Industrial carpet production in the Karakum region, in the Soviet Tajikistan of early 70s. (photo: © 1975 Novosti news agency, Moscow – personal collection)
Building of Nurek dam, 1975
1975, building site of the hydroelectric power plant in Nurek, Tajikistan. Built between 1961 and 1979 on the Vakhsh river, the earth-fill embankment dam of Nurek is the second tallest dam in the world (the tallest one is Jinping-I Dam, in China). The sign on the building read “СССР”, however this is actually Cyrillic and should read “SSSR”: it is …