The Kazmunaigas building is home to Kazakhstan’s oil and gas ministry. (Photo: Ülle Baum)
The Kazmunaigas building is home to Kazakhstan’s oil and gas ministry. (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- The Kazmunaigas building is home to Kazakhstan’s oil and gas ministry. (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- Two hundred delegates from around the world meet every three years the Palace of Peace and Harmony’s circular top chamber, where a flock of painted doves flutters below a stained-glass ceiling. (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- A Kazakh native holds his eagle at Zheruik, an ethno-village. (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- Horse meat and mutton are the basis for most of Kazakhstan’s national dishes. They are served here with baursaki bread (puffy fried dough) and shorpa (a white meat broth). (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- Kazakhstan’s National Museum is full of treasures, including the jewels of ancient Kazakhs. (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- The building that houses the transportation and communications ministry has been nicknamed “the lighter.” (Photo: Ülle Baum)
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- A woman at the Zheruik, an ethno-village in Astana, plays a traditional stringed instrument known as a dombra. (Photo: Ülle Baum)