WORKS BY V.I.ANTONOV

For lifetime of the "Vodproject" Association, by its head organization under the direction of V.I.Antonov a series of large-scale pre-project and project working-outs were implemented, which have significant importance for water economy development and technical level rise of Uzbekistan irrigation systems. Among those are:

- General scheme for improvement of using irrigated lands and water resources and their conservation, as well as technical renewal of water industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the period of 2005-2010;

- Feasibility report on the problem relating to sources providing the population of Uzbekistan with good-quality drinking water;

- Scheme for development of small-scale hydropower engineering in water objects of Uzbekistan for the period up to 2010;

- Scheme of complex use and conservation of fresh groundwater of Uzbekistan for the period up to 2010;

- Analytical report on the National Water Strategy of the Republic of Uzbekistan for the period of 2010-2025 years;

Being a permanent expert of the Interstate Council on the problems of the Aral Sea basin, Mr. V.I.Antonov took direct part in preparation of international agreements and other materials related to ecological problems in Central Asia caused by general deficit of the water resources available in the region.

Also, he has prepared the following specific reports:

- "On some legal aspects of joint use and conservation of water resources by the states of Central Asia", which was reported in November of 1992 on the International Symposium in the University of Economics and Diplomacy of the Republic of Uzbekistan;

- "What one should do in order to save the delta of the Amudarya river?", represented in the International meeting hold in December of 1994 in the international Fund "ECOSAN";

- "About preventive measures towards non-admission of ecological and social-economical disaster in the Zarafshan river basin thanks to continued withdrawal of water resources", which was reported in the conference of the Republican Water Council in September of 1994;

- "How to ensure unification of assessment of formation and use of water resources in the Aral Sea basin?", which was presented November of 1995 to the State Hydro-meteorological Committee, Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and Executive Committee of the Interstate Council on the problems of the Aral Sea basin.

In 1992, V.I.Antonov prepared "Conception of solving the Aral Sea problem, saving Aral Sea area, ecological enhancement and ensuring stable social-economical development of the Central Asian states under the conditions of existed water resources deficit", which was presented for approval to the State Nature Committee, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, and Executive Committee of the Interstate Council on the problems of the Aral Sea basin. Then, the Conception was elaborated jointly with Prof. V.A.Dukhovniy and Prof. E.D.Rakhimov, and, in January of 1994, was approved by the decision of the Interstate Council on the problems of the Aral Sea basin.

Above-mentioned developments and reports made by V.I.Antonov played a certain favorable role in preparation by specialists of research and design institutes of the region ?Specific Acts Program? relating to the Aral Sea basin, which was approved for realization in 1994 by Heads of the Central Asian states.

He has 46 publications; among those, the followings are worthy of being marked:
- "Use of Siberian rivers water transferred to the Aral Sea basin and issues of designing a transfer canal and inter-basin distributing canals". "Collection of SOPS of Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan ?Urgent problems of transferring a part of the Siberian rivers flow to Central Asia and Kazakhstan", "Fan" publishing house, Tashkent, 1984;

- "Forecasting forming of irrigation-return water, its quality, and its use in the Aral Sea basin". "Water resources" journal of the Academy of Sciences of USSR, # 4, Moscow, 1985, (co-authorship with T.N.Trunova);

- "Disasters of the Aral Sea: in what do they lie" "Zvezda Vostoka" magazine, # 12, Tashkent, 1990;

- "What water will we drink?" "Agriculture of Uzbekistan" journal, # 3, Tashkent, 1992;

- "About real possibilities of saving the Aral Sea's area and normalizing ecological situation in the Aral Sea side area?" "Melioration and water management" journal, # 5-6, Moscow, 1992. (co-authorship with B.Y.Neyman);
- "Aral Sea and Aral Sea side area: priorities and alternatives. Analysis of the situation formed and proposed ides on overcoming the crisis connected with water deficit in the Aral Sea basin". Booklet, "Mekhnat" publishing house, Tashkent, 1992;

- "On forming watered landscape ecosystem in the Amudarya river delta". Works of Research Institute of Economics and development of productive forces of the State Forecast and Statistics Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 1995;

- "About the Program for future irrigation development in Uzbekistan". - "Vestnik Arala", issue 1, "Water resources", Tashkent, 1996;

V.I.Antonov took part in the action of VII International Congress for Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) in Mexico (1969); International Congress ICID in Moscow (1975), International Conference on Irrigation and Drainage for countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in Tashkent (1976); XI International Congress ICID in Grenoble (1981); In 1975, he worked in Egypt as one of the consultants in drawing water scheme of the west part of Nil (West Nubaria); in 1977, in India he worked in the group of the State Committee for Science and Technology of USSR on preparation of the agreement about research-technical cooperation between USSR and India in the land reclamation field; in 1989, he was invited to Syria as an expert in designing irrigation and land development on the Maskene land tract.

Now, he is a member of the Tashkent Club "ECOSAN", member of the Scientific-Technical Board of the Scientific-Production Center of Uzbekistan for agricultural investigations (since 1997), member of the Water Management Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan (since 1991), and an expert of the International Fund for Saving Aral Sea.

He prepared the following reports to the Tashkent Club "ECOSAN":
- "How to supply population of Uzbekistan with drinking water of good-quality?" 1995;
- "Water resources of Uzbekistan as a part of gross water resources of the Aral Sea basin?s region, and its use under the present conditions and in future?" 1997;
- "About transboundary nature of water resources (or to the effect that in what results misnomer)" - 1998
- "About Sarez Lake? (conclusion for the materials of observations over the lake's state, and suggestion on preventing the hazard of its breakthrough)" 1998.

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