Copy of a sketch map of the Kuhgalu [Kohgiluyeh] region of southern Iran, prepared by Captain A H Parvis and SOI [Staff Officer level 1?] R Todd, in May to June 1945. The map accompanies a report of a horseback tour of the region, also prepared by Parvis, in the enclosing file (ff 8-28). The map...
Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the Soviet Union’s demand, made to the Iranian Government during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of the country in the Second World War, for an oil concession agreement in northern Persia [Iran]. The file, which is chiefly comprised of correspondence betwe...
Map of northern Iran showing the location of the Kavir-i-Khourian [Dasht-e Kavīr] oil concession. The map indicates: topography; hydrology, including salt water lakes; salt desert; human settlements, including Tehran, Samnan [Semnān] and Kashan; roads; railways; airfields and landing grounds. The...
‘In the Kavir-i-Khourian Field. the western well in the background.’
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Photograph of the Kavir-i-Khourian [Dasht-e Kavīr] oil field in northern Iran. The photograph, which was taken from the inside of a motorcar, shows a flat desert landscape with a single wellhead in the middle distance.
Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil Concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the efforts of the Soviet Union to sign an oil concession agreement with Persia [Iran] covering northern Iran. The papers cover: the Iranian Prime Minister Ahmad Qavam’s involvement in the carrying of a bill for a joint Iranian-Soviet oil company to th...
Map of the frontier between the USSR and Iran, indicating the extent of the proposed Soviet oil concession in Iran
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Sketch map showing the frontier between northern Iran and the southern part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The map indicates: international boundaries; the Caspian Sea and Lake Urmieh [Urmia]; key towns and cities; roads and railways connecting key cities. The map accompanies...
Coll 28/130 ‘Persia. Tribal situation and recommended policy.’
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Reports and some correspondence relating to British policy towards tribes in Persia [Iran] during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia in the Second World War. The file includes: An undated note on tribal policy in Kurdistan and Kermanshah, prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel C W Fletcher, Political...
Coll 28/131 ‘Persia. Proposed withdrawal of Allied forces from Persia (Including publicity re proposals)’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the withdrawal of Allied (British, Soviet and United States) troops from Persia [Iran] at the end of the Second World War, according to the terms set out in the Anglo-Soviet-Iranian Treaty of Alliance (1942). The correspondence covers: the British Amba...