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By Draining From the 1930s the Largest Lake in the Caucasus to Irrigate the Ararat Plain, the Soviets Literally Attached Its Island to the Land

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Imagine a lake so vast that it was once called the "Blue Sea" of the Caucasus, and that has seen its shores retreat by almost twenty meters in just a few decades. It is not science fiction, but the very real history of Lake Sevan, in Armenia, collateral victim of a Soviet industrial bet as ambitious as [...]
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Imagine a lake so vast that it was once called the "Blue Sea" of the Caucasus, and that has seen its shores retreat by almost twenty meters in just a few decades. It is not science fiction, but the very real history of Lake Sevan, in Armenia, collateral victim of a Soviet industrial bet as ambitious as [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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