Dear colleagues!
Professor Victor Abramovich Dukhovny, the Director of the Scientific Information Centre of Interstate Coordination Water Commission will celebrate his 75th anniversary on April 20, 2009.
His activity during the Soviet period is well known among CIS countries, especially in Central Asia, in the sphere of water resources management, land reclamation, integrated irrigation and land development method. Being one of the participants and managers of the work on transformation of the Hunger Steppe into the densely populated oasis and upscaling of this experience to Karshinskaya Steppe, Karakalpakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the organizer of the Scientific-Production Association SANIIRI, the active participant of establishing the Basin Water Organizations "Amudarya" and "Syrdarya", the author of 17 monographs, 30 patents and more than 300 publications, he took part in many innovative works undertaken in Central Asian countries for last years.
Since independence, he has become one of the active organizers of water partnerships, including the Interstate Coordination Water Commission, the International Fund for Aral Sea Saving, and Global Water Partnership of Central Asia and Caucasus. Professor Dukhovny actively promotes the regional interests in the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, where he is a Honorary Vice-President; in the World Water Council and in the International Water Resources Association, where he was elected as a member of the board.
Thousands of water specialists from all the Central Asian countries were involved in implementation of advanced water resources management methods owing to his activity as an advisor and manager of a large number of the regional projects - "IWRM-Fergana", "The Central Asia Regional Water Information Base", "Automation of structures in the Fergana Valley", as well as the Training Center of ICWC.
The SIC ICWC staff congratulates their Director Prof. Dukhovny and wishes him a healthy and happy life!
Please, join us in our congratulations.