Azerbaijan, offshore Caspian sea, Drilling rig preparing to undertake exploration drilling.

Azerbaijan, Control room of exploration drilling rig in the Caspian sea.

Azerbaijan for world's first industrially drilled oil well , Sign in Baku.

Azerbaijan, Remnants of the word's first industrially drilled well located on the outskirts of Baku.

Azerbijan, Polluted wasteland with nodding donkey of oil field near Baku.

Government House exterior seen across empty road.

Ateshgyakh Zorastrian fire worshippers temple dating from the seventeenth century.

Nodding Donkey oil derrick on industrial site near Baku.

Traditional musicians playing at Novruz Feast.

Outskirts of city with trees chopped down for firewood for heating and cooking. People had no electricity or gas due to economic blockade of Armenia by Azerbaijan.1990s Armenian Asia Asian Ecology E...

An oil plantation in the Caspian Sea.

Maidens Tower. Circular stone tower with visitors standing on the top and at the entrance below.