Yevgeni Alekseyevich Ivanov-Barkov (Russian: Евгений Алексеевич Иванов-Барков; 4 March 1892 – 18 May 1965) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter who had a significant role in the development of Turkmen cinema in the 1940s and 1950s…
The cinema of Turkmenistan dates back to the 1920s, when the country was within the Soviet Union. Since independence in 1991, Turkmenistan has had the most limited film production industry of any Central Asian state.