The Turkmen SSR. Farming machinery on the fields of the Yerbent State Farm in the Karakum Desert in the Ashkhabad District.30.08.1989#6626513
The Turkmen SSR. A freshwater pipeline for irrigating the fields of the Yerbent State Farm in the Karakum Desert in the Ashkhabad District.30.08.1989#6626511
Sri Lankan playwright Dharmakirti, right, in the Turkmen SSR. During a trip to the Karakum Desert.08.06.1989#6667155
The Turkmen SSR. B. Ageyev, an employee of the Yerbent State Farm in the Karakum Desert in the Ashkhabad District, drives camels from a pasture.01.05.1989#6626508
Karakum Desert, one of the biggest in Central Asia. Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.01.10.1985#8454290
The Turkmen SSR. Members of a research team walk across the Karakum Desert during the Man and Desert science and sports expedition.08.09.1984#8406828
The Turkmen SSR. Members of a research team headed by Nikolai Kondratenko, a research associate with the Alma-Ata State Physical Fitness Institute, now the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism, walk across the Karakum Desert during the Man and Desert science and sports expedition.08.09.1984#8406826
|Members of a research team headed by Nikolai Kondratenko, a starffer of the Alma-Ata State Physical Fitness Institute, now the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism, far right, walk across the Karakum Desert in the Turkmen SSR during the Humans and Desert science and sports expedition.08.09.1984#8406825
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. The hikers at a break.01.09.1984#8400803
The Turkmen SSR. July-August 1984. The Man and Desert expedition, organized by the Institute of Medical-Biological Problems of the Soviet Ministry of Healthcare, called for walking across the Karakum Desert. Photo: The expedition's navigator Emil Bahl takes a rest.01.08.1984#5845688
The Turkmen SSR. July-August 1984. The Man and Desert expedition, organized by the Institute of Medical-Biological Problems of the Soviet Ministry of Healthcare, called for walking across the Karakum Desert. Photo: The expedition's navigator Emil Bahl eats lunch.01.08.1984#5845687
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. Each hour consists of 50 minutes of movement and 10 minutes of rest.01.08.1984#8400879
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. Member of the expedition Helmut Hegele, radio operator and photographer.01.08.1984#8400863
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. Expedition member Zeynel Sakibzhanov is responsible for the life and food of his comrades in overcoming the sands.01.08.1984#8400852
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. Nikolai Kondratenko is the leader and doctor of the expedition, a sports physician by education and a traveler by vocation.01.08.1984#8400840
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. The hikers are going to a meteorological station in the middle of the desert.01.08.1984#8400824
Turkmen SSR. Scientific-sports expedition Human and Desert is a hike in the Karakum desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the USSR Ministry of Health. After a day's rest, the participants continued their journey along the sand dunes.01.08.1984#8400812
The Turkmen SSR. The walking expedition "Human and Desert" across the Karakum Desert in July-August 1984. The expedition was organized by the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Healthcare Ministry of the USSR in assistance with the Institute of Physiology and Experimental Pathology of the Arid Zone of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR, Kazakh Institute of Physical Education and Kazakh affiliate of the Institute of Nutrition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Having a rest.01.08.1984#2979451
Participants of the scientific and sports expedition "Man and desert" Zeyni Sakibzhan and doctor Valery Fomenko conducting medical research.01.07.1984#504214
A flock of sheep in the collective farm "40 Years of Turkmenistan", Ashkhabad Region, Turkmenistan. 1983.01.06.1983#465320
Turkmen SSR. Soviet archaeologist Vadim Masson, Director of the Central Asia and Caucasus Sector at the Institute of Material Culture History, USSR Academy of Sciences.28.07.1975#5619575
Turkmen SSR. The Garabogazkol lagoon bay on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. Water that goes through a waterfall in the Garabogazkol strait produces much seafoam.01.10.1971#5996862
Turkmen SSR. Fresh water is delivered by the pipeline from the freshwater lake of Yasga in the Karakum Desert to the town of Nebit-Dag, now Balkanabat, and its adjacent areas.01.09.1971#5996774
Turkmen SSR. Fresh water from the freshwater lake of Yasga in the Karakum Desert is delivered to remote geological exploration crews.01.09.1971#5996771
Turkmen SSR. The pipeline built to deliver fresh water from the freshwater lake of Yasga in the Karakum Desert to the oil workers town of Nebit-Dag, now Balkanabat.01.09.1971#5996766
Transporting the Drilling Rig by Stanislav Korytnikov on display at the APN 1970-1971 photo exhibition.21.07.1971#5673853
The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Construction of the Shatlyk-Khiva gas pipeline in the Karakum Desert. Welders foreman Nikolai Shchadrin and Nikolai Syskevich.07.05.1971#5491752
Transporting a 36-meter pipe during the construction of the Shatlyk-Khiva gas pipeline in the Karakum Desert.12.11.1970#5493039
The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Transporting a 36-meter pipe during the construction of the Shatlyk-Khiva gas pipeline in the Karakum Desert.03.11.1970#5491751
The Central Asia - Center main gas pipeline under construction. Builders' base camp in the Karakum Desert, Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.01.04.1968#5969476
The Central Asia - Center main gas pipeline under construction. Pipelayers move to a different construction section. Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.01.04.1968#5969469
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. One-humped camel grazing in the Kaakhkinsky District. Camel herder N.Dzhananova.26.01.1967#6146976
Plants growing in the Karakum Desert such as sand sedge and haloxylons go dry as early as the beginning of May. Turkmen SSR.28.07.1966#6110068
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Third line (Tejen to Ashgabat) of the Vladimir Lenin Karakum Canal (now Turkmenbashi Grand Karakum Canal) under construction.28.07.1966#6110065
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Scaler Anna Grampane at the construction project of the third line (Tejen to Ashgabat) of the Vladimir Lenin Karakum Canal (now Turkmenbashi Grand Karakum Canal).28.07.1966#6110061
The Turkmen SSR. Photo: The Cistanche tubulosa plant in the sands of the Karakum Desert.01.07.1966#6128384
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. A panorama of the Vladimir Lenin Karakum Canal and irrigated territories.01.06.1966#6158043
Turkmen SSR. Phrynocephalus mystaceus, a species of agamid lizard which can be found in the Karakum Desert.15.05.1966#6034712
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Even in the Karakum Desert, flowers appear in spring that are as exotic as the area itself. Left: sand sedge.15.05.1966#6034711
Turkmen SSR. School student Nesveli Binasheva during her vacations at the pasture with Karakul sheep in the Karakum Desert.03.06.1965#6028545
