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Extracting salt from Lake Lake Baskunchak in the Soviet Union (USSR)
Salt being extracted from the surface of Lake Lake Baskunchak, 270 km North of the Caspian Sea, USSR. Narrator says it is sufficient for the needs of the entire Soviet Union. View of waves rippling over salt deposits in a part of the Russian lake. A dredging-type tool spins as it grinds and extracts salt from the lake surface. A conveyer system carrying the extracted salt to rail cars. A woman inside a control shack, on a railroad car, controls the speed of the conveyer with a large wheel. Salt is seen clearly deposited on the conveyer panels as they rise. View from below, of the control shack and water being discharged back into the lake from a pipe. View of the conveyer, mounted on its rail car, emptying salt into a train of open rail cars on a parallel set of tracks. At the same time water flows from its discharge pipe, on the opposite side, back into the lake. Finally, a locomotive is seen pulling rail cars filled with salt. Location: Astrakhan Russia Soviet Union. Date: 1946.
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1946
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Keywords

Lake Baskunchak
Astrakhan Russia Soviet Union
Extracting salt from lake surface
Machinery mounted on a railroad car
Woman uses wheel to control conveyer
Water discharged back into the lake
Salt loaded into railroad cars
Locomotive pulls loaded rail cars
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