Bashkir Switchman

Bashkir Switchman on the Railway — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Ural Mountains Region (Russia), Ural Mountains Region, Russia).

Subjects: railroad employees, bashkir (turkic people), ural mountains region (russia), employment, railroad tracks.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Strielochnik bashkir.