Navigator on the Vakhsh River in the USSR, ca. 1932-1933

Photograph of a navigator on the Vakhsh River, taken by Lotte Jacobi in the USSR, ca. 1932-1933. A young man with a close-cut beard and mustache, wearing a turban, is steering a wooden wheel on a ship. A shaded pilot's compartment made of wooden beams and palm fronds is behind him.