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