty.”

The hydraulic engineer sat facing the Turkestan Ridge. The wind dropped a stone and noisily twisted the corner of the map. The hydraulic engineer recounted:

In its upper reaches, where the Khodja-Bakirgan River cuts a narrow gorge through the mountain range closest to Khujand, its channel will be blocked by sluice gates at the entrance to the gorge. It will overflow and form a huge reservoir lake in a natural depression. In winter, when there’s no irrigation, all the water that currently flows uselessly into the Syr Darya will accumulate in this reservoir. Thus, by the time irrigation begins in spring, the Khodja-Bakirgan River will have a huge water reserve.

But this is only the beginning. It has been decided not to let the Khoja-Bakirgan flow downstream into the pebbly riverbed, where it loses much water to seepage. In the future, the Khoja-Bakirgan will only irrigate the upper reaches, while the lower reaches, near Khojent itself, will be irrigated by the Syr Darya, raised by the same Khoja-Bakirgan. Three hydroelectric power plants will be built on the Khoja-Bakirgan, below the reservoir. But since there won’t be enough water to power the turbines, it has been decided to compensate for the shortfall by using the force of its fall. A canal will run from the river. It will stretch along the mountainous bank parallel to the riverbed. When the difference in horizons reaches 100 meters, water from the canal will be thrown down from a height of 100 meters onto the turbines, and through them, back into the river. Three power plants will be built one after the other using the same principle. Their energy will rush along wires thirty kilometers away, to the banks of the Syr Darya, to the electric motors of powerful water pumping stations; the pumps will lift the Syr Darya water and irrigate the fields near Khujand.

The foaming Khodja-Bakirgan River, escaping from the turbines of the third and final hydroelectric power station, will be immediately captured in a new, concrete channel and diverted over hills and rocky ridges far away, before being distributed into separate irrigation ditches. The old, pebble-lined channel will serve only as a discharge channel for excess water.

The area irrigated by Khodja-Bakirgan will more than double.

The hydraulic engineer handed me a pair of binoculars. Light smoke from shepherds’ campfires curled over the site of the future power plants. On the golden sandy shallows of Khodja-Bakirgan, gudgeon stood, their fins lazily flapping, their heads all pointed in the same direction. A woman emerged from the yurt, mounted a horse, and galloped away beyond the hills.

Everyone here is waiting for the preparatory work to begin,” said the hydraulic engineer. “You see, the yurts have already appeared here. I myself wanted to quit this year, but I heard about the work starting and stayed. I want to wait until all the roads in my Khujand lead from garden to garden."

On the way back, we stop at the Bolshevik collective farm. Here, the millionaires, somewhat relieved from the worries of sowing, are discussing the new charter. A gray-haired collective farmer, Dada-bai Sarkaor, makes a proposal:

When Khodja-Bakirgan gives us new water, we need to plant a large garden and gradually move all the houses there.

In a teahouse on the Syr Darya, I meet again Karim-bay Shamsi, the sunny Karim-bay. He is a nobleman of Khojent, and the teahouse owner serves him tea out of turn.

I was at Khodja-Bakirgan today, Karim-bay Shamsi. I saw the sites where the power plants will be built.”

I’ve already been there twice,” he replies. “And I wrote a song. Now my whole team sings it:

And the cotton fields are in bloom!’,

And on the slopes the vineyards bloom,

And in Khujand there are white roads,

Because all gardens are in bloom.

You lay dry, earth,

You were barren, earth.

You moaned with thirst, earth,

Stalin thought of you, earth!

He sent engineers to Khujand.

He sent cars to Khujand,

So that happiness blossoms on collective farms,

He I sent my heart to Khujand.

You will receive water, earth,

You will swell with strength, earth,

You drive the shoots, earth,

I will kiss you, earth.

Khodja-Bakirgan...

Khodja-Bakirgan...

Khujand

[1450 words]

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