Stories about things and their uses, from everyday household items to sacred artifacts, from utility to aesthetics.
How Imperial Russia’s failure to understand the ways of Kazakh life exposed the cracks in its own power
From Ancient Rituals to Modern Technology: How Copper Became an Essential Part of Nomadic Culture
British Encounters with Early Industrialization in the Kazakh Steppe
And How It Happened So Rapidly
Central Asia During the Russian Revolution (1917–18)
Historian Maksat Alpysbes on the centuries-old tradition of the genealogical tree
The story of one of the most vital professions of the past
Why Ethnicity Mattered So Greatly in the USSR
How Central Asia Became the Crossroads of the World
Guess what this thing was used for.
Ethnographer Lepuda Mukataeva on the philosophy of childhood in the steppe
The Golden Horde: The Ulus of Jochi and Its Significance for Kazakhstan
How the Soviet Union Invented the Kazakh National Costume
