Old postcards Ashgabat

This section collects view postcards of Ashgabat through 1991 — series from 1974 and 1979. The photographs show the capital of the Turkmen SSR after the city’s rebuilding: avenues, theatres, monuments and administrative buildings.

Subjects include the Supreme Soviet building, Lenin Avenue, the Mollanepes Theatre, monuments to Magtymguly and to Turkmenistan’s war dead, the Karakumstroy offices and the Karl Marx library. The 1974 set often combines several subjects on one card. The frames record late-Soviet Ashgabat.

Dates and captions are useful for collectors and historians of Turkmenistan’s capital. Browse the current cards and compare them with other cities in the section in the Old Postcards archive.

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“World” concert hall. Monument Nedirbayu Aytakovu. Cinema “Bahar”, 1974
Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR. People’s Writer of Turkmenistan B. Kerbabaev. The main building of the Turkmen State University. Ashgabat, 1974

Artist J. Annanurov. Exposition of Decorative Folk Art. Showroom of the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan, 1974
control building “Karakumstroy”. Ashgabat, 1979
House of Political Education. Ashgabat, 1979
Karkumstroya management. Ashgabat, 1974
Master engraver. Turkmen dance “Girly game.” Ashgabat workshop sewing factory, 1974
Monument K. Atabayev. Ashgabat, 1979
Monument of Turkmenistan who died during the Great Patriotic War. Ashgabat, 1979
Monument to citizens of Turkmenistan who died during the Great Patriotic War. Monument Mattumkuli. Ashgabat, 1974
Monument to Makhtumkuli. Ashgabat, 1979
Piece of carpet giant in Turkmen fine arts museum. Monument TG Shevchenko. “Horsemen” dance. Ashgabat, 1974
Respubliknaskaya State Library. Karl Marx. Ashgabat, 1979
State Library TSSR. Eabinet foreign language boarding school. Ashgabat, 1974
The building of the Central Committee of the CPC of Turkmenistan. Ashgabat, 1979
The building of the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the Turkmen SSR. Ashgabat, 1979
The building of the Supreme Council of Turkmen SSR. Ashgabat, 1974
The housing of the city hospital complex. Professor I. Berezin on operations 1974
The laboratory of the Turkmen Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering. “Selproekt” Institute. Shop Ashgabat filature named March 8, 1974
the VI Avenue Lenin. Ashgabat, 1979
Turkmen Agricultural Institute. Institute of Chemistry of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Institute of Physics of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Ashgabat, 1974
Turkmen State Academic Drama Theater named Mollanepes. Ashgabat, 1979
Turkmen State Academic Theater. Mollanepes. Group Soloists ensemble of song and dance. Cinema “Vatan”. Ashgabat, 1974
VI monument Lenin. Ashgabat, 1974
VI monument Lenin. Ashgabat, 1979

“World” concert hall. Monument Nedirbayu Aytakovu. Cinema “Bahar”, 1974

Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR. People’s Writer of Turkmenistan B. Kerbabaev. The main building of the Turkmen State University. Ashgabat, 1974

Artist J. Annanurov. Exposition of Decorative Folk Art. Showroom of the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan, 1974

control building “Karakumstroy”. Ashgabat, 1979

House of Political Education. Ashgabat, 1979

Karkumstroya management. Ashgabat, 1974

Master engraver. Turkmen dance “Girly game.” Ashgabat workshop sewing factory, 1974

Monument K. Atabayev. Ashgabat, 1979

Monument of Turkmenistan who died during the Great Patriotic War. Ashgabat, 1979

Monument to citizens of Turkmenistan who died during the Great Patriotic War. Monument Mattumkuli. Ashgabat, 1974

Monument to Makhtumkuli. Ashgabat, 1979

Piece of carpet giant in Turkmen fine arts museum. Monument TG Shevchenko. “Horsemen” dance. Ashgabat, 1974

Respubliknaskaya State Library. Karl Marx. Ashgabat, 1979

State Library TSSR. Eabinet foreign language boarding school. Ashgabat, 1974

The building of the Central Committee of the CPC of Turkmenistan. Ashgabat, 1979

The building of the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the Turkmen SSR. Ashgabat, 1979

The building of the Supreme Council of Turkmen SSR. Ashgabat, 1974

The housing of the city hospital complex. Professor I. Berezin on operations 1974

The laboratory of the Turkmen Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering. “Selproekt” Institute. Shop Ashgabat filature named March 8, 1974

the VI Avenue Lenin. Ashgabat, 1979

Turkmen Agricultural Institute. Institute of Chemistry of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Institute of Physics of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. Ashgabat, 1974

Turkmen State Academic Drama Theater named Mollanepes. Ashgabat, 1979

Turkmen State Academic Theater. Mollanepes. Group Soloists ensemble of song and dance. Cinema “Vatan”. Ashgabat, 1974

VI monument Lenin. Ashgabat, 1974

VI monument Lenin. Ashgabat, 1979