Painting of a river at sunset with boats, cranes and mound of sand. A boat in the centre is loading into its hold with two cranes from a sand-pile in the left foreground. To the right is a loaded boat with three piles of sand steaming away. Behind are two smaller boats and then a flat shoreline of docks. The red sun is setting in a cloudy sky with shades of green. ‘Soft’ realist style. Painted on canvas with a plain, rounded wooden frame with a white, printed label on the lowerleft corner: Aлмакаев P. День. Уходит 18,000c. Mounted on a plain wooden rectangle with hardboard corners, with a white stick-on label numbered ‘11’. Inscribed Aлмакаев P. Sunset on the Amu Darya River 1999’.
