Archaeology in Soviet Central Asia, Grégoire Frumkin, Brill Archive, 1970, ... Situated on the road from Balkh to Samarkand, it was an important halting place on the caravan route from India and Afghanistan to Eastern Turkestan and China ...
Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War, Mark Galeotti, Taylor & Francis, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7146-8242-6, ... a massive exercise in logistics and administration, the largest since the Great Patriotic War and the most sophisticated in Soviet history ... Land convoys were routed in through transshipment depots at Termez and Kushka and typically numbered 100-300 vehicles ...
