Where was The Thirteen filmed?

1937 film by Mikhail Romm

The Thirteen (1937) was filmed in Ashgabat and Karakum Desert, 2 places named in its Wikipedia article, in Turkmenistan. Wikidata records no filming location for it at all, so the article is the only recorded source. Each place says where its claim comes from.

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