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23.03.2026

Author: Dosymbek Qatyran

Oleg Kominarets. Nauryz Celebration. 2016 / Courtesy of Bonart Auction House (https://bonart.kz/)

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Kazakh women patting butter from mares milk in 1956 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China / Getty Images

Kazakh women patting butter from mares milk in 1956 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China / Getty Images

Boy after turning over meat hung out for drying / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

Boy after turning over meat hung out for drying / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

S. M. Dudin. Woman milking a cow. Semipalatinsk, 1899 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

S. M. Dudin. Woman milking a cow. Semipalatinsk, 1899 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

Kazakh people have mare's milk in yurt at Kazak camp in 1956 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China / Getty Images

Kazakh people have mare's milk in yurt at Kazak camp in 1956 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China / Getty Images

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In the meadows of the Zailiysky Alatau. 1958 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

In the meadows of the Zailiysky Alatau. 1958 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

D. Bagaev. Making baursaks (traditional fried dough). 1917 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

D. Bagaev. Making baursaks (traditional fried dough). 1917 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Before kazan, 1920 /Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

Before kazan, 1920 /Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan. Restored using Gemini

S. M. Dudin. Inside a Kazakh yurt. Semipalatinsk, 1899 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

S. M. Dudin. Inside a Kazakh yurt. Semipalatinsk, 1899 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

A Kazakh herdsman drives the herd to summer pasture on June 1, 2020 in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China / Getty Images

A Kazakh herdsman drives the herd to summer pasture on June 1, 2020 in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China / Getty Images

Kazakh family in a yurt around a cauldron. Semirechensk region, 1900 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

Kazakh family in a yurt around a cauldron. Semirechensk region, 1900 / Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of Kazakhstan

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