Playing the Ruined Piano in Khorog museum, Tajikistan
I found this piano in Khorog in the high Pamir in Tajiksitan. it was in a room devoted Tsarist and Soviet Russia's 'civilising mission' in Central Asia. The piano made its way to Khorog in 1914 , carried over the mountian passes from Osh by ten Russian soldiers. it took to months.it was for the the daughter of the Khorog garrison's general. It's an 1875 piano that was made and sold in Moscow, but given a German name J. Becker to lend it the prestige of German instruments. in its current state it has all the hammers missing, but most of the strings are intact. thus, they key's are all silent when depressed, but the piano can be played if the front boad is removed ot expose the strings. i truied to evoke something of the pianos history and the surrounding landscape in my improvised twiddle, but would approach it a little differenetly next time.
Here is a direct translation of the propoganda-style placard with the piano, courtesy of Russian historian at the University of Melbourne, Yulia Ulyannikova:
In the spring of 1914, Russian imperial troops had been stationed at the
distant Pamir locations. During this time an unusual cargo had been
shipped along an 800-km mountain route from Osh to Khorog. For two months
ten workers, suffering under impossible weight and forced by the convoy
soldiers' gun-butts had been carrying a piano through the mountains! Such
was the whim of the Khorog fortress commander's daughter who wished to
practice music on the legendary hights of the Roof of the World. At
night [apparently the first night after the piano's arrival] a crowd of
curious mountaineers gathered by the fortress walls attracted by strange
sounds. But Pamirians could not comprehend piano plays and eventually went
home disappointed, singing traditional laments of the mountainous
Badakhshan. In several years, the Red Army pushed the tsarist garrison out
of Khorog to India. The piano remained in the officers' club as a useless
toy. It had been covered with red cloth and forgotten.
Long time has passed before a boarder guard lifted black piano lid and
played stern and graceful marches of the October Revolution that were
close to every heart. The old Bedekker started its second life.
More years have passed by like a mountainous river. The face of the region
had changed beyond recognition. But the most striking changes happened in
the cultural life of the distant periphery. Literature, theatre and music
made their way into the lives of Pamirians. The old 1875 Bedekker remains
a silent witness to the Pamir's cultural revolution.
Museum Part 5 Khorog Gorno Badakhshan Pamirs Tajikistan Jan 2016
Tajikistan's traditional building style withstands earthquakes
People of the Pamir Mountains in Eastern Tajikistan have lived in traditional homes that have changed little in centuries.
Although many of the houses in the region have deep traditional, cultural and religious symbolism, it’s the way they’ve been built that’s proven such a success.
AL Jazeera's Pearly Jacob reports from Gorno-Badakshan, Tajikistan.
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Badakhshan TV: UCA Khorog construction progressing
The Construction of the Khorog Campus of the University of Central Asia, by Safarmo Butabekova of Badakhshan TV, highlights the vision behind the construction of UCA’s Khorog campus in Tajikistan. The university is the result of ongoing cooperation between the Government of Tajikistan and the Aga Khan Development Network. UCA’s Agency Construction Management strategy increases the local economic impact of construction through use of local contractors and suppliers.
The permanent construction management team, 95 percent of construction workers and over 20 contractors are from Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast. Contractors from outside the region, such as Turkish-Tajik joint venture Turas, are obligated to hire and pay taxes locally. For sustainability, UCA installed on-site equipment and uses locally sourced materials. UCA provides workers with steady well paid employment, an international standard work site, with welfare facilities and subsidised high quality meals provided by a Khorog-based company.
One of three campuses, UCA’s Khorog campus will open in 2017 at a total capital layout of $94.4 million. Phase I includes a three-storey academic building with a library, classrooms, a computer lab, dining hall, administrative offices and faculty offices and residences; dormitories, a laboratory; student life building; and international standard sports facilities.
UCA Director General Dr Bohdan Krawchenko reveals that construction is ahead of schedule and recruitment of UCA’s first undergraduate students has begun. The University is working with schools across the region to ensure students in the provinces have the opportunity to attend and succeed at UCA. UCA will offer Bachelor’s in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Economics (Khorog); Computer Sciences, and Communications and Media (Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic); and Engineering Sciences and Business and Management (Tekeli, Kazakhstan).
Rebroadcast with permission from Badakhshan TV (BTV).
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Kurganteppa Tower, or Qurghonteppa (Qþrghonteppa) Kala
Qurghonteppa is the 3rd largest city in Tajikistan, and located 100 kilometers (62 mi) south of Dushanbe and 150 kilometers (93 mi) north of Kunduz, Afghanistan. This city is a central location for the western regions of Khatlon Province and is around one or two hours away from Dushanbe.
Tadschikistan Reise Doku Pamir Highway: Panorama Dushanbe – Khorog (1)
Tadschikistan Reise Doku Pamir Highway: Panorama Dushanbe – Khorog. Eine sagenhafte Landschaft macht die Reise auf der M41 von Dushanbe nach Khorog in Tadschikistan zu einem besonderen Erlebnis. Mit Reiserad besonders intensiv.
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[E07] Asia Central en Moto [Tayikistán] - La capital del Pamir
En este video conseguimos llegar a Khrog desde Qal’ai Khum por uno de los recorridos más típicos de la Pamir. En un principio había decidido hacer el tramo desde Dusambé a Khorog en un sólo video pero había mucha gente e ideas que quería añadir y creo que de esta forma era también más útil para los que queráis hacer la ruta.
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Treasuring Our Language - Wakhi
Odinamamad Mirzoev, curator of a museum in his hometown of Namadgut in the Pamir region of Tajikistan, briefly explains the value of a mother tongue.
In Wakhi with Wakhi and English subtitles.
Produced by Husniya Khujamyorova, Nicole Galpern, and Ross Perlin.
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Test Antonov AN-148 on a snowy runway
Державне підприємство Антонов разом з 214 підприємствами з 15 країн cвіту створило родину реактивних регіональних літаків Ан−148, обладнаних двома двигунами. Це – високотехнологічні конкурентоспроможні літаки, які відповідають всім сучасним світовим вимогам, нормам безпеки та екологічності, а також побажанням потенційних експлуатантів. Вони призначені для пасажирських, вантажо−пасажирських і вантажних перевезень на регіональних і магістральних лініях. На повітряних трасах нові лайнери замінять Ан−24, Ту−134, Як−40 і Як−42.
In cooperation with more than 200 enterprises of 15 countries of the world ANTONOV Company developed a family of AN−148 regional twin−jets. These airplanes are high-technology and competitive products, which meet all the modern world requirements, safety and ecological standards as well as potential operators’ demands. They are intended for passenger, cargo−passenger and cargo transportations on regional and short−haul air routes. New airplanes are intended to replace the AN−24, Tu−134, Yak−40 and Yak−42.
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East Tajikistan Pamir highway and Wakhan corridor tour
Dushanbe - Kalai-Humb - Khorog - Garm Chashma - Langar – Bulunkul lake – Murghab - Karakul – Osh
Date
Itinerary
accommodation
Day 1
Dushanbe
Meeting in Dushanbe international airport. transfer to hotel accommodation. Lunch and after start of program. SS in Dushanbe, Visit Tajik national museum of history and Hissar fortress(45 km) with complex of museum and medresse, turn back to hotel, dinner in national restaurant Rokhat and rest.
Hotel
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Day 2
Dushanbe – Kalai Khumb
After breakfast drive to Kulyab. On the way visit Nurek panorama viewing platform. lunch and then drive to Kalai-Khumb – this is first district Badakhshan region and first day you can see Afghanistan side, overnight in private guest house, dinner and rest.
Guest house
Day 3
Kalai Khumb – Khorog
After breakfast departure to Khorog along live border with Afghanistan Panj river. Lunch on the Kalod place in national tee house. Arrive in Khorog accommodation in Hotel . dinner in local restaurant and rest.
Hotel
Day 4
Khorog – Garmchashma
In the morning after breakfast departure to Wahan corridor. Visit bazaar in Khorog. Driving to the Garm Chashma hot spring .
Lunch and free time in hot spring
Accomodation dinner and rest
Guest house
Day 5
Garmchashma – Langar
After breakfast walking around and continuation of trip. Visit Museum of Muborak inYamg.And Bibi Fotima Hot spring and Yamchun fortress. Arrive in Langar. Visit petroglyphs. Accommodation in guest house dinner and rest.
Guest house
Day 6
Langar – Bulunkul
In the morning after breakfast drive from Langar to Bulunkul village via Khargush pass. Arrive at Lunch time. Lunch in Village accommodation and walking to the lakes.
Dinner in Kirgiz yurt and rest
Guest house
Day 7
Bulunkul – Murghab
After breakfast departure to Murghab. Arrive in Murghab accomodation in Hotel or guest house . Lunch and sight sing. Visit Yak House and souvenir shop with Handicrafts . visit Bazar.
Dinner in hotel restaurant and rest
Hotel
Day 8
Murghab-Karakul
In the morning departure to Karakul village near Karakul lake . Thru Akbaital Pass Highest point were you can cross by car in Tajikistan. Arrive in Karakul Lake .Accommodation in guest house . Lanch and walk around village and lake.
Guest house
Day 9
Karakul – Osh
In the morning drive to Osh thru Tajik/Kirgiz border Kizil art( bordobo) and Kizil Art pass. Lunch in Saritash village.
Arrive in Osh, accommodation dinner and rest
Hotel
Day 10
Osh – flight home
After breakfast, depending on the departure time, it is possible to have a sightseeing round Osh
Transfer to airport.
Кадам ба Кадам - Step by Step #10 Pamir Khorog - Ishkoshim advertisement
The Pamirs, a region they know as POMIR – “the roof of the world”, although some claim that POMIR means “feet of the sun”. The Pamirs are one of the last undiscovered tourist destinations.
Памир, регион, который они знают как ПОМИР - «крыша мира», хотя некоторые утверждают, что ПОМИР означает «ноги солнца». Памир является одним из последних «неоткрытых» туристических направлений.
Timur - Temür-i Lang - Tamerlane
From the remains of an overindulging and quarrelling territory formerly known as the Ilkhanid Dominion (the Mongol House of Hulagu), came an explosive figure who would ultimately conquer and control most of the Muslim World from Damascus in Syria to Delhi in northwest India.
Timur, whose name in Turkish meant “Iron”, and which through Persian, Timur-i Lang (Timur the Lame), came into English as “Tamerlane”, was born on the 8th of April 1336 in Kish, the modern Shahkr-i Sabz, just to the south of Samarqand. Not exactly a Mongol, but from the Barlas tribe of Turkified Mongols (Tartars) apart of the Chaghatai confederacy who dominated the region known to the Romans as “Transoxania” (Land Beyond the Oxus), to the Arabs as “Mā warāʼ an-Nahr” (Land Beyond the River), and what is now today Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgyzstan, and southwest Kazakhstan.
Considered by many the greatest Asiatic conqueror known in history our most valuable description of this Central Asian warlord, comes from the Syrian writer Ahmad ibn Arabshah, who in his book titled “The Wonders of Destiny of the Ravages of Timur” wrote:
“Timur was tall and lofty of stature as though he belonged to the remnants of the Amalekites, big in brow and head, mighty in strength and courage, wonderful in nature, white in colour, mixed with red, but not dark, stout of limb with broad shoulders, thick fingers, long legs, perfect build, long beard, dry hands, lame on the side with eyes like candles, without brilliance, powerful in voice, he did not fear death; and though he was near his [seventieth] year yet he was firm in mind, strong and robust in body, brave and fearless, like a hard rock.”
Timur acquired his nickname “the Lame” from an injury he received in his youth which resulted in one leg being rigid and shorter than the other causing him to walk with a limp for the remainder of his life.
A keen military strategist and a natural in power politics, Timur quickly captured the attention of his superiors as well as gaining the attention of his adversaries. In his book, “A Literary History of Persia”, the British Orientalist Edward G. Browne mentions:
“The character of Timur has been differently appraised by those who are dazzled by his military achievements on the one hand and those who are disgusted by his cruelty and utter disregard of human life on the other.”
In his early 20s Timur already had a personal following of 300 horsemen. Furthermore in 1361, after taking advantage of a civil war within the Chaghatai confederacy between his uncle Hajji Beg and the newly appointed Khan Tughlaq Timur, he was granted recognition from the Khan as the leader of the Barlas tribe.
Over the next seven years Timur periodically allied with the other leading Chaghatai tribal leader, Amir Husayn. It's unlikely either of them considered the alliance to be something permanent. In 1365, in the Battle of Tashkent, Timur suffered his first major reversal. After having a early success, his ally Amir Husayn fled the battlefield when the fighting was at its most precarious. Growing resentment and rivalry was already evident between the two men, but was exacerbated during the Battle of Tashkent.
In the year following the Battle of Tashkent, Husayn and Timur established themselves as the new rulers of Samarkand. After their brutal overthrow of its leadership known as the Sarbadars, who were a mixture of religious Dervishes and secular rulers, Husayn assumed the position as the senior man while on the other hand Timur won a personal following of dedicated soldiers. The two men could not have been any more different. Timur was generous in disturbing plundered treasure to his men which gained their loyalty; while Husayn levied heavy taxes on Timur and his men and was likewise uncooperative. Husayn's extreme greed for wealth did not go unnoticed. According to Islamic Studies Academic, Marshall G.S. Hodgson, in his “The Ventures of Islam Vol. 2”:
“The career of Timur presents in exaggerated form ways of acting and of reacting that were prevailing throughout the period, if usually in less spectacular form.”
Timur's marriage to Husayn's sister, Aljai, was one of the main factors which sealed the alliance between the two warlords. At her death in 1370, all family ties were severed leaving Timur free to attack his former ally. With the aspiration of resolving their rivalry he marched on Husayn's capital of Balkh. Husayn, who was laying in wait behind the walls of his fortified citadel, watched Timur's army surround the city as they started to advance.
Faced with the reality of his own demise, Husayn begged his former ally to spare his life while promising to immigrate from the region. Lacking confidence in Timur's promise Husayn ran and hid inside a minaret until he was discovered by one of Timur's soldiers looking to recover his lost horse. In desperation, Husayn began to bribe the soldier, but instead he went to report his discovery.
Death of a Typewriter
Rusted, stuck-key cyrillic typewriter found on the Tajik side of the Panj River along the Tajikistan , Afghanistan border.
Archaeological excavations at Jandavlattepa, Sector 07, 2004
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HH The Aga Khan Receives Die Quadriga 2005 Prize
Berlin, Germany, 3 October 2005 - His Highness the Aga Khan received the Die Quadriga Prize in recognition of his commitment to development in the poorest regions of the world. Delivering the laudatory address, Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, praised him as a humanist, peace-builder, democrat, philanthropist and 'esteemed ambassador between civilisations'. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa thanked the Aga Khan for helping to bring hope and opportunity to regions of the world that have known despair. President Mkapa also thanked the Aga Khan for donating the Award's 25,000 Euro prize, as well as an equivalent sum, to a microfinance project in Tanzania.
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Day 1 – Arrival 4:30 morning to Dushanbe airport. Early meeting in airport and transfer to hotel 5:40, accommodation and rest. in 12:00 Lunch and after start of program. SS in Dushanbe, Visit Tajik national museum of history and Hissar fortress(45 km) with complex of museum and medresse, turn back to hotel, dinner in national restaurant Rokhat and rest.
Day 2 – Dushanbe- Kalaikhumb
after drive to Kulyab lunch and then drive to Kalai-Khumb – this is first district Badakhshan region (viloyat), overnight in private guest house, dinner and rest.
Day-3 – KALAI-KHUMB – to Khorog and SS surrounding and then drive o Khorog, accommodation in guest house.
Day-4 – Khorog to Ishkashim and to Wahan corridor - Yamg, Wrang, Zong and Langar, overnight in guest house in Langar on the way to visit hot springs “Gram chashma” SS surrounding and then drive to Ishkashim, then Langar accommodation in guest house.
Day-5 – Lungar - Murgab Drive from Langar to Murgan via Alichur valley and via Naizatash Pass(4137m). Arrival at 19-30 PM and accommodation in guest house, dinner and rest.
Day-6 - MURGHAB – Bulunkul lake after breakfast drive from Murghab to Bulunkul via Naizatash Pass(4137m). Arrival to –Bulunkul lake accommodation in private guest house .
Smoll trek to bulunkul and Yashinkul lake.diner and rest.
Day 7 – Bulunkul – Khorog
Drive from Bulunkul to famous hot springs in Pamir “Garmchashma in Jelondi” have lunch and after go to Khorog.Accomodation in Khorog.Dinner and rest
Day-8 – KHOROG - Kalai-Khumb After breakfast drive to Kalai-Khumb Overnight in KALAI-KHUMB. Dinner and rest
Day 9 – Drive from Kalai-Khumb to Dushanbe via Khoburabot pass, Blue lake and then to Dushanbe.Overnight in hotel.
Day 10 - Dushanbe-Penjikent .After breakfast drive to the Penjikent via mountain gorge Varzob and through Anzob pass via tunnel. Lunch on the way/ To Penjikent arrival in the evening, accommodation in guest house “Elina” dinner and rest.
Day 11- Penjikent – 7 lakes- Penjikent
After breakfast have short SS around - Republican historical-ethnographic museum of Abuabdullo Rudaki. -..- History museum of town. And drive to 7 lakes. Lunch on the road. Visit a lakes, till the lake№6 and walking around few hours. Drive back to Penjikent dinner and rest.
Day 12 – Penjikent – Khujand
After breakfast visit Orient Bazar in Penjikent and Archeological excavations of ancient Penjikent of V-VIII cc and after drive to Khujand through mountain road Zerafshan gorge, lunch on the way and also crossing Shakhristan and tunnel .Arrive in Khujand, accommodation in hotel .dinner and rest.
Day 13 -Khujand-Iskandarkul lake
After breakfast wee have visit in Istaravshan and visit “Mug-Tepa” fortress and “Medresse Kuk Gumbaz”
After excursion drive to Iskandarkul lake thru the Shakhristan tunnel. Lunch on the way.
Arrival to Iskandarkul, accommodation in fixed base camp in cottage’s .dinner and rest.
Day 14 - Iskandarkul Dushanbe.After breakfast walk to the waterfall and back.
SS around base camp and lake. After walking drive to Dushanbe thru Anzob tunnel and Varzob gorge . Lunch on the way. Accommodation in Dushanbe dinner and rest.
In the night 3:00 drive to international airport for flight back to home
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Panj River Панҷ, Afghan Border
Pamir Mountains, Afghan Border, Tajikistan,