Author: Novastan 
Novastan
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Street Football
Children playing football on a street in Moynaq. Until a few years ago, this town in Karakalpakistan, an autonomous republic in western Uzbekistan, was still located on the… [...]
Engraved in the rock
For more than 40 years, the founder of the Soviet Union has been overlooking the Kirov reservoir in Kyrgyzstan, 15 kilometres from the Kazakh border. And it doesn’t look… [...]
A mysterious radar
In Sarytash, in southern Kyrgyzstan near the Tajik border, a military radar that monitored China’s neighbour during the Soviet Union. Credit: Gregoire Ader (France) Find… [...]
Town entrance
The port city of Turkmenbasy. The city on the Caspian Sea was founded from the Russian settlement of Krasnovodsk and was renamed by President Saparmurat Niyazov in… [...]