There was once a port of Muynak here.
June 2002
Uchsai village. Residential houses of villagers
June 2002
People cut reeds and build houses out of them
2002
People live in these houses.
June 2002
Repair of tandoor
June 2002
Children stand in line for drinking water
Muynak village. Drinking water was turned on for 40 minutes a day. But it also had a slight salty taste.
Each family has its own well, which is locked.
Uchsai village. June 2002
There is salt water in the well
June 2002
An apartment building. Uchsai village.
2002
Cows roam in search of water
These metal rusty barrels dug into the ground served as mini wells. And when the sea became shallow, the wells all dried up. Uchsai village. 2002
Many wells are without water
There is a mineral spring with warm water in the village of Kazakhdarya.
Residents are queuing up. A concrete container one and a half by one and a half meters, in which adults and children bathe, wash clothes, carpets, wash pots and cauldrons.
The girl brought a carpet on a cart and many different things for washing
June 2002. Kazakhdarya
Three generations of the same family: child, mother, grandmother
The village of Kazakhdarya. 2002
Bath day
The girl is cold, the wind is strong. And lukewarm water flows from the pipe, under which she will be bathed. The village of Kazakhdarya. 2002
Children from Muynak village
A Karakalpak woman who worked at a fish canning plant
Muynak village. 2002
At the bazaar in the city of Nukus
Accountant. The board of Uchsai village.
The leadership of the village of Muynak at the bazaar
2002, 9 june, Muinak
Women at the market in Nukus
Family. Their father taught Russian language and literature at school during the Soviet period.
Uchsai village. 2002
They look at themselves in the photo
We brought the photos that we took a year ago to the residents. Uchsai village. 2002
Karakalpak woman
Muynak. 2002
There is an article in the newspaper about the problems of the Aral Sea region
Photographer Anatoly Rakhimbayev came to the Aral Sea region with journalists every summer for ten years. They published articles in newspapers. And on our next trip, we brought newspapers and photographs to the locals.
Children near the culture club
We leave, the children watch us go. Uchsai village. June 2002