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Image Not Available for "Yangykala Canyon lay beneath the Caspian Sea in prehistoric times. Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, 2012"
"Yangykala Canyon lay beneath the Caspian Sea in prehistoric times. Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, 2012"
Image Not Available for "Yangykala Canyon lay beneath the Caspian Sea in prehistoric times. Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, 2012"
Object Number 2019.5.2.23
Display Title "Yangykala Canyon lay beneath the Caspian Sea in prehistoric times. Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, 2012"
Descriptions
Classification
  • Print
Department Photographic
Date 2012
Artist Chloe Dewe Mathews (2010)
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Turkmenistan / Balkan Province / Balkanabat
Materials Print, color
Quantity 1
Credit Line Robert Gardner Fellow

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"Yangykala Canyon, which in prehistoric times lay beneath the Caspian Sea. Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, 2012"
2019.5.1.31 "Yangykala Canyon, which in prehistoric times lay beneath the Caspian Sea. Balkanabat, Turkmenistan, 2012"
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2019.5.2.6 “On the winter Feast of the Epiphany, Russian Orthodox Church members plunge three times into the Volga River to remember Christ’s baptism. Astrakhan, Russia, 2012”
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Astrakhan
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2019.5.2.5 "A larger-than-life-size photograph of Turkmenistan's president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, towers over a hotel guest. Awaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
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Awaza
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Awaza
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2019.5.2.19 "The 'Door to Hell' is a 70-meter-wide, noxious gas-emitting crater created in 1971 when Soviet geologists were drilling in the desert and the ground gave way. It was ignited and has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
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Darvaza
"Cracked ice on the surface of the Volga, shortly before it enters the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan, Russia, 2012"
2019.5.1.35 "Cracked ice on the surface of the Volga, shortly before it enters the Caspian Sea. Astrakhan, Russia, 2012"
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Astrakhan
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Ramsar
"The 'Door to Hell'. In 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling in the Turkmen desert when the land gave way beneath them, leaving a seventy-meter-wide, noxious gas-emitting crater. They ignited the gas to try to burn off the excess, but the crater has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
2019.5.1.21 "The 'Door to Hell'. In 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling in the Turkmen desert when the land gave way beneath them, leaving a seventy-meter-wide, noxious gas-emitting crater. They ignited the gas to try to burn off the excess, but the crater has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
Photographic
Darvaza
"Every winter, on the Feast of the Epiphany, members of the Russian Orthodox church plunge themselves three times into the Volga River to remember Christ's baptism. Astrakhan, Russia, 2012"
2019.5.1.37 "Every winter, on the Feast of the Epiphany, members of the Russian Orthodox church plunge themselves three times into the Volga River to remember Christ's baptism. Astrakhan, Russia, 2012"
Photographic
Astrakhan
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2019.5.2.24 "Hot springs at the Ramsar Grand Hotel. Town residents are exposed to natural radiation ten times the rate recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Ramsar, Iran, 2015"
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Ramsar
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2019.5.1.23 "Women who are trying to conceive make pilgrimages from all over Turkmenistan to visit the Qyz Bibi shrine. Qyz Bibi, the pagan goddess of fertility and womanhood, is believe to have lived most of her life in a cramped cave, fed through a tiny hole in the rock. Nokhur, Turkmenistan, 2012"
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Nohur
"In Turkmenistan, the foreign ministry has expressed plans to transform the luxury beach resort of Awaza into a 'Turkish Las Vegas'. Awaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
2019.5.1.45 "In Turkmenistan, the foreign ministry has expressed plans to transform the luxury beach resort of Awaza into a 'Turkish Las Vegas'. Awaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
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Awaza