The water factor has always been the "Achilles' heel" of Uzbekistan. The uneven natural distribution of natural water sources from antiquity to the present day has left its own imprint on the region's economy. The article makes an attempt to reveal the main processes of the influence of the water factor on the ecology of Uzbekistan with the help of visual material based on photographic documents of the National Archives of Uzbekistan, film and photographic documents and modern Internet publications. The article contains only a small part of photographic documents and photographs concerning the water factor of the republic, accumulated over 100 years of photographic documentation in Central Asia.
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