Our school; rear view...
... and front. This is, of course, during the ceremony itself; it took up the whole parking lot. As you can see, people are dressing to the nines for this.
It's just not a party without the dombyra players.
From Almaty Entry:
Biggest mosque in Central Asia. Impressive as it is here, it's actually even more impressive inside; I'll try to get the photos from the inside uploaded later.
Panfilov Park and the WWII memorial - known as the Great Patriotic War here. WWII history is a really big deal here, since (as bad as Western Europe had it) the Soviets bore the greatest brunt of it in terms of casualties and long-term economic loss.
The Russian Orthodox church at Panfilov Park. Not a bad view of it here - this was the best photo I got of the outside.
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