Photo credits
Photographs used on this site under free licences from Wikimedia Commons, with thanks to their authors, and images generated for the Irad Wiki.
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Golden stallion
Photo: Ulruppelt / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Golden chestnut horse
Photo: Heather Moreton from Louisville, KY, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Red sandstone blocks at the site
Photo: Yakov Fedorov / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Soviet-era apartment block
Photo: upyernoz from Haverford, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Old walnut trees in a wild walnut forest
Photo: surrealpenguin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Qatiq and other dairy products on sale at a bazaar
Photo: LBM1948 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dried fruit and nuts at the bazaar
Photo: Thomas Depenbusch (Depi) from Cologne, Germany / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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A village street in Bazar-Korgon
Photo: Radosław Botev / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 pl
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The Besh-Tash Upper Lake
Photo: Ulan A / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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A stone caravanserai of the kind built along the routes through the Tian Shan
Photo: Martin Jung / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Evening over the Chatkal Gorge
Photo: Arina Pan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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A main canal of the Chu irrigation system
Photo: Nikolai Bulykin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Chu crossing the plain below a railway bridge
Photo: Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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An irrigation flume beside a farm road in the Chu valley
Photo: User:Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Diesel locomotive with a freight train
Photo: Jjpryma / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Freight train crossing the steppe
Photo: Kabelleger / David Gubler (http://www.bahnbilder.ch) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Freight wagons at a steppe station
Photo: Nikolai Bulykin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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A golden eagle in flight
Photo: Giles Laurent / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Horses grazing on a mountain pasture
Photo: Ninara from Helsinki, Finland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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The Kara-Suu Canyon
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
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A karakul ewe
Photo: Jean from Shelbyville, KY / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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The valley below the Kök-Art Pass
Photo: Ninara from Helsinki, Finland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Young komuz players at a concert
Photo: Nichelle Anderson, U.S. Air Force / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
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The Kurpsai dam, one of the Naryn cascade stations
Photo: Oleg Storozhenko / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Kurut drying in the sun at a summer camp
Photo: Paul Munhoven / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Churning kymyz on a summer pasture
Photo: Mario Biondi writer / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The horse section of a livestock market
Photo: Bruno Rijsman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Mailuu-Suu in the valley of the Mailuu-Suu River
Photo: IAEA Imagebank / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Mountain meadow and snow peaks
Photo: Ninara from Helsinki, Finland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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High mountain pass
Photo: Vilya Shoni / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nurzhan Refinery No. 1, the oldest and largest refinery in Irad
Image: AI-generated for the Irad Wiki
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The central square of Nurzhan, laid out as the ceremonial centre of Soviet Kobozev
Image: AI-generated for the Irad Wiki
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A yurt on summer pasture below snow peaks
Photo: Ninara from Helsinki, Finland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Rock carvings of horses and ibex
Photo: Lymantria / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oil refinery at dusk
Photo: kishjar? from Moscow, Russia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Lake Sary-Chelek
Photo: Kondephy / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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A shyrdak felt carpet
Photo: Firespeaker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Talas from the hills to the north, with the Talas Alatau behind
Image: AI-generated for the Irad Wiki
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Refinery tank farm from the air
Photo: Petar Milošević / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Tash-Kömür on the Naryn, below the Fergana Range
Photo: Jonbart / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
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Toktogul reservoir in autumn
Photo: revolution cycle / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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Toktogul reservoir under cloud
Photo: Benjamin Goetzinger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Toktogul dam on the Naryn
Photo: heinerbischkek / Wikimedia Commons, Copyrighted free use
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Riders contest the goat in ulak tartysh
Photo: Nasim Fekrat / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Yusup Ayyubov's The White Rider Shows the Way (1913) shows Christ revealing Irad's star to Janyl
Image: AI-generated for the Irad Wiki
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A felt yurt (boz üy)
Photo: Helen Owl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Yurts on the zhayloo
Photo: Ninara from Helsinki, Finland / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0