Word: kazakistan
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Frye, who was in Russia from August 25 until September 22, went to gather information about his specialities, Iranian and Central Asian linguistics and history. His travels through Uzbekistan and Kazakistan were the first unrestricted Western visit to those areas since...
...proceeded from there to Leningrad, where he gave a talk on Middle Eastern history at the Hermitage Museum. From there he went to Moscow, where he was interviewed on the radio in Russian and Persian, and then to Uralsk, in the Urals. His next stop was Aktyubinski in Kazakistan, whence he went to Dzhuzali near the northeast tip of the Aral...
...walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
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