Colourful Life Of Uzbekistan

<div style="text-align: justify;">Uzbekistan officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south. Prior to 1991, it was part of the Soviet Union. Uzbekistan is an observing member of the Turkic Council.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's going to cost you 50 dollars to get to Samarkand from Tashkent (a 300-kilometer drive) by taxi, which is like nothing if compared with Moscow prices. On the way there you'll come across piles of melons of all kinds which they sell along the roads, so if you happen to pass by, pull up to taste some.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qrSgvHHbOrsHV9yEga_9gDpyXQQ6NbbverbO3JYWBglqpKCrYDoKNrb793dChUnFUO2FDBfV_gOAgJk7oUORQG5r9wr3x4tShxsjZIYJ8OEp3iXMrS1zdhEHo3b19MACWXzTQTqhsNs/s1600/uzbekistanpartonephotos-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qrSgvHHbOrsHV9yEga_9gDpyXQQ6NbbverbO3JYWBglqpKCrYDoKNrb793dChUnFUO2FDBfV_gOAgJk7oUORQG5r9wr3x4tShxsjZIYJ8OEp3iXMrS1zdhEHo3b19MACWXzTQTqhsNs/s640/uzbekistanpartonephotos-13.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Piles of melons of all kinds which they sell along the roads</td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1HsMAtH4xlHiflLuBIPFjnUzZAucWlOss6IvakeTGsn6KDC85xgBUbQG8K_mBE9Z_vcIAp6G9ulBhEnqPEzKv9NkqEXKjmimrBYHWf_0XydhdqpbGvbBhP-E47aS_jyApuhTaQqig4Q/s1600/uzbekistanpartonephotos-14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1HsMAtH4xlHiflLuBIPFjnUzZAucWlOss6IvakeTGsn6KDC85xgBUbQG8K_mBE9Z_vcIAp6G9ulBhEnqPEzKv9NkqEXKjmimrBYHWf_0XydhdqpbGvbBhP-E47aS_jyApuhTaQqig4Q/s640/uzbekistanpartonephotos-14.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The road runs through hills.</td></tr></tbody></table><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/11/colors-of-uzbekistan.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Colourful Life Of Uzbekistan

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Photos Of Uzbekistan In 1956

<div style="text-align: justify;">Jacques Dupaquier visited the USSR thrice, in 1956, 1964, and 1975. Let's get in our time machine and go take a look at the Uzbekistan of 1956.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNeetoN5slJrPip3NKyMwKE-f2tVkiCIaLozJTYDPbARL98Qtn0pACc7v0YCK9ovzfepEaglOK3C7vR9s_V0VwHve8yDADR0f7NgzgOiM9GEe1c9RKSaO0pAOCrXM63j97gHVlUqFV0i9/s1600/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNeetoN5slJrPip3NKyMwKE-f2tVkiCIaLozJTYDPbARL98Qtn0pACc7v0YCK9ovzfepEaglOK3C7vR9s_V0VwHve8yDADR0f7NgzgOiM9GEe1c9RKSaO0pAOCrXM63j97gHVlUqFV0i9/s640/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+001.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is one of the nice buses of that time. It looks like ZIS-154, not sure.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJj9MjAMviHa-0GsQEY1jszt691it6uUGWEgy5XhcXTsCSCD5HgqkxoH_eIs_YzHBhlIswz4UiYsag8j2QLt7rkj-5Tv2VpafncR9swebBa00DWJYURmb06ZCLydmkcD1Ckagf-SenyzT/s1600/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJj9MjAMviHa-0GsQEY1jszt691it6uUGWEgy5XhcXTsCSCD5HgqkxoH_eIs_YzHBhlIswz4UiYsag8j2QLt7rkj-5Tv2VpafncR9swebBa00DWJYURmb06ZCLydmkcD1Ckagf-SenyzT/s640/Uzbekistan+USSR+Once+Upon+A+Time+002.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the central street of the city of Tashkent with the only passenger car.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/10/photos-of-uzbekistan-in-1956.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Photos Of Uzbekistan In 1956

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Cotton Harvesting In Uzbekistan

<div style="text-align: justify;">It's high time for cotton crop. Uzbekistan fields that are stretching kilometers away are totally covered with cotton wool. Let's see how the field is cleared.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzyaoO-bo9MxYEFSurFYNvjY5It20F1a5oRSNgzCjxjrtWBrU98cEQ4_oyXV9DRgHtSH0T31DwEm59IW71JAHCzWGECcrWWWTG8aa4InbfhRXi49SfcRvjqbLxBUhKU1HzeGxqHlEtsU-/s1600/Cotton-Harvest-Uzbekistan-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzyaoO-bo9MxYEFSurFYNvjY5It20F1a5oRSNgzCjxjrtWBrU98cEQ4_oyXV9DRgHtSH0T31DwEm59IW71JAHCzWGECcrWWWTG8aa4InbfhRXi49SfcRvjqbLxBUhKU1HzeGxqHlEtsU-/s640/Cotton-Harvest-Uzbekistan-001.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xCZT5ZQYo_a7ow9GR33tGqb2j7poKU3YpNLnUD-9UTvzu-HZ3JFfEZYaKEONN-rs7HTbKd1gX5PC7IPHt_yeGM8Q2OcV6vpn6wWbNX7wIN3BaTq5dedut2TBZoLsLVLiDRnDOg3TLEJI/s1600/Cotton-Harvest-Uzbekistan-002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xCZT5ZQYo_a7ow9GR33tGqb2j7poKU3YpNLnUD-9UTvzu-HZ3JFfEZYaKEONN-rs7HTbKd1gX5PC7IPHt_yeGM8Q2OcV6vpn6wWbNX7wIN3BaTq5dedut2TBZoLsLVLiDRnDOg3TLEJI/s640/Cotton-Harvest-Uzbekistan-002.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/09/cotton-harvesting-in-uzbekistan.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Cotton Harvesting In Uzbekistan

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Amazing Early 1900 Photos Of Russia In Colour

<div style="text-align: justify;">Past life, are not totally in black and white, as demonstrate by these extraordinary collection of colour photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic survey of the Russian Empire with the support of Tsar Nicholas II. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sergei used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time when these photographs were taken, neither the Russian Revolution nor World War I had yet begun.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEgk0_VyvQvYPitX_kToz3JVNBTwcNnFI83hO1OydWscPgmHEZkqVKwD873K_S1DCgzPhA_QwLMwbNV5XFWV7PEpX3kaO0ehzbCWHfvK85hfe-XUyJm3h5-bJ0mMzyFfmLg7IzKruwXU/s1600/p30_00021773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuEgk0_VyvQvYPitX_kToz3JVNBTwcNnFI83hO1OydWscPgmHEZkqVKwD873K_S1DCgzPhA_QwLMwbNV5XFWV7PEpX3kaO0ehzbCWHfvK85hfe-XUyJm3h5-bJ0mMzyFfmLg7IzKruwXU/s640/p30_00021773.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A boy sits in the court of Tillia-Kari mosque in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, ca. 1910</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9z2OzvXkc_K31dVGIq6_JKAbo5AyBBPgwcDujEIsEJWXAy5QYOrRePupe6g2gezH7v6imtSqGnxaY36Ev4i0hVOfmsfDbcRKPrl9_080Xvt4CRWoNrzyPA4bAfjPDx6-5Rc1NnoRxK4/s1600/p29_00021526.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9z2OzvXkc_K31dVGIq6_JKAbo5AyBBPgwcDujEIsEJWXAy5QYOrRePupe6g2gezH7v6imtSqGnxaY36Ev4i0hVOfmsfDbcRKPrl9_080Xvt4CRWoNrzyPA4bAfjPDx6-5Rc1NnoRxK4/s640/p29_00021526.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A general view of Sukhumi, Abkhazia and its bay, seen sometime around 1910 from Cherniavskii Mountain.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/09/amazing-early-1900-photos-of-russia-in.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Amazing Early 1900 Photos Of Russia In Colour

Past life, are not totally in black and white, as demonstrate by these extraordinary collection of colour photographs taken between 1909 and...

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