

Stephen M. Bland
Freelance Journalist, Award-Winning Author, Travel Writer, Researcher and Editor specialising in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Kazakhstan Gallery
Soviet-era ceremonial space
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
On an obligatory field trip schoolgirls wear uniforms like milkmaids in mourning
A murder of crows circle the Yasaui Mausoleum
Zelyoni (Green) Bazaar at dawn
Zenkov Cathedral
Replica of the Golden Man, part of the Monument to Independence, Republika Alangy
Main Bazaar
President Nazarbayev photoshopped into a dream of the Aral Sea
The ghosts of sailors haunt a ship cemetery on the former Aral seabed
Boats lilting on the Small Aral Sea
Abandoned Barge rusting in the Small Aral Sea
A compound on the main drag in the village of Akbasty
Saviour of the Small Aral Sea
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