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  • Nursulu Aytanova with young Beknur and Amangeldy who are guests at the wedding in Shieli.
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  • This Skiff-style saddle is a reproduction of one found in the Semirechye area dating from the 9th to the 10th centruy A.D. and featuring a snow leopard head.  It was made in Almaty by the Koulmanov brothers.
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  • Altibaqan, nomadic style swing.
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  • Clan Matriarchs in Shieli (left to right) Darkhan Sadenova, Shadan Tonbetova, Manap Mykhanova and Uljan Sametobva gather to join in the joyous rituals of presenting the baby in the cradle and cutting the cord.
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  • Raushan Auezova, the bride, and her attendants Madina and Shynar begin the "unveiling of the bride," the part of the wedding called the Betashar, at a traditional Kazakh marriage ceremony.
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  • Besikke Salu, or "Putting in the cradle," is a ceremony for blessing a new baby.  This entails placing the infant in its cradle and , to ensure blessings, putting a small mirror or brush under the pillow for a baby girl or a whip and knife for a boy.  A burning sprig of sage or a flame, as picutred here, is passed over the cradle as a symbol of cleansing, life and protection.  a grandmother then pinches the baby's nose to make it cry, which assures a calm, deep sleep afterwards.  Arailym Sametova is the baby being blessed here. Her mother, Gulmarzhan Ikhanova, is at left, and the godmother, Galiya Usenbaeva, is the young woman behind the cradle.
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  • Sunflowers in NE Kazakhstan, Ust-Kamenogorsk region
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  • Camel Herder on a Steppe horse, Kazakhstan
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  • The Soul of Kazakhstan, book cover
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  • Composer Edward Bogushevsky, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Flare stack section ready for assembly. Tengiz refinery, Kazakhstan.
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  • This bronze mirrow was found in a woman's grave of the Kichak (turkic) tribe in the Zevakinsky burial mound in eastern Kazakhstan.  it dates to the 9th or 10th century A.D. Its Runic inscription reads, "The noble lady loses her feelings of envy; her happy times are comin."  It refers to a supersitition that looking in a mirror takes away evil feelings.  East Kazakhstan Regional Historical Museum, Oskemen, Kazakhstan
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  • This 5,000-Year-Old skull is believed to be that of a 30 -year -old Shaman.  Two holes were drilled in the skull when the person was 15 years old and he or she lived anothr 15 years after that.  The skull was found with a clay mask on its face in a niche in a dwelling in northern Kazakhstan.  It was discovered at the botai settlement site in the Atyrausky district. Northern Kazakhstan Regional historical Museum, Petropavl.
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  • Sunflowers in NE Kazakhstan, Ust-Kamenogorsk region.
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  • Goldenrod around Petropaulovsk, Kazakhstan
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  • From ancient times through the middle ages, Petroglyphs, paintings and carvings show riders carrying banners - usually on horseback.  During the Middle Ages, a "cult of the banner" developed in Kazakhstan.  Today, some of the coutry's currency - the 50-Tenge note- carries tht image.  This petroglyph is at Shakbak-ata in the Manghystau region, Kazakhstan
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  • Steppe horse, Bakanas, southern steppes of Kazakhstan
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  • Studies show that the horse was first domesticated in Kazakhstan.  This horse skull, discovered in the north byu professor Victor Zaibert in 1986, shows the wear of a bridle on the teeth.  Carbon-14 testing puts it ace at 5,000 years.  Thousands of additional articfacts found over a 15 year excavation period at Botai settlement site along the iman-Burluk river in the Atyrausky district further substantiate this fact.  North Kazakhstan Regional Historical museum, Petropavl.
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  • The Ancient Silk Road that ran through Central Asia and Linked china with the countries of the Near East and Europe had three routes.  A Branch of it northern route followed the Ili River here in southeastern Kazakhstan
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  • A Birch Grove offers Beauty and Solitude Near Sergeyevka in Northern Kazakhstan
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  • The Altai Range that runs along Kazakhstan's northeastern border is noted for its rivers, waterfalls, springs and spectacular vistas. Mount Belukha, often shrouded in clouds, has its own persona that is steeped in history and religion.  It has witnessed Chingis Khan invading with 200,000 Mongols; and listened as the chants, songs and laments of shammans echoed off its sheer cliffs. Kazakhstan
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  • Wild Steppe horses, southern Kazakhstan
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  • Musical performance with traditional folk instruments and costumes takes place in Yurt in the village of Shieli in the Qizilorda region, Kazakhstan.
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  • Saule Iskakova, retired history  teacher,  Kegan, Kazakhstan
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  • Tuime (button).  19th century. Silver, gilt, grain. stamping and embossing.  Western Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Yurt display in the Aqtau Museum in Kazakhstan
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  • Bactrian male camel in the Steppes of Kazakhstan. Winter with temperatures -24 f.
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  • Elementary student during afternoon nap at the Archimed school in Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Artist Pernegul Omarova creates historical dolls, Kazakhstan.
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  • Qiz Quu, or 'chasing the girl,' is another well-loved horseback game in Kazakhstan.  If the boy wins the race, he gets to kiss the girl on the ride back to the starting line.  if the girl wins, she gets to "whip" the boy on the ride back.  This game took place in the village of Zhibebai.
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  • Village ladies work together to make fine felt in Shieli in the Qizilorda regiion, Kazakhstan
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  • Kazakh legend tell that one of Noah's three sons settled near mount Qazygurt in southern Kazakhstan and created this circle of stones 40 meters (131 feet) in diameter with a cross in the center.  There is a similar circle in Turkey and another in the Sinai penninsula.  The conjecture is that after the great flood, Noah's sons set out with their families and each marked the place they chose to settle with this symbol.
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  • Bactrian Camels crossing the Steppes in winter, Kazakhstan
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  • Fabled Shambhala is believed to be near Mount Belukha where the borders of Kazakhstan, Siberia, Mongolia and China meet.  Rises more than 4,500 meters (nearly 15,000 feet) in the Altai Mountains.
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  • Zailiisky Alatau, Suh-Konyer, Kazakhstan
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  • The brilliant reds of the poppies, roses, tulips and carnations of spring and summer are a direct influence on the color palette of Kazakh art.  These poppies are near Ordabasy in Southern Kazakhstan.
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  • Shakbak-Ata Zoroastrian Temple, Kazakhstan
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  • This pictograph carries multiple meanings.  ONe is a stylized figure of a dwelling in the form of a man; the dewelling resembles a Teepee.  The pictography is done in a technique called Pisanitsy using ocher.  It dates to the Eneolitic period in Kazakhstan (c. 4,000  to 3,000 B.C.) between the stone and the bronze ages.  It was found at Akbaur Grotto in Eastern Kazakhstan.
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  • Bactrian Camels crossing the Steppes in winter, Kazakhstan
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  • Shadan Tonbetova, Kazakh matriarch in a Yurt, Shieli Village, Kazakhstan.
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  • Original Gold Decoration on the caftan ceremonial dress of the Golden Man, Issiq Burial Mound, Kazakhstan
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  • Horse racing with steppe horse, Shiele Village, Kazakhstan
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  • Yurt schematic presentation, shows key elements of Shangiraq circle overhead, wood lattice walls and outside wall of Chi or reed mats.   Kasteyev Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Horse racing with steppe horse, Shiele Village, Kazakhstan
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  • Kazakhstan is dotte with 48,000 lakes, many small like this mirror-surfaced one at Ush-Konyr near Fabrichny
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  • A young girl watches the end of a wedding ceremony while waiting for her baptism to begin in Zenkov cathedral, Almaty Kazakhstan.
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  • Kazakh grandmother ties a cord around the ankles of the toddler marking the first step  Shieli, Kazakhstan
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  • Fatima Adai demonstrates her strap-weaving technique at her home in Aktau.  Her family moved to Iran after the 1917 october revolution and she learned weaving there.  Returning to Kazakhstan in 1997, she merged her Persian technique with her Kazakh design to create a beautiful, new hybrid style.
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  • A Kazakh yurt in an apple orchard in southeastern Kazakhstan.
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  • A Shaban, or shepherd, guides his flock through a mountain pass in Butakovka in the Zailiisky Alatau Mountains in Southern Kazakhstan
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  • These female Bactrian camels can weigh 450 to 650 kilograms (1,450 Lb) and stand 190 to 230 centimeters (75 to 91 inches) tall at the hump. Bakanas, southern Kazakhstan
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  • The Akhal-Teke horse is believed to be the oldest purebred horse extant.  This legendary horse has been prized for centuries for its unparalleled stamina, speed, courage and beauty.  In 1935 Akhal-Tekes proved their extraordinary endurance in the famous 4,300 kilometer (2,700 mile) trek from Askqabat to Moscow, completed in 84 days, during this march they traveled 360 kilometers (225 miles) across the kara-kum desert in 3 days, virtually without water.  this spectacular demonstration convinced authorities to protect the purity of the breed.  In the 4th century B.C. Alexander the Great was stopped by Massagetae warriors mounted on Akhal-Tekes, and in the 2nd Century B.C. a Chinese emperor traded silk for these "Horses of Heavan."  Here horsemen tend to their herd in the Lugovoi district of the Zhambyl Region. Kazakhstan
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  • This Horse within a Horse at Tamghali is a unique Petroglyph, Kazakhstan
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  • Tien Shan mountains, Kazakhstan
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  • A forest of Tien Shan Firs stands tall in the Zailiisky Alatau mountain spur near Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • The sacred mountain Khan-Tengri is know as "the Prince of Spirits."  Kazakhs revere this peak as a symbol of their ancient Tengri faith, which looks to the sky as the source of the great spirit.  It is the highest peak in Kazakhstan and the crown jewel of the Tien Shan Range, which are called the Celestial Mountains.  The upper third of the mountain is marble that glows red at sunrise and sunset.  The Tien Shan is the most northern range of the Himalaya Mountains.
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  • Helianthus blossom, Kazakhstan
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  • Nurzipha Zhangaziyeva weaves a modern-style carpet, based on ancient Kazakh petroglyphs, on a vertical loom at the Tamga carpet factory in Fabrichny in southeastern Kazakhstan.
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  • A fourth-generation silversmith, Bozgigitov Bakit, painstakingly restores a pectoral ornament for the local museum in his studio at Aktau in the Manghstau region of southerwestern Kazakhstan.
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  • The Yurt is a unique structure, a physical and metaphorical expression of Kazakh nomadic life.  It is an oasis of life and color, a nuturing place of safety where family and friends come together.  It is ironic that the Yurt - a small, self-contained structure in the vastness of the steppes - has within it a generous spaciousness.  The Yurt is where art, life and nature merge.  The art style is marked by ornamental improvisation and reflects the passionate, open and joyful Kazakh personality.  The use of natural materials ordered by the human hand creates a harmony of colors and shapes much like a flower arrangement.  To live inside a Yurt is to live inside art.  Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • A spindly legged colt follows a Kazakh horseman toward home near the village of Chilik in the Seven Rivers Area, Kazakhstan
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  • Kazakh Steppe horses have legendary endurance and serve many needs.  They are ridden, raced, and used in draft and are also a source of meat and the milk from which kumiss is made.  They can travel 200 kilometers (124 miles) a day with ease and survive tempratures as low as -40 degrees fahrenheit.  This herd is on the Steppes near Bakanas outside Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • This panel, called "Pantheon of Sun Gods" by archeologists, is one of more than 2,000 Petroglyphs at Tamghali created between the Bronze Age and the Renaissance.  Petroglyphson five large rock faces can be viewed as one from a nearby ceremonial site as the setting sun illuminates them.  This detail describes the Kazakh faith called Tengri.  The one horizontal person on the bottom left represents, Mother Earth from whom all life issues.  The line of dancing figures represents tyhe physical dimension of our lives on earth.  The sun god figures represent the dimension of the Great Spirit and our ancestors.  These three levels of existence are not separate, but exist concurrently and in unity.  Tamghali is on an ancient north-south route in the Chu-ili mountains of southeastern Kazakhstan.
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  • Golden Eagles- Called Burkit in Kazakh-are trained by their owners from the time they are chicks to be hunters.  This one measures more than 104 centimeters (41 inches) from the tip of its bill to the end of its tail.  Its wing span measures two meters, or more than six feet.  These powerful birds can kill deer, fox and wolves.  Once plentiful in Central Asia, they are now becoming rare. Kazakhstan
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  • Kazakh mothers and toddler's first step ritual, Kazakhstan
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  • Competitor in the game of Qiz Quu "chasing the girl".  This game took place in the village of Zhidebai, Kazakhstan
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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, Kazakhstan
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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, Kazakhstan
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  • These mischievous-looking boys live in the village of Akmaral in Katon-Karagi in northern Kazakhstan whre red deer known as Maral are raised.  The velvet harvested frm the antlers of these animals is an expensive ingredient in some oriental medicines.
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  • A basket of fragrant Aport Apples sits int the sun at Gornyi Sadovod Farm near Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • A pindly legged colt follows a Kazakh horseman toward home near the village of Chilik in the Seven Rivers Area, Kazakhstan
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  • Ancient tribes used animals as symbols on their weapons, clothing and textile patterns.  The Saka dagger on the left, made of metoeorite iron, features Griffins and dates to the 3rd century B.C.  The center dagger features a horse, and the dagger at right a ram, both are bronze from the Semensk-Turbinsk culture in the 12th to 10th centuries B.C.  East Kazakhstan Regional Historical Museum, Oskemen
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  • Original Gold DeerDecoration  Belt, Golden Man, Issiq Burial Mound, Kazakhstan
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  • Bayankol River Valley in the Tien Shan mountains, Kazakhstan
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  • Wildflowers near Fabrichny, Kazakhstan
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  • Classical music score, Kazakhstan
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  • Master felt-makers Zeken Zarykpai-Kyzy Sygayeva and Kaineke Zarykpai-Kyzy Kanapyanova, Abai village, Kazakhstan
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  • 8th to 7th century B.C. Balbal found in Semirechye holds a cup symbolizing abundance in the next world.  Balbal scuptues served a variety of purposes  including memorials at grave sites, deification of ancestors, mounuments to honor a defeated enemy or tribal boundary maerkers. Kazakhstan
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  • 8th to 7th century B.C. Balbal found in Semirechye holds a cup symbolizing abundance in the next world.  Balbal scuptues served a variety of purposes  including memorials at grave sites, deification of ancestors, mounuments to honor a defeated enemy or tribal boundary maerkers. Kazakhstan
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  • 5th to 2nd century B.C. Balbal found at Baite well, Ustyurt Plateau, depicts a female warrior chieftain.   Balbal scuptues served a variety of purposes  including memorials at grave sites, deification of ancestors, mounuments to honor a defeated enemy or tribal boundary maerkers. Kazakhstan
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  • This headband of gold from the 2nd century B.C. is inlaid with Turquoise, Amandine and carved wood.  Called the Kargalin Diadem, it was found in the grave of a Shaman believed to be Female.  It is decorated with animals, and the central portion, which has been lost, is believed to be a tree of life.  It was discovered in the mountains at Kargalin at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet). Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Safety firedrill at the Tengiz refinery in Kazakhstan.
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  • Oil field roughnecks working an onshore rig at Tengiz, Kazakhstan.
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  • Train transporting gas from the Tengiz Refinery in Kazakhstan.
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  • Wild Apricot and Burberry near Almaty, Kazakhstan
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  • Bilezik (braclet).  19th century.  Silver, Cornelian, Gilt, Grain, Stamping and Embossing.   Western Kazakhstan.  Central State Museum, Almaty
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  • Deep gorge of Charyn Canyon runs for miles near the southern border with China.
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  • The Shangiraq is the functional keystone that holds the yurt together.  But it also symbolizes the hearth of the home and the wheel of the sun.  The opening provides an observatory through which to read the stars and tell time: and spiritually, it directs one's attention to the sky and Tengri, the sky god.
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  • The objects in this tableau in the almaty studio of artists Amangul Iknanova and Zhangir Umbetov are examples of traditional Kazakh life:  hanging on the wall are, from left, a tomtemic wolf hide: a leather Kese Kap, which is used to store cups and bowls and is tied to the saddle: a horse tail: a fox hide; a small, decorative felt storage bag, and two Dombiras, also called Dombras, the traditional musical insturment.  Standing on the table are, from left, three Torsiqs, which are flasks to hold Kumiss, the fermented mare's milk drink: a leather belt with siver and turquoise decoration: a brass mortar and pestle; a Kumiss cup, pitchers for oil: and imported Russian Samovar for tea.  A Tuskeez hangs on the wall
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  • Caspian Sea rich in oil and Sturgeon. Source of world-famous Beluga Cavair, Kazakhstan
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  • Vendors of nuts, apricots, raisins and other dried fruits gateher in one area of the Zelyony bazaar in Almaty.  This market, on the route of the old silk road, is awash with colors, aromas and sounds.  Separate areas house vendors selling vegetables, honey, fruit, flowers, meat and fish, herbs and spices and dairy products.
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  • Bolshoe Almatinskoe Ozero (Big Almaty Lake) in the Zailiisky Alatau is glacier fed.  It is a significant source of water for Almaty.  Its pur quality causes the surface to change with the light from pale to dark turquoise ove the course of the day
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  • Syrga (Earring).  20th Century. Silver, coral, turquoise and glass, central Kazakhstan.  Kasteyev Museum of fine arts, Almaty
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  • This fine felt rug is a good example of a 20th century Tekemet, as they are called in Kazakh.  It was made in southern Kazakhstan by Bibi Romanova, Kasteyev Museum of Fine Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  • Bronze age petroglyph at tamghali of a sun god riding a bull combines the symbol of fertility and the symbol of the source of life.
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  • Gulzhan Tutkibaeva seems to defy gravity in her stage entrance.  She is a peoples's artist of the republic of Kazakhstan and a Prima Ballerina of the Kazakh State Theater of Opera and Ballet, also know as the Abay Theater of Opera and Ballet.
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  • This Architectural model is one of the prposals for the new government center in Astana, which became Kazakhstan's capital in 1998.  The building concept was designed and developed by architect Bek Ibrayev and his staff.  Its composition is bas on principles of organized space use in ancient turkic and hunnish headquarters.  The "Senior Yurt," where decisions that affect the whole country are made, is kplaced in the center.  As in ancient times, the main axes of the proposed building are strictly oriented on a north-south, east-west basis to secure the patronage of the higher powers and bring well-being and good fortune to the country and its leadrs.
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  • Vladimir Lukin, painter, Kazakhstan
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  • Tulips covered with spring snow, Almaty
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  • Bukhtarma River Valley in the Katon-Karagai area in Eastern Kazakhstan is a verdant green landscape of wildflowers and wheat.  In neat villages, each house has an overflowing garden tucked next to it.  This area near the Altai Mountains is renowned for the luscious quality of the honey it produces.
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