Forgive Kara - Bogaz (1988)

People walk along the bottom of the dried-up Kara-Bogaz Bay.

A former Komsomol member who came to the construction site near Kara-Bogaz tells the story.

A photo of her in her youth.

Photos from 1935. Volunteer builders.

Ruins near Kara-Bogaz.

Chronicle of 1935. The port and the city in the Kara-Bogaz Bay.

A resident of the city in the bay tells the story.

Photos of those years.

A photo of the ballet studio in the community center.

Grown-up children share memories of the dawn of the city of Kara-Bogaz.

Chronicle of 1935. Mining mirabilite.

A cart with sacks of mirabilite passes by the caravan.

Ruins of the city.

A woman found her mother's grave in the desert that the city of Kara-Bogaz has turned into.

A former resident of the city tells the story.

Photos from the May Day celebration in the city of Kara-Bogaz.

A resident of the city of Kara-Bogaz tells the story.

Chronicle of 1980. Closing the strait from the Gulf of Kara-Bogaz to the Caspian Sea.

A story about the prospects for building a mirabilite processing plant.

The story is told by the head of the mineral salts department of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry F. M. Tatarsky.

Chronicle of 1937. Papanitsa heroes on an ice floe.

Among them is E. K. Fedorov.

Meeting of the Papaninites in Moscow.

Photo by E. K. Fedorov, the initiator of the damming of the Kara-Bogaz Bay.

The story is told by the chief engineer of the Karabogazsulfat plant G. G. Bagirov.

View of the dam from above.

The dried-up Kara-Bogaz Bay.

Continuation of the story by the chief engineer of the Karabogazsulfat plant G. G. Bagirov.

Mining of mirabilite.

The story is told by the vice president of the American corporation David Butts.

Photographs of mirabilite mining on the American Salt Lake.

Photographs of the city of Salt Lake City.

Rusty ships and dead animals around Kara-Bogaz.

The Karabogazsulfat plant.

Panorama of the environs of Kara-Bogaz from a bird's eye view. large, a child living in the vicinity of Kara-Bogaz.