BADGE TO THE BUILDER OF THE GREAT FERGANA CANAL

Description

The Great Fergana Canal named after I.V. Stalin (now named after Usman Yusupov) - one of the largest irrigation structures in Central Asia - was built in 1939-1940. by the method of people's construction with the participation of 160 thousand collective farmers. It runs through the territory of Uzbekistan (283 km) and Tajikistan (62 km). The canal supplies water to about 257 thousand hectares of irrigated land.
The badge was established by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR on December 22, 1939. The badge was awarded to collective farmers and collective farmers, engineers and technicians, persons of the administrative and managerial staff who participated in the construction of the canal; workers, employees and engineering and technical workers of enterprises who supplied construction with equipment and building materials, as well as workers in the arts, education, health care, communications, trade, who served the construction of the canal. The awarding was carried out by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the republic on the recommendation of regional and city executive committees, people's commissariats and central institutions of Uzbekistan.
In the early 1930s. For the construction of a complex of hydraulic structures in Central Asia, the Central Asian camps of the OGPU were created. Since 1935, they came under the jurisdiction of the NKVD of the Uzbek SSR.