Photo Archives - Voices On Cental Asia

These days streets are not so busy and crowded in the Central Asia’s largest cities: Tashkent, Almaty, Bishkek and Dushanbe. Yet, they are slowly returning to the previous life even…

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ALZHIR – A Place of Remembrance

January 31, 2020

Situated in the center of Kazakhstan, ALZHIR (Акмолинский лагерь жен изменников родины, “the Akmola camp of wives of traitors to the homeland”) was a notorious prison for thousands of women…

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Destructing Soviet Architecture in Central Asia

December 13, 2019

Soviet architecture in Central Asia, as the name tells, is a fusion of Soviet modernity with traditional Central Asian culture that remains remarkable to this day. Persian and Islamic motifs…

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Deciphering the Saukele: The Traditional Headdress of Kazakh Brides

November 21, 2019

English transcript of the video presentation belowToday I am going to talk about one particular type of traditional Kazakh clothing: the headdress of a bride, called a saukele.Voronina-Utkina A.A. Watercolor.…

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Between Hope and Fear: Stories of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslim Minorities in the Xinjiang Province

October 30, 2019

An estimated one million people, mostly Muslim minorities, are being held in detention centers across the Xinjiang region in China.Common reasons for detention include studying Islam and praying or having…

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The Researcher and His/Her Fieldwork in Central Eurasia (photos)

September 19, 2019

In a world where the visual is becoming an integral part of knowledge, visuals can also express scholarly knowledge.As such, for the 2019 conference, the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)…

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Dinmukhamed Kunaev’s House Museum

July 26, 2019

Dinmukhamed Kunaev was a leader of Soviet Kazakhstan. As the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan he was in office from 7 December 1964, to 16 December 1986.…

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With Love from New York: Hunza Photographer Searches for Roots in the Pamirs

October 12, 2018

New-York based photographer Nazir Abbas feels himself at home every time he travels to Pamirs. While in search of his roots, Nazir has found numerous friends, skyscraping mountains, honest hearts, and…

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The Conquest of Central Asia through the Turkestan Album

May 2, 2018

The Turkestan Album (Turkestanskii Al’bom—1871) was one of the great colonial photography projects of the 19th century. Commissioned by the first Russian governor-general of Russian Turkestan, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman,…

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Scenes from Central Asian Migration to Russia

April 2, 2018

Between September and December 2016, photographer and reporter Iris Oppelaar followed Central Asian labor migrants from their hometowns in remote areas of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan through their journeys to Russia.…

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Across Eurasia in 60 Days—The New Silk Road Project

March 6, 2018

A team of four students is preparing for what it calls The New Silk Road Project—an exciting expedition across Eurasia to see the entire breadth of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, visiting ancient…

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Feminism through Pictures: How Girls of South Kyrgyzstan Fight for Women’s Rights

February 1, 2018

Since 2014, a small feminist group called “New Rhythm” has been operating in Osh. Young activists raise the issues of women’s rights and gender inequality in the southern regions of…

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Dushanbe Buses and What It Means to Live in a Capital City

January 25, 2018

Author Karolina Kluczewska Karolina Kluczewska is a Maria Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow and a PhD student at the University of St.Andrews, Scotland. She is writing about development aid in Tajikistan, looking…

Central Asia is Slowly Reopening After a Tight Lockdown. Street Photos from Four Cities

ALZHIR – A Place of Remembrance

Destructing Soviet Architecture in Central Asia

Deciphering the Saukele: The Traditional Headdress of Kazakh Brides

Between Hope and Fear: Stories of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslim Minorities in the Xinjiang Province

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Ali Shir Navayi and the Rich World of Turkic-Persian Poetry. An Interview with Nicholas Walmsley

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Through the Eyes of an Artist: Art Quarantine by Vyacheslav (Yura) Useinov, Bobur Ismoilov and Anna Ivanova

Uzbekistan Without Graffiti: Censorship Against Street Art

The Researcher and His/Her Fieldwork in Central Eurasia (photos)

Dinmukhamed Kunaev’s House Museum

With Love from New York: Hunza Photographer Searches for Roots in the Pamirs

The Conquest of Central Asia through the Turkestan Album

Scenes from Central Asian Migration to Russia

In case you missed it

Ali Shir Navayi and the Rich World of Turkic-Persian Poetry. An Interview with Nicholas Walmsley

Would Uzbekistan be the First Nuclear Power and Technological Leader in Central Asia? An Interview with Margarita Kalinina-Pohl

Through the Eyes of an Artist: Art Quarantine by Vyacheslav (Yura) Useinov, Bobur Ismoilov and Anna Ivanova

Uzbekistan Without Graffiti: Censorship Against Street Art

Across Eurasia in 60 Days—The New Silk Road Project

Feminism through Pictures: How Girls of South Kyrgyzstan Fight for Women’s Rights

Dushanbe Buses and What It Means to Live in a Capital City

The Art of the Wood Carving in Tajikistan

Sweat, Blood and Central Asian Dance

Women’s Perspective and the Central Asian Cinema

Central Asian Non-Conformist Art in Norton Dodge Collection

Genghis Khan, Kok-Par and Other Stories of the Great Steppe by Said Atabekov