The advertisements on the wall behind say "No hangover Vodka!" 

Kiosk doing swift business in beer and cigarettes. 

#40 Lenin Street in the "old" (nothing is more than 70 years old here) part of Karaghanda 

Spaask-one of the post WWII POW camps near Karaghanda. This is the memorial/mass grave yard of the prisoners. 

"Dawn" an old Soviet sign on an old Soviet apartment building in Karaghanda. 

Lunch at the Bazaar...if its not meat, its not food. 

Yurta-Set up only for the holiday celebrations 

Sunset In Shakhtinsk 

Selling Onions at the Green Bazaar in Karaghanda 

Karaghanda Miners Statue in front of the Miners Theater 

This is a new building, not an old one. Notice the fine construction materials. 

Shakhtinsk 

My laundry process adn preferred brand of detergent. 

Shashlyk being cooked at a picnic on the old Soveit collective farm near Shakhtinsk. 

My neighbors. 

The nightly cattle roundup in a south KZ village. 

The Kazak National orchestra in Almaty. They are playing the national instrument, the dombra. 

My local train station in Karaghanda. 

Me on a winter stoll on the steppe. A self protrait. 

Me at a family birthday party...I'm the one in back;-) 

Shakhtinsk from the steppe. 

Canned horse meat. I haven't eaten it, I prefer my hosremeat fresh. 

Heating Sysytem in Shakhtinsk.  

A typical train station in the middle on the steppe where the local ladies wheel up thier baby carts full of dried fish, soda, beer, fruit, fermented horse milk, pastries, etc. 

Me, my friend Shain and our new Fascist fighting friend on Victory Day, May, 9. 

South KZ bazaar. We ate some sausage from this galloper later that night, it wasn't too bad but a bit gamey. 

Lenin is everywhere. Here  

Shashleek, it's the KZ version of BBQ and tastes much better than it looks in preparation.