Description:
N.p., ca 1930s?.Rare example of professional ethnographic photos of 30s of the XXth.These rare photos depicted the route to Teberda town, Kamennomost aul and Kulhorsky mountain pass (Caucasus).Especially interesting is photo with Karachay's women in traditional costumes carrying buckets of water. In 1943 Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved and the Karachay people (almost 70 000 Karachay natives, including old men, women and children) were deported to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan for their alleged collaboration with the Germans. The operation Seagull lasted just two days. Their territory was divided between the Georgian SSR and Stavropol Krai.The photos printed and probably made by professional photographer V. Piatov who lives in Karachay. Little is known about him. He has also one more stamp with place: town Batalpashinsk (Popov A.P. Rossiiskie fotografy (1839-1930). Т.2. М, 2013. P. 229).
