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Hydraulic engineering: Historical experience and current problems

Experience of the design and construction of the Ob-Yenisei waterway (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary)

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Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 1, pp. 41–48, January, 1995.

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Slabukha, A.V. Hydraulic engineering: Historical experience and current problems. Hydrotechnical Construction 29, 53–63 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01545767

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