Cosmonaut Karaganda
162-a Krivoguza street Karaganda, Kazakhstan
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Better roads
... a gift! Of course we showed the appropriate gratitude. fter his staff charged us for every little extra last night!
Set off, and the road today was good virtually all the way. Passed a MIG fighter just on the outskirts of Balkash.
Lots of open road, and various villages along the way, in states of disrepair. Stopped off for a late lunch, sort of meat pie, Fanta and tea, came to about £2. What value you can get here.
eventually ...
Aktau and Atyrau on the Caspian Sea
... they speak to me in Russian or Kazakh and look quite confused when I reply in my American English.
Late that night, as jet lag hit me over the head like a ton of bricks, we boarded another red-eye flight to Atyrau, another city on the Caspian. The plane was awesome--a teeny little prop plane called the Fokker 50 (I'm not even joking. Dad, I knew you'd want the specs, so I Wiki'd it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_50) . I ...
Almaty to Astana with the symphony
... with their instruments I was interested and wanted to know more. The Kazak National symphony is based out of a town called Karaganda. They perform all over the country, and occasionally travel the world to share traditional Kazak music and promote the cultural heritage of their country. In 1991 they had the honor of performing in New York's Carnagie hall, and Washington's Kennedy center.
What do a group of ...
The Hole
... lines, Kazakhstan is far from being ethnically or culturally homogenous. On the streets of Aktau Kazakhs mix freely with Russians and Uzbeks, the Russian language remains the lingua franca throughout this part of the world and helps to keep the countries in this region bonded together.
Soon we arrived in Aktau, 300km from the nearest town of any size, devoid of any water source except for the Aral sea. Aktau in short is a weird place, despite clashes between old ...
Der letzte Tag in Karaganda
... können die von uns befragten Jugendlichen noch nicht einmal dann ein Produkt der Zwangsarbeit in ihrer Stadt identifizieren, wenn sie unmittelbar vor einem solchen stehen. Von Zwangsarbeiter errichtete Gebäude sind unabhängig vom Ort des Interviews immer am anderen Ende der Stadt, schon vor langer Zeit eingestürzt oder es hat sie ebenso wie das Lager nie gegeben. Zusammengefaßt ist ...
