Word: turkestan
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...girls, "sweating in black leather suits with red badges", skinny members of the "Young Pioneers," Bolshevik Boy Scouts, attired in skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver knives and supporting a wicked-looking scimitar...
...established by Treaty of Union signed in 1922 by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (Russia proper, Turkestan, Kirghiz, Tartar, Bashkir, Mountain Republic, Daghestan, Crimea, Votiak, Mari, Chuvash, German Volga areas, the Far Eastern region), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the White Russian S S R. and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal S. R. The Treaty was ratified last January...
...work, finding traces of Chinese art, influenced by the Indian Buddhist traders who brought ponies and jade to exchange for the wool and skins of the Tartars. This art is in the form of statues and frescoes left in caves, shrines and temples from the border of Turkestan to Loyang, where the Chinese civilization of that day was centered...
...lectures which Professor Pelliot is giving at the Lowell Institute and the exhibition of Chinese paintings being held in the Fogg Museum, but also because of the fact that Mr. Langdon Warner, "Fellow of the Museum for Research in Asia" is now visiting a famous site in Chinese Turkestan, which was the subject of investigation by Professor Pelliot...
Later on the expedition may continue southward into Eastern Turkestan and Tibet. In the same region, southwest of Urga, is the site of Karakhoto, buried capital of the Mongol emperors, discovered by the Russian scientist Kozlov (TIME, March 17), who is now on another expedition to central Asia...