Vasilyev V. A.Eng. Communication Ways. Atlas of Drawings: Project for Irrigation of the Chu River Valley in Semirechen Oblast. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Vasilev V. A.Inzh. Putey Soobshcheniya. Atlas Chertezhey:Proekt orosheniya doliny reki Chu v Semirechenskoy oblasti. Under the editorship of V. A. Vasilyev, the head of irrigation works in the Chu River basin. Part 1. GUZ and Z. Department of Land Improvement. Petrograd Ekaterinskaya type. 1915. 141 l. Chart 11 Ltd. maps. Professor Vladimir Alexandrovich Vasilyev is a well-known Russian hydraulic engineer, one of the characters of Solzhenitsyns novel The Gulag Archipelago. He devoted his whole life to the development of the project of irrigation of the Chui Valley, beginning in 1910. Massive irrigation project initiated by the tsarist government is a striking example of the development of the eastern suburbs of the Russian Empire. SKUalbf54bce5e44c665d9.