Extraction of black caviar in the USSR in the 60s (28 photos)
The fate of the Astrakhan sturgeon from capture to the set table in a selection of photographs taken in April 1960 by Karl Midans, a correspondent for the American LIFE magazine.
1. Fishermen's houses
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4. Thickets in the Volga River delta near Astrakhan
5. Wooden frame of a fishing boat
6. Kazakh fisherwomen
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8. A Kazakh fisherman caught a sturgeon in a fishing net
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10. Kazakh fishermen near their catch
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12. Kazakh woman and Russian fisherman pull out a net
13. Russian fisherman holds a caught sturgeon
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16. On the sturgeon fishery
17. Fish tanks
18. Fish processing workshop
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21. Cutting sturgeon
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24. Dressed sturgeon
25. Women put caviar in glass jars for export
26. Packaging caviar at a fish factory
27. The final destination of the Astrakhan sterlet
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