Marmol Blanco de Turkmenistan

A normal street. All buildings are residential.


The National Library.

The Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry, popularly known as a “cigarette lighter”.


The employees of the ministry live in this building complex.


The local Tower of Pisa.

The Puppet Theater.


The largest flagpole in the world, on which the world’s largest flag hangs (confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records).

The “Soviet” District.

Old quarters are demolished, and the new ones are built in their place.

All students wear uniforms. Girls – green, boys – blue. A skullcap and a pigtail are both must-be. If you do not have a pigtail, you can buy the skullcap with the fake one.

A lot of people are engaged in cleaning the streets.

Because of the pervasive dust women are wrapped into shawls. So they are sometimes called “ninjas”.

According to the law, it’s forbidden to smoke on the streets of Ashgabat.

The Turkmen are very friendly and hospitable people. The city is completely safe. No criminals or even hooligans.

What really surprises is that there are absolutely no beggars, vagrants and other antisocial elements in the city.

The monument to Lenin.







“To the pride of Russia, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin”.

A woman cooks delicious bread made in a tandoor.

Here the life is very different from the life in a capital.




And this is a famous gas crater. At first it seems that this is just a black hole in the middle of the desert…

… but once you come closer, you can see hundreds of little tongues of fire.


It was formed in 1971 as a result of the Soviet gas exploration accident. Then the bore suddenly collapsed because there was an underground chamber inside. No one was hurt, but gas started to flow from under the ground. Then it was decided to burn the gas in the hope that it will end soon. But it still continues to flow, even 40 years after the accident.


Anyway, the sight is fantastic. Expecting to see a hellish bottomless abyss, you reach the very edge, look down and see just a 20-meter deep crater.



In leeward of the well, it smells really terrible. One can even lose his consciousness here.


The desert seems completely lifeless. But, it’s not like this at all. The traces of ground squirrels, rock badgers, foxes and jackals are everywhere. Lizards and spiders crawl at your feet, coccyges and eagles fly in the sky.

Ground squirrels are especially curious.


The way back.

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