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6. Ashkhabad State Music School. Even at school viola player Ichi Agaeva and pianist Fanya Mulaeva make an interesting team. On graduating from music school they hope to appear together on the concert stage.

8. Caracul Sheep Breeding in Turkmenia. Lena Vlasova, zootechnician at Samsonovowith her horse Uzbechka.

2. On the Fields and Pastures of Soviet Turkmenia. On the Fields and Pastures of Soviet Turkmenia/ 2. A good harvest is ripening in the fields of the Voroshilov Collective Farm, Ashkhabad District. Shown here in the barley fields are Chary Muradev,…

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…

Here and There in the Soviet Union. Baku. Geologist Sadykh Jafarov is shown here examining a survey map together with his assistant, Valentina Sozina, a participant in geological surveying expeditions. Jafarov recently shared a Stalin Prize with…

Fragment of a topographical map of the Crimean peninsula published in 1842 by the Military-Topographical Depot of the Russian Army. The map was built from the triangulations of Lt. Colonel Oberg and topographical surveys performed by Colonel Betev…