Cotton (Uzbek) Case, a collective title for a series of criminal cases involving economic abuse and corruption exposed in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Former senior officers of the USSR Ministry of the Interior on trial in Moscow. Tashtemir Kakhramanov, former deputy minister of the interior of the Uzbek SSR, after receiving a non-guilty verdict (only two people were acquitted).30.12.1988#6595087
Cotton (Uzbek) Case, a collective title for a series of criminal cases involving economic abuse and corruption exposed in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Former senior officers of the USSR Ministry of the Interior on trial in Moscow. Khaidar Yakhyayev, former minister of the interior of the Uzbek SSR, could not hold back tears after receiving a non-guilty verdict (only two people were acquitted).30.12.1988#6595080
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. A bulldozer clears rock rubble.22.08.1987#2919389
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. The height of the future dam reaches nearly 200 meters. Installation personnel are guided by mountain climbers.22.08.1987#2919387
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. Farkhad, a settlement for hydraulic construction workers.22.08.1987#2919384
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. The sign at the entrance to the construction site.22.08.1987#2919382
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. A volleyball tournament in the village for hydraulic construction workers.22.08.1987#2919379
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. The height of the future dam reaches nearly 200 meters. Local residents are involved in construction as well. A. Niyazov works as a carpenter.22.08.1987#2919377
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. The height of the future dam reaches nearly 200 meters. A highly respected elder can be seen in the settlement for hydraulic construction workers.22.08.1987#2919376
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. The height of the future dam reaches nearly 200 meters. Installation personnel are guided by mountain climbers.22.08.1987#2919373
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. White water of the Tupalangdarya mountainous river.22.08.1987#2919372
Building the dam for the reservoir on the Tupalangdarya River, a left tributary of the Surkhandarya River in Uzbekistan. The height of the future dam reaches nearly 200 meters.22.08.1987#2919371
Uzbek SSR. Family of the cotton-growing brigade's foreman Khalmomat Makhmarasunov, daughter-in-law Zorina, left, and granddaughter Sabokhat.20.07.1987#5822604
Uzbek SSR. The large family of Makhmarasunov. Center (decorated) - head of the family Nishanban Makhmarasunov. Top row, fifth left - cotton-growing brigade's foreman Khalmomat Makhmarasunov.09.05.1987#5822610
Uzbek SSR. Cotton-growing brigade's foreman Khalmomat Makhmarasunov, left, and his father Nishanban Makhmarasunov in the field prior to planting crops.03.05.1987#5822606
A modern irrigation system for the cotton fields using concrete cradles. Moskva Collective Farm, Kanibadamsky District, Sughd Province of the Tajik SSR.21.03.1987#8494231
Uzbek SSR. Family of the cotton-growing brigade's foreman Khalmomat Makhmarasunov dining.20.03.1987#5822605
Dona Pindobokyev, foreman of the cotton brigade of the Navkoram state farm (Virgin Land), Zafarobadsky district of the Tajik SSR.10.03.1987#8533721
The Tajik SSR. The Kuibyshev State Farm - Technical School in the Kurgan-Tyube District, now the Faizali Saidov State Farm in the Kushoniyon District. This photo shows the main irrigation canal for saturating cotton fields with water.01.10.1986#9020888
Machines picking cotton on the Leninism state farm in the Karakalpakskaya Autonomous SSR, which was part of the Uzbek SSR.01.08.1986#884097
The Leninism State Farm in the Karakalpak ASSR, part of the Uzbek SSR. Photo: There are plans to turn the Kyzylkum Desert's arid lands into cotton fields.15.05.1986#6674647
Leninism state farm in the Karakalpak ASSR (part of the Uzbek SSR). Machinery operators planning future cotton fields in the desert lands of Kyzyl Kum.15.05.1986#6672977
The Tajik SSR. The Kuibyshev State Farm - Technical School in the Kurgan-Tyube District, now the Faizali Saidov State Farm in the Kushoniyon District. Shodi Mirzoyev, a graduate of the state farm - technical school, heads a team of young machine operators, including members of the All-Union Lenin Young Communist League (Komsomol. He is seen here standing on a state farm field.18.04.1986#9020970
Tajik SSR. Kuibyshev State Farm and Vocational School in the Kurgan-Tyubinsky District (now Faizali Saidov State Farm in the Kushoniyinsky District). Students and future mechanization professionals during the spring processing of soil before planting cotton.18.04.1986#9020908
The Uzbek SSR. Harvesting cotton on the fields of the Julius Fucik State Farm in the Jizak Region.01.09.1985#8777798
Left: Zamina Sardar kyzy Aslanova, Soviet Azerbaijani cotton grower, Hero of Socialist Labor, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, during a conversation with a voter.27.08.1985#8846891
Left: Zamina Sardar kyzy Aslanova, Soviet Azerbaijani cotton grower, Hero of Socialist Labor, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, during a meeting in a cotton field with workers of the E. Telman collective farm.27.08.1985#8846890
Collective farm named after the 40th Anniversary of October in the Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan. An amateur ensemble.01.08.1985#8785728
The Tajik SSR. The Lenin Collective Farm in the Kulyab Region. Geodesic experts survey the terrain during construction of an irrigation system in the Kulyab Region.01.08.1985#8791646
International courses under the national program against desertification at the Institute of Desert Studies of the Turkmen Academy of Sciences. Center: A.Tekin, Director of the Technical Department of the Main Environmental Directorate, and other participants in the UN environmental program, visit an irrigated cotton field.01.08.1985#9030359
A cotton processing station at the Leninism State Farm in the Karakalpakskaya ASSR. Uzbek SSR.01.08.1985#8325746
Fine-stapled cotton gathering work in the collactive farm n.a. Friedrich Engels, Uzbek SSR.01.07.1985#884028
Agricultural workers bundling fine-stapled cotton in the collective farm n.a. Friedrich Engels, Uzbek SSR.01.07.1985#884027
Agricultural workers bundling fine-stapled cotton in the collective farm n.a. Friedrich Engels, Uzbek SSR.01.07.1985#884025
Agricultural workers bundling fine-stapled cotton in the collective farm n.a. Friedrich Engels, Uzbek SSR.01.07.1985#884024
Tajik SSR. Experimental fields of the Vakhsh branch of the Tajik Research Institute of Agriculture, where new varieties of cotton are tested, bred by breeders with the direct participation of the branch director, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, cotton breeder Bobo Sanginov.01.08.1984#8380644
The Tajik SSR. Center: Tajik scientist cotton-grower and selectionist Bobo Sanginov, Director of the Vakhsh Subsidiary of Farming Research and Development Institute, visits a cotton procurement center.01.08.1984#8768641
