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7. The Carpets of Turkmenistan. When you meet a rider on a spirited Akhal-Tekin horse on the roads of Turkmenia, you will invariably see his crimson saddle-bag with long fringe. The pictures one of these bags spread out.

10. Turbines for the Dnieper Hydro-Electric Stations. Turbines for the Dnieper Hydro-Electric Stations/ 10. Turbines of Nazi-wrecked power stations have been sent to the Stalin Engineering Works in Leningrad for repairs. This rotor of a steam turbine…

Tbilisi, Capital of Soviet Georgia/ 3. Soviet Georgia cherishes the memory of outstanding figures of Georgian history and culture. A monument to the memory of Shota Rust'haveli, the great Georgian poet of the XII-XIIIth Centuries, has been erected in…

Tbilisi, Capital of Soviet Georgia/ 16. Tbilisi has many new public parks and gardens. Here is a view of the Stalin Park./ Photo by S. Friedlyand/ No. 42931

Tbilisi, Capital of Soviet Georgia/ 8. The State Art Museum in Tbilisi. Preserved here are the best works of Georgian national art./ Photo by S. Friedlyand/ No. 42932

6. Russia's Fleets: Two of Russia's most prominent naval men are Vice Admirals Basisty and Azarov of the Black Sea Fleet here shown reviewing their units at Sebastopol./ World News Services.

Riga Institutions of Higher Learning/ 4. Professor Y. Karklin of the Latvian State Conservatory, an Honored Worker of Art of the Latvian Republic, is shown here correcting students in their harmony exercises./ Photo by V. Ruikovich/ No. 49694

82107/ June, 1947/ Riga./ The Russian and Latvian Arts Museum in Riga./ Photo by V. Feodoseyev./ PRESS PHOTOAGENCY.

Excavations on the site of the ancient town of Olvia, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Photo shows an earthenware vessel for grain (III-II centuries B.C.) which was unearthed in 1946.

With a Camera in Odessa/ Trolleybuses are again running on Pushkin Street./ Photo by N. Kozlovsky/ No. 53537