Stephen M. Bland 

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    Freelance Journalist, Award-Winning Author, Travel Writer, Researcher and Editor specialising in Central Asia, the Caucasus and South-East Asia. 

    Kazakhstan Gallery

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    Shymkent
    • Shymkent

    • Soviet-era ceremonial space

    Shymkent
    • Shymkent

    • Centrepiece in the Museum of Victims of Political Repression shows martyrs being restrained by a Soviet banner or decapitated by the Red Star of Battle

    Turkistan
    • Turkistan

    • On an obligatory field trip schoolgirls wear uniforms like milkmaids in mourning

    Turkistan
    • Turkistan

    • A murder of crows circle the Yasaui Mausoleum

    Almaty
    • Almaty

    • Zelyoni (Green) Bazaar at dawn

    Almaty
    • Almaty

    • Zenkov Cathedral

    Almaty
    • Almaty

    • Replica of the Golden Man, part of the Monument to Independence, Republika Alangy

    Aralsk
    • Aralsk

    • Main Bazaar

    Aralsk
    • Aralsk

    • President Nazarbayev photoshopped into a dream of the Aral Sea

    Zhalanash
    • Zhalanash

    • The ghosts of sailors haunt a ship cemetery on the former Aral seabed

    Tastubek Bay
    • Tastubek Bay

    • Boats lilting on the Small Aral Sea

    Butokov Bay
    • Butokov Bay

    • Abandoned Barge rusting in the Small Aral Sea

    Artesian Well
    • Artesian Well

    Akbasty
    • Akbasty

    • A compound on the main drag in the village of Akbasty

    Kok Aral Dam
    • Kok Aral Dam

    • Saviour of the Small Aral Sea

    Karateren
    • Karateren

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