Director of the Institute of Geology of the State Geological Committee of the USSR, a former geologist, Karash Nikolayevich Iomudsky, who discovered in 1957 in the Karakum desert the Yaskhan source of water, in an office with the institute's staff, near the Karakum canal, near the Yaskhan water center. View of the village of Yaskhansky, spouting the Yaskhan spring.