The ethnic majority in Turkmenistan call themselves Turkmen.
Turkmen State Institute of Transport and Communications.
It is very meaningful and important for the Turkmen people.
The name Turkmenistan derives from Persian, meaning"land of the Turkmen".
When the Turkmen SSR was established in 1924,
Poltoratsk became its capital.
The name Turkmenistan is derived from Persian, meaning"land of the Turkmen.
The different ethnic minorities speak different languages,
for instance Uzbek Turkmen, Kyrgyz and Khowar.
His celebrated painting Peaceful Land(1969)
is considered a classic example of Turkmen landscape painting.
The remainders of the population are Uzbeks and Turkmen(12%) and Nuristanis, Amaqs, and Baluchis(10%).
Another theme developed by
Bayramov during this period was the process of making Turkmen carpets.
The official language of Turkmenistan is Turkmen, although Russian and Uzbek are also often spoken.
Water is a Turkmen's life, a horse is his wings,
and a carpet is his soul.
The slowness of crude exports has forced Turkmen producers to stockpile oil throughout January and February.
According to estimates of the 2012 Turkmen census the Turkmen form 85% of the city's population.
The city was founded in 1881 and later became the capital of Turkmen Socialist Republic in 1924.
Until 1991, it was a constituent
republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmen SSR.
Other regional languages, such as Uzbek, Turkmen, Balochi, Pashayi
and Nuristani are spoken by minority groups across the country.
Its largest ethnic group is the Pashtun, followed by Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek,
Aimak, Turkmen, Baloch and a few others.
The city was established in 1881, and made the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924.
The city was founded in 1881, and made the capital of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924.
SOCAR controls the Caspian's largest fleet of small and mid-sized tankers,
which used to ship Turkmen oil to Baku.
Bayramov was born in Baýramaly in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic,
then part of the Soviet Union, on April 14, 1938.
According to data announced in Ashgabat in February 2001, 91% of the population are Turkmen, 3% are Uzbeks and 2% are Russians.
Both crew ejected, but the pilot was killed by Turkmen rebels as he parachuted to the ground, while the navigator was rescued.
Kazim Turkmen, chairman of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs(DITIB), underlined that despite an increase in anti-Muslim crimes in recent
years, perpetrators often go unpunished.
Bayramov's first major artistic honours
arrived when he was named winner of the Turkmen SSR Lenin Komsomol prize in 1970
and of the USSR in 1972.
He often depicted apples, melons, pomegranates,
etc. arranged on traditional Turkmen carpets, which feature göl woven
motifs and vibrant colours, and on Turkmen ornamental felts called''keche.
In 1971, he completed what is considered the first Turkmen self-portrait, a work formerly held in the collections
of the USSR Union of Artists in Moscow.
It is easier to learn a bit of Russian than to tackle all the local languages- Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Uyghur- and may be almost as useful.
The population of the country is divided into the following ethnolinguistic groups: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek,
Aymāq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai,
Nuristani, Gujjar, Arab, Brahui, Pamiri and a few others.