In between the sessions of the Union Congress of Soviets at Tiflis, capital of the Transcaucasian Federation (Russian Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), events took place, speeches were heard.
Shiraksky Canal. Comrade Rykov, Chairman (Premier) of the Council of the People's Commissars (Cabinet) of the Central Government at Moscow, accompanied by Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat...
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