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The Band-e Sardeh Dam (Dari/Pashto دسرده بند) (also known as Band-e Sar Deh, Banḏ-e Saṟḏeh, Plotina Sardekhband, сарде, Sardah Dam, Sardeh Dam, Sardi Dam, بند سر ده, سر ده بند ) is located in east Andar District of Ghazni Province of Afghanistan and was constructed in 1967 (1346 in the Islamic calendar) by the Soviet Union and Afghanistan during the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah prior to the Soviet War in Afghanistan. The dam provided irrigation water for more than 67,000 jeribs of land after completion. Currently only 2,000 jeribs of land is under cultivation. Maximum capacity of the reservoir is 259 million cubic meters of water, and the reservoir holds about 164 million gallons at present. The dam system contains an earth dam, intake, spillway, one main canal (which is divides into two branches (the 21.5-kilometer Right Canal with 6 sub-canals and the 30-kilometer Left Canal with 16 sub-canals) and administration buildings.〔http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADG475.pdf〕 The Sardeh Dam Reservoir is fed by the Jilga River which flows north–south from Paktika Province and Paktiya Province. The river is also labeled as the Gardez River north of the dam and the Sardih River south of the dam (by the National Atlas of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, page 13-14).〔http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADG475.pdf〕 ==Context== The dam is an indication of the presence of aid from the USSR in Afghanistan prior to the invasion and subsequent occupation from 1979-1989. According to C.J. Chivers of the New Yorks Times: "Moscow built schools, roads, airports and dams, and sponsored ministries, too. Soviet officials recruited students and bureaucrats for all manner of training, and invited the country’s elite and its officer-, civil-service and intellectual classes to long periods of study in the Soviet Union. Education, development and modernization — like this dam, which still influences both flood control and irrigation downstream — played no small part in the Kremlin’s Afghan policy, which ultimately failed."〔http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/reporters-notebook-in-afghanistan-glimpses-of-the-soviet-try/〕 The Band E Sardeh Dam was built during the same period as the High Dam in Aswan, Egypt, indicating a larger Soviet strategy for the development of third world nations it sought to bring under its sphere of influence. Large lettered Russian writing is still present on the down-stream face of the dam (visible from over 500 meters away) commemorating its completion in Russian and Pashto script. On the left it reads: "сарде 1967" and on the right: دسرده بند۱۳۴۶ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Band-e Sardeh Dam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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