This article contains a lot of information regarding the irrigation systems in Khiva Khanate, collected by the military expedition under the command of Captain A.P. Bekovich-Cherkassky, who came in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century, the expeditions led by the Russian engineer Nazimov, Dmitry Gladyshev and Ivan Muravin, the embassy mission led by staff captain N.N. Muravev on the assignment of the military governor of the Caucasus, General A.P. Ermolov and the expedition led by Orenburg military commander V.A. Perovsky on June 17, 1819.